Needham & Company, LLC will hold its 16th Annual Growth Conference ("NGC") at the New York Palace Hotel on January 14-16, 2014. The conference is one of the largest growth stock investment conferences in the country, with over 375 presenting companies and more than 2,500 attendees comprised of senior company executives, over 1,500 institutional investors, and approximately 200 venture capitalists. A key goal of the NGC is to provide investors insight into the constantly changing emerging growth company environment and deliver investable themes for our clients. The NGC's early January timing makes it the perfect way for investors to start the year by assessing the economic backdrop, and opportunities and issues that emerging growth companies may face in 2014 and beyond. The three-day conference features public and private company presentations from senior management teams, Q&A sessions, and 1-on-1 meetings for qualified institutional investors and venture capital firms. The sectors represented by presenting companies include:

  • Communications & Enterprise Infrastructure
  • Industrial Growth & Clean Technology
  • Internet, Entertainment & Consumer
  • Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment
  • Software & Services
  • Healthcare

Guest Speaker on January 14:

Lunch: Mohamad Ali, Head of Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Company, who will speak on industry trends and new initiatives for 2014 in Enterprise Infrastructure.

Working lunch on January 15 (presentations only)

Guest Speaker on January 16:

Lunch: David R. Malpass, Founder & President of Encima Global, an economic research and consulting firm, will provide his insights and analysis on global economic and political trends for 2014 and beyond.

He served as Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush.

The conference is open only to invited clients of Needham & Company, LLC. For more information, please call (800) 926-2765.

About Needham & Company, LLC

Needham & Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc., is a privately held, full-service investment bank that has focused exclusively on growth companies since it was founded 29 years ago. It concentrates on private companies and on public companies that have market capitalizations of up to $5 billion, and provides its clients with the resources to achieve their financing and strategic objectives. The Firm has capital raising expertise in IPOs, follow-on public equity offerings, confidentially marketed equity offerings, and private placements and in mergers & acquisitions and corporate & venture services (including share repurchases). In addition to investment banking, Needham's activities include institutional sales and trading, and asset management. To serve its institutional clients, Needham & Company, LLC produces comprehensive equity research on more than 340 companies in clean technology and industrial growth, communications and enterprise infrastructure, consumer, healthcare, semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, and software. The Firm is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Menlo Park, CA; and San Francisco, CA. Needham & Company, LLC is a member of FINRA & SIPC. For more information, please visit www.needhamco.com.

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