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Thank you for your interest in the German American
Business Association of California (GABA-CA)!
GABA's monthly eNewsletter features information
about German-American business in California and
Germany, information about our membership
network, and business opportunities.
GABA call for aid
German American Business Association encourages
their members to support the Hurricane Katrina
relief operation by contributing to the Red
Cross Hurricane Katrina fund.
Germany: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
US: American Red Cross
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GABA Events in September |
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GABA East Bay Stammtisch
Thursday,
Sept. 1st, 7 pm
Speisekammer, 2424
Lincoln Ave, Alameda, CA 94501
Axel
Schleyer hosts the East Bay venue for GABA's
monthly Stammtisch gatherings. We would like to
extend the invitation to all spouses and
children, so we can all get to know each other.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact
aschleyer02@yahoo.com.
The Risks of Global
Expansion
Tuesday, September 13th, 6-9
pm
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson
Graham LLP, Four Embarcadero Center, 10th Floor,
San Francisco, CA 94111
Globally active
technology-oriented firms (especially those of
European origin) encounter risks of global
expansion from several aspects: Legal,
Marketing, Brand and Design, and Human
Resources. Please join us for this exciting
panel of experts in European expansion presented
by GABA and the European and German patent
attorneys Vonnemann Kloiber & Co. This event
will be an excellent source to gain a deeper
understanding of the practical aspects of the
topic, and will also provide an excellent
platform to ask some of those questions that you
never dared to ask. To find out more and to
RSVP, please contact events@gaba-ca.org.
GABA-Berlin Stammtisch
Thursday,
September 15th, 7 pm
Habel Weinkultur,
Luisenstrasse 19, Berlin (www.wein-habel.de)
Free
to attend; for more information and to RSVP,
please contact ulli-kohl@questico.de.
GABA-CA's Life Sciences Industry Groups
presents:
Project Management: The Pros and
Cons of Lean Construction
Thursday,
September 15th, 6-9 pm
SAP Labs,
Building D, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
94304
Sutter Health, one of northern
California's largest health-care providers, has
embraced a new construction philosophy and
management technique to execute an estimated $6
billion in capital projects over the next eight
years, including a $150 million medical office
development in Mountain View expected to get
under way in early 2005. Sutter is requiring
that general contractors and subcontractors on
its lean projects also adopt the approach, which
is marked by greater planning and communication,
better workflow, fewer change orders and
just-in-time handling of materials. Please join
GABA-CA's Life Sciences Industry Group at this
exciting event for a chance to broaden your
knowledge of Project Management in Biotech, and
to rub elbows with industry leaders, potential
business partners and suppliers. For more info
and to RSVP, please contact events@gaba-ca.org.
GABA-Hamburg Stammtisch
Friday,
September 16th, 7 pm
Hamburg Business
Club, Oberstrasse 14, Hamburg (www.hhbc.de)
Free
to attend; for more information and to RSVP,
please contact holger.ritter@boeing.com.
GABA-CA's Media & Entertainment Industry Group
presents:
New Avenues of Digital Music
Distribution
Tuesday, September 20th,
7:45-9:00 am
5th Floor Restaurant,
Hotel Palomar, 12 Fourth Street, San Francisco,
CA 94103
This is the first of a series of
media and entertainment related breakfast events
in the City hosted by GABA at the wonderful
highly acclaimed Fifth Floor Restaurant in San
Francisco. This event shall serve as a focal
point Bay Area executives interested in learning
more about how they can leverage the power of
the media and entertainment industry to achieve
their business goals. Speaker will be Ted Cohen,
Senior Vice President of Digital Development &
Distribution of EMI Music, Los Angeles, who will
outline EMI's views and strategies in the fast
changing and challenging music industry. For
more info and to RSVP, please contact events@gaba-ca.org.
High Flyer Event - Jet Set
Style!
Wednesday, Sept. 21st, 6-9
pm
John Wayne/Orange County Airport,
Signature Flight Support, Executive Terminal,
19301 Campus Drive, Santa Ana, CA
92707
Join GABA's Southern California
chapter for an Executive Briefing on private jet
travel, tours of the new Learjet 40, fine hors
d' oeuvres, refreshments, door prizes and
high-flying business networking at the private
'Signature Flight Support' terminal located at
John Wayne Airport. Don't be left on "standby".
