Gyan Parida

- Sample Participation 2018: Speaker at BEF Conf in SanFrancisco, Mentor for Kaiser Healthcare/Village capital 10 International Finalist in Healthcare StartUps, Judge at the IoT Open Innovation Lab, Northeast University, Regular Judge at StartUplooza pitch competition in Santa Monica, LA,
-Advise emerging growth companies in all aspects of the business; corporate strategy, business development, product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, marketing, branding, social media campaign, international business development, and C-level recruiting.
- Advised start-ups on fundraising; crowdsourcing, angel/VC rounds, valuation, and term sheet.
- Evaluated business plans, helped present to investors that have raised more than $200M.
- Advised public companies on capitalization, M&A and reverse merger.
- Evaluate and recommend investment proposals to PE, VC and HNW individuals.
- Advise Universities, States, and Countries in developing startup eco-system, and setting up incubators.
- Advised international government agencies to attract and access private equity funds.
- Have a deep Rolodex --well connected among political leaders, investors (VC/PE/angels), C-level executives, startup founders, influencers and service providers in the USA and across the globe.

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, California
Adjunct Professor, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Oct 2010 to Present
- Teach the “Entrepreneurial/Venture Finance and Valuation”, MBA elective class. Topic included Working capital loans, Loans against receivables, Bridge loans, Notes, CD’s, Bootstrapping, Seed capital, Angel funding, VC funding (early and later rounds), M&A, IPO, Cap-table, and Term sheet.
- Advise the Center for Entrepreneurship program and creation of a University Venture Fund.

SILICON ALLEY ENTREPRENEURS CLUB (SAEC), New York (http://saeclub.com)

- Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club (SAEC), an organization that provides free help to technology, digital media and life sciences entrepreneurs of the NY-NJ and Tri-state area.
- Developed and introduced the first technology startup accelerator program in 1999.
- Using innovative marketing techniques expanded SAEC from one person to 44500+ members making it one of the largest and the fastest-growing organizations in the country.
- Conducted more than 400 events/conferences by inviting VC’s, angel investors and other professionals for presentation and networking opportunities.
- Evaluated, selected, advised and presented startup companies to VCs and angel investor and successfully raised funding for the same.
- More than 15, 000 professionals have attended SAEC meetings and events.
- Featured in many publications including New York Times, @NY and Nikkei (Japan)
- Formed partnership with world-class service providers such as Morrison Forester, Wilson Sonsani Goodrich, Invest in Sweden, UK Trade & Investments and many more.
- Formed strategic alliances with many organizations including Fortune, The Deals, Red Herring, Biospace, Bio.com, Elevator.com, Spring Valley Venture, and Greenhouse for Start-ups, and PanDao.com.
- Contributed more than 95% of the operating expense to build and support SAEC providing “free” help to entrepreneurs.
- Chosen as one of three US National Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of The Year Award 2002, Winner, Kauffman Supporter of Entrepreneurship Award.

- Devise roadmap and policy document for the energy future of the world as relates to transportation.
- The policy document was presented on Jan 26, 2012 at the World Economic Forum, Davos.
-This is an advisory role

Program Director for The Startup Master Class. Helping entrepreneurs become successful- that's my motto.

- Developed two master class lecture series for startup entrepreneurs that cover everything from Ideas to IPO including the current state of the fundraising process.
- Teach the program in Los Angeles, New Jersey, and New York.
- Focused on Technology, Social Media, Biotech, Cleantech

Website: http://school.saeclub.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/startupmclass

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- Chairman of Bi-Annual, Global Venture Congress - an international conference exploring the venture capital landscape, identifying current trends in innovation and discovering innovative companies.
- Spearheaded the effort to organize two annual international conferences per year on technology and & life sciences at Madison Square Garden in New York.
- Responsible for all aspect of the conference production.
- Select, communicate and invite more than 50 world-class investors and thought leaders as speakers including several Nobel Laureates and diplomats.
- Research, and identify important topics and create the details and format for discussion.
- Participated as a speaker and moderator on many sessions.
- Evaluated many business plans and selected companies seeking VC funding to present to investors

NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (NYMEX), New York
Chief Strategist & CASE Administrator, Information Technology, Jun 1996 to Apr 1999
- Key IT executive member of the $150M "Clearing21" project that created the state-of-the-art trade management system which has established an international standard for trading, clearing, and banking for future trading.
- Implemented the SDLC approach for application development using IEF/CoolGen CASE tool.
- Worked directly with the CIO on corporate technology and product strategy. Co-ordinated multiple technology projects and 50+ consultants mainly from D&T and TI.
- Evaluated & made recommendations to senior management on strategy and technology to define support and achieve Nymex’s goal.
- Researched, analyzed, and recommended practical solutions to Business Process Re-engineering and managed its implementation.
- Administered/managed enterprise application development, QA, production rollout, disaster recovery, major system conversion such as mainframe to client server, project planning and management.
- Educated/trained 100+ technology staffs on many tools, methodologies and internal policies and practices for project development, management and implementation.
- Chief liaison between the company and its IT vendors for software license and service agreements.
- Reduced software related outstanding issues by 80% in a span of three months of joining.
- Executive team member for product and portfolio management and stage-gate reviews