Tuesday, Sep 30 2014 8:30AM to 5:30PM
Plaza Bridge Group and Speakers
Technekes (Flight Deck Conf Room)
1927 S Tryon St, Suite 310
Charlotte, NC 28203
“PlazaBridge DealDesk™ Day with BIG” (3rd repeat of this event- well received)
(Priority Given to BIG Members)
Date: Tuesday, Sept 30, 2014
Location: Technekes (BIG's office) in SouthEnd
1927 S Tryon St, Suite 310
Charlotte, NC 28203
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Parking: Free Parking: You will enter the building from the 2nd floor adjacent to the open air parking lot in the back of the building.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Plazabridge Group Dealdesk™
Entrepreneur to Entrepreneur Feedback and Support
BIG and the Plazabridge Group Invite you to reserve a 1 hour DealDesk Session
DealDesk is best suited for:
- Company Founders Interested in Position Company for Acquisition
- For Entrepreneurial Leaders Looking to scale revenue
- For founders seeking funding or funding strategies
- Executives interested in competitive strategies during economic downturns
- Companies looking to leverage partnerships
- Or Companies with a large customer potential deal and would like feedback from experts
What to expect:
- One hour of very open dialogue around your business
- Honest feedback and dialogue that is useful and supportive on issues of interest to you
- DealDesk Scorecard Survey Score emailed post session (subjective survey results both qualitative recommendations and quantitative score)
- Instant feedback on Ideas, Contract Negotiations, Partnerships, Customer Proposal or Negotiations
Deal Desk Speakers:
Teresa Spangler, General Partner & Founder of Plazabridge Group
Teresa Spangler is uniquely differentiated by her creative thought leadership. She has designed business models, routes to markets, company strategies as well as bridged the gap between products and services and customer purchasing behavior for better than 30 years. Teresa’s experience includes growing companies as the entrepreneur, creating and launching new divisions, entering global markets and new market segments and executing strategies to take companies to their next level of growth. She excels in brand strategies, creating revenue driving sales and marketing plans, and taking companies through the process of ideation, formation, and revenue acceleration. Teresa's background includes executive positions at Red Hat, pre and post IPO, co-founded several venture backed companies and has held several interim CEO positions.
Richard Spangler, General Partner & Founder, Plazabridge Group
Richard Spangler is a leading business development consultant and recognized change accelerator who creates actionable results. An original founder of PlazaBridge Group, he has an intense desire to help growth companies migrate through the maze of issues and to help the executive/entrepreneur accelerate into success while minimizing errors. His expertise includes product strategy and management, entrepreneurship, mergers & acquisitions.
Dr. Brett Guenther
Dr. Brett Guenther is an electrical engineer (EE) with 20+ years of engineering experience. The majority of his career has focused on the technical side of new product development. He has lead engineering teams in multiple commercial startups having millions in investment and revenue. Building on his wide breadth of experience, he now works in the legal industry focused on intellectual property matters.
Andre Gien, Global Financial Bridge
Andre Gien has over 15 years’ experience in financial performance consulting assisting publically held clients and privately held businesses within the USA, Australia and South Africa. Focusing on driving best of breed financial results. Andre exposes the performance gap using the financial statements as the lagging indicator and gross potential as the leading indicator. Andre is the architect of the financial performance discipline (FPD). This discipline has been deployed with some 150 companies globally.
Tentative Investor (TBD)
Reserve Your 1 Hour Intensive Feedback Session with Terry Cox at terry@bigcouncil.com
One Hour Time Slots Available from 9 am to 4:30 pm
Agenda:
8:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 5:30 pm One Hour Deal Desk Session per Company
Program Cost: Free to BIG Members
$75 for Guests
Registration: RSVP to terry@bigcouncil.com or register below
Dress Attire: Business casual