At Southwestern, Professor Segil has taught Strategic Alliances for several years. She also puts her expertise and impressive professional network to good use in an innovative new course teaching creative and hands-on problem-solving skills, teamwork, and communication skills – Developing Web-Based Startups: Merging Law, Business, and Technology. Her students also learn how to support clients using state-of-the-art technology.   Professor Segil invites any interested alumni to attend the Developing Web-Based Startups final presentations on April 21st at 10 a.m. on campus (details below). Ms. Segil generously funds the Larraine D. Segil Award for Strategic Alliance Competency. Recipients join an amazing group of prior LSS (Larraine Segil Scholars) and receive life-long support and guidance.  Forbes.com recently recognized Professor Segil in an article about mentoring’s financial impact. It is clear from the work of LSS’  non-profit organization, Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation (EWA),  that she is in the mentoring game for a more honorable purpose (see below) and for keeps.  Both the startup course and the LSS program offer unique ways for alumni to contribute to the future success of Southwestern graduates.

About Developing Web-Based Startups: Merging Law, Business, and Technology. This new course is one of Southwestern’s most innovative offerings. It satisfies an elective requirement of the Technology Law and Entrepreneurship Concentration (one of five concentrations currently offered) and draws a healthy enrollment despite its weekend timeslot and hefty workload. Starting or advising a growing start-up enterprise requires on-the-ground experience. This course brings theory and case studies examined in entrepreneurship, leadership, and law through development by multi-disciplined teams to develop web-based companies to will solve a particular problem (designed by the student); to learn creative and hands-on problem solving skills, teamwork, and communication skills; and to be inspired to innovate and support your clients with state-of-the-art technology. The course also addresses certain legal issues surrounding the needs of entrepreneurs, such as ownership and fiduciary responsibility, as well as various pertinent agreements, and provides a lawyer’s understanding of financial projects and representations for a start-up.

The former Olympic swimmer champions water safety education by launching her foundation in the US and is honored for her commitment to the welfare of children through sport

She also spoke about the Paradigm for Parity movement towards gender parity in pay and position and how 3 women on a board cause the issue of gender to disappear -that is, all board members play important roles and a board with almost or equal gender parity causes the gender issue to be a non issue.

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It’s a question we all grapple with daily: How do you stay on top of a changing world? The velocity at which everything now moves impacts us both personally and professionally. And with the rapid advances in technology on the horizon, it’s only set to move faster. Just keeping up is hard enough. So, how can we stay in front of the changes?

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In today’s businesses, demand for technology and data continues to increase, but technology’s growth is still outpacing the assessment, managing and monitoring of it. At its open breakfast event, Corporate Directors Forum is giving San Diego business leaders a chance to learn what questions boards and management should be asking about emerging technologies and how those technologies can be used to move their businesses forward in a constantly changing world. Panelists will share their points of view on how boards should be thinking about technology issues and will address the following topics:

•How can directors ask the right technology-related questions?
•What is the board’s role and responsibility in this ever-changing environment?
•How should executives be using social media?
•How can directors stay current, as they must?

Panelists include:
– David Alberga (CEO, The Active Network)
– Larraine Segil (director, Frontier Communications)
– Robert Notte (vice president, information technology, Jamba Juice)
The event will be moderated by:
– Andrew Serwin (partner, Foley & Lardner)

Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
7 – 7:30 a.m. – Coffee and Peer Networking
7:30 – 9 a.m. – Breakfast and Program

Hyatt Regency La Jolla, in the Pavilion
3777 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego, CA 92122