NYC Entrepreneurs & Venture Capital Investors Celebrate 9 Years Of The Macdella Cooper Foundation

Oct. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- On Wednesday October 17, from 6PM-9PM, join entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in New York City (NYC) at the private home of NYC socialite Mr. Ron Pobuda (210 Central Park South (Between 7th and Broadway, Manhattan, NY) as they celebrate the 9th anniversary of the Macdella Cooper Foundation (http://www.macdellacooper.org/):

Joseph Marger (Partner, Reed Smith LLP)

Quintin Primo (CEO, Capri Capital Partners)

Willen (“Hans”) Humes (President, Greylock Capital Management)

Anthony Cernera (Pres., International Federation of Catholic Universities)

Larry Seruma (Chief Investment Officer, Nile Capital Management)

Sheila Brogden Jefferson (Tax Manager, US Department of the Treasury)

Martin Segal (Vice President, Segal Family Foundation)

Matt K. Simon (Principal, Silverman Simon LLC)

Phil Silverman (Principal, Silverman Simon LLC)

The event will feature cocktails, dinner by the bites and raffle prizes.  The event will also feature an auction of Children’s Peace Art created by the students of the MCF Academy (http://www.mcfacademy.org/) and curated by Little Picasso NYC.  The auction will benefit the MCF Academy (http://www.mcfacademy.org/), a tuition-free boarding school for orphans and abandoned children in post-war Liberia. All proceeds from the event will grant additional academic scholarships for the 2012/13 school year. Along with their academy scholarship – each recipient or incoming student will receive their personal bed (which is something they have never had before in their life), two sets of school uniforms, a back pack filled with supplies, a pair of shoes and three nourishing meals a day in a safe and secure environment.

Tickets are priced at $100 (cocktails & dinner by the bites).  

Purchase here (https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll) or visit http://www.macdellacooper.org/events.php.