Paul Burgon will be speaking in the Entrepreneurship Track.
Strategic Exits
In this discussion, we will discuss specific steps and best practices that startup founders and startup investors can take to dramatically increase their chances of creating a successful strategic exit for their startup or portfolio company. We will discuss the overall process to create strategic exits, including finding a strategic buyer, preparing the startup for a strategic exit, negotiating a strategic exit, and people, integration and culture issues surrounding an exit. Learn key takeaways from a mergers and acquisitions / corporate venture capital professional who has led almost 100 exit transactions.
Paul Burgon
Managing Partner @ Exit Ventures
Paul Burgon is the Managing Partner at Exit Ventures, a cleantech and sustainability VC fund that creates strategic partnerships and strategic exits for its portfolio companies. He is also co-chair of the Keiretsu Northwest and Rockies cleantech committee.
Paul has spent most of his career as a corporate investor, leading over $3 billion of corporate acquisitions and divestitures as well as corporate venture capital investments in startups. Paul has been a cleantech startup CEO with an exit, an executive and board member in a European cleantech company, a partner in a hedge fund, and the CFO of a public company.
Paul has a BSBA and an international executive MBA degree from Georgetown University. He and his wife Jill have three adult children. Paul and Jill live in Utah near the mountains where they can hike, bike and ski in their free time and also engage in community service opportunities.