Tech Stocks' Author Geoffrey Moore, Sanmina Added To Silicon Valley Investors Forum April 25
MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1998--Noted Silicon Valley author Geoffrey Moore and prominent fast-growing electronics manufacturer services company Sanmina Corp. (NASDAQ:SANM) have been added the impressive lineup of technology talent at Informed Investors Third Annual Silicon Valley Technology Forum, April 25, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Milpitas.
Cost to attend, which includes a continental breakfast, is only $20 prepaid; $30 at the door. Audio tapes of the complete Forum are available for $45 plus $3.95 shipping/handling. To register or for additional information, call 800/992-4683 or access Informed Investors website at www.informedinvestors.com.
Geoffrey Moore, author of the recently-published "The Gorilla Game: An Investor's Guide To Picking High Technology Winners," (www.gorillagame.com) will be the opening keynote speaker at the Forum. Moore is chairman of The Chasm Group, a high-tech, market strategy consulting practice in San Mateo.
His firm provides market development and business strategy services to many leading high-technology companies, including 3Com (NASDAQ:COMS), AT&T (NYSE:T), Bay Networks (NYSE:BAY), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO), Digital Equipment (NYSE:DEC), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), PeopleSoft (NASDAQ:PSFT), SAP, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW), Sybase (NASDAQ:SYBS), Xerox (NYSE:XRX) and hundreds of start-ups and growing ventures.
Prior to founding The Chasm Group, Moore was a principal/partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high-tech marketing strategy and marketing communications company. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
The other keynote speaker is Kevin Landis, co-manager of the Technology Value Fund (www.techfunds.com), who has posted outstanding results by investing primarily in small and mid-cap technology companies.
Since founding TVF in May 1994, the fund has earned a total return exceeding 40% annually. TVF exceeded a 60% in both 1995 and 1996 before slipping in 1997. The largest sectors represented in TVF are semiconductors and medical stocks with nearly 70% between them.
Executives from up to eight companies will give analyst-style presentations to attendees. In addition to Sanmina, companies already committed to presenting include executives from Coherent (NASDAQ:COHR), VISX, Inc. (NASDAQ:VISX), Qualmark (NASDAQ:QMRK) and CardioGenesis (NASDAQ:CGCP). Other presenting companies will be announced.
Informed Investors has been active in the Silicon Valley for several years and has hosted many leading high-tech firms there and in other locations.
A selection of past presenting companies include: Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD), Ascend Communications (NASDAQ:ASND), Atmel Corp. (NASDAQ:ATML), Autodesk (NASDAQ:ACAD), Boole & Babbage (NASDAQ:BOOL), Credence Systems (NASDAQ:CMOS), Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY), Tencor Instruments, now KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ:KLAC), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), Macromedia (NASDAQ:MACR), Mattson Technology (NASDAQ:MTSN), Silicon Valley Group (NASDAQ:SVGP), Sawtek (NASDAQ:SAWS), Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) and many others.
Informed Investors next scheduled event is the First Annual Utah Regional Stocks Forum Saturday morning, April 18 in Salt Lake City. The keynote speaker is Dr. Samuel S. Stewart, Founder and Chairman of the Wasatch Funds. Presenting companies at that Forum are SOS Staffing Services (NASDAQ:SOSS), Mining International (NASDAQ:MISX), Pen Interconnect (NASDAQ:PENC) and Anesta Corp. (NASDAQ:NSTA). Call Informed Investors at 800/992-4683 for information.
Since 1993, Sacramento-based Informed Investors has been linking investors with management of public companies with particular strength in technology and biotechnology. Informed Investors represents individual investors who collectively hold an estimated $2 billion in investable assets.
CONTACT:
Informed Investors
Bob Taylor/Sean Finnigan/Steve Chanecka, 916/448-8222
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