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Keynote Speakers
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Alan
Patricof Co-Founder, Apax Partners www.apax.com |
Alan Patricof is cofounder of Apax Partners,
Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc.). Mr. Patricof founded the firm
at a time when venture capital was at an incipient stage and has been
instrumental in growing the industry from a base of high net-worth
individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing.
Mr. Patricof has helped build several major global companies and was
instrumental in the start-up, financing, and subsequent strategic guidance
that helped facilitate the growth of companies such as America Online,
Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, Audible,
Inc. He was a founder and chairman of the board of NewYork magazine, which
later acquired the Village Voice and New West magazine.
In addition to setting himself apart as a successful investor and
fundraiser, Mr. Patricof has been an untiring advocate of the VC industry in
the United States and worldwide. He played a key role in the more important
legislative initiatives, including the definitive Plan Asset Regulation that
set the basis for all future institutional participation in investment
partnerships. Outside of venture capital, he has also been involved in
efforts to achieve securities litigation reform and capital gains tax
reduction.
In the philanthropic arena, Mr. Patricof is currently a board member of
TechnoServe, the Trickle Up Program, the National Foundation for Teaching
Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and the Global Advisory Board of Endeavor Inc.
Mr. Patricof has applied the disciplines of a thirty-plus year career in
private equity to address social inequities in the developing world, and
over the past several years he has traveled extensively in Asia, Latin
America, and Africa. In that connection, he serves as an advisor to the
International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is the commercial arm of the
World Bank. He was selected to be a member of the UNDP Commission on Private
Sector & Development, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
he sits on the African Policy Board. Mr. Patricof was also vice chairman of
the Commission on Financing Capital Flows to Africa sponsored by the
Corporate Council on Africa, the Institute for International Economics, and
the Council on Foreign Relations. He has participated in the “Big Table”
meeting of finance ministers under the auspices of the Commission for Africa
(CFA), which is part of the United Nations. Mr. Patricof is very active in
the New York community as a board member of both the New York Small Business
Venture Fund and New Jobs for New York Association. He also serves on the
board of trustees of Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
He has written extensively on venture capital and on challenges in the
developing world. Most recently he has had several Op-Eds appear in the
Financial Times, and a thought piece on private-sector involvement in the
developing world appeared in the April 2005 issue of the Milken Institute
Journal.
Mr. Patricof holds a BS in finance from Ohio State University and an MBA
from Columbia University Graduate School of Business
