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Events A Look at the May 2011 Roundtable Event
A Look at the September 2010 Roundtable Event
A Look at the July 2010 Metro Roundtable Event
A Look at the June 2010 Metro Roundtable Event
A Look at the May 2010 Metro Roundtable Event
A Look at the April 2010 Metro Roundtable Event
A Look at the May 2011 MetroRoundTable Event... The MetroRoundTable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking. This May, the MetroRoundTable was pleased to have special guest Ms. Barbara J. Krumsiek, who gave an excellent presentation entitled, "The Economy, The Stock Market, & Sustainability: A Business Case for Enhanced Disclosure." Barbara J. Krumshiek is Chair, CEO and President of Calvert Group, Ltd., a leading investment management firm headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert manages $15 billion in assets including award-winning fixed income portfolios and a full family of sustainable and responsible equity mutual funds. Ms. Krumsiek is Director and Chair of Acacia Life Insurance Company. Calvert and Acacia Life are affiliates of UNIFI, a mutual holding company based in Lincoln, Nebraska. Before becoming Calvert’s CEO in 1997, she was Managing Director at Alliance Capital Management L.P. in New York, and was responsible for mutual fund and variable insurance product lines worth over $17 billion in assets. Barbara Krumsiek is active member of the local D.C. business community serving on the Board of Pepco Holdings. In 2008 she served as Chair of The Greater Washington Board of Trade. She believes strongly in devoting time to community service. Currently, she is Chair of the Board of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation and serves on the boards of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and the Federal City Council. She also serves on the Women’s Advisory Board of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital. This year, Ms. Krumsiek is leading the discourse within the global investment community on the links between sustainability and financial performance. She is Co-Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme - Finance Initiative. (UNEP – FI), a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme and 200 financial institutions around the globe mandated to develop and promote the links between sustainability and financial performance.
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A Look at the September 2010 Metro Roundtable Event... The Metro Roundtable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking. Over 35 professionals joined us for a networking breakfast this June featuring a presentation by Ivan Abrams.
Ivan Abrams is president of Abrams & Company, Inc., a leading provider of asset-based loans to importers, distributors and the temporary staffing industry. Aside from his acquisition work, Ivan has supervised the restructuring of numerous businesses across several industries. In addition, Abrams has developed subspecialties in the wine and spirits and food and beverage industries. Abrams & Company, Inc. focuses on businesses with needs from $100,000 - $10,000,000.
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A Look at the July 2010 Metro Roundtable Event... The Metro Roundtable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking. Over 45 professionals joined us for a networking breakfast this June featuring a presentation by Stuart Seltzer. Stuart Seltzer is the President of Marketing On Demand, LLC. A specialist in licensing, partnership marketing, and strategic alliances, Stuart is an expert in analyzing, crafting and securing partners for clients such as Unilever, FTD Flowers and Starwood Hotels. His extensive first-hand knowledge of the industry and skills as a negotiator were developed while managing the licensing for Yves Saint Laurent of America and at the DC Comic’s division of Warner Bros. He has helped many national companies and brands including Batman, Superman, Chef Boyardee, Royal Doulton, The Weather Channel and Good Humor reap the best possible return on their marketing investment. For the past 6 years, he has been an adjunct professor at New York University where he’s been teaching a 3-credit class on licensing. Stu is also a board member of the Licensing Industry Merchandisers Association (LIMA). Early in his career Stuart honed his analytical ability while working as a CPA at Arthur Andersen & Co. He is a graduate of Lehigh University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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A Look at the June 2010 Metro Roundtable Event...
The Metro Roundtable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking. Over 50 professionals joined us for a networking breakfast this June featuring a presentation by Rona Wexler, M.A. Rona Wexler, M.A. is a leading vocational expert witness to attorneys and their clients on matters of employment capability, earning capacity and the job search to mitigate damages. She works nationally, focusing on New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida. With a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from New York University and her B.A. in English and Education from Emerson College, she has testified numerous times in New York Supreme Court and before the NLRB.
With over thirty years in business consulting, executive recruitment and career counseling, Ms. Wexler combines her real world experience with her training as a counseling psychologist and vocational evaluator. Her reports and testimony provide an objective evaluation grounded in real-world experience that is highly credible to the trier of fact.
Ms. Wexler frequently speaks on career issues and employment, most recently to the Fairfield County (CT) Bar Association, the Westchester Bar Association CLE, the New York County Lawyers Association and the Advertising Women of New York. Her articles on occupational assessment in matrimonial matters have appeared in the New York Law Journal, the New York State Bar Assoc. Family Law Review and the New York Family Law Newsletter. http://www.wexler-consulting.com/news-and-publications.shtml
She is an active Board member of the Advertising Women of New York and is active in their mentor program. She resides in Manhattan with her husband.
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A Look at the May 2010 Metro Roundtable Event... The Metro Roundtable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking. Over 30 professionals joined us for a networking breakfast this May featuring a presentation by Mathew Hegarty of Net@work.
Mathew Hegarty is the Infrastructure Practice Director of Net@Work. Hegarty works closely with key decision makers in the SMB space on developing technology solutions to solve real-world business issues. Having come from an information security consulting background, Hegarty is well aware of the challenges organizations face ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their critical business systems. With this in mind, Hegarty uses his experience to architect solutions that are secure, scalable and focused on helping clients achieve their business goals.
Before joining the Net@Work team, Hegarty provided enterprise security solutions for the global software giant CA (formerly Computer Associates). While at CA, Hegarty worked with internal business units on global projects that include business continuity, threat management, security information management and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives.
Hegarty received an M.B.A with distinction from Hofstra University’s Zarb School of Business in 2008.
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A Look at the April 2010 Metro Roundtable Event... The Metro Roundtable has been designed to foster relationships and new referral opportunities between accomplished trusted advisors. We sponsor monthly gatherings at The Friars Club, featuring exceptional speaker presentations and professional networking.
Over 50 professionals joined us for a networking breakfast this April featuring a presentation by Andrew Kozinn of Saint Laurie.
Andrew Kozinn, who together with his son, Jacob, own Saint Laurie, is the third generation in this family business. Andrew graduated with a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1974 and a JD from Brooklyn Law School in 1977 and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
Founded in 1913, Saint Laurie Merchant Tailors is New York's oldest maker of men's clothing that still has all its production facilities in New York City. In addition to the movers and shakers of Wall Street, Saint Laurie clients include a broad range of professional men who enjoy the heritage and service associated with custom tailoring. Saint Laurie is also New York's foremost theatrical tailor. Current Broadway productions include Jersey Boys, Hair, Race, Come Fly Away, La Cage Aux Folles and American Idiot. Film projects have included Shutter Island (Mark Ruffalo), Revolutionary Road (Leonardo DiCaprio), All Good Things (Ryan Gosling and Frank Langella), Kinsey (Liam Neeson); Malcom X (Denzel Washington). Saint Laurie has made clothing for two American presidents.
Andrew will address the Metro Roundtable about the ways your appearance is a critical forms of nonverbal communication. Consciously, or unconsciously, your clothing announces to the world your occupation, your social status, your income level, your attention to detail, your creativity, your desire to take risks, your willingness to conform, or your interest in meeting someone for something other than business. Andrew's focus is on helping men (who generally have far less training than women) understand the apparel choices they need to make to create the impression they desire. He also will place the current fashion, including business casual and give his views on upcoming professional fashion trends.
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