Please join the Innovation Speaker Series for an Evening with Amador Bustos, CEO, Bustos Media. RSVP to Kelly Scott, 530-752-1827.

Amador Bustos is currently the Chairman and CEO of Bustos Media--a leading private Spanish broadcasting company headquartered in Sacramento, California. 

In 2004, Bustos Media raised over $100 million in private equity to build its broadcast company. Currently, Bustos Media owns and operates 25 radio stations and three television stations around the country in high growth, mid-size, markets. Bustos Media also produces three nationally syndicated radio network formats (La GranD, KeBuena, & Magia) which are now being carried by 48 affiliated radio stations.

In 2005, Hispanic Business Magazine selected Mr. Bustos as one of the top One Hundred most influential Hispanics in the USA.

Previously, Mr. Bustos was Chairman and CEO of Z-Spanish Media, Corp. which from 1992 to 2000 put together a group of 32 radio stations and an outdoor billboard company. In August 2000, Z-Spanish merged with Entravision Communications at a valuation of $450 million. Mr. Bustos was a member on the Entravision Board of Directors until December 2003.

Mr. Bustos is currently on the Board of the National Broadcasters Association (NAB) and Broadcast Music, Inc. He is a member of the Investment Committee of Hispania Capital Partners; a Chicago based investment fund. Mr. Bustos is also a member of the Board of Directors of American River Bank, a NASDAQ traded Sacramento community business bank. He is also a founding member of two recently approved Hispanic owned Community banks: Plaza Bank in Seattle and ProMerica Bank in Los Angeles.

The Bustos Family is dedicated to improving the educational opportunities for disadvantaged Hispanic youth. In 1996, Amador and Rosalie established the Bustos/Lopez Family Fund through which they have supported over 56 graduating high school senior through their Bachelor’s and graduate degrees. The Bustos family is also a benefactor of the arts, and institutions of higher education. They have established endowments for the Joe and Isabel Serna Research Center at Sacramento State University. They are also made a major capital contribution to the National Hispanic University in San Jose, California

This event is postponed--we will notify registered attendees of the new date when it is rescheduled.

Join the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center for an evening with Cree Edwards, Chairman and CEO of eMeter Corporation. eMeter is the leading global provider of enterprise software for managing large-scale, real-time smart meter systems. eMeter’s mission is to combine the capabilities of new technology, and create robust, highly capable software to deploy and manage today’s smart meter systems.

In the 1990s, Mr. Edwards and his team led the development, sales, and deployment of the first generation of advanced meters, which now deliver daily data to billing systems for over 12 million electric, gas, and water meters in the U.S.  That experience, which Mr. Edwards brought to eMeter, included solving the many problems associated with integrating breakthrough technology into legacy systems – ranging from managing up to 5,000 installations per day to maintaining good labor relations with union workers to handling and successfully resolving innumerable data exceptions and other issues.  

In addition to his duties at eMeter, Mr. Edwards serves on the Board of Advisors for the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis. Mr. Edwards is a graduate of the University of California at Davis.

RSVP to Kelly Scott or 530.752.1827.  Refreshments served at 6 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Join the Innovation Speaker Series for an evening with Payam Zamani, serial entrepreneur and CEO/Chairman of Reply.com.

About Payam Zamani and Reply!

After graduating from the University of California at Davis, Payam Zamani co-founded Autoweb.com in 1994, the first online car buying service.

Over 4 years, Autoweb.com raised $12M from VC’s and grew the company from concept to over $20M in annual revenues. They took the company public on March 23, 1999. The stock was priced at $14, opened at $28 and closed the first day at $40. The company raised over 80M and the stock was the most active on NASDAQ for that day. Ultimately the company’s market cap reached $1.2B.

In learly 2000, Payam learned that CarClub.com and iMotors.com had gone out of business. These businesses combined had raised about $.5B in capital and he saw significant value in their brands. Payam purchased their remaining assets for about $100K and formed Reply! Inc. Since inception, Reply! has raised over $20M in funding. Reply.com represents the natural evolution of online marketing from display and CPC media to performance based marketing priced on a per lead basis. Reply! sees a multi-billion dollar opportunity in providing efficient marketing solutions to businesses that need to speak with online consumers to deliver their products or services.

In 2008, Reply! launched a patent pending platform that is the equivalent of Google Adwords for the CPL (cost per lead) market. They anticipate significant growth in the coming years.

Paul Hudnut is the Co-Director of Colorado State University's Global Innovation Center for Energy, Health & Environment. He was instrumental in developing the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program at Colorado State University and teaches courses in this program, as well as entrepreneurship classes at the College of Business. He is also a visiting instructor in entrepreneurship at the Bordeaux Business School and Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

His background and interest is in building companies in the bioscience, energy and information services industries. He is particularly interested in business models which emphasize an entrepreneurial approach to improving the environment and people's health.

