From cbshaw@u.washington.edu Mon May 17 10:51:19 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA107784; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:51:17 -0700 Received: from mailhost1.u.washington.edu (mailhost1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id KAA22297; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:50:51 -0700 Received: from goddard (D-128-95-138-7.dhcp.washington.edu [128.95.138.7]) by mailhost1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with SMTP id KAA19894; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:44:51 -0700 From: "cbshaw" To: "Elaine Zamora" , "Business" , "Don Bell" , "Eve Mba" , Cc: "Connie Bourassa-Shaw" , "Emer Dooley" , Subject: FW: High-Tech Entrepreneurs--An Idiosyncratic View of Technology Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:44:45 -0700 Message-ID: <002901bea08c$f3b16f30$078a5f80@goddard.badm.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 AN IDIOSYNCRATIC VIEW OF TECHNOLOGY W. Hunter Simpson, entrepreneur and investor Northwest entrepreneurs--and their ability to predict future technology trends--have sparked profound changes in your world. The Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation's High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is presenting the final speaker of Spring Quarter this Thursday evening in the Boeing Auditorium: W. Hunter Simpson, entrepreneur and investor. If you're looking for a somewhat different, somewhat irreverent view of the future of technology in the Puget Sound, come listen to this technology investment pro. Topic: An Idiosyncratic View of Technology Speaker: W. Hunter Simpson, entrepreneur and investor. Date/Time: Thursday, May 20, at 6:30. Reception following. Place: The Boeing Auditorium (in the Seafirst Executive Education Center on the north end of the UW campus, near Balmer Hall). Hunter Simpson, now retired, headed up IBM's Northwest operations for 17 years before joining Physio-Control, one of the top producers of heart defibrillators, as CEO in 1966. Active in technology ventures as a private investor, Simpson currently serves on several boards of directors, including Edmark Corp., Itron Corp., Data I/O, and KCTS Public Television. He was a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents from 1981 to 1992 and currently serves on the Medical School's Visiting Committee. Simpson was instrumental in the founding of: * the Washington Research Foundation, an organization that creates and invests in technology-based start-up companies that have strong ties to the University of Washington and other nonprofit research institutions in Washington State. * the Alliance of Angels, a nonprofit organization formed in 1995 that is dedicated to nurturing the growth of technology-based companies in Washington State. * the Technology Alliance, a consortium of Washington State technology based businesses, their trade associations, the state's leading research institutions, and other cooperating organizations. The alliance brings together interested people from a variety of sectors who all share a common vision--a strong and vibrant technology economy in Washington State. We encourage you to be one of the many to join us this Thursday. Take this opportunity to listen to and talk with a technology expert. We look forward to seeing you! And don't forget to register for the PEI "Dinner for Two" drawing. You must be present to win! The High-Tech Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is sponsored by: Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, American Electronics Association, Washington Software Alliance, and the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association. The series is made possible, in part, by grants and funding from the Herbert B. Jones Foundation and Wells Fargo. For more information about the High-Tech series, call the Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at (206) 685-9868 or visit our Web site at http://weber.u.washington.edu/~uwpei. .