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Alfredo Coppola is the President and Executive Director of the US Market Access Center, the longest-standing high-tech business incubator in Silicon Valley for foreign companies seeking to successfully enter the Silicon Valley and the greater US Markets. Alfredo joined US MAC in 2004 as a management consultant and then joined the management team in 2008 as Director of Business Development, where he expanded US MAC’s partner programs and introduced the “Go Global” Silicon Valley market accelerator program.
Alfredo has over 20 years of business development and management consulting experience in the information technology sector. He has advised over 150 early-stage technology companies in his career and he also worked with large multinationals such as Adobe, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Prior to US MAC, Alfredo was president and co-founder of two Canadian digital media companies, where he established offices in Ottawa, Toronto, and San Francisco, California.
Alfredo is a certified Kauffman FastTrac instructor and teaches the “Tech Venture” and “GrowthVenture” curricula to foreign entrepreneurs and economic development groups worldwide.
Alfredo’s specialties include:
Peter is an attorney and Silicon Valley business development consultant and executive, specializing in technology and professional services firms. He has consulted with dozens of startups and professional services firms in the United States, Europe, Japan and India.
Peter has over twenty years of experience in all facets of marketing and business development. He began his career as an advertising copywriter under the legendary Peter Arnell at Arnell’s first agency, Arnell/Bickford Associates. At A/B, Peter worked on numerous high-profile accounts, including Donna Karan, DKNY, Lifetime Television, and others. While working at A/B, Peter also took first place in the prestigious J. Walter Thompson copywriting competition, and studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Following A/B, Peter attended law school at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Peter was an editor of the Journal of International Business Law, and also studied at the Wharton School. He received his J.D. in 1993, and was a practicing attorney in Philadelphia for four years, specializing in commercial litigation.
In 1997, Peter helped found Flycast Communications, one of the world’s first online advertising networks. Flycast grew to over 350 employees, was successfully taken public, and was sold to CMGI for $2.5 billion. At Flycast, and CMGI, Peter specialized in business development and strategic services. Peter founded his consulting practice in 2001, with the objective of providing business development advisory services to professional services firms and international technology companies.
Peter has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College in English Literature (with honors).
Chris Burry is a member of US MAC’s management team. Prior to that he was a founding member of Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Andersen Consulting. Founded in 2000, Avanade has grown to 9,500 global employees and annual revenues of over $850 million, with offices in 22 countries and projects in 30.
Prior to Avanade, Chris was a senior executive at Andersen Consulting and a senior technology consultant at EDS. In these roles, he oversaw numerous large-scale projects for clients in the energy, financial services, healthcare and government sectors. He has experience working in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia.
Chris was also a columnist on operating systems and infrastructure for ComputerWorld magazine and an adviser to the research division of IDC (publisher of a number of technology magazines) on cloud computing and the future of technology. He was also a regular speaker at industry conferences for Microsoft and IDC.
Chris has an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College in Political Science (with honors). He lives in Emerald Hills, California.
Michel Ktitareff is the Director of the French incubation program for the US Market Access Center, the longest-standing high-tech business incubator in Silicon Valley for foreign companies seeking to successfully enter the Silicon Valley and the greater US markets.
Michel’s duties include the selection of the most qualified start-ups in France, willing to enter the Go Global Silicon Valley program. Michel is also actively involved in the success of the Bootcamp programs organized in France.
At the US MAC facilities in Silicon Valley, Michel ensures the French start-ups incubated at the US MAC incubators are pleased with the incubation program and oversees the milestones achieved. He also bring his own network of French executives and mentors living in Silicon Valley, to contribute to success of the incubation program.
Prior to this role at US MAC, Michel launched in 2005, Silicon Valley Technopole (SVT), a Palo Alto-based company whose sole objective was to help French tech start-ups and small and medium companies to successfully enter the US market from Silicon Valley. During five years SVT has helped about two dozens of French companies to successfully launch operations in the US.
As a founder of Itechnews, Michel does consultancy for French corporate companies looking for partnerships in Silicon Valley. He also organizes one week business trips in Silicon Valley to allow French start-up to discover, before they enter the US Market, how business is done in California and explore opportunities.
Since his arrival in Silicon Valley, in 1992, Michel is been a journalist for LES ECHOS, the French leading business newspaper, for which he published more than 2,000 stories, mostly about new technologies and how innovation in valued by the US economy.
Michel also wrote a book, published in France in 2009, on “The Clean Tech Revolution happening in Silicon Valley”, introduced by Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the actual minister of Ecology in France. He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker in France to discuss the Silicon Valley business model and how innovation fosters competitiveness in US economy.
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Advisory Board Member
Omar Mencin was US MAC’s President from 2008 until August 2011. Omar joined the US MAC in 2004 as Vice President of Business Development where he created partnerships with several foreign trade agencies and incubators and designed the US MAC consulting services offerings.
Throughout his time with US MAC, he has helped over 100 foreign based technology companies successfully enter the US Market and regularly advises government agencies from Japan, Finland, China, Slovenia, Chile, Belgium, and Germany which work to bring small and medium sized technology companies to the US market.
Omar has spent his entire career working in international business and in economic development. He started his career as an research intern with the World Bank in its Paris Office and then worked as an analyst in the New York Office of Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, which invests private equity capital worldwide. While pursuing graduate studies at Stanford University, Mr. Mencin served as a research assistant for the US Asia Technology Management Center and the Stanford Project on Regional Centers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE).
He has a BA from Swarthmore College with Honors, has studied mandarin Chinese at the Taipei Language Institute and National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and has a certificate in Management Science and Engineering and an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. Currently, he is a member of The Pacific Council on International Policy and serves on the board of two non-profit organizations and one private start-up.
Contact
US Market Access Center 10 South Third Street, 3rd Floor San José, CA 95113 Main reception: +1-408-351-3300 Main fax: +1-408-351-3332