An MIT Club event for all entrepreneurs:

A Special Conversation with David Lam

Date / Time: November 9, 2006, 7pm (6:30pm networking)

Cost: $20 pre-registered/$30 at door (includes food/beverage)
Contact: edk@pennwell.com

Venue: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
3175 Hanover Street , Palo Alto , CA

ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Online registration: http://www.mitcnc.org/Events_Single.asp?eventID=1251

By popular demand, semiconductor industry luminary David Lam will return for a special conversation with the audience. Lam's strengths in both technology and business have guided him through serial entrepreneurial success over decades, and he graciously shares his wisdom with clarity and candor. Topics from the audience relating to starting and guiding ventures at all stages will be fielded at the beginning of a lively Q&A session.

David K. Lam founded Lam Research in 1980. Under his guidance as CEO, the company introduced the industry's first fully automated plasma etching system for semiconductor manufacturing. Lam Research went public in 1984 and has since become a global leader in semiconductor capital equipment. In recent years, Lam has served as chairman of the David Lam Group, which invests and advises emerging technology companies.

Lam uses his early-stage start-up experience to provide guidance to entrepreneurs in launching high tech ventures, and currently serves on the board of directors at Qcept Technologies, Multibeam Systems, Sub-One Technology, Microfabrica, and Deep Photonics.

In addition to his corporate experience, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve on the U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development, and by California Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas to serve on the Commission on the Future of the Courts. He also served on the Visiting Committee of MIT.

Lam graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in engineering physics, and holds Master's and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering from MIT. He worked for Texas Instruments, Xerox, and Hewlett-Packard, before founding Lam Research.