Mr. Hudnut is a founder and director of Envirofit International, Ltd., which was a TechAward laureate in 2005 and was recently recognized by Stanford Social Innovation Review as one of the "Top 10 Technologies" to change the world.  He currently serves as a board member of New Belgium Brewing Co., Inviragen,  CaringFamily and Opportunities Without Borders. Prior to joining CSU's College of Business, Mr. Hudnut was an executive at Heska Corporation, U S WEST Marketing Resources and PR Pharmaceuticals.

Mr. Hudnut earned his BA from Colorado College and his law degree from University of Virginia and completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School in 1991.

Envirofit's website is www.envirofit.org
Paul's blog is www.bopreneur.blogspot.com

About Peter and Gridpoint

Gridpoint's mission is to align the  interests of electric utilities, consumers and the environment. GridPoint's innovative SmartGrid Platform empowers utilities to achieve business objectives, increase grid reliability, promote environmental stewardship and fuel the adoption of renewable energy sources.

Peter L. Corsell is President and Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the strategic vision and leadership of the company, which was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer 2008. He founded GridPoint in 2003 to create a technology that would fuel the mass adoption of renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Today, GridPoint has raised $102 million in invested capital, including a large investment by the Goldman Sachs Group, and is working with electric utilities nationwide.
Mr. Corsell serves on Newsweek's Global Environment and Leadership Advisory Committee and the corporate board of the Environmental Media Association. Previously, he served with the U.S. State Department in Cuba and worked as a political analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Corsell holds a B.S.F.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Kristin Groos Richmond is co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods, a company transforming school food service by providing healthy food, nutritional education, and operational support for public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as an organic product line children can enjoy at home.

Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kristin served as the Vice President of Programs and Development at RISE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting and retaining outstanding teachers in public schools nationwide. She co-founded a special education school in East Africa and began her career as an investment banker at Citigroup in NYC. Kristin has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Zach has spent the past twelve years in business development and marketing roles in energy, computers and financial services.  Prior to Adura, he was with SunPower Corporation, a solar panel manufacturer, working on their U.S. commercial building strategy.  He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business where he was a Partner for Entrepreneurship Leadership Fellow, UNIDO Fellow and Achievement Scholar.  Zach received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Founded in 2005, Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting management solutions that save businesses significantly on lighting costs.  The solution installs in less than five minutes per fixture with no operational downtime.  In addition to the dramatic energy savings, the solution enables building owners to quickly reconfigure their lighting controls as building use and occupancy changes.  Adura Technologies is currently marketing primarily to universities and other institutional buildings.  Adura has received numerous awards for its technology, including a Flex your Power award and the Energy Efficiency Prize from the inaugural California Clean Technology Open.

Launched in late 2005, Pandora's online music service - www.pandora.com - is based on the Music Genome Project, which began in 2000 and is the most thorough analysis of popular music ever undertaken. Each song in this massive collection , which covers Pop, Rock, Jazz, Electronica, Hip Hop, Country, Blues, R&B, and Latin, is analysed by one of over 50 trained musicians and assessed against up to 400 distinct musical attributes (such as melody, harmony, rhythm etc ) to capture the song's unique musical identity. Music lovers need only enter the name of their favorite song or artist and Pandora does the rest, creating a tailored radio station providing a stream of songs that share key musical characteristics. Pandora gives each listener a unique personalised listening experience, full of new musical discovery across the entire music genome. Listeners can create up to 100 of these online radio stations and refine them by providing feedback via the Pandora radio tuner. Additionally, listeners can create profiles, search for other listeners in the Pandora community who have similiar musical tastes, and find stations built by other listeners, using artist and song names as well as genre and mood search terms.

ABOUT TIM WESTERGREN

Tim Westergren founded Pandora in January 2000 and now serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. Tim is an award-winning composer, an accomplished musician and a record producer with 20 years of experience in the music industry. He has recorded with independent labels, managed artists, owned a commercial digital recording studio, scored feature films, produced albums, and performed extensively. His main instrument is the piano, but over the years he has played the bassoon, drums and clarinet and his musical background spans such genres as rock, blues, jazz and classical music. Tim received his B.A. from Stanford University, where he studied computer acoustics and recording technology. A musician's musician, he is obsessed with helping talented emerging artists connect with the music fans most likely to appreciate their music. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and vision, Tim now spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist - traveling the country to meet with listeners to collect feedback, research local music, and spread the word of the Music Genome Project.