I’m really excited to announce the list of speakers that are going to be a part of the SVB CEO Summit on April 27th in NYC.  This is an invite-only event, reserved exclusively for Founders of bootstrapped and seed funded startups who are clients of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank).  As you know, many of the conferences in the tech ecosystem cost hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars to attend.  This is a unique event that is free and our clients will be able to connect with Founders who have exited at least one startup in the past.  If you are are a Founder of a startup that is a client of SVB and interested in attending, please send me an email (sgoldman at svb dot com), we have a few seats available.  The folks below are pretty awesome and looking forward to hearing insights about how they scaled their startups and understand what challenges they overcame.

• Michael Barrett, CEO, AdMeld (acquired by Google)
• Walt Doyle, GM, Where, a PayPal Service (acquired by PayPal)
• Rick Fulop, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; Founder, A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE)
• Jared Hecht, Co-Founder GroupMe (acquired by Skype)
• Eric Hippeau, Partner, Lerer Ventures (former CEO of the Huffington Post, acquired by AOL)
• Steve Papa, CEO, Endeca (acquired by Oracle)
• Antonio Rodriguez, General Partner, Matrix Partners (Founder and CEO of Tabblo, acquired by HP)
• Micah Rosenbloom, Chairman & CEO, Sample6 Technologies & Founder Partner, Founder Collective (Co-Founder Brontes Technologies, acquired by 3M)
• Laurel Touby, Founder, Mediabistro.com (acquired by Jupiter Media)