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CED Provides New Rules to Entrepreneurial Game at Feb. 7 Money & Markets Conference
Event Features 11 Panels, Keynote Speaker Neal Hunter of Cree and a Luncheon Address from Wachovia's Mark Vitner
January 16, 2003, Research Triangle Park, NC-CED's Money and Markets 2003 conference (www.cednc.org/mm/2003), coming Feb. 7 to the Research Triangle Park's Sheraton Imperial Hotel, will encourage business leaders to adopt to new rules in the entrepreneurial game.
"In this challenging and changing economy, CED's Money and Markets 2003 conference could not have come at a better time," said conference co-chair Kent Christison of Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP. "M&M 2003 will focus on sustainable companies and offer advice for entrepreneurs at all stages."
M&M 2003 features 11 interactive panels, including "The New Playing Field - How the Rules Have Changed." John O'Connor, Chairman of JPMorgan Alternative Asset Management Group and executive partner of J.P. Morgan Partner, joins several other business leaders on the panel. O'Connor is one of three Executive Partners at JPMP and Chairman of J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management, Inc., which manages over $3.6 billion in hedge fund assets for third parties. Other panelists on the "New Playing Field" discussion group include:
- Greg Somer, founding partner and Managing Director, Equitek Capital
- Douglas M. Ellis, founding principal and executive managing partner, DecisionPoint International
- Steve Horan, Chief Financial Officer, Arsenal Digital Solutions
- Mel A. Williams, co-founder and Vice President and Director of Alternative Investments, UNC Management Company
Additional panels at M&M 2003 feature such topics as "Alternative Sources of Funding," "Exits: Getting Deals Done" and "Sustainability and Value Creation."
M&M 2003's keynote speaker is Neal Hunter, Chairman of Cree, Inc. Hunter is one of Cree's founders. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1995 and as a member of the Board of Directors since Cree's inception in 1987. Hunter was the Chief Executive Officer of Cree from 1994 to June 2001 and President from 1994 to 1999.
Mark P. Vitner, vice president & senior economist for Wachovia Corporation, is another featured speaker at the conference. Vitner will deliver a luncheon address.
About CED
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development, located in Research Triangle
Park, NC, is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate
the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research
Triangle region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation
resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual
conferences, seminars, workshops and monthly programs on entrepreneurial
management and finance. CED is the largest entrepreneurial support organization
in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing 1,100 entrepreneurial
companies, financiers and professional firms. www.cednc.org