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HEADLINE SPEAKERS YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS!
Ryan Alexander
President, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS)
As President, Ryan Alexander spearheads TCS’s non-partisan efforts to cut wasteful government spending and subsidies in order to achieve a responsible and efficient government that lives within its means. Prior to joining TCS she served as Executive Director for Common Cause Education Fund. She has also served in a variety of positions in the advocacy, philanthropic and private sectors, including as a foundation program officer, strategic consultant and litigating attorney.
Elena Botelho
Elena is a Partner at ghSMART. She serves major private equity, corporate, and hedge fund clients nationwide and globally including Centerbridge, Carlyle, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, Citadel, Credit Suisse, IBM, and many others. She is a frequent speaker at industry events on the topics of talent management (e.g., Buyouts Symposium, Columbia University).
Leonard Brody
Co-Founder and CEO, NowPublic.com
Leonard Brody is a highly respected entrepreneur venture capitalist and best-selling author. Having raised millions of dollars for a variety of startup companies. Brody has also been involved in one of the largest internet IPOs in history, as well as in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. Currently, Brody is Co-Founder and CEO of NowPublic.com a pioneering site for citizen generated news.
Tom Donohue
President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce
Thomas J. Donohue is president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation representing three million companies, associations, state and local chambers, and American Chambers of Commerce abroad. Since assuming his position in 1997, Donohue has revitalized the business organization, significantly boosting membership and revenues, strengthening relations with state and local chambers, and expanding the Chamber’s clout in Washington, D.C., as well its international activities around the world.
Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
Partner and Member of Global Executive Committee, Egon Zehnder International
Claudio Fernandez-Araoz is a partner and member of the Global Executive Committee in the leading executive seach frim Egon Zehnder International where he has spent over twenty years filling executive positions in major businesses throughout the world. He was recently featured by Business Week as one of the world's most influential search consultants. His recent book Great People Decisions is stronly endorsed by Jim Collins and Jack Welch, has instantly achieved global presence, and is rapidly being adopted as required reading by major corporations and corporations and leading business schools.
Amanda Janis
Amanda Janis is an associate editor charged with coordinating Americas coverage for PrivateEquityOnline.com, a daily news and analysis site for and about the global private equity industry. She also contributes monthly features to Private Equity International magazine and other PEI Media titles. Previously, Amanda was the business editor for The Reporter, a daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to obtaining a master’s degree in international journalism from City University of London, she spent several years in Rome guiding tourists through the Renaissance’s greatest hits. Amanda has bachelor’s degrees in English literature and Italian studies from Saint Mary’s College of California.
David Jones
David M. Jones is a Managing Director of Merit Capital Partners, a Chicago based mezzanine and equity firm with over $1 billion under management. David joined Merit in 1993 in conjunction with the closing and initial investing of Fund I. David was previously a senior consultant with Peterson Consulting, a national business valuation and litigation consulting firm, and specialized in business and product line valuations in intellectual property disputes.
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Senior Managing Director, Lazard Freres & Co., LLC and Political Insider
A long time friend and advisor to President William J. Clinton, Vernon E. Jordan is an influential attorney and business advisor. Mr. Jordan’s extensive background in business includes a role as President and CEO of the National Urban League from 1972-1981 as well as Senior Executive Partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP for over 17 years. Now a Director of both Lazard Ltd and Lazard Group, Mr. Jordan has also served as Senior Managing Director of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC since 2000. A member of numerous Boards of Directors including, American Express Company and Xerox Corporation, Mr. Jordan is also an accomplished author, having penned his 2001 memoir, Vernon Can Read!
Ric Keller
Congressman Ric Keller, 43, was re-elected in November of 2006, to his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He represents the people of the 8th Congressional District, which covers the greater Orlando area and stretches from Celebration to Ocala. Congressman Keller has served as the chairman, and now ranking member, of the House higher education subcommittee. Congressman Keller also sits on the House Judiciary Committee, where he has been a leading advocate of the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program to put more law enforcement officers on our streets.
Art Laffer
Founder and CEO, Laffer Associates
Dr. Laffer was a member of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board for both of his terms (1981-1989). He was noted in Time magazine’sMarch 29, 1999, cover story, “The Century’s Greatest Minds” for inventing the “Laffer Curve,” a curve illustrating “tax elasticity” which asserts that in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues. Dr. Laffer’s economic acumen and influence in triggering a world-wide tax-cutting movement in the 1980’s have earned him the distinction in many publications as The Father of Supply-Side Economics.
Melissa Lee
Melissa Lee is CNBC’s Wall Street reporter, focusing on hedge funds, private equity and the capital markets. Her reports air throughout the business day. Lee is based at the network’s global headquarter in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prior to joining CNBC in 2004, Lee has worked for Bloomberg Television and CNN Financial News. She was nominated for an Emmy, for her reporting on the proxy voting of mutual funds. Before her career in television, Lee was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting. Her cases focused on the banking and credit card sectors. Lee graduated with honors from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in Government. She also served as Assistant Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson.
