Shweta Bachchan-Nanda (born 17 March 1974) is the daughter of Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and sister to Abhishek Bachchan.
Personal life
Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, In 2007 Bachchan-Nanda hosted NextGen, a series of interview shows aired on the television network NDTV Profit. In April 2007 she made an appearance with Jaya Bachchan on an episode of Koffee With Karan with actresses Hema Malini and Esha Deol. Bachchan-Nanda modelled in the September 2006 issue of L'Officiel India. She also appeared in June 2009 for L'Officiel Indias 7th anniversary with her brother, Abhishek Bachchan. In December 2010 she appeared on Koffee With Karan with her father Amitabh Bachchan.
Personal life
Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, In 2007 Bachchan-Nanda hosted NextGen, a series of interview shows aired on the television network NDTV Profit. In April 2007 she made an appearance with Jaya Bachchan on an episode of Koffee With Karan with actresses Hema Malini and Esha Deol. Bachchan-Nanda modelled in the September 2006 issue of L'Officiel India. She also appeared in June 2009 for L'Officiel Indias 7th anniversary with her brother, Abhishek Bachchan. In December 2010 she appeared on Koffee With Karan with her father Amitabh Bachchan.
Willem Johannes van IJperen (born 11 June 1950 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch-born Scottish pediatrician working in Grampian, Scotland. He is also a medical ethicist.
Education
Van IJperen studied psychology at Leiden University, medicine and law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, medical ethics at Keele University in England, and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He holds university degrees in medicine, ethics and law and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Career
Van IJperen went to medical school to become a psychiatrist, but changed his focus to paediatrics. All of his appointments have been in this speciality. He was trained in St. Stephen’s Hospital (London), Westminster Children’s Hospital (London), Zuiderziekenhuis (Rotterdam), and Sophia Kinderziekenhuis (Rotterdam). Van IJperen was involved in Child Protection as confidential doctor (Rotterdam), and edited and contributed chapters to a book about the early stages of investigation when sexual abuse is suspected. As a general paediatrician his special interest is diabetes; in his area there are around 275 young persons with diabetes mellitus. He has worked since May 2001 in Grampian (Scotland), where he has clinics in Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Seafield Hospital (Buckie), and Dr Gray's Hospital (Elgin).
Interests and Profession
As a professional, Van IJperen has an interest in the remote and rural aspects of health care. He expressed his views during a recent (2010) service redesign discussion in NHS Scotland Grampian about health care provision; outside the academic centre, he defended comprehensive acute health care in remote and rural areas. His ideas are summarized as ‘Recipient Oriented Health Care.’
Van IJperen et al. published a review about the safety and efficacy of diabetic ketoacidosis management in a remote and rural hospital. (Pediatric Diabetes (2010) 11 (Supp14): 39).
Van IJperen runs the website www.drwillem.com, providing information about child health and ethics. Each year, the website organizes the Diabetes Essay and Poem Competition for young persons with diabetes.
Personal
Dr Van IJperen has an interest in philosophy, particularly ethics. He wrote a dissertation about the Principle of Reciprocity. He also has a longstanding love for music and plays the classical guitar. He is the father of three, with two daughters who are nurses, and a son who is a surgeon. He also has three granddaughters.
Controversy
In April 2009, Dr Van IJperen was suspended by his employer (NHS Grampian) for alleged non-compliance with child protection procedures. The situation concerned one of his patients who contracted a vaginal infection. In his assessment Dr Van IJperen concluded that his patient was not at risk of an abusive situation. He judged the 14-year-old patient to be Fraser competent, and decided that her confidentiality was to be respected. His employer did not agree and the case was reported to Social Work and Police; however, the case was later dropped. Several regional and national newspapers reported on the controversy in favour of Van IJperen’s point of view. A subsequent investigation by NHS Grampian supported Dr Van IJperen’s argument, and he was reinstated unconditionally.
Education
Van IJperen studied psychology at Leiden University, medicine and law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, medical ethics at Keele University in England, and political philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He holds university degrees in medicine, ethics and law and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Career
Van IJperen went to medical school to become a psychiatrist, but changed his focus to paediatrics. All of his appointments have been in this speciality. He was trained in St. Stephen’s Hospital (London), Westminster Children’s Hospital (London), Zuiderziekenhuis (Rotterdam), and Sophia Kinderziekenhuis (Rotterdam). Van IJperen was involved in Child Protection as confidential doctor (Rotterdam), and edited and contributed chapters to a book about the early stages of investigation when sexual abuse is suspected. As a general paediatrician his special interest is diabetes; in his area there are around 275 young persons with diabetes mellitus. He has worked since May 2001 in Grampian (Scotland), where he has clinics in Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Seafield Hospital (Buckie), and Dr Gray's Hospital (Elgin).
