When: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Registration and Networking), 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (Roundtable discussion)

Where:

University of Miami, School of Business – Executive Education Dining Room, 3rd floor, Aresty Building

5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL  33146

Registration: Save $10 by pre-registering online or $25. Tickets at the door are $35 cash or check and Students are $10 with ID.

Overview:

Though we genuinely live in “interesting times”, businesses must always adjust to extraordinary circumstances. Growth, even with survival in play, is a primary objective of CEOs whether they lead an early or later stage company. This event will showcase the strategies and choices our panel of business leaders has used to successfully grow their companies, and their perspectives on ways to weather the economic storm. Some questions they will cover include:

· From Entrepreneur to CEO, what is the path to success?

· How do you adapt in a financial cycle of no money, no money, no money?

· Business Strategy and Plan, or Ready – Fire – Aim?

· How does a CEO manage in a rapidly changing global marketplace?

Hear from a panel that has made it — entrepreneurs who became a CEO, investors who look for the next success story, and executives who know what makes a successful CEO.

REGISTER NOW AND SAVE $10.00 PER TICKET ($25.00 online before April 14th)
FOOD & BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED

CEO Roundtable will feature:

Mark Blackburn, Ph.D., is a co-inventor of the T-VEC system, President and CEO of T-VEC Technologies, and a Systems and Software Consortium Fellow. He has more than twenty years of software systems engineering experience in development, management and applied research of process, methods and tools. He is currently involved in consulting, applied research, training, strategic planning, proposal and business development, as well as developing and applying methods and tools to software and system engineering. He has been principal investigator on government and large industry projects. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia, has authored more than 100 publications. He earned a BS in Mathematics from Arizona State, MS in Mathematics from Florida Atlantic University, and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University.

Mary Mathis is President and CEO of CBC (Corporate Broadcast Company, Inc). In 2004, she established CBC Holdings, Inc. and Corporate Broadcast Company, an internet television venture and has spent the last several years building CBC.TV through acquisition and organic growth. The company recently launched a Latina lifestyle internet television network – MensajeTV.

Previous to developing and pioneering the internet TV industry, Ms. Mathis worked with a leading group of hospitality/tourism developers, consultants and food/travel writers, authoring books and national publications, and providing strategic planning, marketing and special event services for international tourism development.

In 1985 Ms. Mathis utilized this experience to found her own international management, marketing and public relations firm with offices in the U.S., Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia with affiliates worldwide, utilizing cutting edge technologies to develop strategic communications programs for media companies, mining and oil and gas entities, property developers, tourism providers and government departments. In the early 1990’s Ms. Mathis formed a venture capital and investment company assisting with international trade facilitation and cultural and technological exchange.

Ms. Mathis received her B.A. in both English and Political Science, summa cum laude from Hollins University, a private all women’s institute in Virginia, and holds a degree in International Trading from the Australian Institute of Export.

John T. Mestepey John T. Mestepey is the Managing Director of the Miami office of Diversified Search Ray & Berndtson (DSRB). His practice focuses on senior level searches across many industries including Consumer and Retail, Financial Services, Technology, Industrial and Procurement & Supply Chain.

John was formerly a Managing Director with Edward W. Kelley & Partners (EWKP), which was acquired by DSRB in 2008. Before that, he was Vice President and Managing Director, a member of the Management Committee and the Board, and head of several Practices for A.T. Kearney Executive Search which became EWKP after a management buyout in 2006. He was formerly with Hy-Gain Electronics, as head of Human Resources and then as Director of Marketing and Business Development. John began his career with Aetna Life and Casualty where he was Director of Recruiting, and then joined the Lincoln National, where he co-led their in‑house executive search firm. He has been recognized as one of the top 250 search consultants in the United States. He graduated from Loyola‑Marymount with a B.S. degree in Psychology.

John is active in the community and serves on a number of Boards. He is a native of Southern California, raised in the Los Angeles area. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps and served a tour in Vietnam, where he was a rifle platoon and rifle company commander.

Peter “Chip” Vanderberg, Jr. joined Trivest Partners, L.P. in 1987 and has been responsible for numerous acquisitions, refinancings, restructurings and dispositions. Chip is one of four Partners that currently manage $600 million of investment funds.

Chip is currently the Chairman of Lady of America Gyms. For approximately half of his tenure with Trivest, Chip served as President, COO or CFO operating a diverse group of more than 25 of Trivest’s portfolio companies. These responsibilities included financial, operational and administrative oversight, along with executing strategic opportunities in acquisitions, dispositions, product extensions, cost reductions and restructurings.

Prior to joining Trivest, Chip spent eleven years with KPMG in New York and Miami, responsible for numerous middle market public and private clients and initial/secondary public offerings of equity and dept. He is a certified public accountant and received his B.A. in accounting from William Paterson University

Peter Haines (Moderator). Peter began his career as an entrepreneur in the Boston area and founded one of best known importer and distributor of sailboats in North America. After doing this not once but twice, he was asked by a group at MIT called Venture Founders to assist a new client making exercise equipment in a basement in Holliston, Massachusetts. The company was named for it’s founder, Ed Trotter, and was called Trotter Treadmills. Haines engineered, implemented and directed a growth plan that built the business from under $500,000 in sales to over $130 million. This was accomplished by expanding the product offering from six items to a comprehensive product line of over 200 cardiovascular and strength training products sold to the commercial and consumer markets throughout North America and in 70 countries worldwide.

Under Haines’ leadership the company was a finalist for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and was rated #1 in customer service by its dealers seven of eight years. The company delivered compounded annual growth of 30% for thirteen straight years including five acquisitions and internal growth driven by market leading new products, new distribution and relationship marketing.

Peter’s reputation for vision, leadership, strategic business planning and single-minded focus produced a profit centered, non-union workforce that twice defeated organized labor by earning the trust of his employees. In the merger of Trotter and Cybex in 1997, and the subsequent acquisition of Tectrix Inc. in 1998, Haines led the delivery of over $6 million in synergies through the consolidation of seven plants into three, the elimination of 27% of redundant positions in the workforce, and the divestiture of unprofitable product lines and real estate.

Haines pioneered the concept and spearheaded the development of Trotter University (eventually re-named Cybex University) an educationally based dealer / distributor meeting that, since its advent in 1986, has been held annually in cities throughout the United States, Europe and in Asia.

Peter’s experience includes running both public and private companies, includes significant international experience. His leadership affiliations include: MIT Enterprise Forum Board Member, Board of Trustees Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association-Vice Chairman in 2000, Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and Director, Key Container Corp. Peter is an active member of The Beacon Council and a Trustee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Directors. He has been a speaker at MIT / Sloan, MIT Enterprise Forum, Bryant College, Jacksonville University and the University of Miami MBA Programs, and at a number of Investment Banking Conferences including Hambrecht & Quist and BancBoston / Robertson Stephens.