2nd Annual M&A Summit
BUY & CONVERT: CREATING $100 MILLION MWBEs THROUGH ACQUISITIONS
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
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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