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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WELCOME RECEPTION & WHISKEY/CHOCOLATE TASTING
Monday April 28, 4:30 - 6:30
The best networking event of the spring. Your opportunity to visit with our exhibiting funds, network with other attendees, enjoy a unique cheese tasting event & an open bar.
We are excited to pair favorite whiskeys with Hampton Chocolates. And 3 lucky winners will take home a bottle of their favorite!

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JOE BRUSUELAS - CHIEF ECONOMIST, RSM
8:30 AM Tuesday April 29


Summary of experience 
Joe is an award-winning economist with more than 20 years of experience analyzing U.S. monetary policy, labor markets, fiscal policy, international finance, economic indicators and the condition of the U.S. consumer. A member of The Wall Street Journal’s forecasting panel, Joe regularly briefs members of Congress and other senior officials on the effects of federal policy and the factors by which executives make business decisions. 
He frequently offers his insights on the U.S., Canadian and global economies in the financial media, including CNBC, Cheddar News, NPR’s Marketplace, Yahoo! Finance, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Axios and Politico. In 2020, he was named one of the 100 most influential economists by Richtopia. 
Before joining RSM in 2014, Joe spent four years as a senior economist at Bloomberg LP and the Bloomberg Briefs newsletter group, where he co-founded the award-winning Bloomberg Economics Brief. Earlier in his career, he was a director at Moody's Analytics, covering the U.S. and global economies for the Dismal Scientist website. He also served as chief economist at Merk Investments LLC and chief U.S. economist at IDEAglobal.
Joe is co-designer of the RSM Middle Market Business Index and the firm’s cutting-edge Industry Eminence Program. As co-leader of that program, Joe works closely with participants to help guide their industry-specific research and analysis on macroeconomic trends shaping the industries RSM serves.  
Joe lives in Austin, Texas, where he enjoys jazz music and cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Education
  • Ph.D. (ABD), economics, University of Southern California
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KEYNOTE 2  -
KARA WARD - BAKER DONELSON
Tuesday April 29, 10:30 - 11:15 AM

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HOW TO INTERPRET THE CURRENT POLITICAL AND POLICY ENVIRONMENT
What Investors, Shareholders, and C-suites Need to Know  to Master the Moment

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 Kara Ward will join us to share information from D.C. to help you make sense of the current public policy environment and offer insights that will help you strategize for the future. Kara Ward is financial services regulatory lawyer, registered federal lobbyist, and former U.S. Department of the Treasury attorney with deep knowledge of what is happening in D.C., why it is happening, who is making it happen, and what is next. Her remarks will help you separate the signal from the noise in the financial sector, help your clients find their footing in these economic conditions and emerge with sense that the moment can be mastered.
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contact us for more information or questions

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919-622-7221

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  • AGENDA
  • SPONSORS
  • HOTEL
  • CURLING OUTING
  • presentations