Itinerary for David Bream and Nick Sturge

September 2010

 

Monday, September 20

23:51 Arrive San Diego on UA787 from SFO

Taxi to La Jolla Shores Hotel

 

Tuesday, September 21

09:00: Peter Thomas meets in hotel lobby; orientation

10:00-11:30 Springboard Dry Run: Cascoda

Law offices of Jones Day

12:00-13:30 Lunch with Dr. Jane Moores, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Technology Transfer, UCSD; Del Foit, Lecturer, Rady School of Management, UCSD (at UCSD Faculty Club)

13:45-15:15 Orientation UCSD and Torrey Pines Mesa

15:30-17:00 The Springboard Program: Ruprecht von Buttlar, Director, Business Creation and Development, CONNECT

Evening: dinner George's Ocean Terrace

 

Wednesday, September 22

10:00: Dr. Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Extension, UCSD (at UCSD Extension)

11:00: Q&A with Camille Sobrian, President, CONNECT

12:00-13:30 Lunch at UCSD Faculty Club with CONNECT Entrepreneurs in Residence Scott Buchanan, Jay Kunin, Bob Nascenzi, Stefan Scheinert; and Steve Hoey, Senior Program Manager, Springboard, CONNECT

14:00: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), Jerry Sheehan, Chief of Staff

15:30: Cathy Pucher, Executive Director, EvoNexus, at EvonNexus

Evening: unscheduled

 

Thursday, September 23

09:30: Tim Orlando Tech Coast Angels, and Lecturer, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University; at CONNECT, Otterson Room

11:00: The Security Network, Bill Reidy

12:00-13:30 Lunch at UCSD Faculty Club with researcher-entrepreneurs Tycho Huussen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Jan Kleissl, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering, and Associate Director, Center for Energy Research, UCSD; Yannis Papakonstantinou, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD; Yu Qiao, Associate Professor, Structural Engineering, UCSD.

13:30: unscheduled

16:00: CleanTECH San Diego, Holly Lepre, Executive VP and Jason Anderson, VP/Director CleanTECH San Diego Foundation

19:30: Dinner Marine Room, La Jolla

 

Friday, September 24

07:30-09:30 Springboard Final Panel: Cascoda

Law offices of Jones Day

11:00: Keith Muhart, Senior Manager, Marketing, Qualcomm Ventures, at Qualcomm

12:30-13:30 Lunch at Torrey Pines Gliderport

Afternoon: open for follow-up meetings

17:30 Depart for San Diego airport

18:00 Depart on UA198 for SFO (and on to LHR)

 

 

Some Practical Information for UK Visitors

David Bream

 

David Bream directs SETsquared’s business incubation at the University of Southampton.

David spent the early part of his career working in R&D in signal processing and high performance computing technologies. He than moved into the mainstream computing industry where he progressed through various sales and sales management positions. Prior to joining SETsquared David was founder and managing director of a consultancy and solutions company operating in the field of Enterprise Application Integration software ("middleware").  David has a BSc in Physics, an MSc in Digital Systems, a Diploma in Marketing, an MBA and is a Chartered Engineer.

david.bream@setsquared.co.uk

 

Nick Sturge

Nick Sturge directs SETsquared’s business incubation at the University of Bristol.

Nick was brought up in Bristol and graduated from Swansea University in 1989 with a first class degree in Electronics and Computer Science. After working in medical physics at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and for some small medical electronics companies, Nick worked at Inmos, part of STMicroelectronics, for three years. When his team was made redundant, Nick and seven colleagues founded Motion Media Technology to develop video phones and video communication equipment. Motion Media listed on the main market of the London stock exchange, growing to 125 people across the UK and US and achieving a market valuation of over £250m. Nick led the production, HR, facilities, IT and quality functions of the business, giving him broad operational and PLC board level, experience. When Motion Media merged with SCOTTY Group, Nick consulted under the Omnigenix brand, including a part-time role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre in Bristol. Nick is now SETsquared Centre Director, responsible for business incubation, at the University of Bristol.

The SETsquared Partnership is an enterprise collaboration of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey, with each University hosting a SETsquared Business Acceleration Center. These Centers accelerate early-stage high-tech companies with high growth potential. The Bristol Center currently works with 40 high-tech start-ups of between one and 30 employees across sectors as diverse as semiconductor, renewable energy, web 2.0 and industrial instrumentation.

Nick is Chairman of the Bristol Branch of the Institute of Directors and sits on the board of several companies. Nick continues to consult for other growing companies on people, property and funding issues and has invested in a number of high-tech start-up companies.

nick.sturge@setsquared.co.uk