Maria Cirino of .406 Ventures to Speak on 10/1
On Thursday, October 1st, come listen to Maria Cirino, co-founder and Managing Director of .406 Ventures, talk to us about how to sell your ideas in the entrepreneurial business world. As a co-founder and Managing Director of .406 Ventures, Maria brings 23 years of entrepreneurial, operating and senior management sales and marketing experience in venture-backed technology companies. Come hear an extremely successful sales manager, entrepreneur and venture capitalist describe what it is like to sell in a startup environment.
Prior to founding .406, Maria was Senior Vice President of VeriSign, following its 2005 $144 million acquisition of Guardent – a venture-backed IT security company that she co-founded and led as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. Prior to Guardent, she was Senior Vice President for sales and marketing at i-Cube, an IT services company, which was acquired by Razorfish in 1999 for $1.8 billion. From 1993 to 1997, she was responsible for North American sales at Shiva, the category creating remote access company.
Maria has received numerous industry awards and honors including “Massachusetts CEO of the Year 2004” and Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year 2003.” Additionally, Maria was named one of the top 25 women in Information Security by Information Security Magazine and inducted by Women’s Business Magazine into the “Women’s Business Hall of Fame.” She holds a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, where she served as a Trustee from 2003-2008 and where she currently serves on the Investment Committee.
The event will take place in E51-335 from 12:00-1:00pm. Lunch will be served.
