From Garage To Global: The Right Way to Expand Internationally

Join Nair & Co. and Dow Jones for a 60-minute virtual seminar that will help you create effective expansion plans. The session features advice from legal and investment professionals with unique experience in expanding companies globally.

From Garage To Global: The Right Way to Expand Internationally

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Among the issues discussed:

• The countries that are the easiest and hardest to expand into and why
• Steps companies should take to ensure they are truly prepared to expand
• What to keep in mind when hiring employees in foreign countries
• Little-known legal issues that can sidetrack expanding companies
• How to handle accounting and other financial issues
• Communicating between the home office and the foreign office
• The big surprises and even bigger mistakes that doom expanding companies
• The roles VCs and board members can and should play
• And much more … including your questions.

Featured speakers include:

• Jay H. Eum, a co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital, Silicon Valley based VC firm focused on early to expansion stage IT investments with offices in Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing. Jay is responsible for TransLink's investments in Carbonite, Enterprise DB, Livescribe, and SoundHound as well as supporting TransLink's portfolio companies with their customers and partners primarily in Korea. Most recently, Jay was the head of Samsung Ventures America. He was responsible for starting up the U.S. operations for Samsung Venture Investment Corp., the venture investment arm of Samsung, and leading their U.S.-based investments and portfolio management.
• Colin Chapman, a partner with Gunderson Dettmer, who specializes in corporate partnering and alliances, technology protection, and licensing and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets. He represents emerging growth companies, both in the United States and abroad, and also has had considerable experience representing multinational companies.
• Evan Powell, the CEO of Nexenta, an opensource enterprise storage software solutions company. Prior to joining Nexenta, Evan was the founding CEO and then VP of Marketing and Business Development at Clarus Systems, a provider of IP Communications management software. . Evan also helped build Working Assets, one of the pioneers in socially responsible business which grew quickly during Evan's tenure into one of the largest telecom service resellers in the United States.
• Dr. Shan Nair, the co-founder and CEO of Nair & Co., who has grown his company from a small U.K.-based professional services firm to a global enterprise with offices in U.K., India, China, U.S., Japan and Singapore. Under his leadership, Nair & Co. today runs over 740 client operations in 50+ countries and providing Tax, HR, Compliance and Legal support to foreign offices of U.S. companies.
• Dave Barry, editor with Dow Jones & Company, moderates.