Please join us on July 14 to meet one of my mentors, one of my Wilmington Angels for Local Entrepreneurs (WALE) members who is also the Chief Information Officer of Cloud Services for Oracle Software, Tom Fisher.

The event will be held at the Blockade Runner Resort and they have limited parking in the summer months, but they do have valet parking. We ask that participants try to carpool.

(We are partnering with the North Carolina Technology Association for this event in addition to our annual sponsors. We have two new annual sponsors Live Oak Bank and Wolfe Wealth Management in addition to Adam Shay CPA, Doug Scholer (patent attorney), Brooks Malone of Hughes Pittman Gupton (Accounting) Merrill Mason (Smith Anderson Law), TechCXO.com, a fractional executive company, CommercialInteriors.net, local office furniture company and Ward and Smith Law Firm )

Tom Fisher is a very experienced Silicon Valley technology executive who loves his native North Carolina and is a UNC Charlotte graduate.

Tom has been CIO of Oracle, eBay, Qualcomm, Success Factors and Gateway Computers.

Tom is also a very active investor as a member of WALE and other venture capital funds in California.

Tom’s Bio can be found here file:///C:/Users/Roberts/AppData/Local/Temp/53394-nafm11031626mpp203-bio.html

This ‘Oceanside Chat” will be led by Laura Baverman of ExitEvent.com, a Durham based tech newsletter and news web site. She has written extensively about the Wilmington tech startup scene and was the moderator for the Riverside Chat with Hugh Forrest of SxSW Interactive at the inaugural Coastal Connect in September 2014 at Coastline Convention Center in Wilmington.

We want to thank the North Carolina Technology Association for this partnership and encourage you to nominate your favorite technology partners and startups for the annual Tech Awards . Deadline is approaching http://members.nctechnology.org/events/details/nc-tech-awards-gala-136

Again, please support our sponsors by hiring them for your needs. They make all of this possible.

We have two new annual sponsors Live Oak Bank and Wolfe Wealth Management in addition to Adam Shay CPA, Doug Scholer (patent attorney), Brooks Malone of Hughes Pittman Gupton (Accounting) Merrill Mason (Smith Anderson Law), TechCXO.com, a fractional executive company, CommercialInteriors.net, local office furniture company and Ward and Smith Law Firm