For more information, please contact:
Jan Moen, executive director
Accelerate Madison, Inc.
Phone: 608.213.3939
Email: info@acceleratemadison.org
Peter Zaballos
Frazier Technology Ventures
Phone: 608.469.5704
Email: peter@fraziertechnology.com
Technology industry veteran brings more than 20 years of technology executive and entrepreneurial experience to state’s largest IT networking organization
Madison, WI – January 25, 2006, Accelerate Madison, Inc. has appointed Peter Zaballos as president of its governing board of directors, effective immediately. Mr. Zaballos brings to Accelerate Madison more than 20 years of experience as an information technology executive in Silicon Valley, Boston and Seattle as well as his current role heading up Frazier Technology Ventures’ Madison office. Zaballos is Vice President of Frazier Technology Ventures, a Seattle-based venture capital firm with an office in Madison that invests primarily in early-stage information technology companies. He has served as a board member of Accelerate Madison since 2004.
“Accelerate Madison has made an outstanding contribution to the information technology sector in the greater Madison marketplace, through events featuring compelling and relevant topics and speakers, as well as a forum where people in the IT sector can get to know each other, said Peter Zaballos, President, Accelerate Madison. “I’m proud to have been a member for more than two years, and am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the rest of the board and Accelerate Madison’s membership to expand on this success.”
ABOUT ACCELERATE MADISON, INC.
Accelerate Madison is a nonprofit membership organization that brings together entrepreneurs, business leaders, technologists, educators and students involved in information technology to educate on and improve the use of information technology, nurture the development of technology companies and optimize economic growth of diverse businesses within Greater Madison.
UPCOMING EVENTS IN MADISON
Networking events and educational programs hosted by Accelerate Madison are open to the general public. Upcoming events in Madison through April 2006 are announced as follows:
“SECURITY: Trends in Risk and Business Exposure”
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2006
Time: 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception; 6:30-8:00 p.m. Program
Venue: Fluno Center for Executive Education
Admission: $30 Non-Members; $10 Students; $0 Accelerate Madison’s Members
Current trends in information technology security will be discussed by panelists having various perspectives of expertise in areas of customer operations, business systems, IT security, legal, and security crime investigation. Timely information will be shared relating to:
• Security crimes: ways in which companies are being exposed to risk
• Economic and regulatory drivers for security
• The human factors of security, or, “social engineering”
Panelists will include: Moderator Joshua Heling, SecurePipe, Inc.; Kelly Hansen, Neohapsis; David Meunier, CUNA Mutual Group; Craig Newman, Madison Area Technical College; and Steven Paulson, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The Information Technology Association of Wisconsin”
Speaker: Jim Rice, Information Technology Association of Wisconsin
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Time: 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception; 6:30-8:00 p.m. Program
Venue: Fluno Center for Executive Education
Admission: $30 Non-Members; $10 Students; $0 Accelerate Madison’s Members
“Spotlight on Sony”
Speaker: Steve Banfield, Sony Corporation of America
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Time: 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception; 6:30-8:00 p.m. Program
Venue: Fluno Center for Executive Education
Admission: $30 Non-Members; $10 Students; $0 Accelerate Madison’s Members
“An Evening with Microsoft”
Speaker: Michael Risse, Microsoft Corporation
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Time: 5:00 p.m. Networking Reception; 6:30-8:00 p.m. Program
Venue: Fluno Center for Executive Education
Admission: $30 Non-Members; $10 Students; $0 Accelerate Madison’s Members
“Patent Cooperation Treaty”
Speaker: Isabelle Boutillon, World Intellectual Property Organization
Date: May 2006, exact date and timing yet to be announced by Accelerate Madison
