Cook Associates’ Jeff Leopold to Moderate Venture Summit East Panel Discussion

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Cook Associates' Jeff Leopold to Moderate
Venture Summit East Panel Discussion
Chicago, May 2009 - Cook Associates Executive Search (www.cookassociates.com/es) is excited to announce that Jeff Leopold, Managing Director, will participate in Venture Summit East, a two-day gathering to be held on May 21 and 22 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston, MA. The summit highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor

Venture Summit East: Where the Big Money Meets the Big Idea, will feature the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in keynote presentations and panel debates.

Leopold will be leading a panel discussion titled: Applying Wisdom from the Last Downturn to the Recession of 2009 on Friday, May 22 from 10:15am to 11:15am.

Session panelists will include Ralph Breslauer, CEO at Vertica, Mark Cattini, President at Pitney Bowes Marketing Services (formerly CEO, MapInfo), Jaime Ellertson, CEO at Gomez, Gary Greenfield, CEO at Avid, Steve Papa, CEO at Endeca, and Alan Trefler, CEO at Pegasystems.

For the last twenty years, Leopold's career has been focused on the technology, business services, and professional services industries. Leopold has built extensive expertise and developed a strong reputation for understanding the needs of clients in the high-tech community. As a result, he has helped numerous clients - ranging from early-stage to well-established companies - build and restructure teams to meet continuous competitive challenges.

Detailed information can be found online at Venture Summit East.

About Cook Associates
Cook Associates, Inc. is a retained executive search and M&A advisory services firm. Our core business is creating value at the intersection where talent and opportunity connect, and we are uniquely positioned to help our clients capitalize on the brightest talent and best performing companies in the marketplace. Our client base ranges from multinational corporations to early stage entrepreneurial companies, private equity and venture capital firms. Brand name clients include American Express, Apple, The Blackstone Group, Dover Corporation, GTCR, Heinz, Juniper Networks, Levi Strauss & Co., Pitney Bowes, and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. For additional information, please visit www.CookAssociates.com.