Funding Universe is hosting the annual Angel Investor of the Year tomorrow.
Wednesday June 23rd
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Grand America Hotel
Imperial Ballroom
555 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 81444
The keynote speaker will be Michael E. Gerber who has authored 13 books on entrepreneurship, appeared on Business Week’s bestseller list for 28 consecutive months and is currently a NYT bestseller for The Most Successful Small Business in the World: The Ten Principles. Gerber is the founder of E-Myth Worldwide with over 70,000 business clients in over 145 countries.
Top finalists include the following Utah investors, who will also be at the event:
- Warren Osborn — Managing Director for Stoneway Capital
- Martin Frey — Spent 13 years as a Sr. Director at Cisco
- John Richards — Co-developed and launched the first-ever online Yellow Pages, Co-Managing Partner of BoomStartup
- Kyle Love — Founding member of the Utah Angels
- Robb Kunz — Co-Managing Partner of BoomStartup
- Nobu Mutaguchi — Invested in over 25 Utah-based startup and emerging companies
- Dan McPhun — Co-Founder of Park City Angels
- JD Gardner — Founder and Managing Director at Monarch Partners
- Mark Burton — 2006 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year
- Rod Watson — Angel investor dealing mainly with software and biotech companies based in Utah and Oregon
- Brad Walters — Vice Chairman of Utah Technology Council, Previously CEO/President MaxStream
- Mike Levinthal — Former VC with the Mayfield Fund, serves on the Boards of Altiris (ATRS), Directpointe, Infopia, Metricstream, Senforce, 3point5, Utah Capital Investment Corporation (UCIC) and the Forever Young Foundation
- Ron White — Founder and General Partner at Advanced Technology Development Fund
- John Pestana — Co-Founder of Omniture
- Jim Evans — CEO at Xactware
