The Harvard Business School Club of South Florida cordially invites you and your guests to our next Boca Luncheon and are looking forward to your participation so that we may continue to offer these luncheon events.

 Join us with special guest speaker

Scott H. Adams
Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer
Integrity Tracking, LLC
and
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Florida Atlantic University

who will discuss

"What I Learned from Investing In Early Stage
 Florida Companies - The Good and The Bad"
After selling his own firm to NTT Verio, Scott established a business incubator and invested in approximately 20 local companies, and mentored a cadre of entrepreneurs. He will highlight the trials and tribulations of investing near to home and helping others. He will cover how to chose who to help, how to build out the team, what skills are needed and additional success from licensing and spinoff opportunities. Most notably he will focus on what works and what doesn't in today's marketplace. His full bio is below.

on
Thursday, March 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

at the
Woodfield Country Club
3650 Club Place
Boca Raton, FL 33496
Click here for directions

Cost for this event (non-refundable):
HBS Club of S. FL Members and their Guests:  $40 per person (prepaid by March 15)
Non-Members:  $50 per person (prepaid by March 15)

If not pre-paid, an additional $10 per person but MUST pre-register for access to the property.  Only those persons listed on the attendee list will be allowed into the property. 

To join or renew your membership, visit www.hbssouthflorida.org/memsub.html.

You must register for this event no later than Monday, March 15, 2010.  If you have any questions or are having difficulties registering for this event, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator, at admin@hbssouthflorida.org or (786) 866-9765.


Click here to register

 

Biography:
Scott H. Adams is recognized as a successful and innovative leader in the business community and an enthusiastic advocate of commercialization of research - strengthening the links between education and research and the development of future business enterprises. Adams was appointed by the Governor of the State of Florida to serve on the board of trustees for Florida Atlantic University and is the Vice Chair. Adams established the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University which is housed under the College of Business and invites entrepreneurial initiatives from all disciplines within the University as well as the community at large.

Currently Adams is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for Integrity Tracking, LLC, doing business as Medical Mobile Monitoring, a next generation personal emergency response device. Previously, in 1995, Adams co-founded and was president of Hiway Technologies, Inc. In three short years, Hiway Technologies became the world's largest web hosting company with 240 employees and 150,000 accounts in 135 countries. In 1999 Hiway was acquired by Verio (NASDAQ: VRIO). In 2000 Verio was acquired by NTT Communications (NYSE: NTT).

Reflecting his deep belief in the importance of serving others and his community, Adams is a contributor and on the board of the Boca Raton Community Hospital Foundation. A firm believer that success begins with education, Adams supports and is on the board of trustees for the George Snow Scholarship Fund, which provides four-year scholarships to Palm Beach County students. Adams continues to donate time and resources as a mentor and big brother.

As a result of his achievements, the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce named Adams their 1997 Small Business Person of the Year. In 1998, Adams also won the prestigious Ernst & Young Florida Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 1999 the Florida Atlantic University National Alumni Association inducted Adams into the Alumni Hall of Fame. In 2001, Adams was awarded the Jim Moran Institute's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award at Florida State University. In 2002, Adams was the recipient of the Gainesville Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the University of Florida, the Excalibur Award from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as the Palm Beach County Business Leader of the Year, and was inducted into Junior Achievement's Business Hall of Fame.

In 2005, Florida Atlantic University presented their Talon Award for community leader alumnus to Adams.

Adams is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University's College of Business with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration. A Florida native, Adams grew up in Keystone Heights, Florida. Adams and his wife, Shelagh, along with their four children, have resided in Boca Raton since 1985.




DIRECTIONS
The main gate at Yamato is closed due to construction, below are the directions to the Jog Road entrance including directions to the main Clubhouse.

From I-95:
Traveling South: Take Exit 48 Yamato Road
Traveling North: Take Exit 48B Yamato Road
Continue West on Yamato Road
Turn Right at Light onto Jog Road
Left at First Light NW 55th Street
Right onto Woodfield CC Parkway
Right onto Woodfield Circle
First Left onto Club Place

From Turnpike:
Take Exit 75 Glades Road
Left (East) onto Glades Road
Left at Light onto Jog Road
Straight through Yamato Road
Left at Light onto NW 55th Street
Right onto Woodfield CC Parkway
Right onto Woodfield Circle
First Left onto Club Place