When:
Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (EST)
Where:
The LAB Miami
400 Northwest 26th Street
Miami, FL 33127
Hosted By:
The LAB Miami
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Event Details:
Brainfood @ The LAB is a monthly, hands-on discussion with successful entrepreneurs, investors, and CEOs from around the world. These monthly gatherings will help local startups and entrepreneurs understand the opportunities and challenges of launching and growing a business. Every participant will leave with a wealth of new ideas and key, practical advice to advancing one’s own entrepreneurial career.
Schedule
- 6:00-6:30pm – Registration @ Networking
- 6:30-7:00pm – Keynote Speaker: Peter Kellner (moderated interview)
- 7:00-7:30pm – Audience Q&A
- 7:30-8:00pm – Wrap-up & Networking
- Defining a high-impact entrepreneur
- How Endeavor’s entrepreneurs are catalyzing emerging economies
- The key differentiators of selected entrepreneurs and projects
- Why Miami was chosen as their first home in the US
Peter Kellner, who co-founded Endeavor in 1997, is Founder and Managing Partner of Richmond Global, an investment firm specializing in venture capital in technology and communications in the U.S., China and India. Richmond has interests in hedge funds and private equity firms globally, and has provided seed funds to leading investment firms in the US, China, Hungary and India.
Mr. Kellner is a board member of Rubicon Global, Inc., and AdChina, Inc., and the non-profit boards of Endeavor and Ashoka Youth Venture. He is a Trustee of the Allen-Stevenson School in New York. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute; Member, Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP); Member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); and Member, North America Council of Ashoka. In 2009, he was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary after college. There, he co-founded Hungary’s Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), a leading organization today in Central Europe shaping environmental law & policy. Subsequently, he received a J.D. from Yale Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.