http://www.socializr.com/user/marcothompson Marco Thompson's Upcoming Events (Socializr) http://www.socializr.com/event/934169610 Gene Ray Invites You to Join Him For Breakfast. Gene's Good Friend and Thought Leader, Pierre Chao will be in town on April 2, and Gene will be hosting an exclusive VIP meet and greet breakfast for 25 - 40 of the best connected folks in the Defense & Aerospace & CyberSecurity businesses here in Southern California. About Pierre Pierre is a co-founder of Renaissance Strategic Advisors and brings over 20 years of management consulting, investment banking and policy expertise in the aerospace/defense industry. Pierre was a Senior Fellow and Director of Defense-Industrial Initiatives at CSIS from 2003-2007, and remains a Senior Associate. From 1994 to 2003, Pierre was a senior aerospace/defense analyst at CSFB, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney. Over the course of his Wall Street career, Pierre participated in over thirty landmark aerospace/defense equity offerings/IPOs raising $11.7 billion. In addition, Institutional Investor ranked Pierre's team the #1 global A&D group every year eligible from 2000-02 and he was on the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team every year eligible from 1996-2002. He was ranked the #1 A&D analyst by corporations in the 1998-2000 Reuters Polls, the #1 A&D analyst in the 1995-99 Greenwich Associates polls, and appeared on the Wall Street Journal All-Star list in 4 of 7 years. Prior to his career as a Wall Street analyst, he was a director at JSA International. Pierre was also a co-founder of JSA Research, an equity research boutique specializing in the A&D industry. Pierre was a member of the 2005 Defense Science Board Summer Study (Assessment of Transformation), 2006 DSB Summer Study (Strategic Technology Vectors), the 2006/2007 DSB study on the Health of the Defense Industry, the 2007/2008 DSB Capability Requirements Identification and Development Processes study, the 2007/2008 DBB Task Force on Relations with the Industrial Base and the 2008 DBB study on Export Control Best Practices. He was also a member of a National Research Council study on Critical Technology Accessibility and a member of an Army Science Board task force on Use of Venture Capital. In 2000, Pierre was appointed by President Clinton to the Presidential Commission on Offsets in International Trade. Specialties corporate strategy, mergers and acquisition, transaction advisory services, private equity due diligence, aerospace/defense focused venture capital, aerospace/defense focused private equity Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:39:23 GMT http://www.socializr.com/event/934169610 2010-03-20T05:39:23Z 32.722628 -117.165331 32.722628 -117.165331 2010-04-02T14:00:00Z To be Announced ? To be Announced San Diego CA 92101 United States