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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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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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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.
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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