Success for the 1st EOS Annual Conference

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Success for the 1 EOS Annual
Conference
The EOS 1st annual conference which was held on November 30th 2009 in
Sophia Antipolis was a success. The conference addressed the issues of financing global companies, highlighting the challenges faced by entrepreneurs
and experiences were shared by both investors and global entrepreneurs.
The very international conference gathered around
75 participants from several countries: Ireland, UK,
Finland, US, Lithuania, Italy, Germany and France.
The participating companies had the opportunity to
show their products and services to potential
investors and partners, but also the possibility to do a
10 minute elevator pitch in front of an international
investor panel with the audience voting.
13 companies pitched to the jury and the end of the day results were as follow:
Best Presentation:
MySites
www.mysites.com
Most Investible company: 1:
Radisens Diagnostics
www.radisens.com
2: VoiceSage
www.voicesage.com
Most International company:
Fertility Focus
www.fertility-focus.com
Price from the public:
SimplySim
www.simplysim.net
The whole EOS team would like to thank the following people and companies for their contribution to the success of this event.
First of all the pitching companies for their hard work, excellent presentations and
highly innovative products:
Robert Milnes from Fertility Focus,
Michael James from Fertility Innovations,
Olivier Verneau from Idey,
Philippe Bessaguet from iQsim,
Colin Telfer from Lee Oncology,
Pierre Benaros from Marcus Stern Armateurs,
Guillermo Ortega from Metryc,
Ramine Darabiha from MySites,
Jerry O’Brien from Radisens Diagostics,
Nicolas Dalmasso from SimplySim,
Geneviève Flaven from Style Vision,
Sean Dowling and Mark Oppermann from VoiceSage and
Christophe core and Sophie Fechoz-Trouillat from Wyvern
And the speakers for their insights on the international investment environment:
Candace Johnson, Succès Europe
Brigitte Baumann, President of EBAN (European Business Angels Network)
Simon Harris, CEO of Quotient Diagnostics
Charles Garvey, CEO of NitroSell
Didier Cassini, CEO of Opio Color
Jan Christiansen, Partner of Frost & Sullivan
Ségolène Pin-Monsaingeon, Manager of Team Cote d’Azur
Jean-Paul Ortelli, Sophia Business Angels
Julia Haston, Sophia Business Angels
And all the participants!
Please find some of the presentations here to download:
Charles Garvey
http://www.eurofficeservices.eu/fileadmin/downloads/Internationalise_Charles_Garvey.pdf
Simon Harris
http://www.eurofficeservices.eu/fileadmin/downloads/Simon_EOS_presentation_301109.pdf
Brigitte Baumann
http://www.eurofficeservices.eu/fileadmin/downloads/EOS_BBaumann_2009_11_30.pdf