Douglas Lowenstein
President, Private Equity Council
Doug Lowenstein is the founding president of Private Equity Council, an advocacy, communications and research organization and resource center established to develop, analyze and distribute information about the private equity industry and its contributions to the national and global economy.
Ken MacFadyen
Ken MacFadyen is the editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Journal and affiliated publications Mergers & Acquisitions Report and MergersUnleashed.com. Prior to joining the magazine, MacFadyen was the managing editor of Investment Dealers’ Digest and Buyouts Magazine. He received his bachelor of arts in English from the University of New Hampshire (Phi Beta Kappa).
Steve Moore
Senior Economics Writer, The Wall Street Journal
Stephen Moore is a senior economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, as well as a member of the Hournal's editorial board. Author of four books, Moore is also a revered economic commentator in the media, appearing regularly on networks such as CNBC and CNN. Moore is also a contributing commentator for National Public Radio's Marketplace segment.
Terrence M. Mullen
Terrence M. Mullen is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm that invests in specialty industrial, healthcare, and financial services sectors where he has deep expertise. The firm is comprised of a team of over 30 professionals with extensive investment, transaction, industry, and operating capabilities.
Tim O’Brien, J.D.
President & CEO, The Personal Branding Group, Inc.
A nationally recognized author and speaker, Tim O’Brien is also the founder of Rainmaker U, a year long program dedicated to teaching professionals how to create a compelling and marketable personal brand. In the three short years since its inception, Mr. O’Brien has lead and built Rainmaker U into a multimillion dollar business. Author of Leading like a Champion and the soon to be released Branding Yourself as the Person to See, Mr. O’Brien has also contributed articles to many leading national publications.
Tonya Reiman
Author of The Power of Body Language
Tonya Reiman, author of The Power of Body Language, is a motivational and inspirational keynote speaker, consultant and corporate trainer. Ms. Reiman has gained notoriety by focusing on how body language can be interpreted in various situations, not least in business. A weekly guest on The O’Reilly Factor, Ms. Reiman has shared her analysis of body language and knowledge in unspoken communications with various newspapers, radio and TV outlets such as Fox, The Today Show, Access Hollywood, Extra, and Fast Money.
Thomas A. Schatz
President, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)
A nationally recognized spokesperson on government waste, Thomas A. Schatz has testified numerous times on government waste issues before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as before state and ocal legislative and regulatory bodies. During his 20 years with CAGW, Schatz has spearheaded a development program that has increased the organization's members from 5,000 to more than 1,000,000.
Dr. Jeremy J. Siegel
Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Jeremy Siegel has written and lectured extensively about the economy and financial markets, appearing frequently on CNN, CNBC, NPR and others networks. He is a regular columnist for Kiplinger’s and Yahoo! Finance and has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Financial Times and other national and international news media. Professor Siegel served for 15 years as head of economics training at JP Morgan and is currently the academic director of the U.S. Securities Industry Institute.
Gene Sperling
Former Economic Advisor to President Bill Clinton
Gene Sperling served both terms and was named “the MVP” of the economic team by President Clinton. He coordinated the President’s Social Security and debt reduction efforts, and played a key role in such initiatives as the 1993 deficit reduction act, the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and technology literacy initiative. As Director for the NEC, Mr. Sperling was also responsible for coordinating both domestic and international economic cabinet members.
Doug Tatum
Founding Partner and Chairman Emeritus of Tatum LLC
Doug Tatum is the Founding Partner and Chairman Emeritus of Tatum, LLC the nation’s largest financial and technology executive services firm, with more than one thousand professionals in thirty-three offices across the country. Tatum LLC provides a broad range of clients that include state and federal government, entrepreneurial emerging growth, private equity sponsored and large multinational companies with strategic, financial, and technology leadership.
Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh, CEO and Founder, drives vision and corporate innovation for Leverage Software. As a pioneer in Online Communities, Mr. Walsh has been instrumental in developing revolutionary business applications for social networking including sales lead generation, word of mouth marketing, employee recruitment, and brand building. Prior to founding Leverage Software, Mr. Walsh was co-founder and Vice President of Sales at mvion and Vice President of Sales and Business Development for ProjectArena which develops professional services automation applications to improve productivity and profitability of services organizations.
Kenneth J. Wanko
Ken Wanko is Director, Acquisitions & Operations at Alliance Holdings, where he leads the acquisition team. Prior to joining Alliance in 2005, Ken was a founding member of the ESOP corporate finance group of Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin. During his tenure at Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Wanko advised on some of the largest and most innovative employee buyouts in history, including the 100% employee buyouts of Appleton Papers and IIT Research Institute.
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