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Storytelling: How to engage with investors and customers
Storytelling: How to engage with investors and customers
duration: 45 Min
price: $ 24.99
In this session Dr. Armen Kherlopian will take you through ways you can increasingly inspire people around you and organizations you support. You will learn about bottom up market ...
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Dr. Armen Kherlopian
Co-Founding Partner
BAJ Accelerator
is a world class strategy, innovation and business leader as demonstrated by repeatedly driving new venture growth via gaining value from data. Moreover, his industry experience is cross-sector including Global Fortune 100 Companies as well as government organizations such as the FDA and NASA. At Genpact (NYSE: G, 100,000+ Staff) his contributions have included driving transformation in global drug safety. At Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH, 25,000+ Staff) he was key in developing the advanced analytics book of business. As a thought leader, he co-authored the Field Guide to Data Science. Dr. Kherlopian is an awardee of the U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, and is a U.S. delegate to the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings. He holds a BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Algorithms from Columbia University, a PhD in Biophysics with a focus on Machine Learning from Cornell University, and completed a fellowship in High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence at Princeton University.
IP in the US: introduction and hot topics
IP in the US: introduction and hot topics
duration: 60 Min
price: $ 24.99
In this session Lana Akopyan will cover the various legal tools available in the US to protect a company's Intellectual Property. The info she provides is applicable with other cou...
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Lana Akopyan
IP Attorney
MKW LLP
is an Intellectual Property attorney registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Lana has a Computer Science degree and, having spent over 4 years as an engineer in the software industry, she brings a wide variety of technical knowledge and experience to her IP work. Lana’s experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications spans a wide variety of technologies including computer hardware and software, bioinformatics, e-commerce, telecommunications, electronics, medical devices and wireless communications. Lana counsels clients regarding patent infringement and validity, including providing high-stakes freedom-to-operate opinions and helps clients manage large global patent portfolios. Lana also counsels clients on trademark and copyright issues.
Exponential Technologies: Moonshot thinking to impact billion people
Exponential Technologies: Moonshot thinking to impact billion people
duration: 40 Min
price: $ 24.99
Technology principles of startup growth: Understand Exponentials. Leverage Exponential Technologies. Mindset is everything. Moonshot Thinking. Launch Your New Vision. Experiment an...
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Emma Arakelyan
CEO & Co-Founder, Co-Founding Partner
Orion Worldwide Innovations, BAJ Accelerator
is a Management Consulting Executive, Angel Investor, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Coach and Professor. Emma brings more than 20 years of experience in leadership across business strategy, IT Architecture & Transformation, M&A, governance and compliance credentialed by global professional services and technology companies as a Partner at EY (Ernst & Young) and Managing Director at Accenture. Emma has first-hand experience in business transformation and technology solutions implementation for Fortune 500 companies. Emma's Orion Worldwide Innovations LLC has become the Co-Founding Partner of New York Based BAJ Accelerator.
5-Steps Towards Your First US Clients
5-Steps Towards Your First US Clients
duration: 40 Min
price: $ 24.99
James Good and Sophie Lechner will cover 5-Steps Towards Your First US Clients: Select the Target Market, develop precise messaging, Support, "Inside Out" Analysis, Door opening st...
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James Good, Sophie Lechner
Founder & CEO, Founder & CEO
CC & T LLC, Global Commerce Education, Inc
James Good is specializing in advising companies seeking to enter the US market on all aspects of Sales and Business Development to include developing a marketing message, sales/elevator pitches and importantly, actual client acquisition. Plus, Jim advises executives who are very ‘early stage’ companies facing “Wall Street” with a capital event or, other needs around ‘messaging’. His background includes many years of Business Development and Sales most recently as Director of Sales with McAlinden Associates, a NY executive communications firm and Chairman U.S. for the Kingstree Group, a leading UK based communications strategy firm, responsible for new business development and day to day operations of the U.S. business. Prior to these most recent assignments he was Principal at Opera solutions, a NY based market innovating ‘big data analytics’ firm where he was responsible for new business development primarily in the Banking and Insurance sectors. These assignments follow a 30+ year career in Commercial banking with a number of world class global banks including JPMChase (Chemical) and National Westminster Bank USA. Jim rose to Executive Management levels in both National and International fields with extensive global involvement and living assignments in both Europe and Latin America.Jim’s schooling includes the University of Vermont, Columbia School of Business, Harvard’s Advanced Management Program as well as Series 7 & 63. Currently he is active with the Wings Club of New York, British American Business, The French American Chamber of Commerce, Baltic American Chamber of Commerce, and the BAJ Accelerator.
Sophie Lechner is Founder & CEO of Global Commerce Education, Inc (GCE) with 25+ years of experience in global strategy on multicultural teams. Ms. Lechner created the G2 Experience program to accelerate companies’ global expansion, provide business leaders with a roadmap to enter the US market, including strategic guidance on the choice of market entry channel, cultural and communication training, and targeted networking to meet experts, vetted service providers and potential customers. Prior to GCE she served as legal counsel for Bouygues and British Petroleum in France. After completing her MBA she joined Pfizer in New York where she led teams and projects across many countries, managed professional education for several billion-dollar global brands and pioneered the role of Alliance Manager. She later joined Bayer where she led multinational conferences and workshops for physicians and researchers. As a certified cross-cultural trainer, an online educator and a US market entry specialist, Ms. Lechner speaks in the US and abroad at workshops, conferences and webinars in collaboration with companies, universities and national development agencies.
Sophie has a Bachelor’s of Law from King’s College in London, a Maîtrise de Droit and a DESS from Université de Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University in New York.
How to map your business model with your financial model?
How to map your business model with your financial model?
duration: 50 Min
price: $ 24.99
Strategizing your venture: how different parts come together forming a comprehensive strategy
In this session, with Aleksandr Shaghikyan you will explore how to elaborate your str...
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Dr. Aleksandr Shaghikyan
Founder and Managing Partner at AMF Consulting
AMF Consulting
is a Founder and Managing Partner at AMF Consulting, a management advisory firm. He has more than 12 years of intensive experience in corporate finance and strategy across different sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries. Aleksandr is dedicated to empowering organizations to find their true sources of competitiveness and growth and is passionate about shaping and redefining organizational strategy and culture, optimizing operations, and supporting better decision making around M&A and corporate finance practices. He holds an MBA from Said Business School, University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Armenian State University of Economics.