Interests and Profession
As a professional, Van IJperen has an interest in the remote and rural aspects of health care. He expressed his views during a recent (2010) service redesign discussion in NHS Scotland Grampian about health care provision; outside the academic centre, he defended comprehensive acute health care in remote and rural areas. His ideas are summarized as ‘Recipient Oriented Health Care.’
Van IJperen et al. published a review about the safety and efficacy of diabetic ketoacidosis management in a remote and rural hospital. (Pediatric Diabetes (2010) 11 (Supp14): 39).
Van IJperen runs the website www.drwillem.com, providing information about child health and ethics. Each year, the website organizes the Diabetes Essay and Poem Competition for young persons with diabetes.
Personal
Dr Van IJperen has an interest in philosophy, particularly ethics. He wrote a dissertation about the Principle of Reciprocity. He also has a longstanding love for music and plays the classical guitar. He is the father of three, with two daughters who are nurses, and a son who is a surgeon. He also has three granddaughters.
Controversy
In April 2009, Dr Van IJperen was suspended by his employer (NHS Grampian) for alleged non-compliance with child protection procedures. The situation concerned one of his patients who contracted a vaginal infection. In his assessment Dr Van IJperen concluded that his patient was not at risk of an abusive situation. He judged the 14-year-old patient to be Fraser competent, and decided that her confidentiality was to be respected. His employer did not agree and the case was reported to Social Work and Police; however, the case was later dropped. Several regional and national newspapers reported on the controversy in favour of Van IJperen’s point of view. A subsequent investigation by NHS Grampian supported Dr Van IJperen’s argument, and he was reinstated unconditionally.
Music Nation is a self-described artist development company. In 2007, it attempted to gain publicity by holding an online music video competition in which the finalists would have a chance to sign recording contracts with Epic Records. Artists registering with Music Nation must submit their videos in one of three genres: pop, rock, or urban. Winners were to be showcased on Clear Channel's radio program Stripped. Their largest contest that had 2,500 entries (top 350 ranked) was "Slash's Ultimate Guitar Showdown" which was hosted and judged by from Guns n' Roses / Velvet Revolver. The contest was won by New Jersey born Armenian guitarist Stephen Dadaian<ref name=Steve/>. The grand prize included a guitar from Slash's rig and Marshall half-stack amplifier.
SecondMarket (formerly Restricted Stock Partners) is an online marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets, including , bankruptcy claims, limited partnership interests, private company stock, restricted securities in public companies, structured products, and whole loans.
SecondMarket's participants include global financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, corporations and other institutional and accredited investors.
The website was created in 2004.
History
SecondMarket was founded in 2004 by Barry Silbert originally to address the growing need for liquidity for restricted securities in public companies. Beginning in early 2008, SecondMarket expanded into a number of other asset classes - first , then bankruptcy claims, limited partnership interests, structured products (MBS, CDOs, ABS), whole loans, private company stock, and lastly, government IOUs.
In 2007, the company raised an undisclosed amount of Series A financing from venture capital firm Pequot Ventures.
In February 2010, the company raised US$15 million to aid its expansion into Asia.
On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.
