2nd Annual M&A Summit

BUY & CONVERT: CREATING $100 MILLION MWBEs THROUGH ACQUISITIONS

M&A Summit

ATTENDEE PROFILE

  • CEO, CFO, & Corporate Development Leaders
  • • Successful MBEs with $10M+ Revenues
  • • Private Equity Dealmakers
  • • Supplier Diversity Executives

PROGRAM AGENDA

11:00AM – 12:00PMCONFERENCE REGISTRATION CHECK-IN

12:00pm – 1:30pmOpening Lunch & Program

  • Parker Weil, Managing Director, Head of Middle Market Investment Banking, Bank of America (Welcome Remarks)
  • Joset B. Wright, President, National Minority Supplier Development Council (Welcome Remarks)
  • Robert L. Johnson, Founder & Chairman, The RLJ Companies (Featured Speaker)

1:45PM – 2:00PM MWBE RESEARCH PRESENTATION

2:00PM – 3:00PM PANEL #1: CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

    This session will focus on how to better link corporate development and supplier diversity together to create large scale minority business opportunities.

  • Juan Graham, Mergers & Acquisitions, Johnson & Johnson
  • Richard D. Holder, President, Electrical Components Organization, Eaton Corporation
  • Quentin Roach, Chief Procurement Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

3:15PM – 4:15PM PANEL #2: Successful M&A TRANSACTIONS

    Leading entrepreneurs will discuss ways to buy, sell and take minority businesses public.

  • Robert M. Beavers, Chairman & CEO of Beavers Holdings
  • Leslie Hale, CFO, RLJ Development
  • Harold Mills, CEO, ZeroChaos
  • Gary Stiffler, President & CEO, The MATLET Group

4:30PM – 5:30PM PANEL #3: M&A: The New Frontier for SUPPLIER DIVERSITY

    Leading supplier diversity executives discuss ways to grow diversity spend through M&A, strategic partnerships, and transactions.

  • Dwain Carver, Associate Director, Supplier Diversity, P&G
  • Fernando Hernandez, Director of Supplier Diversity, Microsoft

5:30PM – 5:45PM M&A SUMMIT WRAP UP

5:45PM – 7:00PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION