July 2025 Summer Breakfast Series

Event Details

When:

July 15, 2025 8 AM - 9:30 AM EDT

Where:

Location Name

Foley & Lardner LLP

Location Address

100 North Tampa Street
Tampa, FL 33602
United States

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Speakers

Jeff Mitchell

Aegis Business Credit

Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer

As Managing Director and COO at Aegis, Mr. Mitchell oversees the Aegis funds, including Aegis Business Credit, Aegis Real Estate Capital, and Aegis Venture Fund. He is a key member of the Investment and Credit Committees and the executive team, leading asset origination, underwriting, credit policy, operational guidance, and portfolio management.

With over 35 years in banking and financial services, Mr. Mitchell specializes in asset-based, structured, and cash flow lending, having negotiated with CEOs and CFOs of companies with revenues up to $100 million. He has held senior executive roles at Woodforest National Bank, Crestmark Bank (now Pathward Financial), Action Capital Corporation, Dominion Business Finance, and First Union National Bank (now Wells Fargo).

Active in industry associations, he serves on the board of the Association for Corporate Growth and participates in the Secured Finance Network and the Turnaround Management Association. Mr. Mitchell earned a degree in Economics and International Affairs from Florida State University.

Mike Nursey

Amerant Bank

EVP, Central Florida Market President

Luke Posson

CIBC US

Managing Director/Commercial Banking

Luke Posson is a seasoned banking executive with over 18 years of experience in commercial and investment banking. As a Managing Director and the Tampa Market Lead for CIBC Bank USA, he works closely with public, private and sponsor-backed companies to provide customized debt solutions and advisory services. In addition to his work on the Gracepoint Foundation and with ACG Tampa, He is a proud veteran of the U.S. Navy.

Curt Creely (Moderator)

Foley & Lardner LLP

Partner

Curt P. Creely, a partner and corporate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, focuses his practice on counseling companies, investors, investment banking firms, and entrepreneurs in connection with public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic transactions, securities law compliance and reporting, corporate governance matters, loan transactions and company formation. He is a member of the firm’s Transactional & Securities and Private Equity & Venture Capital Practices.

Curt has served as principal issuer’s counsel in initial public offerings by technology and life sciences companies, and he regularly advises public companies in various industries on SEC compliance, reporting and governance matters. He also represents issuers and investors in venture capital, private equity, and private placement transactions. He regularly serves as counsel in merger and acquisition transactions involving private and public companies in various industries, including healthcare, software, financial services and life sciences. He also represents businesses in technology-driven strategic transactions, including joint ventures, technology licensing transactions, and product development and collaboration programs.

Curt previously served as in-house general counsel for a Nasdaq-listed company, where he was responsible for managing the Company’s broad range of legal needs, including securities law compliance, strategic transactions, technology development and protection, foreign legal matters and general corporate needs.

Hosted by: ACG

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Tampa Bay