Markets Trading on SecondMarket
Restricted Securities in Public Companies
Restricted securities, SecondMarket's initial market, utilizes privately negotiated transactions to provide access to liquidity in the trillion dollar restricted securities market. A privately negotiated sale allows buyers and sellers to trade registered and unregistered securities, pursuant to certain guidelines and conditions of the Securities Act of 1933. Several types of restricted securities trade on SecondMarket:
* Registered and Unregistered Stock
* Affiliate and Control Stock
* Convertible and Preferred Securities
* Public Debt Instruments
* Registered and Unregistered Warrants
* Block Trades (Small- and Micro Cap)
* Portfolio of Securities
* Warrant Management
Auction-Rate Securities Market
As a result of the economic crisis, in February 2008, auction-rate securities (ARS) experienced widespread auction failures that left hundreds of billions of dollars “frozen” in suddenly illiquid auction-rate securities. In response, SecondMarket (then Restricted Stock Partners) opened up its marketplace to the trading of all ARS types including:
* Auction-rate CDOs
* Auction-rate preferred securities (ARPS)
* Municipal auction-rate securities (MARS)
* Student-loan auction-rate securities (SLARS)
Bankruptcy Claims Market
SecondMarket entered into the bankruptcy claims market in June 2008 by acquiring Trade Receivable Exchange, Inc. (T-REX) of Denver, at the time the largest online auction platform serving the bankruptcy trade claims market. A variety of different claim types trade over SecondMarket:
* Administrative Claims
* Lease and Contract Rejection Claims
* Secured Claims
* General Unsecured Claims
* Scheduled and Unscheduled Claims
* Scheduled Priority Claims
Limited Partnership Interests Market
In February 2009, SecondMarket opened its marketplace to , which are ownership rights in investment entities such as private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, and fund of funds. Through this market, current limited partners are able to transfer future capital commitments to other investors who are better suited to satisfy the obligations.
Structured Products
In April 2009, Secondmarket opened the and markets. The variety of collateral types that can trade over SecondMarket are:
* Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
* Corporate Mortgage-Backed Securities
* Other Asset Back Securities
* Corporate bonds (these structures are also known as Collateralized Bond Obligations or CBOs)
* Banks loans (the structures are also known as Collateralized Loan Obligations or CLOs)
* Credit derivatives
* Other CDOs (these structures are also known as CDO-squared)
* Other specialized debt types
Whole Loans
Launched in April 2009, Through SecondMarket, private companies can opt-in to an organized, controlled private liquid environment that offers early investors and employee shareholders exit opportunity prior to an IPO or M&A event. Numerous high profile companies have traded over SecondMarket including Facebook, Tesla, Zynga and Twitter.
Government IOUs
SecondMarket’s government warrant market facilitates transactions in registered warrants (IOUs) issued by state governments. When the state of California issued warrants to its creditors in mid-2009, SecondMarket opened up a market place to facilitate the trading of government IOUs.
Investors
FirstMark Capital
SecondMarket closed a series A round from FirstMark Capital (previously named Pequot Ventures) in late 2007. Pequot was the $2 billion venture arm of hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, but in March 2008, it was spun off as a separate business and renamed. Over the past dozen years, the venture firm has opened seven funds, and it currently has $1 billion in actively managed and unallocated capital. The fund focuses on emerging media and advertising, data and analytics and infrastructure startups.
SVB Financial Group
SecondMarket's acquisition of InsideVenture led SVB to become an investor in SecondMarket in October 2009. SVB Financial Group provides financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies in the life science, venture capital/private equity, and premium wine markets.
New Enterprise Association
SecondMarket's acquisition of InsideVenture also led NEA to become an investor in SecondMarket in October 2009. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in venture growth equity at all points of developments, with a 60 percent focus on seed and start-up stage companies.
Horizons Ventures
SecondMarket secured a series B round from Horizons, the investment arm of Chinese business magnate Li Ka-shing, in January 2010.
Competitors
* Campbell Lutyens
* Cogent Partners
* GS TRuE
* GATE Technologies
* NASDAQ Portal Alliance
* NYPPEX
* Probitas Partners
* SharesPost.com
* Triago
* Zealous ATS
Key Board Members/Advisors
*Barry E. Silbert is the Founder and CEO
*Bill Seidman was a Senior Advisor to SecondMarket from 2008 until his death on May 13, 2009.
*Larry D. Lenihan, Jr. is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital.
*Chamath Palihapitiya is the Founder of The Social + Capital Partnership
SecondMarket's participants include global financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, corporations and other institutional and accredited investors.
The website was created in 2004.
History
SecondMarket was founded in 2004 by Barry Silbert originally to address the growing need for liquidity for restricted securities in public companies. Beginning in early 2008, SecondMarket expanded into a number of other asset classes - first , then bankruptcy claims, limited partnership interests, structured products (MBS, CDOs, ABS), whole loans, private company stock, and lastly, government IOUs.
In 2007, the company raised an undisclosed amount of Series A financing from venture capital firm Pequot Ventures.
In February 2010, the company raised US$15 million to aid its expansion into Asia.
On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.
