by WebAdmin | Mar 16, 2020
CEO Forum – March 2020 Leadership & Business Growth Series Speaker: Brendon Schrader Thursday, March 19, 2020 – 7:30 am to 9:00 am7:30 am to 8:00 am – Registration and continental breakfast (sponsored by SURGE)8:00 am to 9:00 am – Speaker presentation and Q&A Brookview Golf Course – Community/Conference Room316 Brookview Pkwy SGolden Valley, MN 55426 Brendon Schrader Brendon Schrader is the Founder & CEO of Antenna, a Minneapolis based company that is changing the way people work. Schrader’s insights on independent consulting, the gig economy and the changing nature of work, have been highlighted in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company and the Huffington Post. He holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, an M.Ed. from the College of Education and Human Development and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota. He has also studied leadership, strategy and innovation at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For more information, please visit www.hennepin.us/ceonext. Or you may call 612-348-9812 or email Mary.Matze@hennepin.us....
by WebAdmin | Mar 3, 2020
CEO Forum: Central Florida Anatomy of an M&A deal: .decimal, ProKnow and Elekta March 10, 2020 | 6pm – 8pmRollins College (Galloway Room)Kathleen W Rollins Hall, 3rd FloorLocated at center of Rollins Campus, facing common areaWinter Park, FL 32789 (View Map) Featured Presenters:Richard Sweat – CEO, .decimalDoug Starcher – Managing Partner, Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel Richard Sweat was the sole investor and a Co-Founder of ProKnow, LLC, a cloud-based, big data analytics software platform used in radiation oncology. ProKnow was sold in August, 2019, to Elekta, the second largest radiation oncology company in the world. Richard now owns .decimal, an internet-based manufacturer of custom, patient-specific medical devices and treatment planning software used in radiation oncology. .decimal was founded in 1986 and holds 5 patents on both the automated, internet-based manufacturing process, as well as unique medical devices used in electron and proton therapy. To date, .decimal has manufactured nearly 400,000 devices for ~80,000 cancer patients. Doug Starcher is the Managing Partner of the Orlando office of Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel. He is also team leader for the firm’s Florida Corporate/M&A practice. Doug has practiced corporate law in Orlando for over 30 years, primarily walking along side entrepreneurial clients through formation, capitalization, growth and exit. Doug views his role as M&A counsel as being an educator, protector and facilitator for clients who are about to enter the unknown for perhaps the most important transaction of their business lives. Registration Cost: $15 Register Here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ceo-forum-central-florida-march-2020-tickets-94745471255?aff=CEONexus...
by WebAdmin | Feb 16, 2020
CEO Forum – February 2020 Leadership & Business Growth Series Speaker: Joe Morris Thursday, February 20, 2020 – 7:30 am to 9:00 am7:30 am to 8:00 am – Registration and continental breakfast (sponsored by SURGE)8:00 am to 9:00 am – Speaker presentation and Q&A Brookview Golf Course – Community/Conference Room316 Brookview Pkwy SGolden Valley, MN 55426 Joe Morris Joe Morris is a highly accomplished, innovative, and results oriented business executive/entrepreneur with over 30 years of broad based and progressive experience at companies like 3M, GMAC, Super Valu, and Toro. Joe became a full-fledged entrepreneur in 1997 developing an Internet operating system in joint with Nortel Networks and Southwestern Bell. He is a decisive and insightful team builder/leader and effectively develops / motivates others. Joe is currently the Executive Vice President of Business Development at ImagoAI, Inc. ImagoAI utilizes hyper-spectral imaging combined with proprietary Artificial Intelligence to determine foreign materials and chemical composition of food products at production line speeds. Joe is formerly an Executive Vice President at A2Z Holdings Inc., a technology holding company that has investments in mobile application technologies, video conferencing, fantasy sports, and music streaming. Joe is an “eclectic entrepreneur” having owned businesses in the consumer packaging markets, Kids Product/Promotional Markets, Professional Music Business, and more. Joe is an angel investor and a member of Gopher Angels. In the small amount of spare time that Joe has in his schedule he thoroughly enjoys mentoring startup company executives and going to see his daughter Sarah Morris perform at local music venues. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For more information, please visit www.hennepin.us/ceonext. Or you may call 612-348-9812 or...
