Next ATDC/Creative Coast Seminar on Angel Investors
Entrepreneur Food for Thought Series:
Angel Investors as Partners, Supporters and
Equity Participants
Presented by:
Ray Wenig, President
Ariel Southeast Angel Partners
Thursday May 17th, 2012, 11:30am-1:00pm
Georgia Tech Savannah Campus, PARB Building, Rm #126
FREE LUNCH PROVIDED
To attend, please sign up at http://fftmay17.eventbrite.com by Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
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About the Presentation:
Some key things that entrepreneurs need to be successful are CUSTOMERS, FINANCIAL RESOURCES and PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS. Angel investors are a potential source of advice, capital and active engagement to support all three of these keys to success. Not all entrepreneurial ventures are right for angels and the angels are highly selective and careful in the businesses they choose to support. However if your business and the angels are a good fit there will develop a relationship that is tougher, stronger and longer than with most other business support services. It will become a two way collaborative relationship that wholeheartedly supports entrepreneurial success for all parties.
This session will present an open and interactive discussion on who, what, why and how Angels can support entrepreneurs. It will focus on the stages of business development where angels fit and the recent changes in the landscape of new business startup financing including crowdsourcing and venture funds. Several actual project examples will be presented and evaluated.
About the Speaker:
Ray Wenig is a proactive supporter of entrepreneurial ideas and companies. He has a history of building entrepreneurial organizations and actively supporting others as an active angel investor. Trained as an Industrial Engineer at MIT, he has a consulting career of creating ideas and solutions in a wide range of industrial, manufacturing and information systems projects. He has had a secondary career in creating, producing and delivering creative management and technical training programs for educational institutions, corporate training centers and management teams. His angel investing career has involved evaluating new technologies, searching for innovative solutions and creative ideas and proactively supporting new businesses that can identify and seize market opportunities and develop viable high growth ventures.
He founded the Hilton Head Angel Partners in 2004 and merged it with the Ariel Savannah Angel Partners in 2006. Through his operations management oversight the membership has grown to over 50 active angel investors with over $4 million invested is 18 companies in a wide variety of fields.
Ray Wenig is an active participant in the Lowcountry Entrepreneurial Alliance, the New Directions Network, the MIT Club of South Carolina and Coastal Georgia, the Angel Capital Association and numerous other business cultivation activities.
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