Markets Trading on SecondMarket
Restricted Securities in Public Companies
Restricted securities, SecondMarket's initial market, utilizes privately negotiated transactions to provide access to liquidity in the trillion dollar restricted securities market. A privately negotiated sale allows buyers and sellers to trade registered and unregistered securities, pursuant to certain guidelines and conditions of the Securities Act of 1933. Several types of restricted securities trade on SecondMarket:
* Registered and Unregistered Stock
* Affiliate and Control Stock
* Convertible and Preferred Securities
* Public Debt Instruments
* Registered and Unregistered Warrants
* Block Trades (Small- and Micro Cap)
* Portfolio of Securities
* Warrant Management
Auction-Rate Securities Market
As a result of the economic crisis, in February 2008, auction-rate securities (ARS) experienced widespread auction failures that left hundreds of billions of dollars “frozen” in suddenly illiquid auction-rate securities. In response, SecondMarket (then Restricted Stock Partners) opened up its marketplace to the trading of all ARS types including:
* Auction-rate CDOs
* Auction-rate preferred securities (ARPS)
* Municipal auction-rate securities (MARS)
* Student-loan auction-rate securities (SLARS)
Bankruptcy Claims Market
SecondMarket entered into the bankruptcy claims market in June 2008 by acquiring Trade Receivable Exchange, Inc. (T-REX) of Denver, at the time the largest online auction platform serving the bankruptcy trade claims market. A variety of different claim types trade over SecondMarket:
* Administrative Claims
* Lease and Contract Rejection Claims
* Secured Claims
* General Unsecured Claims
* Scheduled and Unscheduled Claims
* Scheduled Priority Claims
Limited Partnership Interests Market
In February 2009, SecondMarket opened its marketplace to , which are ownership rights in investment entities such as private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, and fund of funds. Through this market, current limited partners are able to transfer future capital commitments to other investors who are better suited to satisfy the obligations.
Structured Products
In April 2009, Secondmarket opened the and markets. The variety of collateral types that can trade over SecondMarket are:
* Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
* Corporate Mortgage-Backed Securities
* Other Asset Back Securities
* Corporate bonds (these structures are also known as Collateralized Bond Obligations or CBOs)
* Banks loans (the structures are also known as Collateralized Loan Obligations or CLOs)
* Credit derivatives
* Other CDOs (these structures are also known as CDO-squared)
* Other specialized debt types
Whole Loans
Launched in April 2009, Through SecondMarket, private companies can opt-in to an organized, controlled private liquid environment that offers early investors and employee shareholders exit opportunity prior to an IPO or M&A event. Numerous high profile companies have traded over SecondMarket including Facebook, Tesla, Zynga and Twitter.
Government IOUs
SecondMarket’s government warrant market facilitates transactions in registered warrants (IOUs) issued by state governments. When the state of California issued warrants to its creditors in mid-2009, SecondMarket opened up a market place to facilitate the trading of government IOUs.
Investors
FirstMark Capital
SecondMarket closed a series A round from FirstMark Capital (previously named Pequot Ventures) in late 2007. Pequot was the $2 billion venture arm of hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, but in March 2008, it was spun off as a separate business and renamed. Over the past dozen years, the venture firm has opened seven funds, and it currently has $1 billion in actively managed and unallocated capital. The fund focuses on emerging media and advertising, data and analytics and infrastructure startups.
SVB Financial Group
SecondMarket's acquisition of InsideVenture led SVB to become an investor in SecondMarket in October 2009. SVB Financial Group provides financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies in the life science, venture capital/private equity, and premium wine markets.
New Enterprise Association
SecondMarket's acquisition of InsideVenture also led NEA to become an investor in SecondMarket in October 2009. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in venture growth equity at all points of developments, with a 60 percent focus on seed and start-up stage companies.
Horizons Ventures
SecondMarket secured a series B round from Horizons, the investment arm of Chinese business magnate Li Ka-shing, in January 2010.
Competitors
* Campbell Lutyens
* Cogent Partners
* GS TRuE
* GATE Technologies
* NASDAQ Portal Alliance
* NYPPEX
* Probitas Partners
* SharesPost.com
* Triago
* Zealous ATS
Key Board Members/Advisors
*Barry E. Silbert is the Founder and CEO
*Bill Seidman was a Senior Advisor to SecondMarket from 2008 until his death on May 13, 2009.
*Larry D. Lenihan, Jr. is the Founder, CEO, and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital.
*Chamath Palihapitiya is the Founder of The Social + Capital Partnership