Turnaround Strategies from Silicon Valley

As part of our Technology Leaders series, join FEI New York City in a fireside chat with Ebrahim Abbasi, CEO of Violin Systems. With multiple turnarounds, successful liquidity events and growth stories under his belt, Mr. Abbasi will share his tools for success and give us a dose of the Silicon Valley way of thinking. What mindset is needed when leading a turnaround? How do you motivate your team to go above and beyond? What is the special role of Finance and the CFO in this environment?

Linda Zukauckas, EVP & Corporate Controller of American Express will lead the fireside chat.

Mr. Abbasi is a veteran of Silicon Valley with an established track record in high growth and turnaround success stories, including the restructuring of Roamware (now Mobileum), the transformation of Force10 Networks and subsequent acquisition by Dell, the turnaround of Redback Network's corporate operations functions leading to a $2.1B acquisition by Ericsson, and a member of the executive team growing Ascend Communications into a $24B acquisition target by Lucent Technologies.