Arthur's Round Table

Arthur Andrew Bavelas
Arthur's Round Table

Conversations with leading entrepreneurs and investors. Arthur is Founder of Family Office Insights, a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity review networks. Arthur is a globally recognized entrepreneur, author, and family office investor. He is the host of the Arthur’s Round Table Series, and creator of the Family Office Funding Challenge, Global Business Network, The Family Office Impact Summit, Creator of The Bavelas Index (TBI)™ Family Office Investor Sentiment Index™ . Arthur Bavelas is a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity review networks.

  1. 12/16/2024

    AI, VC, Silicon Valley. Andrew Romans always has us walk away smarter.

    Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top-decile performing venture capitalist with over 100 VC investments under his belt. He is also a VC-backed entrepreneur, four-time author, university professor, and host of the podcast Fireside with a VC. His career includes roles as a former tech VC and M&A investment banker, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital, and founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. Romans’ books have been published by McGraw-Hill in English and by major publishers in Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Russian. He also advises large corporations and governments on policies related to Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). By the age of 28, he had raised over $48m for tech startups he founded. Throughout his career, Romans has founded numerous startups, raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding, and led startups to successful exits. Previously, Romans served as Managing Partner at Georgetown Venture Partners (GVP), a venture capital-focused boutique investment bank with activity in the US, UK, Nordics, Europe, and Israel, and as a General Partner at Georgetown Angels, an active angel group with offices in Silicon Valley and New York City. He was also a General Partner at The Founders Club, a venture capital equity exchange fund and advisor on secondaries. Additionally, he was a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital at Chapman University. In addition to teaching a class on VC & entrepreneurship at Chapman University - one of California’s oldest universities - he has lectured on VC at institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, UC San Diego, Georgetown University, University of Toronto, London Business School, Imperial College London, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, University of Bologna, Moscow State University, Tsinghua University Beijing, and Shanghai University. He is also a frequent guest speaker on MSNBC, CNBC, and ABC and has delivered keynotes at major conferences in over 20 countries, including the US, Canada, Latin America, the UK, Nordics, Western and Eastern Europe, the Arabic and Israeli Middle East, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia. Fluent in English, French, and German, and conversant in Slovak, Romans holds a BA from the University of Vermont and studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin. He completed his MBA in finance from Georgetown University on a scholarship.

    1h 5m
  2. 11/01/2024

    Trends & methods in owning, storing, and avoiding scams when acquiring precious metals.

    As the President and COO of ASI, Rich has knowledge of every facet of ASI’s operations. He has been an integral part of ASI’s maturation from a precious metals and foreign exchange dealer to a full service tangible and rare assets dealer to include rare U.S., world, and ancient coins. Rich oversees the operations, administrative, sales, and marketing departments, as well as serving as ASI’s Compliance Officer. Rich graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1987, with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Officer. He then served tours of duty at Fort Benning, Georgia, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and on the Demilitarized Zone in the Republic of South Korea. He held various leadership and staff positions at every level from platoon through battalion sized organizations. While at West Point, he played varsity soccer. He left military service in 1993 at the rank of Captain. After a brief stint of direct sales in Macon and Atlanta, Georgia with telecommunications and multinational service corporations, Rich joined ASI (then International Financial Consultants, Inc.), in the spring of 1996. In 1997, Michael Checkan, Glen O. Kirsch, and Rich Checkan created, developed and refined a Precious Metals Certificate Program for the Perth Mint. They became the first of only eight Approved Dealers in the world to sell Perth Mint Certificates, the only government guaranteed precious metals certificate program in the world. Rich is a regular contributor to ASI’s own monthly newsletter, Information Line. He also is a regular writer for ASI’s news alert, Always Something Interesting, twice a week. Contact Rich: rcheckan@assetstrategies.com

    54 min

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Conversations with leading entrepreneurs and investors. Arthur is Founder of Family Office Insights, a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity review networks. Arthur is a globally recognized entrepreneur, author, and family office investor. He is the host of the Arthur’s Round Table Series, and creator of the Family Office Funding Challenge, Global Business Network, The Family Office Impact Summit, Creator of The Bavelas Index (TBI)™ Family Office Investor Sentiment Index™ . Arthur Bavelas is a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity review networks.

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