[cid:image001.jpg@01DB2B6F.33349590]November 6 Webinar Do you want a more personal, in-depth connection with some of the most fascinating people in the mineral world? Tune in on the first Wednesday of each month and listen to our LIVE interview series where we sit down with guests from all over the world and talk rocks. Collectors, Curators, Curatrixes, Artists, Researchers, Publishers, Dealers and more. We get into their origin stories and get updated on some of the things they're working on now. It's always fun, often educational and one of the best ways to learn more about the people who make the mineral world what it is. You are invited to the next Zoom webinar: Mineral Talks LIVE 6 November 2024 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this webinar: http://go.mineraltalkslive.com/register After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Speaker - Cristiano Ferraris [cid:image002.jpg@01DB2B6F.33349590] David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a leading provider of cloud object storage. Wasabi has approximately 400 employees worldwide and has raised over $500 million in funding. David’s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. ARP synthesizers also produced the voice of R2D2 in Star Wars. Friend founded or co-founded four other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation – an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software – a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet – which became the world’s largest provider of fax-to-email services, and Carbonite – a PC backup company that went public and was later acquired for $1.5 billion. He has served on many private and public boards over the past 40 years. David is a respected philanthropist and is a Trustee Emeritus of the of Berklee College of Music<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=4cbc8d95b8&e=7aa497567c> where there is a concert hall named in his honor. He is also a former Trustee of the New England Conservatory and the Boston Chamber Music Society. He is also a former Trustee of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He serves as Chairman of the board of Boston Baroque, the first period instrument orchestra and chorus in the United States and which has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector. he donated the David Friend Hall of Gems and Minerals<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtcfqiaEHg> at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=ca71405c00&e=7aa497567c>. David graduated from Yale where he was a Scholar of the House and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow. ************* [cid:image003.jpg@01DB2B6F.33349590] David Friend Hall, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Credit: Bryan Swoboda If you have missed one of the 91 previous episodes, please visit the Youtube video channel Mineral Talks LIVE<https://mineraltalkslive.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=29de2322958cd757b7752b3ec&id=9805c93fe0&e=7aa497567c> *************** Mineral Talks LIVE - Brought to you by Bryan Swoboda of BlueCap Productions, Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez of The Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard University<https://mgmh.fas.harvard.edu/> (MGMH), Dr. Eloïse Gaillou of the Musée de Minéralogie, l’École des Mines de Paris<https://www.musee.minesparis.psl.eu/Home/> and The Society of Mineral Museums Professionals<http://www.smmp.net/> (SMMP). mailing address is: info@mineraltalkslive.com<mailto:info@mineraltalkslive.com> [cid:image004.jpg@01DB2B6F.33349590]