Get your reservations early because space is
limited for this rare opportunity! RSVP by noon,
Sept. 19th. For more event or payment info,
please contact Boris von Bormann at socal@gaba-ca.org or
call (949) 266-5829.
Oktoberfest By the Bay Gemuetlichkeit
Night
Thursday, October 13th, doors
open at 5:00 PM
Fort Mason, San
Francisco
GABA-CA hosts Gemuetlichkeit
Night, a special night out at the Bay Area's
largest Oktoberfest celebration. At a reduced
group rate of $17 instead of $25, GABA members
and friends or clients can enjoy networking and
fun with other local businesses and corporate
groups. Admission includes a Spaten beer in
commemorative souvenir glass and bratwurst. GABA
members will get preferred seating! For more
information, visit: www.oktoberfestbythebay.com/sf-gemutlichkeit_night.html.
Order tickets for yourself or your company by
Friday, Sept 30th at events@GABA-CA.org or
buy them at one of GABA's upcoming events.
Visit GABA's website for more information about our events! »
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GABA co-sponsored Events |
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Oktoberfest Networking
Reception
Friday, September 23rd, 4-7
pm
Carroll Burdick & McDonough LLP, 44
Montgomery Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA
94104
GABA-CA, the German American
Chamber of Commerce San Francisco Chapter and
Carroll Burdick & McDonough LLP would like to
invite to an Oktoberfest-themed "after hours"
reception. For more information and to RSVP,
please contact Nichole Kohake at (415) 743-2449
or nkohake@cbmlaw.com.
IBF - International Business Forum: Early
Stage Venture Investing Conference
Thursday + Friday, October 20 - 21
Early stage investors capitalizing on today's
opportunities need to stay abreast of industry
trends and strategies impacting the VC playing
field. This conference, now celebrating its 6th
anniversary, serves as a major industry
gathering for over 300 early stage investors.
Join us on October 20 & 21, 2005 at the Fairmont
Hotel in San Francisco, CA. For more
information visit www.ibfconferences.com.
IBF - International Business Forum: Venture
Capital Investing in India
Tuesday,
November 1
This conference unites VCs who
have successfully invested in technologies out
of India, with other venture investors
interested in tapping this emerging market for
investment candidates. Please join on November
1, 2005 at the Westin San Francisco Airport in
Millbrae, CA for this conference. Visit www.ibfconferences.com
for more information or to register.
IBF - International Business Forum: Biotech
Investing Conference
Wednesday +
Thursday, November 2 - 3
This conference
serves as the premier industry gathering for
private, public and corporate investors looking
for key opportunities in biotechnology and the
life sciences, and for company executives
looking for insight into the current investment
trends. Visit www.ibfconferences.com
for more information or to register.
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New/Renewing Members |
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Premium Member
Vonnemann Kloiber &
Colleagues (http://vonnemann.de)
is a full-service patent-law firm in Germany
with several offices throughout Germany focusing
on small and medium-sized businesses in
protecting their IP in Germany, Europe and
internationally. Services include obtaining and
enforcing German and European intellectual
property rights such as patents, trademarks, and
designs. With the aid of its Munich office
Vonnemann is able to benefit from the immediate
vicinity to the German Patent and Trademark
Office and the European Patent Office. Vonnemann
carries on the tradition of Hamburg's first
patent law firm which was founded in 1893.
Extended Corporate Member
German
American International School - www.germanamericanschool.org/index.html
New
York Life Insurance Company - www.ftnewyorklife.com
Porsche
Motorsports North America
Basic Corporate Members
Fragomen,
Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP - www.fragomen.com
Individual Members
Heike Abeck
For information on how to become a GABA Member, or
to sign up online, please visit: www.gaba-
ca.org/members.html or contact membership@gaba-ca.org
Go To Member Directory... »
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Member News |
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Patron Corporate Member Fox Technologies,
a security software company based in Palo Alto,
announced two strategic partnership
certifications: Fox ApplicationControl for
SAP(tm) and Fox ApplicationControl for
salesforce.com(tm). Fox develops complete
identity authentication and authorization
solutions for multi-vendor platform environments
with many hosts, many users, and stringent
security requirements such as traffic
encryption. Fox has 1,000 customers in 32
countries and they include some of the world's
best-known companies, largest financial
institutions and key governmental organizations.
For more information, contact elliott.zember@foxt.com
or (650) 687-6248.
