{"666965":{"#nid":"666965","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Student Seminar - Purpose, Decisions \u0026 People","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Monday, April 3,\u0026nbsp;2023\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;12:30\u0026nbsp;p.m. -\u0026nbsp;1:20 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EVan Leer, WC240\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EC. 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Meade Sutterfield is an angel and private equity investor primarily in emerging SaaS entities in industrial and health care verticals with 37 investments over his career. He currently serves on advisory boards for Council Capital and Antares Capital, as well as a director on the boards of three companies among those in which he currently is an investor. 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These companies were merged into the rollup which created Nextel Communications as a nationwide company.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHe was previously President of AllianceWall Corporation in 1984 and at Kimberly-Clark, where from 1980-1984 he had held several positions leading to Vice-President and General Manager of the Service and Industrial Division. 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