The BayCFO Buzz - Volume Eleven

Volume Eleven, Spring 2008
"What's a-buzz at BayCFO!"

Your Buzzin' Editor is suffering from a severe case of Spring Fever! But we'll take a few moments rest from our frolicking and nectar collectin' in the meadow ablaze with Spring flowers to give you the lowdown on our last BayCFO Meeting in January with John Hamm who spoke on "The Strategic Role of the CFO" at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park

... and to remind you to make your reservation now for our May 8th 2008 BayCFO Dinner with
Jim McGeever, CFO of NetSuite, Inc. who will speak on how today’s new critically charged environment has changed the process for taking a company public. Fundamentally important to the functioning of any company, but essential for a public company, he will also discuss, from a CFO’s perspective, the do's and don’ts of implementing an ERP system,
giving examples from his own company, NetSuite

Jim is also the winner of the 2007 Bay Area CFO of the Year Award for Venture-backed companies

For more information on this upcoming event and to register - CLICK HERE

BayCFO would like to take this opportunity to again thank our underwriters of this meeting,
City National Bank, and Nair & Company, for their support.
BayCFO has chosen a select group of quality service firms
to assist with funding events and keeping your registration costs to a minimum.
We wish to thank Peter Palsson, of City National Bank
as well as Stephen Wares of Nair & Company for helping to support this meeting.
For more information, please visit our sponsor web sites or
contact our sponsor representatives.

At the luxe Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park, our BayCFO Meeting on January 17th began with networking and our hosted cocktail hour. The hotel provided a FABULOUS spread of hors d'oeuvres for our guests, including antipasti, French country pate', mushroom duxelles, duck tureen, and a huge selection of other delectibles!

BayCFO Members enjoy the ambiance

Our BayCFO members began to arrive at the appointed hour to once again enjoy the comraderie that has become a hallmark
of BayCFO events.

Sponor Representative Stephen Wares chats with some of our BayCFO members

Eventually, our members reluctantly ended their networking hour and moved into our cushy dining room with Hunt Club decor...

Upon being seated, our guests sat down to a salad of mixed greens with cherry tomatoes, walnuts, Roquefort cheese and classic dressing, following by chicken with the lovely and classically San Franciscan Dungeness crab, served with lemon beurre blanc and fresh asparagus... Ah, asparagus, one of the first signs that Spring is here.... but sorry, your Editor disgresses.... Dessert for this lovely repast was Chocolate Mousse enrobed in raspberry coulis sauce.... Wonderful!

BayCFO members enjoy their dinner at the Stanford Park Hotel

BayCFO President Joe Pelayo takes the podium to begin our program. But before our speaker, John Hamm, stepped up to talk, our sponsor, Peter Palsson of City National Bank, raffled off two VERY nice bottles of wine - one a 2003 Dom Perignon. All just for dropping your business card in a box....

After being introduced, our speaker, John Hamm gave a lively and interesting talk on the tools necessary to be an effective leader. It was an interactive session with our members working together to brainstorm for the most effective response.

John Hamm, our speaker, is General Partner with VSP Capital and a noted author and executive coach in the area of leadership. His May, 2006 article in The Harvard Business Review, "Five Messages Leaders must Manage," is one of the top five most requested articles from the Review in recent years. John discussed the growing strategic role of the CFO especially as influenced by the increasingly more complex business environment and gave us some helpful tools to use in our work.

BayCFO members still networking, having fun

If you missed this meeting, we're sure that you won't want to miss the next one!
Our next BayCFO Event, will be held Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at the Waterfront Plaza Hotel at Jack London Square in Oakland. Come to BayCFO and enjoy the company!
In the meantime, everyone here at the BayCFO hive hopes you have a great Spring!
Looking forward to seeing you at our next BayCFO event!

To RSVP for our next BayCFO Meeting, please use this link - http://www.acteva.com/go/baycfo

More pictures of our BayCFO Event at the Stanford Court Hotel in Menlo Park!

Almost time to go home...

The lucky winner of one of our raffled bottles of great wine,
on the left....

BayCFO President Joe Pelayo and one of our guests

Great food, good friends, come join us at BayCFO!

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