ISI Greater Bay Area invites all Northern California international students, scholars and their families
Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10 a.m.-12:30
The Cocoanut Grove Ballroom at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Boardwalk Blast blue flyer (pdf, 264.0 KB)
ISI Boardwalk Blast flyer
featured speaker Dr. Promod Haque

RESERVE TICKETS from your local staff-- FREE for International students/scholars
SIGNUP @ www.isisfbay.org/BoardwalkBlast.html

Dr. Promod Haque (pdf, 57.2 KB)
Featured Speaker

* Featured in "The World is Flat"
* Ranked by Forbes Magazine #1 Dealmaker 2004
* top 10 on Forbes "Midas List" of venture capitalists
* Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners www.nvp.com
* See video "Globalization and the International Student" www.isisfbay.org/boardwalkblast.html excerpt from ISI national conference 2008

ISI Boardwalk Blast flyer (pdf, 11.7 MB)

Program music by The Bard Sherman group. See Youtube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=73mzm2_Imn4?

30% discount coupons for Boardwalk rides

biography of Dr. Promod Haque (pdf, 31.9 KB)
Video of Dr. Haque at ISI national conference June 2008, "Globalization and the International Student"
http://www.isisfbay.org/boardwalkblast.html

Dr. Promod Haque came to the U.S. as an international student and lived with an ISI host family in Illinois.

Dr. Haque has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past eight years. In 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade.

He oversees more than $2.5 billion in venture capital investments around the world as managing partner of Palo Alto-based Norwest Venture Partners, www.nvp.com. NVP has funded over 400 companies since inception. Dr. Haque focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman featured Dr. Haque in his bestseller, The World is Flat, discussing the dot-com boom & bust effect on the Silicon Valley high-tech industry work force.

BSc. Electrical Engineering, University of Delhi, India.
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University, MBA Kellogg Graduate School of Management, currently serves on Kellogg’s advisory board.