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2013 M&A East Distinguished Keynotes

2013 Keynote Speakers


Robert O'Neill SEAL Team Six		Erik Peterson Global Outlook		Fareed Zakaria Foreign Policy Expert

Tuesday, October 8

4:30 - 5:30 PM
Opening Keynote
Fareed Zakaria
Sponsored by Griffin Financial Group, LLC and Wells Fargo

Host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, Editor-at-Large of TIME, and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria is widely respected for his thoughtful analysis and ability to spot economic and political trends. Winner of a 2012 Peabody Award, the Emmy-nominated GPS features Zakaria’s fascinating panel discussions and one-on-one interviews with heads of state, intellectuals, and business leaders on subjects from the future of energy and the Middle East to America’s role in the world. Zakaria is a best-selling author of The Post-American World and state, intellectuals, and business leaders on subjects from the future of energy and the Middle East to America’s role in the world. Zakaria is a best-selling author of The Post-American World and The Future of Freedom. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Slate, and he has been awarded numerous honors including Foreign Policy magazine naming him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

Wednesday, October 8

8:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Welcome & Keynote
Erik Peterson
Sponsored by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and ParenteBeard LLC

Erik Peterson is a world-renowned thinker, advising the top CEOs and business-minded thought leaders around the globe. His work is dramatically shifting perspectives on how to develop solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues. Peterson traces the simultaneous and significant global shifts in the areas of demography, resources and the environment, the movement of data and the development of knowledge, the global economy, technological innovation and diffusion, and the rapidly shifting geopolitics of major powers the world over.

12:30 - 2:15 PM
Luncheon & Keynote
Robert O'Neill
Sponsored by Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, Janney Montgomery Scott & KPMG LLP

A highly trained Navy SEAL, Rob O’Neill led the military’s most elite and was involved in our nation’s most important campaigns. He was a team leader with the Naval Special Warfare Development Group. In his line of work, instant, critical decision-making is an absolute necessity for success. Having trained more than 800 special operations and tactical operators, O’Neill brings this unique expertise to organizations and translates his elite SEAL team training into highimpact, actionable insights on leadership, decision-making, operating in uncertain environments, and how to become the ‘best of the best.’