ANN ARBOR ? Who is the right investor for your business? How do you evaluate an investor and what qualities do you look for? Those questions and more will be discussed Thursday when the New Enterprise Forum and Ann Arbor SPARK host a joint meeting at SPARK Central in downtown Ann Arbor.

Bring your notepad and start developing your checklist as our panel sheds light on this critical business decision.

Panelists:

David Morris, Founder and Managing Director of Oracle Capital. David?s responsibilities include deal flow generation, due diligence, and investments. Previously, he was an investment banker with UBS Warburg, focusing on mergers and acquisitions.

Rand Mueller, Co-Founder and CEO of Guidepoint Systems. Rand is a pioneer in the vehicle security and convenience industry, having started several automotive electronics businesses. He has done every type of financing: angel, debt, sub-debt, VC and IPO!

Skip Simms, Ann Arbor SPARK and Executive Director, Michigan Pre-Seed Fund. Prior to SPARK, Skip helped create the Ralph Wilson Equity Fund, LLC in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He is also a founding director on the board of the Michigan Venture Capital Association.

Moderator:

Ray Waters, Managing Director of the Detroit Community Loan Fund and President of ShoreBank Enterprise Detroit. His business career also includes over 20 years? experience as CEO and owner of three profitable growth companies, two of which were start-ups.

Showcase Presentations:

Gideon Eden of BioLumix, a team of industry veterans who are bringing to market a system for rapidly testing a broad range of products for microbial contamination. The BioLumix system simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of testing compared to competitive products.

Sean Ainsworth of GeneVivo, addressing the demands of the modern medical research industry for more precisely designed laboratry animals. GeneVivo’s proprietary methods increase the success rate of current animal modification processes by a factor of 25 and to extend the number of modifiable species by orders of magnitude.

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