EMTM Annual Alumni Lecture: Friday, May 19
Stephen Sammut: "Using the Lessons of EMTM
in Global Development"

For several years, EMTM has continued a tradition of combining knowledge and networking in an Annual Alumni Lecture or Workshop.

EMTM's featured Alumni Lecture speaker for 2006 is Stephen Sammut, an outstanding member of the EMTM faculty and community since 1997 who will be retiring from teaching this year. At EMTM, he has taught highly regarded courses in areas such as Strategic Management of Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Private Equity & Venture Funding — generously sharing his expertise with students both inside and outside of class.

Last year, the topic was "New Trends in Molecular Diagnostics," with EMTM's Scott Diamond, Penn Engineering Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering. In 2004, a daylong workshop on "Rightsourcing Services: Make, Migrate or Outsource" was led by Ravi Aron, an authority on business process outsourcing (BPO) and member of Wharton's Operations and Information Management Department.

This year's Annual Alumni Lecture on May 19 will provide an opportunity to reconnect and learn from Professor Sammut, and to honor his contributions to EMTM. The Alumni Lecture will be followed by a Reception for alumni, students and faculty. In addition, an evening EMTM Seminar for students and alumni will feature guest speaker Eyal Kapan, General Partner of Walden Israel Venture Capital.

3:00-3:30 Registration, Welcome and EMTM Update
Dwight Jaggard and Ziv Katalan, EMTM Co-Directors

3:30-5:00 EMTM Annual Alumni Lecture
Topic: Using the Lessons and Tools of the EMTM Program in Global Development
Speaker: Stephen Sammut — Professor, EMTM Program (1997 - present)

5:00-6:30 Reception with EMTM Alumni and Students

6:30-7:30 EMTM Seminar
Topic: Perspectives on Technology, Management, and Entrepreneurship — The VC Angle
Speaker: Eyal Kaplan — General Partner, Walden Israel Venture Capital

EMTM Annual Alumni Lecture (3:30 pm - 5:00 pm)
"Using the Lessons and Tools of the EMTM Program in Global Development"
Stephen Sammut

Unlike any program at the University of Pennsylvania, EMTM offers a blend of course work that allows its students and graduates to apply the interdisciplinary insights of science and business to the advancement of their own careers and the growth of their companies in ways that most professionals are unsuited to provide.

As such, the EMTM program creates a unique kind of power for its students; but as Archbishop Desmond Tutu observes, "The purpose of power is for service." This address to EMTM alumni and students will focus on the application of the tools and insights gained in the EMTM program for successful commerce in the emerging markets and developing countries through the formation and growth of successful business relationships, private equity activity, and ethical and responsible manufacturing and sale of products and services.

The theme will be economic development, but from a mutually beneficial perspective, and as such giving members of the EMTM community a means of discharging their duty of service."

Steve Sammut is Venture Partner, Burrill & Company, a merchant bank and venture capital fund focused on the life sciences. He has been involved in the creation or funding of nearly 40 biotechnology, Internet, and information technology companies globally. Steve previously held the positions of Vice President of Development of Teleflex Incorporated and Vice President, S.R.One, Ltd., SmithKline's venture fund. He has also been Managing Director of the Center for Technology Transfer at the University of Pennsylvania, and held a similar position at Thomas Jefferson University.

At the start of his career, Steve co-founded and served as CEO of the Delaware Valley Organ Transplant Program. Steve Sammut currently holds an appointment as a Senior Fellow, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and Health Care Systems. He also teaches in the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania.

His courses include: venture capital and private equity management, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions for technology companies, biotechnology entrepreneurship, intellectual property strategy, the use of private capital in economic development, and a special seminar on public initiatives and public-private partnerships in international health.

Steve holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in biological sciences and humanities from Villanova University, attended Hahnemann Medical College for two years, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School.

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EMTM Seminar (6:30 pm -7:30 pm)
"Perspectives on Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship: The VC Angle"
Eyal Kaplan, General Partner, Walden Israel Venture Capital

Eyal joined Walden Israel in 1995, shortly after the firm was founded. Walden Israel is an independent early stage venture capital firm with institutional investors from the U.S., Europe and Israel (www.walden.co.il). Eyal focuses on early stage investments in information technology and wireless communications companies. He currently serves on the Boards of several Walden portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Walden Israel, Eyal was one of the early senior executives at Geotek Communications, a pioneering U.S. company specializing in wireless and mobile data technology. At Geotek, Eyal held senior roles in business and strategic development and in marketing. He helped grow the company from three initial employees to over 400 and to bring the company to a market cap of close to $1 billion. Eyal led the strategic planning and business development efforts, as well as Geotek's activities in Wireless Data, an area in which Geotek was considered a pioneer. Eyal was a regular speaker at industry and Wall Street conferences on wireless communications and mobile data.

Eyal holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Technion in Israel, an MBA from the Wharton School, and an MA in international studies from the School of Arts and Sciences at The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. He is the Chairman of the Wharton-Israel Alumni Club and a Board member of the Technion Alumni Association. In his free time, Eyal has traveled the Arctic (and Antarctica) several times by foot, kayak, and canoe.

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