Funding Basics and Why Do Companies Fail?

Join Barbara and guest Roger D. O'Brien as they discuss the basics of funding and reasons companies do not succeed.

Mr. O’Brien is President of O’Brien Associates, LLC (www.ROBrienAssociates.com), a general management consulting firm providing advisory and implementation services to managements in a variety of competitive industries, with special focus on interim general management, technology commercialization, marketing and strategy development. The firm was founded in 1999 and has offices in Rochester, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from New York University and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

In the Rochester, NY area, Mr. O’Brien is a member of the Board of Directors of Odyssey Software, Inc and Bristol-ID Technologies, Inc. He is an adjunct professor for the Human Resource Development graduate school program at Rochester Institute of Technology.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico he is a visiting speaker for Technology Ventures Corporation and also a member of the Equity Capital Advisory Team for TVC. Mr. O’Brien is a participating member in New Mexico Angels, based in Albuquerque, NM.