In partnership with Micron Ventures & Porsche Digital, Silicon Valley Bank invites you to join us for the third and final event of our new 3-part webinar series exploring the future of Supply Chain.
Throughout this series, we will lead deep dive discussions with leading experts, consultancies and venture partners to further understand how today's Supply Chain ecosystem - from CVCs to grass roots innovation - is shaping a new future.
For our final event of the series, we are joined by three leading VC-backed startups disrupting the supply chain from different angles including robotics, manufacturing and logistics.
• Dave Evans | Co-founder & CEO at Fictiv
• Alberto Moel | VP Strategy & Partnerships at VEO Robotics
• Scott Lang | CEO at Turvo
Together, we will discuss their views on the challenges faced by the supply chain in 2021, and how that has impacted their outlook for supply chain innovation and opportunity for their business.
The discussion will be hosted by SVB's Charlie Walker (SVB Corporate Relationships) and Ben Stasiuk (SVB Frontier Tech), as well as Andrew Byrnes of Micron Ventures.
Empathy Banks Here: SVB is here to help. For additional information on resources available to you and your community during the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit https://www.svb.com/covid-relief
Dave Evans envisions a world where ideas become products with speed and ease and manufacturing is available for all - without fear of failure or constraint. And as the CEO of digital manufacturing ecosystem leader, Fictiv, Dave is making his vision a reality.
Since its founding in 2013, Fictiv has manufactured more than 12 million parts for early-stage companies and large enterprises alike, driving innovation with agility from prototype to production and ensuring supply chain predictability and success for customers in industries from automotive and robotics to healthcare and aerospace. The Fictiv quote-to-order system combines a streamlined cloud platform; design, quoting, and billing; and an intelligent AI-driven orchestration engine that manages a network of highly vetted and monitored manufacturing partners to deliver high-quality mechanical parts at unprecedented speeds. Supported by “boots-on-the-ground” experts to manage programs, inspect quality, and provide Design for Manufacturing guidance from start to finish, the Fictiv ecosystem enables customers to cut development time in half and increase staff productivity by 15% or more.
Dave graduated from Stanford University in 2011 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. In 2017, Dave was named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list. More recently, he was honored when Fictiv was named in the SDCE 100 Top Supply Chain Projects for 2020 by Supply & Demand Executive and when he was personally named to the 2021 Constellation Research Business Transformation 150 list as well as Comparably’s 2020 Best CEOs for Women list. A Global Innovator member of the World Economic Forum, Fictiv has received $58M in Series C Funding since its inception to enable game changing digital manufacturing for all.
Alberto Moel is VP of Partnerships and Strategy at Veo Robotics where he's responsible for industry partnerships and company strategy.
Before joining Veo, Alberto was a Senior Research Analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in Hong Kong, where he covered Asian high technology companies in the automation and robotics, manufacturing technology, display, and PC OEM sectors. Prior to Bernstein, Alberto was Principal in the Hong Kong office and co-leader of the Tokyo office of Monitor Group where he specialized in technology strategy and corporate finance for Asian high technology companies, with an industry focus in consumer electronics, flat panel displays, and semiconductors.
In addition, Alberto has been a Professor and Lecturer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and at Harvard Business School, co-founded a successful Brazilian hedge fund, and worked at JP Morgan (New York and Mexico City), Toshiba Corporation in Japan, and IBM Corporation in New York, Cambridge, and Zurich.
A native of Mexico, Alberto has an SB, MS, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Scott Lang serves as Turvo’s Chief Executive Officer. He brings more than 30 years of leadership and management experience in the services and technology industries to this role.
Scott is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Silver Spring Networks, Inc. He joined as the company’s founding Chief Executive in 2004 and led the company to a successful IPO on the NYSE in 2013. Prior to Silver Spring Networks, Scott first worked with Ross Perot at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and then joined Perot Systems in 1988 shortly after the company’s founding. During his career at Perot Systems, Scott spent 10 years in Europe building the company’s international business and went on to lead the Strategic Markets Group, which served the Global Energy, Communications, Media, and Travel and Transportation industries.
Scott holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Mississippi and is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Program at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
©2021 SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. Silicon Valley Bank is a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB). SVB, SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, SILICON VALLEY BANK, MAKE NEXT HAPPEN NOW and the chevron device are trademarks of SVB Financial Group, used under license.
Read about our Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please contact us by email: privacy@svb.com.
SVB’s mission is to help innovators and their investors move bold ideas forward fast. SVB Events create an environment for SVB clients, prospects, partners and employees to connect, learn from each other, pursue big ideas and make a powerful impact on people’s lives. Through our events, we help SVB to achieve its mission.
SVB does not tolerate disrespectful or harassing behavior, conversations or interactions by any event attendee, in any form, at any aspect of the program, regardless of the event location.
As an SVB event attendee, we encourage you to assist in creating a welcoming and safe networking environment. SVB reserves the right and retains sole discretion to refuse admittance to, or remove any person from, an event at any time.
Please report any violation of the Event Entertainment Code of Conduct to the following:
• Security Guard onsite
• SVB Event
• Venue Staff
If you feel that an SVB event is against our code of conduct policy or inconsistent with SVB’s culture, please contact:
SVB Events
Heidi Bianchi | 650.855.3050
SVB Financial Group Code of Conduct Policies
Evelyn De la Cruz | 312.704-9525