Mitchell Levy is Director of the innovative Silicon Valley Executive Business Program (http://SiliconValleyPACE.com) from San Jose State (SJSU-PD) and the current Chairman and partner of CEOnetworking (http://CEOnetworking.com).
Mr. Levy is also President and CEO of ECnow.com (http://ecnow.com), a Management Consulting firm helping company's grow with strategic consulting and targeted business education, author of the book E-Volve-or-Die.com and creator of the Value Framework(r) (http://valueframeworkinstitute.org/). He is the Former Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall and was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 s of which he managed the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. He is a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the world.
In Silicon Valley, there are 100's of groups that tailor to different affiliations, functions or topics. If you could figure out how to be at more than one place at a time, you could go to 5-10 networking events per evening. - What groups are out there that can help you? - Where and when are the meetings? - How do you maximize the time you spend at these meetings?
In addition to physical networking, there are also a series of great on-line networking sites, such as LinkedIn, Ecademy, Ryze, Spoke, etc. - What are the social business networking tools out there? - Why should you use them? - How can you spend your time wisely to ensure success?