MAIN SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker:
Martin Mannion, Managing Partner
Summit Partners
Welcome Address:
Stephen A. Hurwitz, Partner
Choate, Hall & Stewart
VIP Dinner Speaker
Renny Smith
Managing Director
TH Lee Putnam Ventures

The 4th Annual MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium will take place on Friday, April 20, 2007, at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The theme for this year’s event, “Navigating the Expanding Private Equity Universe”, recognizes that today’s private equity participants are more diverse, sophisticated, and larger than ever before. The private equity universe, once concentrated only in the United States and Europe, has broadened rapidly to include focused strategies aimed at India, China, and other frontiers. It is more complicated to build the rocket ship, or strategy, needed to help successfully launch and execute in today’s private equity space. The MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium is the forum you should attend to help navigate the expanding private equity universe.

Unique Forum to Address Cutting-Edge Trends and Recent Industry Developments
The MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium has emerged as an important event for the Private Equity community. Last year’s symposium attracted well over 350 leading private equity professionals, limited partner investors and industry executives, as well as distinguished MIT professors and student leaders from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The Symposium is organized around three tracks, and will be structured for nine panel discussions, providing a forum for senior professionals and MIT professors to share their views on topics such as General Partner and Limited Partner relationships, Operations, Distressed Investing, Structuring and Exiting Transactions, and the convergence of Hedge Funds and Private Equity. Attendees will also gain insight into industry developments from the rise in cross-border investments to how firms differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive industry of private equity investing.