Open source software is everywhere; deployment of the Linux operating system in all types of devices is increasing faster than any other operating system, particularly internationally; the use of MySQL is growing rapidly and the Apache web server runs most of the world’s web servers. Venture capitalists have already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies with open source software as a key component of their business models. Many more startups are looking for ways to monetize open source and attract venture capital investors.

How do you make money from something that’s free? In this CSPA event, we bring together a panel of distinguished practitioners in the world of open source. The panel will discuss various open source business models and the venture capital investments in such companies. What models are being used to monetize open source? What are current areas of investment interest? Are any areas over invested? What impact will GPL 3.0 have on SAAS companies? Are open source application companies going to be successful? What effect will major software vendors’ actions have on the opportunities for startups? What opportunities are there in China? In India? Join us for some food, networking, and an informative and insightful evening.

• Fred Greguras, Of Counsel, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West

• Barry Klawans, Chief Technology Officer, JasperSoft
• John Matthesen, Keiretsu Angel Forum
• Murugan Pal, – Co-Founder & CTO, SpikeSource
• Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
• Ray Wu, Director, Investment Group, Hewlett Packard

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Location
Fenwick & West, LLP
Mountain View, California 94041
650.988.8500

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Pricing

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CSPA Premium Members*	$10	$15
CSPA Basic Members+	$25	$30
Students	$15	$20
Non-Members	$30	$35

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Mr. Greguras focuses on strategic legal issues for software, semiconductor-related and life sciences companies. His practice includes start-up issues and financings in both domestic and international transactions. He has represented a wide range of companies in financing, M&A, licensing and other commercial transactions, from privately held start-ups to publicly traded companies. He has also been a venture capitalist and a general counsel and CFO for a startup. Some of the clients he has represented are: BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Excite, Inc. Exodus Communications, Inc. Kintana, Inc. Mr. Greguras received his J.D. as well as an M.S. in mathematics and computer science from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Omaha. He is one of the authors of the quarterly venture deal terms survey published by Fenwick & West.

Barry is responsible for the technical vision and direction of JasperSoft's products. He has over 15 years of experience architecting and developing enterprise applications. Prior to joining JasperSoft, Barry was the Systems Architect at Bidcom, a hosted business to business solution serving the commercial construction industry. Before Bidcom, Barry was one of the original engineers at Remedy, where he spent five years and was responsible for adding Web capabilities to Remedy's core systems, and product-wide GUI and integration functionality. Prior to that, he was an early engineer at Sybase, where he spent five years of development effort on the core server and network access layer. Barry earned a B.A. with High Honors and Overall Academic Distinction in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Matthesen is a serial entrepreneur, with over 25 years of global operations and sales experience in the US, Europe and Asia. He recently served as CEO at ByteBlaze, an anti-piracy software company, and is currently on the Advisory Board of numerous high-tech companies. He is a consultant with Enthiosys, specializing in qualitative market research and software licensing practices. In addition, he is a Venture Partner at WI Harper in San Francisco, and a member of the Keiretsu Angel Forum, where he chairs the consumer products committee.

Mr. Matthesen was part of the startup teams at Sybase and Commerce One. He held numerous positions at both companies, including Vice President / CIO, Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific region and other executive management roles in Professional Services, Marketing, and Engineering. Since then, he has invested in and held executive positions in two biotech companies, a shipping container company, and several consumer products companies.

John holds a B.S. in biopsychology and linguistics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has a certification in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served as an adjunct professor of e-commerce at Carnegie-Mellon University West Coast campus.

Before founding SpikeSource, Murugan Pal was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Previously, he was CTO and cofounder of e-business software company Asera. Before Asera, Murugan was a principal developer at Oracle Corporation in the Application Server division and was part of the company's early XML initiatives. Prior to Oracle, he was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporation's Object Database. Murugan has worked on real-time enterprise technologies, composite applications, service-oriented architecture runtimes, relational databases, object databases and robotics and manufacturing automation.

Murugan holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University in India, a Master's in Industrial Engineering and a Master's in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and was also a Doctoral Candidate in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University.

Prashant Shah joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000, where he is a Principal. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, inFreeDA, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley, where he is Chair of the Software SIG.

Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Ray Wu currently leads HP's venture management organization to manage companywide inbound technology evaluation process, drive outbound discovery and analysis for strategic initiatives and M&A opportunities, and work with leading VCs for venture funded transactions.

Prior to HP, he spent more than six years with Cisco Systems, and held several senior positions leading internal incubation, software investment and M&A, technology and business consulting in both North America and Asia Pacific. Prior to Cisco, Ray was a senior partner of a leading Internet consulting and software development company. Mr. Wu is a frequently requested speaker for business and technology conferences. You can read his latest thoughts at his blog: http://blog.boundaryfree.com