Keynote Speakers

Aloha Reception

Erica Bushner, Managing Director of the Newport GKM Generation of Fund of Funds Private Equity Product. GKM currently manages approximately $1 Billion for buyouts and investments in venture funds lead by the next generation of venture managers. Her past experience in private equity funds management includes Managing Director and Principal of the Wilshire Private Markets Group of Wilshire Associates, and 15 years as venture capital and alternative investments porfolio manager with the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System.

Luncheon

Theodore H. Stanley, M.D. is currently a director and co-founder of ZARS a drug delivery company as well as a director of Techniscan an ultrasound imaging company. Dr. Stanley founded Anesta Corp. a venture backed drug delivery company that successfully went IPO and was subsequently bought by Cephalon for approximately $500 million dollars. He is an active angel investor in the Biomedical/Life Sciences space.