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April 28, 2000 -- On April 28, leaders from some of America's most innovative companies will join with respected academic business strategists in a symposium at the University of Virginia. The symposium, "Creating Growth Enterprises: The Role of Venture Capital and Private Equity," is sponsored by the Center for Growth Enterprises at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. In recent years, fast-growing companies -- "growth enterprises" -- have created revolutionary products and services, and phenomenal wealth for their founders and investors. Often launched with private equity, their growth in revenues and profits has outstripped the averages year after year. With private equity funds growing from $5 billion to more than $200 billion over the past two decades, many observers believe that venture capital and private equity funds are the drivers of the world economy in the new millennium. Participants in the symposium includeed Jeffrey C. Walker, managing partner, Chase Capital Partners; Shelby Bonnie, CEO, CNET; Steven P. Galante, editor and publisher, Private Equity Analyst; Thomas Hellman, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Joshua Lerner, professor, Harvard Business School; and Eric Coble, CFO, Dollar Tree Stores. The symposium honors Walker, who last fall endowed a new professorship in Growth Enterprises at McIntire with a $3 million gift. The gift set a new benchmark at U.Va. by establishing the University's first chair at $3 million or more. Launched in 1984, Chase Capital Partners is a global private equity partnership with more than $16 billion under management and a track record of more than 950 business deals. The goal of the symposium is to help McIntire students, faculty and board members understand the role of venture capital and private equity funds in creating and sustaining growth enterprises, and to establish a research agenda to study the role of private equity and venture capital in the development of growth enterprises. This event is invitation-only. For more information, contact Jim Travisano at (804) 924-7005, or jet7d@virginia.edu. CONTACT: Charlotte Crystal, 924-6858 |
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Symposium
Will Explore Role of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds in
Fueling Hot Companies