Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Silicon Beach Heads To The White House To Discuss Jobs, Innovation

A group of high tech executives from Los Angeles and the Silicon Beach ecosystem spent some time early this week talking with senior Obama Administration officials in Washington, D.C., to talk about job creation, the economy, and innovation. According to the group Business Forward, which connects businesses with government leaders, over fifty Southern California executives, including Miles Beckett of EQAL, Diego Berdakin of Beachmint, Paul Bricault and Oded Noy of Amplify, Jonathan Bischke of Entelo, Ari and David Goldberg from StyleCaster, Jason Nazar at Docstoc, Nate Redmond and Tom Unterman of Rustic Canyon Partners, Therese Tucker of BlackLine Systems, Jade Van Doren of Techforward, and many others, participated in the event on Monday, which included a wide range of Senior Administration officials. Business Forward and the White House Business Council said the meeting is the 44th in a series of briefing that have taken place at the White House since the beginning of the year. Photo, left to right: Matthew Mazzeo, CAA; Jason Nazar, Docstoc; Nate Redmond, Rustic Canyon; Paul Bricault, Amplify; Miles Beckett, EQAL

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