by WebAdmin | Jan 16, 2020
CEO Forum – January 2020 Leadership & Business Growth Series Speaker: Michael Faulise Thursday, January 16, 2020 – 7:30 am to 9:00 am7:30 am to 8:00 am – Registration and continental breakfast (sponsored by Insperity)8:00 am to 9:00 am – Speaker presentation and Q&A St. Louis Park City Hall – 3rd floor Council Chambers5005 Minnetonka Blvd.St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Michael Faulise Michael Faulise is the founder and Managing Partner at tap|QA, LLC, an IT Services organization that specializes in quality solutions for businesses. His current focus as an Executive Leader for tap|QA includes Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Innovation & Solutions. Michael has 25+ years in Consulting Services with his focus on Client Engagements including working with the NASDAQ, Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft, HBO, and several other Fortune 500 clients. Michael has specialized in partnering with clients in the areas of software development, quality assurance and testing, technology, process training, and process improvement. He has spoken at several national conferences including SQE Agile Development, IIST, Quest, WEDI, HIMSS, StarWest/East, Better Software Agile, DevOPS conferences. Michael continues his passion for driving innovative ideas as software development evolves and adapts to those changes. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For more information, please visit www.hennepin.us/ceonext. Or you may call 612-348-9812 or email Mary.Matze@hennepin.us....
by WebAdmin | Dec 4, 2019
CEO Forum – December 2019 Leadership & Business Growth Series Preparing for a Successful Exit or Succession Event: Lessons Learned Speakers: Jeanne Voigt, Patrick Donohue Thursday, December 19, 2019 – 7:30 am to 9:00 am7:30 am to 8:00 am – Registration and continental breakfast (sponsored by Insperity)8:00 am to 9:00 am – Speaker presentation and Q&A St. Louis Park City Hall – 3rd floor Council Chambers5005 Minnetonka Blvd.St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Jeanne Voigt Jeanne Voigt is the founder and past CEO of MindWare. She sold her majority interest in 2003, and the company was sold again in 2013 to Berkshire Hathaway. Patrick Donohue Patrick Donohue is the CEO of Hill Capital Corporation. Patrick’s expertise is in finance. He has over twenty years of capital markets experience including investing, corporate development, financial modeling, investment research publication and investment banking. Patrick grew up in St. Paul and currently lives in Eden Prairie with his wife Anne and three children. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER For more information, please visit www.hennepin.us/ceonext. Or you may call 612-348-9812 or email Mary.Matze@hennepin.us....
by WebAdmin | Dec 2, 2019
Event Photos click on an image to view larger Jason Eichenholz has the vision to save lives Every day, the equivalent of a plane full of passengers on a 747 die on America’s roads. Unfortunately, the death march caused by automobile accidents often goes unnoticed. Jason Eichenholz, co-founder and chief technology officer for Luminar Technologies, knows we can do better. He recently spoke to a group of C-level executives at the CEO Forum in December. His talk came just days before he was the commencement speaker at UCF. Luminar, an Orlando-based autonomous vehicle firm, is working diligently to keep roads safe. The company is creating industry-leading automation systems that will give cars the vision to drive safely. Its revolutionary advancements include providing automobiles with 360 vision and the ability to see clearly several football fields down the road. Currently, Luminar is working with 12 of the top 15 automakers. Although technology is sprinting forward faster than ever before, Eichenholz said it could be 25 years before self-driving is safer than manned vehicles. This means there is still work to be done. “We must to do better,” said Eichenholz, who one day sees a world where mobility is a service. Already, people are cutting down from two cars to one because it’s more economical and easier to use Uber and other rideshare services. Superior safety is not a luxury; it’s something we must all work toward. Humans drive safely more than 99 percent of the time. Luminar’s mission is to solve the remaining one percent. After a quarter century as a serial entrepreneur and a pioneer in laser and photonics...
