GrowthPoint Technology Partners, headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, provides services to their clients with the sole objective of helping them achieve success.  More company information may be found at http://www.gptpartners.com.

Mr. Weiss, as Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of The Promar Group LLC, headquartered near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.  (http://www.promar.com)

The PitchIt! Challenge, is an annual competition held at the We Media Conference.  The event provides the opportunity for the competing companies to pitch their ideas and possibly be one of the two winners to earn a $25,000 seed investment to help turn their ideas into something real.  More details regarding the event may be found at: http://wemedia.com/pitchit/?utm_source=We+Media+News+%26+Updates&utm_campaign=ff5ab7808c-Email-TEXT-Challenge-3-12-2012&utm_medium=email.  This will be the third year Mr. Weiss has chaired this panel.  The event will be held this year on April 18, 2012 at Gannett, Inc. in McLean, VA.

Mr. Weiss, as Chairman & CEO of The Promar Group, has been providing corporate leaders, boards and high-net-worth individuals with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years.  Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies.   Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.  More information may be found at http://www.promar.com.

Maxwell Technologies, headquartered in San Diego, CA, is a global market leader and innovator in the energy field. The company develops, manufactures and markets energy storage and power delivery solutions for automotive, heavy transportation, renewable energy, backup power, wireless communications and industrial and consumer electronics applications and other applications globally. Maxwell also has locations in Switzerland, Germany and China.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years.  Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

Great Connection AB was founded in Sweden in late December, 2007.  In the spring of 2010, Great Connection Inc. was founded and headquartered in San Diego, CA and it acquired the Swedish entity.  The company is now formally entering the US market and beyond.  Great Connect offers a solution that enables clinics and hospitals to convert, deliver and receive medical images in a secure, economic and timely fashion.

Mr. Weiss is an internationally renowned strategic thinker, board participant, experienced senior executive and keynote speaker.  He has served as Chairman of the PitchIt Challenge panel of judges in past years of the event and also currently serves as the Chairman of iFOCOS, the organization responsible for the We Media NYC event. 

The event will be held at Digital Sandbox, 55 Broad Street, NY, NY.  More information is available at http://wemedia.com/nyc/.

Bill will share his “Design A Future©” methods and discuss how this approach has assisted in his work with companies, boards and individuals to open new growth possibilities.  Examples will be provided during the address and Q&A.

The event will be held at the Brier Creek Country Club.  More information is available on TIE Carolinas’ website at http://www.carolinas.tie.org.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

McCafferty & Company is a boutique media and entertainment investment bank, based in Century City. The firm was founded in 2006. McCafferty & Company works across the media sector in film, television, music, digital media, out of home media, publishing and other related entertainment and communications verticals.

First on Mars, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is a platform that enables advanced social and video discovery guides for any connected Consumer Electronics Devices (example: TV, game consoles, set top box). The technology is architected to be easily deployable and high scalable across multiple environments – Web, Mobile, TV.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

The panel will discuss The Web, within its relatively short lifetime, and how it has provided a foundation for some of the greatest entrepreneurial successes of all time. Also being discussed will be: what the future may look like for Web entrepreneurs; whether there will continue to be great companies born of disruptive innovation including where those opportunities may be; and what the competitive landscape will look like in the years to come.

Joining Mr. Weiss on the panel will be:

• Chair: Tom Miller, Entrepreneurship Initiative, and vice provost for DELTA, NC State University
• Scot Wingo, serial entrepreneur, co-founder, president and CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions.
• Chris Evans, entrepreneur and philanthropist, formerly founder and CEO of Accipiter Solutions, a leading provider of online advertising technology used by MSN, CNET, Lycos, ZDNet, Broadcast.com, Ask Jeeves and many others.
• David Gardner, serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of VenueGen, a new-media company that is merging 3D virtual-world technology with social networking and learning applications. He has been the founder or co-founder of ProviderLink, Peopleclick, Report2Web, DBBasics, BuildLinks and OnSphere Corporation, raising more than $60 million in venture capital.
• Aaron Houghton, co-founder and Board Chairman of iContact Corporation (http://www.icontact.com) and CEO of Preation (http://www.preation.com/). Aaron also co-founded StartupWithMe.com, a free service that matches entrepreneurs with potential co-founders based on compatibility to ensure the highest chance of success.

The Promar Group LLC (www.promar.com), located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by Mr. Weiss, who currently serves as Chairman & CEO. Bill has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. His work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.