The following Wharton PE Conference notes are from Carmen Feliciano, a first-year MBA student at the Wharton School. Prior to Wharton, she worked as a Brand Manager in Technology & Consumer Goods.

Panel: VC in Emerging Markets
Panelists: David Lam (WI Harper Group), Patrick Eggen (Qualcomm Ventures), Vijjay Khanna (GIV Venture Partners), Jeff Richards (GGV Capital Partners) and Ravi Viswanathan (New Enterprise Associates). The moderator was Andras Forgacs of Richmond Management.

Investments from US to emerging markets
- Innovation will still be in the US (Ravi)
- Emerging markets success must be scalable in the US (Vijay)
- Bullish about China (Jeff)
- Bullish about India (Patrick)

Advantage/disadvantage of international...

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The following was compiled by Rohan Deuskar, a first-year MBA student at the Wharton School. Prior to Wharton, Rohan was a serial entrepreneur and most recently ran the Innovation Department at mobile marketing firm Vibes Media.

I asked the Wharton conference organizers for their key takeaways from keynotes by John Megrue Jr., CEO of Apax Partners U.S., and Dalip Pathak, head of Warburg Pincus Europe and India. Here we go:

“What Dalip Pathak said about the past two recession periods lasting 10-13 years is really revealing. Conversations about where we are in the cycle are probably not as appropriate as accepting that the business climate is what it is now and figuring out how to make smart investments. There is not an upheaval around the corner. PE is not going away, VC...

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The following Wharton PE Conference coverage is from Daniela Stefovska, a first-year MBA student at the Wharton School. She sat in a panel about the future of private equity. Prior to Wharton, Daniela worked in the Global Treasury group of Merrill Lynch, where she helped create the Liquidity Risk Management platform.

Alternative Investments: Strategies for the Future

The panel kicked off by tackling the issue of whether PE was the problem or the solution to the current economic crisis. One of the participants drew the following analogy to explain attacks on PE for causing the crisis: “When a fight starts in a bar you don’t punch the guy who started it, you punch the guy you don’t like.”

The Blackstone Group’s Garrett Moran emphasized the important ro...

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