MODERATOR:
Stephen M. Sammut
Lecturer, Department of Management
The Wharton School

Mr. Sammut is Venture Partner, Burrill & Company, a private merchant bank and venture fund focusing on life sciences. Previously, he was Chairman & CEO of Buttonwood Ventures, a merchant bank and private equity firm. Buttonwood's clients include the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, Mitsubishi International, the Sarnoff Corporation, McKinsey & Company, IBM, Lucent Technologies, and other major corporations. Mr. Sammut currently holds appointments as a Lecturer at the Wharton School, the Law School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in private equity and related securities instruments, entrepreneurial finance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property management. Mr. Sammut holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Villanova University, attended Hahnemann Medical College for two years, and holds an MBA from the Wharton School.