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InTouch Technologies is producing and selling a remote controlled robotic platform which enables an expert to have a two-way live video conversation remotely - for example, a doctor in his office can see and talk with a patient in a nursing home who can see and talk with the doctor. InTouch has received substantial coverage in the national business and healthcare press in the last year. The Company is now broadening its reach beyond healthcare. \n\nPlease join us for an in-depth discussion of this company's strategies and potential. InTouch founder and CEO Yulun Wang will present his company's business plan before a panel of experts. The panel will include Kevin Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Operations at PracticeXpert, Inc.; Ed Steinfeldt, Principal of Steinfeldt & Associates; and Joshua Bernstein of Funk Ventures.\n\nWednesday, June 21\nUniversity Club (downtown) \n1332 Santa Barbara St. \nSanta Barbara, CA \n5:30 - 8:00 P.M. \n\nAdmission includes light dinner. Payable by cash or check at the door. \n$30 advance registration \n$35 same-day registration \n$15 for students with valid ID \n\nRegister now at http://www.centralcoastmit.com/ \n\n\nYulun Wang, CEO of In Touch Technologies\n\nDr. Yulun Wang is an accomplished entrepreneur and world renowned authority on robotics in healthcare. In 1998, Dr. Wang was named South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for his successes with Computer Motion, Inc. (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Intuitive Surgical [Nasdaq: ISRG]) which he founded in 1989. Computer Motion pioneered the medical robotics industry resulting in an IPO with a $150 million valuation on $16 million paid-in capital. Dr. Wang was the principal architect of Computer Motion's product line, which generated more than $125 million in revenue, and performed over half a million surgical procedures. Dr. Wang led all of a company's various functions, including Sales & Marketing, R&D, intellectual property, finance, manufacturing and regulatory affairs. Dr. Wang has over 2 dozen patents, and in September of 2000 was selected as one of the nation's top engineers to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2000 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Irvine, California. Dr. Wang has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering specializing in robotics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.\n\nAbout In Touch Technologies \nInTouch Health is a leading provider of Remote Presence solutions that empower physicians to easily and more frequently visit with hospital-based patients. With Remote Presence, physicians are available on-demand across multiple areas of high acuity (ICU, ER, patient wards). Increased physician presence may lead to improved patient safety, increased patient satisfaction, and greater efficiency and throughput gains - all significant factors in hospital economics and quality of care. \n\nPANELISTS:\n\nEdward Steinfeldt, Principal of Steinfeldt & Associates \n \nEd has been involved in the design, building, and management of retirement, extended care and hospice facilities in California and nationally for over 25 years. His local clients, projects, and management positions include Casa Dorinda, Valle Verde, Heritage House, Vista Del Monte, Hospice of Santa Barbara, and Wood Glen Hall. His consulting firm, Steinfeldt & Associates, has managed projects all over the US.\n\nEd is a member and a former officer and director of the California Association of Homes for the Aging, and a member of both the American and the International Associations of Homes and Services for the Aging.\n\nEd earned a BS degree in Business Administration from Florida State University and an Master’s degree in Health Care Administration from George Washington University.\n\nAbout Steinfeldt & Associates\n\nSteinfeldt & Associates has for twenty years worked with not-for-profit organizations and for-profit developers of retirement housing and health care communities. We have earned our reputation for professionalism, dedication, and integrity, by realizing projects that have become highly successful. We have worked with a significant number of boards, administrators, and owners creating a vision which serves the local community and the individuals living within it.\n\nJoshua Bernstein, Partner of Funk Ventures\n\nJoshua Bernstein is a Partner at Funk Ventures, a multi-faceted venture capital and private equity firm based in Santa Monica, California.\n\nMr. Bernstein has served as Managing Partner of Funk Ventures Investment Banking; Founder/President of technology marketing company The Global Edge and Founder/President of hospitality service company Buckhead Bartenders. He worked previously at The Carter Center, where he researched and monitored the economic and political situation throughout Latin America and provided assistance for delegations monitoring historic, democratic elections in Nicaragua in 1990 and Guyana in 1992.\n\nAfter attending Stanford University and the University of Seville, Spain, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in International Relations from Emory University, where he was recognized for excellence in political science and foreign language through induction into Pi Sigma Alpha and Phi Sigma Iota and receipt of the Dale Carnegie Scholarship for public speaking.\n\nAn avid writer and traveler, Mr. Bernstein co-wrote and produced a musical comedy that was performed to rave reviews in Boston’s Theater District, traveled the United States as a freelance photographer during the World Cup soccer tournament and is half way toward his goal of visiting 50 countries.\n\nAbout Funk Ventures\n\nFunk Ventures is a multi-faceted investment firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm's philosophy is grounded in the belief that businesses can make a significant and positive contribution to people, society and the environment. The firm's portfolio companies and its investment focus on wellness, medical devices, clean tech and sustainable real estate development put this philosophy into action every single day. Recent investments include: Organic To Go, Surfparks and Cool Systems.\n\nThe firm's venture capital business makes value-add investments in promising companies in the wellness, medical device and clean tech markets. Focusing on the same market sectors, the firm's business accelerator provides business development, resources, expertise and management to companies generally too young to receive venture financing. Through its real estate business, Funk Ventures actively pursues national and international real estate investment and development opportunities with specific emphasis on projects that are utilizing environmentally-friendly and sustainable technologies.\n\nKevin Gilbert\nKevin C. Gilbert, Senior Vice President of Operations, PracticeXpert Inc.\n\nMr. Gilbert has over 20 years of health care sales, product marketing, operations, and technology development experience with a wide range of health care delivery and services companies. Before joining PracticeXpert, Mr. Gilbert was with Medecison Inc., a software and services company for collaborative care management solutions where he was VP of Product Marketing Management for AI based data analysis products. Prior to this Mr. Gilbert was VP of Sales and Marketing for Value Health Sciences and ProtoCare Sciences a software and services company providing health care analytic products to the payer market.\n\nAbout PracticeXpert\n\nPracticeXpert is a technology-driven national provider of practice management services and web-based software solutions that improve operational efficiencies and enhance cash flow for private practice physicians, medical clinics and outpatient facilities. PracticeXpert develops and markets a broad range of innovative products and services that improve physician office workflow while managing reimbursements for services. \n\nL. Robert Johnson, Managing Partner, Founders Capital Partners LP\n\nBob Johnson is the Managing Partner of Founders Capital Partners, a venture capital angel group focusing on early-stage technology-based businesses.\n\nPrior to establishing Founders, Bob was CEO of Angenics, Inc., a biotechnology-based diagnostics company he co-founded in 1981. Before founding Angenics, Bob was the Managing Partner of the Sprout Capital Group, the venture capital arm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. He was involved in research, private equity and venture capital investing with DLJ from 1969 to 1981, and with Kidder Peabody from 1966 to 1969.\n\nBob is currently a member of the boards of West Pharmaceutical Services (NYSE); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES CrystalVoice Communications in Santa Barbara, and is Chairman of the Board of HealthBanks Inc. in Burlington, MA.\n\nBob was a director of Indigo Systems Corporation until its acquisition by FLIR Systems, and was a director of Genetic MicroSystems before its acquisition by Affymetrix. He has served on the boards of numerous public and private companies in the past. He is also a former Director of the National Venture Capital Association and a former Governor of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies.\n\nBob earned a BS in physics from MIT in 1963 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1965. He also serves as a trustee of MIT. |
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