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Eighth Annual International Venture Fair


Featuring

Lewis Katz

Visionary Entrepreneur Committed to Community Service

Hosted by

Richard Bendis

President and CEO, True Product ID

Former President, Innovation Philadelphia


Thursday June 1
8:30am-11:30am
Temple University Student Activity Center, Room 200
1755 N. 13th Street

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Presenting Companies

Cellix, Ltd ( Ireland )
CEO: Vivienne Willams

www.cellixltd.com

Cellix is an instrumentation company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of biochips and enabling tools for cell-based tests or analysis in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and academic environments. Cellix's tools provide solutions to the current bottlenecks in the drug discovery pipeline by mimicking the in vivo environment and offering a far more efficient means of screening drugs, eliminating false leads and thereby saving pharmaceutical companies millions of dollars. The project, by a combined Fox School and Trinity College team, focused on strategic options for entering both the preclinical testing area of drug discovery and the point-of-care diagnostics sector.

 

CREMe, Ltd. ( Ireland )
CEO: Cronan McNamara

www.cremesoftware.com

 CREMe (Central Risk and Exposure Modeling e-solutions) Software was formed in 2005 to commercialize risk-analysis software developed by Trinity Collge Dublin's Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing (TCHPC). The company has received seed financing, has recorded its first revenues, has just signed a five-year contract with a core customer, and expects revenues of €1 M in 2006. The project , by a combined Fox School and Trinity College team, concentrated on the firm's newest product, TrinRisk, a web-based risk analysis service for the finance, investment and insurance industries.

 

Eastern Shore of Virginia Tourism Council ( USA )
Executive Director, Donna Bozza

www.esvatourism.org

Virginia 's Eastern Shore is a long, thin and beautiful strip of land separating the lower reaches of the (250-mile!) Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic Ocean . It is an idyllic area, notable for its bird life, fishing, relatively warm weather, beautiful sea-marsh-land vistas, and slow pace. The project focused on helping the commission develop a sustainable tourism strategy for that maintains and protects the rural character and substantial "natural capital" of the area while providing for meaningful economic development benefits the people living on the shore year round.

 

GRT Development, Ltd ( Israel )
Chairman, Reuven Sadeh

GRT Development Ltd is built around a proven technology that measures liquid flow through pipes non-invasively. The technology is very accurate even when the pipes are very thin (as in blood vessels) and the liquid flow is very slow (1mm/day). The project , by a combined Fox School and Ben Gurion University team, developed a business plan for a break-through insulin pump system.

 

Murex Investments ( USA )
Managing Partner, Jim Jaffe
Partner, Jacob Gray

www.murexinvests.com

Murex Investments is committed to a "double bottom line" of delivering competitive returns to its investors combined with social benefits to company employees. Currently, Murex Investments is investing its first fund in small businesses in the Mid-Atlantic region. The project focused on establishing markets and plans for Murex Investment's next two funds.

 

Natural Lands Trust ( USA )
Executive Director, Molly Morrison
VP Strategy, Andy Pitz

www.natlands.org

The Natural Lands Trust is a 50-year-old conservancy dedicated to preserving wild and historic places in SE Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Delaware . Through the management of its extensive inventory of preserves and easements, NLT has developed tremendous sophistication in reinvigorating damaged land. The project developed a business plan for a new Land Stewardship Institute.

 

Princeton Financial Systems, Inc. ( USA )
CEO, Jim Russo
Product Manager, John Kuhne

www.pfs.com

Princeton Financial Systems, a subsidiary of State Street Bank, has built a robust suite of products for handling the post-sale and other back-office transactions involved in managing large mutual fund and insurance investment portfolios. By staying focused on a relatively narrow set of services and clients, PFS has become one of the strongest systems providers in the US market and has developed toeholds overseas, especially Europe . The project focused on the possibility of entering Latin American markets.

Scientific Biopsy, Ltd ( Israel )
CEO, Moshe Haber

www.sbiopsy.com

Scientific Biopsy is a self-funded, hi-tech Israeli company developing and manufacturing a variety of sophisticated biopsy guiding systems based on robotics technology. Scientific Biopsy is developing a suite of biopsy products, starting with breast biopsy systems that can either stand alone or work with mammography units. The project , by a combined Fox School and Ben Gurion University team, developed a market entry strategy for a follow-on system for lung biopsies.


Partner Universities

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Welingkars Institute of Management Development and Research

Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees

Trinity College - Dublin

Partner Organizations

America Israel Chamber of Commerce
Irish American Business Chamber & Network
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of SE Pennsylvania
Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia
Greater Philadelphia Venture Group
Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group
Innovation Philadelphia