A Private Equity View of Technology Projects and CFML
Saturday February 25, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
We'll be taking a look at how Private Equity Groups and Venture Groups view technology and technology investments. We'll be starting with some basic definitions as to what PE groups and Venture groups actually do, and the standard PE group metric "EBITDA". We'll see how this applies to technology projects (in particular, development projects) and walk through the way that developers can talk to CFOs about technology in terms that the CFO can understand. Finally, we'll spend a little time addressing the issue of market perception and the tendency of many companies to simply "follow the herd" when it comes to application development.
Jim Milbery
Jim is an operating partner and the CTO for Chicago Growth Partners. CGP is a Chicago-based private equity group with over $1.2 billion in assets under management. Jim has worked in a variety of languages, in a variety of roles, for many of the major technology companies including Digital Equipment, Ingres, Compuware/Uniface and Oracle. His speciality is pre-sales engineering and project scoping. Jim manages a number of portfolio companies that have significant investments in OpenCFML platforms. He still writes a bit of code himself, but all of his SVN checkins seem to get piped to /dev/null.
