3rd Annual WashU Family Business Symposium

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018

7:30–8:00 a.m. BREAKFAST AND NETWORKING, First Floor, Emerson Auditorium

8:00–9:00 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: MARCEL SMITS - Executive Vice President, CFO, Chief Complaince Officer Cargill -“The Cargill Way: Lessons in Sustaining a Family Business”

9:15–10:15 a.m. PANEL PRESENTATION: ”The Role of Independent Directors in a Family Business”

MODERATOR: Mike DeCola, President and CEO, HBM Holdings, Inc.  

PANELISTS: 

John Dubinsky, Independent Director (Drury Inns and Stifel) and CEO (Westmoreland Associates)
Jeff Miller, Independent Director (Watlow Electric) and Former President (MARKEM Corporation)
Carol O’Neill, Group President, Packaging,  (Barry-Wehmiller)

10:30–11:30 a.m. PANEL PRESENTATION: “Perspectives of Family Business Owners”    

MODERATOR: Tom Hillman, Managing Partner (Lewis & Clark Holdings) 

PANELISTS: 

Melissa Markwort, Talent and Employee Relations Leader  (Spartan Light Metal Products)
Tom Stern, Executive Chairman (Gershman Commercial Real Estate)
Pat Tracy, Retired Chairman (Dot Foods, Inc)