Financial strategies for accelerating growth
Traditional money is still available for businesses with strong fundamentals
and experiencing growth. This panel will examine sources of growth capital,
including private equity, mezzanine financing, and senior debt.
Moderator: Albert Asatoorian - Partner, Stubbs, Alderton,
Markiles
Financial strategies for surviving a recession
In an economic downturn, asset-based lenders and distressed asset purchasers
often provide much needed capital to help companies weather the downturn.
This panel will look at which institutions are lending, the terms, and
how to position your company for the money.
Moderator: Allan Duboff - Partner, Loeb & Loeb
Funding sustainable growth in tough times.
Organic growth or growth through acquisition? Recessions can present
interesting buying opportunities for accelerated growth. This session
will look at growth through acquisition, including current valuations
and available funding sources, both private equity and debt financing.
Moderator: Jay Beaghan - Imperial Capital, Managing Director, Investment
Banking Group
Options and strategies for restructuring and recapitalizing the enterprise
Severe downturns require atypical funding sources. This panel will discuss
DIP (Debtor-in-possession) financing and distressed asset purchasers.
Panelists will include legal counsel, CPA firms, and investment banks
specializing in restructuring and recapitalizations.
How to focus your growth by identifying the best
customer and market segments
Some customers are more profitable to serve than others. How do you
determine which markets to go after? This panel will explore techniques
successful companies use to focus their growth.
Moderator: Marshall Toplansky - Core Strategies
How to get the most out of your core ideas and intellectual property.
In tough economic times, companies look even more to protect their core
assets. How do you protect your ideas and IP is the focus of this panel.
Moderator: James Shnell - Jackson DeMarco Tidus Peckenpaugh
Surviving and growing your business through the right innovation strategies
When the economy slows, innovation is ultimately the only means for
reigniting growth. Innovation is not just about ideas. It is about creating
an effective business strategy for growth. This panel examines those
types of strategies.
Moderator: Robert Kelley - Tri-Prism Innovations and ABL Organization
Management
Planning for serious growth
Your company is seeing positive signs for growth. How do you plan for
scale? What special aspects of growth do you need to concern yourself
with in a recession? This session examines how executives of rapid growth
companies have done it
Moderator: Julie Williams Lytle – Ernst & Young
How do you lead your management team to confront new financial realities?
Veteran CEO's, CFO's and CPA's answer questions about surviving recessions
past and present. This panel will discuss how you, as leaders, can get
your people to change, conserve cash and ride out tough times.
Moderator: Gerald Mars - Barrington Associates
Growing profits in tough times by innovating new business models
in your organization
Planning innovation is one thing. Executing it is entirely different.
Innovating a new business model requires re-organization and culture
change. This session examines how companies, their leaders and managers
actually execute this kind of innovation effectively.
Moderator: Robert Kelley - Tri-Prism Innovations and ABL Organization
Managing your way through a turnaround
Turnarounds and restructurings are among the most stressful activities
a business can undertake. This session focuses on how to manage your
internal and external stakeholders through the process and achieve your
ultimate goal of re-invention.
Moderator: T. Scott Avila – CRG Partners
People
Building a management team that can take you to a new level
of growth
Rapid growth creates stresses on an organization and requires an evolution
of its management team. This session focuses on how middle market companies
can handle this transition.
Moderator: Cal Laird - Capistrano Ventures New Flexible Workforce Business Models For Surviving Downturns
Addressing the need to reduce a company's cost structure to meet the
reality of a slow-growth market is painful all around. The focus of
this panel is on how to accomplish a right-sizing and preserve the core
people assets of a company.
Moderator: Lance Stuart - aConnect
Alternative Approaches For Building Value And Scale For Global
Organizational Growth
Most companies have been built around traditional notions of employer-employee
relationships. However, over the past decade, these relationships have
changed as companies have instituted layoffs, job sharing and off-shoring.
This panel will explore new alternatives to growing companies that leverage
off of the new ways people think about work and jobs.
Moderator: Paul David Walker - Turiya Consulting
Retaining and growing key people during a restructuring
Conventional wisdom tells us that the most talented people in an organization
"head for the door" as soon as there is a hint of restructuring.
Is this correct? This panel addresses the questions of how companies
preserve the talent they are going to need to re-invent themselves when
survival dictates they restructure.
Moderator: Frumi Barr, Ph.D.
Special Interest Topics
The State of The Capital Markets - 2009
Trying to access the capital markets? Going public means seeking new
sources of capital, including cross-over investors such as private equity
and venture capital. This panel will discuss the role of both PE and
VC investors. It will also look at foreign exchange programs that assist
with capital raises for the IPO.
Moderator: Michael Donohue - Richardson & Patel LLP
Universities- Your Most Cost-Efficient Partnerships for Growing your
Firm
Southern California universities are nationally recognized for their
excellent entrepreneurship and business programs. This panel will have
administrators from some leading local campuses who will review how
their programs and campus resources can assist conference firms with
their growth plans
