Feb 8 with Norwest Equity, Restaurant Technologies, ABRA, Tonka Bay and More - 150 Already Registered (See List)

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March 7: The ChangeMakers

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This intriguing panel will dive into Minnesota's nation-leading tradition of business and community leadership, looking into the characteristics of successful leaders while hearing from some of our state's largest employers and most prominent successes.

Speakers Include:
• Mary Brainerd, CEO, HealthPartners; MN's Largest Combined Care & Insurance Entity
• Brian Dunn,
CEO, Best Buy Co.; $50 Billion Global Retail Leader
• Phil Soran, Founder, Xiotech & Compellent; Billion Dollar Serial Entrepreneur
• Bahram Akradi, CEO, Life Time Fitness; $1 Billion Health & Fitness Pioneer
• Don Shelby, Renowned TV Journalist, Author & Community Leader

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Members receive substantial savings from discounted attendance to The Collaborative events ($150 savings on PE and ChangeMakers alone); a subscription to New Venture Review (click here for a sample of the publication); and visibility to our network of successful entrepreneurs, investors and experts.

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Join the great networking and efficient, veteran-laced content format -- 150 already signed up! (see below for sample)
- Plan for your company's future success today
- Hear from two outstanding panels on completing PE transactions
- Network with other MN CEOs, CFOs, investors and more
- Receive detailed outlines and materials to take back to the office

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The Collaborative Growth Series
Private Equity Transactions
Will Stabilizing Markets Create Opportunity?
7:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Radisson Plaza, Minneapolis

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• To Registerclick here -- $75 for Members of The Collaborative ($175 non-members)
Members save $100.

The Collaborative Growth Series
Our well attended and successful 3-hour, 2-panel format including extensive take home materials has made these transaction seminars strong networking events in these uncertain times.

Highly successful CEOs and investors will discuss how they used Private Equity to realize their vision.
Managing Partner of MN's Largest Private Equity Firm Several PE Financings; $300 Million in Revenue $300+ Million Co.; PE Recap in Oct 2011 Founder and Mngng Principal of $350 Million MN PE Firm 25 Years Serving MN Innovators
DeVries Kiesel Rouse Musech Carr
Tim DeVries, Managing General Partner, Norwest Equity Partners Jeff Kiesel, CEO, Restaurant Technologies Duane Rouse, CEO, ABRA Auto Body & Glass Cary Musech, Managing Principal, Tonka Bay Equity Partners Dan Carr, CEO, The Collaborative (moderator)
Learn how to prepare your business for PE and how to successfully negotiate and execute a deal from experts who work on these transactions regularly.
Dovenberg Scallen Haun Kalla Austin
Bob Dovenberg, Managing Director, Greene Holcomb & Fisher Tim Scallen, Partner, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Rick Haun, Private Equity Practice Director, McGladrey Jen Kalla,
Tax Director,
McGladrey
Kate Austin, Partner, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly
Sample List of Companies Registered to Date
  AMEX
Angeion
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause
BFL Capital
Brass Ring Capital
Chartwell Capital Solutions
CliftonLarsonAllen
Core Innovation Capital
CresaPartners
CVRx
Cymbet
Datalink
Dorsey & Whitney
Dymedex Consulting
Eide Bailly
Ernst & Young
ev3
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fredrikson & Byron
Goldman Sachs
Grant Thornton
Greene Holcomb & Fisher
Hellmuth & Johnson
HighJump Software
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Ideal Aerosmith
KPMG
LFE Capital
Lindquist & Vennum
LubeTech Liquid Recycling
McGladrey
Medafor
Medrad/Bayer Health Care
Medtronic
Merrill Lynch
Minneapolis|St. Paul Business Journal
MN DEED
Mobile Watchdog
MTK
Navidar
New Ulm Quartzite Quarries
Norwest Equity Partners
OLSONdenali
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly
Padilla Speer Beardsley
Preventice
Quadion
Restaurant Technologies
Signature Bank
Star Tribune
Taconic Partners
The Integra Group
Tightrope Media Systems
Tonka Bay Equity Partners
U of M Technology Commercialization
W3i
WhereToLive.com
Winthrop & Weinstine
XATA

Sponsored by:
McGladrey
Oppenheimer  Business Journal

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