Fireside breakfast with Carta CEO, Henry Ward

​Join Shawn Atkinson, head of Orrick's London Corporate Practice and co-lead of the Global Technology Companies Practice Group for a deep-dive 1 on 1 with Henry Ward, CEO of Silicon Valley unicorn Carta.

​Henry founded Carta in 2012, a company which now sits at the heart of the global venture ecosystem. Carta is the global equity administration and fund administration provider for startups and VC funds, serving over 40,000 startups and 9,000 funds across the US, UK, EU and APAC. Join Shawn in this exclusive session where he will dive in with Henry to discuss his learnings from his founder journey as he scaled Carta to a 1,700 person company across the US, Europe and APAC. We’ll cover:

• ​his lessons and tactics from his various stages of funding;
  

• ​growing internationally, and his thinking process behind entering new markets;
  

• ​⁠⁠M&A vs growing organically;
  

• ​where are there real opportunities in AI vs. what is fool's gold;
  

• ​finally, Q&A with Henry to ask anything about his founder journey