Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Download Mr. Eberhart’s power point presentation here!

Please join our brown bag lunch group as Robert Eberhart, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center, surveys recent changes in Japanese Corporate Law and their effects on corporate governance and finance with reference to the entrepreneurial environment. Using some recent examples of entrepreneurial success, Mr. Eberhart will identify new trends in corporate behavior and entrepreneurship that show the positive, growing new environment for entrepreneurship in Japan.

Robert Eberhart, a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, is researching the evolution of corporate governance in Japan. As an executive in residence at the private equity firm Pacific Rim Partners, Mr. Eberhart is responsible for initiating, closing, and managing a portfolio of investments in Japan and U.S. ventures. From 1999–2007, he served as CEO of WineInStyle, a venture capital-funded start-up company in Japan that developed a solution to radically shorten the supply chain for wine distribution in that country. Mr. Eberhart was previously President of the Japan subsidiary of Plantronics Inc., and also held engineering management positions at Applied Materials Corp. and Performance Semiconductor Corp.

Location:
San Francisco State University Downtown Campus
835 Market Street, 5th Floor, Room #556 (Please note new room number.)
San Francisco, CA 94103 [map]

Time:
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Check In: 11:45 am
Program: Noon – 1:30 pm

Free and open to the public.

Advance registration is requested, as seating is limited. Lunch is not provided, but guests are welcome to bring their own lunch.

Co-sponsored by San Francisco State University College of Business and JETRO San Francisco, in cooperation with the Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco