Flywheel Ventures Names Three Fellows for 2010
June 16, 2010, (Albuquerque, NM) - Flywheel Ventures welcomes three Flywheel Fellows for the 2010 Summer Fellows Program. Flywheel selects a small number of elite MBA students from the world’s premier universities to participate in the annual Flywheel Fellows Program. This year Flywheel welcomes Wen (Gordon) Wang from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Yossi Levi from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Eric Reinhardt from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
“At Flywheel, we recognize that the best way to experience the VC business is through an apprenticeship. The Flywheel Fellows program is designed to give students that first-hand experience - walking in the shoes of a VC,” said Flywheel Ventures General Partner Scott Caruso. “It’s an unique opportunity to genuinely experience the various aspects of this industry, from pitch sessions to board meetings.”
Working in both a Flywheel investment analysis and a portfolio company operations capacity, students gain an appreciation of and experience the partnership building, strategy and tactical execution required to build venture-backed technology start-ups. Students work directly with Flywheel General Partners and their responsibilities includes opportunity analysis, investment due diligence, market ecosystem mapping and portfolio governance. Additionally, students can be dedicated operationally to one or more of Flywheel’s portfolio companies in areas such as strategy, finance, sales and marketing, product management, and business development.
Wen (Gordon) Wang is completing his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He received his bachelor’s degree in International Finance from Fudan University in China. Gordon has 10 years of experience in business software industry and worked at IBM and SAP successively. He was VP of SAP China and head of the Solution Engineering team. He has published 4 books about accounting, finance, and integrated processes in business software. His project experiences cover a variety of industries, including high tech, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, consumer product, and mining. Gordon enjoys traveling and camping. He plans to visit all the 50 states in the U.S. within two years.
Yossi Levi is completing his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. At Kellogg, Yossi is leader in the GIM Middle East class and is currently a member of the finance conference leadership team. He has diverse experience in the high tech industry in both R&D and other leadership roles. Prior to Kellogg he worked for Provigent, an Israeli VC-backed startup company, as the Asia Pacific Region System Engineering Manager. He also spent five years with Intel in their wireless department where he led the integration of Intel’s 802.11a/b/g/n MIMO modem. Yossi holds BSc and MSc in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University in Israel with a focus in digital communications systems. He is an avid soccer fan and looks forward to the 2010 world cup games.
Eric Reinhardt is completing his MBA at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin concentrating in entrepreneurship and clean technology. Prior to pursuing his MBA, Eric co-founded Alliance Memory, a “fabless” semiconductor manufacturer of legacy SRAM. Eric was VP of Operations and Marketing for Alliance, managing all the back-end operations throughout Israel, Singapore, Taiwan, and China. Before Alliance, Eric started his own company called Surf Drops, which manufactured and marketed ear, nose, and eye drops specifically to surfers. Eric graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Mechanical Engineering and Economics and was captain of the Alpine Ski Team. At McCombs, he is president of the Graduate Adventure Team and is a member of the Entrepreneurship Society, Cleantech Group, Net Impact and Venture Fellows.
Press Contact: Yasine Armstrong
Flywheel Ventures, 505.850.8023
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