Patron Corporate Member Kirkpatrick &
Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG)
announces that Michael S. Greco, a
partner in the Boston Office, was sworn in as
the 129th president of the American Bar
Association (ABA) at the close of the ABA
Annual Meeting, held in Chicago on August 8,
2005. Greco, who immigrated to America from
Italy as a young boy, is the first ABA president
to be born outside the United States. Over the
past several decades, Greco's involvement in the
ABA has included service in the ABA House of
Delegates since 1985 and as State Delegate from
Massachusetts since 1993. He has chaired the
association's Standing Committee on Federal
Judiciary and its Individual Rights and
Responsibilities section. After the terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001, Greco was
appointed to the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and
the Law, which provided analysis of legislation
that resulted in the U.S. Patriot Act, and he
helped develop ABA policy regarding the use of
military tribunals to try suspected terrorists.
He also served on the ABA Standing Committee on
Law and National Security. For more
information, please visit www.klng.com.
Premium Corporate Member Feldberg Pacific Law
Group is hosting a business panel for
international entrepreneurs: "Immigration,
Legal and Tax Issues to Consider when Selecting
an Entity That Will Have a Foreign
Investor". The panel is co-presented with
the Immigration Law Offices of Anja Freudenthal
and GABA Basic Corporate Member Spott Lucey &
Wall Inc. CPA's, and will take place on Sept.
15th, 5:30-7:00 pm, at 650 California Street,
Suite 2500, San Francisco. For more info and to
RSVP, please contact RSVP@SpottLuceyWall-CPAs.com.
Basic Corporate Member Splénium has
re-launched its website:
www.spleniummarketing.com. Splénium is an
award-winning Marketing Communications agency
whose lofty goal is to revolutionize the way
design is done today by making it more
marketing-minded. In brief, design should help
your company make a sale, or realize other
important marketing goals, not just be a pretty
thing to look at. While a few other agencies
claim to be strategic, Splénium has real
marketers standing behind the design decisions
made for its clients. Splénium specializes in
marcom strategy, high-end & marketing-minded
design, and translation. For more info, contact
chamsi@spleniummarketing.com.
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Jobs |
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Patron Member PSD Group is currently
representing a client in search of a Vice
President Engineering. The young company
develops and markets analog standard IC´s and is
located in Munich, Germany. Duties for the open
position include all aspects of product
development, including selection of design tools
& methodology, product development processes,
defining/implementing development schedules, and
recruiting/managing engineering talent.
BSEE/MSEE/PhD required. Candidates must come
from analog products environment, and have
current experience with some combination of data
converters, clock management products,
amplifiers, or interface products. For further
information and to apply please call Gabriele
Koch on +49(0)89 189 857 22 or e-mail your
detailed CV directly to gabriele.koch@psdgroup.com.
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GABA Industry Groups |
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GABA's industry groups (IG's) provide
resources and networking opportunities specific
to each
industry:
Life Sciences IG
Dedicated to enabling
and fostering alliance networks between German and
US life science companies. IG Life Sciences
features an
event series "Learn and Delight" in California Bay
Area to facilitate the networking in the life
science
community.
A panel discussion with industry experts highlights
significant life sciences topics and is
accompanied by a
Gourmet tasting. Visit www.gaba-
ca.org/life_sciences.html for more information.
Semiconductor - IT IG
Germany and the
US are two of the leading manufacturers and
consumers of semiconductors, with exciting
opportunities for business development and exchange
of knowledge, to build on existing relationships
and
shape new ones. Visit www.gaba-
ca.org/semiconductor.html for more information.
Telecommunications IG
Dedicated to
facilitating business, trade, and exchange between
Californian and German companies in the areas of
fixed and mobile communication and digital media,
educating members of the business community on
both sides of the Atlantic in telecom and
communication-related
topics, and deepening the understanding among them
about the state and development of the markets in
Europe and the U.S. More information coming soon
to www.gaba-
ca.org/telecom.html.
Media & Entertainment IG
Activities and
events supporting the Californian and German media
and entertainment industries.
Human Resources IG
The group's
objective is to enable companies and individuals
alike to
stay abreast of current employment trends,
compensation issues, corporate governance, legal
developments, immigration/visa trends and "best
practices".
For more detailed information, please go to www.gaba-
ca.org/industry_groups.html.
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