Ask Me Anything Series |Ms.Barbara Russell, Co-Founder,CapW Clobal; Mentor, Techstars; Earlier: Senior Lecture, Boston University& Managing Director, Detwiler Fenton | Oct 8th, 2020 | 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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The IIT Madras HTIC Medtech Incubator & IITM Incubation Cell is excited to jointly host the “Ask Me Anything Series“. We will be bringing in experts from different sectors to answer some pertinent questions that matter the most to start-ups. Pen down your questions related to “Pitch Deck” for Ms. Barbara Russell (LinkedIn).
Session Topic: ASK ME ANYTHING ON PITCH DECK.
Speaker: Ms. Barbara Russell, Co-Founder, CapW Global; Mentor, Techstars; Earlier: Senior Lecture, Boston University & Managing Director, Detwiler Fenton.
Date: 8th Oct, 2020 (Thursday)
Time: 5:30PM – 6:30PM
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/eroKMwQhS3RnNQ9A8
Link to join: https://meet.google.com/gup-ypuk-hqb
Ms. Barbara Russell, Co-Founder, CapW Global; Mentor, Techstars; Earlier: Senior Lecture, Boston University & Managing Director, Detwiler Fenton.
Barbara Dalton Russell co-founded Cap W – an Advisory/investment Banking firm focused on early/mid-stage tech-enabled companies, characterized by strong female and/or POC founders & teams, solving BIG problems with massive market opportunities. We advance the ability of companies principally focused on the AI/ML, VR/AR, ed-tech, clean-tech and fin-tech sectors to succeed through our model of investing and providing strategic advice that maximizes the ability of these companies to scale via targeted fundraising from optimal/inclusive strategic, venture and other capital sources.
Barbara serves on the board of several rapidly-scaling, early and mid-stage companies, providing advice fueled from her 28 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, M&A, and capital markets. She also serves on non-profit boards including: Alliance for Business Leadership (ABL) and NFTE, both of which represent her progressive views on diversity and inclusion.
Prior to Cap W, Ms. Russell was Managing Director of Investment Banking at Detwiler Fenton, co-founder of: the Social Internet Fund (2011) with Lou Kerner; Bold Cap, a woman-focused venture fund, with Kay Koplovitz, Heide Miller & Barbara Corcoran, and before that, Senior Partner, and Group Head of the Media, Entertainment, New Media investment banking group at CIBC Oppenheimer, where she raised significant amounts of capital as well as provided advice to technology, media, & digital companies.
Ms. Russell is a mentor, judge, and/or investor in several accelerators, angel investment groups, and not-for-profits including: TechStars; LearnLaunch; Harvard i-Lab; NYS Bus.Plan Comp; Rice University Bus. Plan Comp; and MIT Alumni Angels. She is a senior lecturer at Babson, MIT, U-Mass, and BU. She received her MBA from the Sloan School at MIT and a BA in Economics from Boston University.
