ACG Northeast Dealmaking Conference: Dealmaking at the Mountain 2016

 

 

January 31 - February 2, 2016
The Hermitage Club
Deerfield Valley, Haystack Mountain, VT

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Members: 475.00
Non-Members: 550.00

For questions about registration, please contact:
Sarah Kuhns, ACG New York, 212.489.8700 ext. 3, skuhns@acgnyc.org

 

On January 31 - February 2, 2016, the ACG Northeast Dealmaking at the Mountain Conference will take place at a NEW LOCATION: The Hermitage Club in Deerfield Valley, Vermont.

ACG Northeast Dealmaking at the Mountain is an annual three-day event hosted by ACG Boston, ACG Connecticut, ACG New York, ACG New Jersey and ACG Philadelphia in Vermont.  It's a weekend of close-knit networking, fabulous accommodations, gourmet food, and a day or two of great skiing and snowboarding!  View the agenda.

The Hermitage Club is a highly exclusive private ski club and resort that provides members with four seasons of private mountain activities, luxury accommodations and a worry-free, uncrowded environment. Zero lift lines, prime snow conditions, a luxury clubhouse with gourmet dining, fitness center, deluxe spa, movie theater, pool, bowling alley, ski valet, and more make The Hermitage Club a luxurious, world-class experience that you can't afford to miss.

Attendees of the event will also have access to an online attendee list and the ability to connect, exchange messages and schedule one-on-one meetings with fellow attendees via our online networking tool.

 

 

 

Jim Barnes
Founder & President
The Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain

Jim is the Founder, President of The Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain, an exclusive, four-season private club-community that celebrates the outdoors and family fun, with private mountain activities ranging from Alpine skiing and boarding to cross country skiing, snowshoeing and 18-hole golf on a Desmond Muirhead-designed course. Located on 1,400 acres in Southern Vermont, the property is anchored by the Hermitage Inn which provides luxury hotel accommodations and five diamond dining.

Prior to founding the Hermitage Club, Jim built the largest waste and recycling management company in North America without owning a truck. OAKLEAF Waste Management aggregated large national customers like Walmart, Target, GE and Wyndam Hotels & Resorts and leveraged that portfolio to become the single largest customer of the local trash hauler while providing a sophisticated management and reporting system for customer interface. Starting in 1995 with 40,000 in capital, the company grew quickly to about 160M by 2003 when private equity firm Charterhouse partnered with the company to finance several add on acquisitions. Over the next four years with sales approaching 700M, the company was sold to a larger PE firm in 2007 and has since been purchased in 2011 by its largest competitor, Waste Management (NYSE: WMI).

While building OAKLEAF, Jim’s customers continued to request expanded facility maintenance solutions which led him in 2004 to purchase from the Enron bankruptcy, the platform company now rebranded as FM Facility Maintenance. Operating under a unique Integrated Facility Maintenance (IFM) model, FM has grown exponentially and today is one of the largest IFM companies in North America utilizing a distributed network of service providers to handle over 45 trades of service including plumbing, electrical, air conditioning, refrigeration, lighting, signage, doors, locks, roofing, snow removal, landscaping, waste management, pest control, plus specialty restaurant equipment. The company provides IFM to customers such as McDonalds, Burger King, 7-Eleven, Exxon Mobil, and Outback Steak House throughout North America. With annual sales approaching 500M, Jim led the company as Chairman and majority shareholder to a successful merger in 2013 and now focuses 100% of his time managing The Hermitage Club.

Jim serves as a trustee of Marist College, the Watch Hill Conservancy and is a former director of The Connecticut Science Center and Riverfront Recapture. Since 2009, Jim has served as a national judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program and won the National Award for Business Services in 2008. Jim’s companies have received recognition in the INC 500/5000 and INC Inner City 100 a total of 10 times since 2001 and featured in Fortune Magazine, INC Magazine, FAST Company, Chain Store Age, Nation’s Restaurant News, Professional Retail Store Maintenance and The Wall Street Journal.

Overall, Jim’s present and former companies have annual revenues over 1 billion and employ over one thousand people today.

Jim resides in Avon, CT with his family.

 

 

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2015 was a big year for Bomber: Bode Miller joined their family, K.C. Oakley stood atop the World Cup podium on her Bomber skis, Jeremy Cota finished his World Cup season the leading man on Team USA's moguls squad, and Marc Girardelli landed a podium finish of his own on Bomber skis.

 

 

Dodge Ski Boots was founded on a simple, yet bold idea: Make the best ski boot possible.

As longtime ski racers, Dave Dodge and Bill Doble experienced first-hand many of skiing’s innovations and been frustrated that today’s boot technology hasn’t kept pace with ski and binding technology.

So, in early 2009 when “the stars aligned,” Dodge Ski Boots was born, giving them the opportunity to follow their passion, their gut and their experience, without compromise. A good friend and mentor of theirs said early on that they should concentrate on making the best boot possible and “don’t be fashion.” So you won’t see Dodge with glitzy ads or colors or anything else. We just concentrate on the boot. The Best Boot Possible.

 

 

View the attendee list, schedule one-on-one meetings, exchange messages, and connect with your fellow attendees before, during and after the event with our online networking tool, powered by Presdo!

 

The tool will launch the week of January 11, 2016, at which point attendees of the event will receive an email with instructions on how to log in and use the tool.

 

If you are registered to attend and have not received an email with instructions the week of January 11, please email us.