Welcome back to the podcast US Market Entry where we're wrapping up our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In the final part, we'll hear a panel discussing the pitfalls and opportunities one might face when entering the US market and Silicon Valley from abroad. Along with the Japanese executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

• Doug Felder, Director of OEM Business Development for NextHop, CEO of Felder Associates
• Karin Hollerbach, CEO of Taku Group
• Stephanie Keller-Bottom, Partner and Co-Founder of i2 Innovation Intelligence
• Phil Wickham, Managing Director of Procap Partners
• Tim Ome, Managing Director at Trenwith Securities