NATALIE H. VANIA

550 Ortega Avenue, B-421	Home Phone: 650-969-9213
Mountain View, California 94040	E-mail: nvania@malch.com

Objective     Associate or Partner in a venture firm or VP or Director of Business Development for a start-up.

Professional Summary     Natalie H. Vania assists new high-tech business growth and is an advocate in championing a new era of global growth. 

Strategic Business Development

- Prepared Executive Summaries for,

        - an emerging workforce start-up.
        - a search engine start-up.
        - a telecommunications start-up.
        - a web portal marketing start-up.
        - an e-commerce electricity trading start-up. Arranged meeting between a venture investor and the start-up's CFO and CEO for proposed $4M Series A funding.
        - an XML start-up. Delivered summary to venture funding sources. Company obtained substantial seed funding.
        - a 3D Internet technologies company. Subsequent presentation to a prominent venture firm accrued an offer for $5M investment.

- Business models research and Powerpoint assistance for Emerald Hills Strategy Consulting.

- The Global E-Challenge 2000, Stanford, Director of Content, Venture Capital in cooperation with BASES, The Business Association of Stanford Engineerig Students.

- Provided administrative support to an Angel investment forum funding twelve high-technology start-up businesses.

- for Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc., a start-up, venture-backed, provider of automated database marketing in one-to-one, enterprise-wide business environments,

        + Developed a research methodology for analysis of business activity used in projects by the company.
        + Conducted and published research of enterprise architecture, data warehousing, and information technology in banking as a business consultant to a $60B major retail bank.
        + Developed sales proposals for business consulting services.
        + Conducted pricing model research for Naviant's new product for CFO.

- Drafted technical White Paper and corporate vision statement for Advanced Knowledge Group. Inc., a company providing data-mining services.

Project Leadership

- Led a team of twenty volunteers for a year and a half to produce a four-day, international Youth conference at Stanford University. Handled logistical and financial planning, development of workshop series, preparation of facilitators for the workshops and delivered a keynote address. Accrued $30,000 profit for a nonprofit entity. Three hundred and twenty attendees.

- Obtained funding and arranged the visit of a distinguished visitor to a university for research and an address to the general public. Coordinated activities of four academic institutions over an academic year to carry out the project.

- Developed sales proposals for business consulting services for Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc.

Public Speaking and Presentation

- Powerpoint presentation on data-mining epistemology and its import for business.

- Seminar presentation of banking research to research department of a major retail bank.

- Lecturing, academic talks, teaching, and original research at nine academic universities.

- Public interest talks to large audiences of over five hundred people.

Understanding Technological Innovation

- "Business Innovation and Human Creative Endeavor in The Era of New Commerce", February 3, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Panel Moderator.

- "E-Commerce and Art Start-ups: The New Business of Creativity", November 4, 1999, The Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Panel Moderator.

- "Internet and E-Commerce Business Models", August 12, 1999, The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Redwood City.

- PowerPoint presentation on data-mining’s import for business, Naviant, July, 1997.

- Seminar presentation of information technology to research department of a major retail bank, Naviant, November, 1997.

- Technical, quantitative, and computer skills enabling quick grasp of new technologies.

Scientific and Policy Research

- Beta-tested data-mining software.

- Statistical research of hospital staff radiation exposure, operation room radiation levels, and diagnostic review categories in medical education of medical interns.

- Laser investigation of electro-refluctance properties of esoteric semiconductors in solid state physics.

- Library research for twenty scholars for a public affairs policy institute.

Writing and Editing

- Wrote a grant proposal to facilitate an academic department's research.

- Edited for an Internet Directory project, a major initiative of Encyclopedia Britannica.

- Dissertation, Poetry Books, Essays.

Work History

Arshiya Ventures(tm), Founder, 1998-2001

The Global E-Challenge 2000, Stanford, Director of Content, Venture Capital
Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc., Systems Engineer/Consultant, 1997-1998
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Assistant Editor, 1997
Advanced Knowledge Group, Inc., Data Analyst, 1996
The University of Illinois at Springfield, Lecturer, 1996
The 9th North American Zoroastrian Youth Congress, Organizer, 1994-1995
The Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Lecture, 1992-1994
Northwestern University, National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellow, 1992
St. Cloud State University, Assistant Professor and Grant Director, 1991-1992
The Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Research Assistant, 1987-1989
The University of Maryland at College Park, Lecturer, 1996-1991
to The White House Communications Agency, Lecturer, 1989
The Lakeside Veterans Administration, Statistical Assistant
The University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant and Lecturer
Memorial Medical Center, Physicist's Assistant
The Enrico Fermi Research Institutes, Research Assistant

Education

M. S. Financial Markets and Trading, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1998, candidate

Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Maryland, 1991

M. A. Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1983

B. A. Physics, Philosophy, The University of Chicago, 1980

Computer and Quantitative Skills

Word, Excel, MSOffice, Powerpoint, Access, Windows 95, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Quicken, Knowledge Seeker 4.0, IDIS, WinRATS, ActiveX Control Pad, Paint Shop Pro, Liquid Motion Pro, HTML, and Apple Macintosh.

Calculus, First Order Differential Equations, Statistics, Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Optics.

Awards

Proposal Presentation Award, Naviant Technology Solutions, Inc.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

Travel Award, The Graduate School, The University of Maryland

Affiliations

The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, Palo Alto, 1998-2001

Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs, Board Member, 1998-2000

The American Philosophical Association, 1982-2001

The Stanford Alumni Association, Life Member

The University of Chicago Alumni Association and Tech-Venture Club

International AngelsInvestors Institute, 1999-2001