5:30-6:00 p.m.:  Check In/Registration
6:00-7:00 p.m.:  Panel Discussion
7:00-8:00 p.m.:  Networking Reception

Light hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served. There is no charge for this event. Kindly RSVP here by Friday, June 17.

Panelists include:

Salen Churi '11 is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the Bluhm-Helfand Director and founder of the Innovation Clinic. Prior to founding the Innovation Clinic, Salen served as Associate Director of the IJ Clinic on Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Law School. Previously, he practiced corporate law at Sidley Austin and Kirkland & Ellis, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and technology transactions. He received a BA cum laude from Miami University and a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School.

Steve Ducommun is a partner with Perkins Coie's Corporate practice.  He concentrates his practice in corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, commercial contracting and financings. He regularly represents companies in a number of industries, including health care, biotechnology, food and procurement, cleantech, pharmaceutical, medical devices, agribusiness, metals and information technology.

John Flavin, MBA is the Executive Director of the Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) at the University of Chicago. An entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the life sciences field focused on finance and operations, Flavin has co-founded and built several companies, raised over $220 million in private and public capital, and led 2 successful NASDAQ IPOs. John is Managing Director at Flavin Ventures, LLC, a venture creation and management firm, as well as a board member at the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition, and he sits on the World Business Chicago ChicagoNEXT CleanTech committee and the City of Chicago's Small Business Advisory Committee.