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RCGAction
The Monthly Newsletter
and Planning Calendar of the St. Louis RCGA
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Biotechnology
Forum June 6, 2002, Sponsored by Civic Entrepreneurs
We are living in the life sciences century. Four of the country’s
top biotechnology and business strategists will share their insights
at an upcoming Biotechnology Forum “Opportunities for St. Louis,
Your Company and YOU,” 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., June 6, in the Khorassan
Ballroom at the Chase Park Plaza, sponsored by the Civic Entrepreneurs
Organization.
CEO’s panel of experts for the 2002 Biotechnology Forum includes:
- Arnold
W. Donald, chairman & CEO of Merisant, the former NutraSweet
division of Monsanto and managing director of venture
capital fund Auxyn Biosciences, Inc.
- Richard
Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine and founder
of Garage.com, the world’s leading Web-based source of
seed capital for technology start-up companies.
- Richard
W. Oliver, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Management at Vanderbilt
University and author of The Coming Biotech Age: The
Business of Bio-Materials and The Shape of Things to Come:
7 Imperatives for Winning in a New World of Business.
- Walter
H. Plosila, Ph.D., Vice President of Public Technology
Management, for Battelle Memorial Institute. Dr. Plosila
leads Battelle’s Technology Practice Partnership.
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“CEO’s Economic
Forecasts and Technology Forums have attracted more than 1,000 St.
Louis region business leaders every year, because we bring together
national experts in a format that is both informative and entertaining,”
says William C. Finnie, managing director of the Business Consulting
Group at Grace Advisors, Inc., and chairman of the event. “Panelists
react to one another’s ideas in an off-the-cuff interaction producing
an energy the audience responds to.”
Sponsors of the event are: Ameren; Clean Earth Technologies; Commerce
Bank; Creative Producers Group; Donald Danforth Plant Science Center;
Gallop, Johnson & Newman; Grace Advisors Inc.; KPMG LLP; McCarthy
Building Company Inc; Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; RCGA;
St. Louis Business Journal; St. Louis County Economic Council;
Technology Gateway Alliance; and Washington University Olin School
of Business.
Tickets are $75, with tables of 10 available for $750. Sponsorship
opportunities are still available. To make reservations, call the
Civic Entrepreneurs office at 314/615-8283 or visit the organization’s
website, www.ceo-stlouis.org.
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