Event Details
Rob Slee, GSB grad, will show owners and managers of privately held businesses how to dramatically increase the value of their businesses. Rob will explain how others have passed the “Midas Challenge:” how others have more than doubled their revenues and raised profits at least ten-fold - with half as many employees in three years! … and, show you how to implement arbitrage and conceptual business model strategies that will increase your business valuation. Rob Slee is bringing the “new rules” of globalization, industrial outsourcing, and logistics to private capital companies. Rob Slee, an investment banker, has successfully assisted business owners to achieve the Midas Challenge. He is an exceptional speaker with critical information about the world in which you live and compete.
Program
6:00 PM-6:30 PM: Dinner / Networking
6:30 PM-8:00 PM: Program
Speaker Profiles
Rob Slee, GSB '81 (Speaker)
Author, Investment Banker, Entrepreneur
Rob Slee is Managing Director of Robertson & Foley (www.robertsonfoley.com), a middle market investment banking firm. His firm provides business valuations, arranges substantial amounts of private capital, and advises on the transfer of private business transfers.
Rob has authored more than one hundred articles on private finance topics in a variety of legal and business journals. Rob's book, Private Capital Markets, was published in mid-2004 by John Wiley & Sons and is now considered the seminal work in finance for private companies. Law schools and MBA programs around the world use this book in a new course of the same name. A second edition of this book with companion Workbook is currently underway. Rob’s second book, Midas Managers, was released in 2007 and describes how super-successful private business owners create substantial wealth in a global economy.
Rob is an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University, and co-teaches a course there on mergers and acquisitions. He speaks each year more than 50 times to trade associations, family and entrepreneurial programs, legal, CPA, and valuation conferences. His “In Search of the Midas Touch” seminar is considered the best seminar in the country regarding private business strategy and value-creation.
Rob is a board member of numerous professional associations and private companies. He owns equity positions in a variety of mid-sized private businesses. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, and received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. Rob can be reached at: rob@robertsonfoley.com
But Rob is best known as the father of Jen and Jessie Slee, his identical twin daughters.
Questions
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312-399-1901