May 10th Breakfast Panel: Consumer Products Industry Update

Event Details

When:

May 10, 2016 5:30 AM - 7 AM PDT

Add to Calendar

Overview

Body

Note: Registration has now closed so that we can prepare for today's event. There are just a few seats still available. If you are interested in attending, please send us a text request and be sure to come to the offices of Farella Braun + Martel, 235 Montgomery Street, 17th Flr. around 7:15am to check in. Please bring a business card and a form of payment. (ACG Members: 45/Non-Members: 70). Thank you. Rich Brown, SF Chapter Executive | Email: acgsanfrancisco@acg.org
*************************************************
MONTHLY BREAKFAST EVENT SERIES
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2016 7:30am - 9:00am
Location: Farella Braun + Martel LLP
Downtown San Francisco
RSVP by 12:00 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016
**************************************

SAVE THE DATE OR REGISTER TODAY!
CONSUMER PRODUCTS INDUSTRY UPDATE

Guest Moderator
Brent Meyers, Newport Board Group, LLC
Partner – Northern California

Expert Panelists
Mark Sloneker, Entomol
Founder & CEO

Julie Arvan, Nesting Days
Chief Mother Officer

Eric Hutchinson, Formerly with Madison Reed, Inc.
Serial Entrepreneur

The Bay Area’s Innovation Economy extends well beyond the tech sector. Join us at our May 10 breakfast program to hear from a panel of consumer products industry innovators.

How did they come up with their ground breaking ideas? What challenges do they face in building their brands, distributing their products and driving consumer demand? What plans, if any, do they have to market their new companies to strategic buyers in the industry and what goals do they intend to achieve first?

EVENT/LOCATION DETAILS:
Tuesday, May 10th 7:30am - 9:00am
Farella Braun + Martell LLP
235 Montgomery Street, Suite 1700
Downtown San Francisco

REGISTRATION FEES:
ACG Members & Member Guests: 40
Non-Members: 65
RSVP by 12:00pm: Monday, May 9, 2016
Additional 10 collected at the door for onsite registration

For further information, please contact:
ACG San Francisco, Inc. - Rich Brown, Chapter Executive
Email: acgsanfrancisco@acg.org |
Tel. 415. 213-5729

Special Thanks to our Annual Series Sponsors:
Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP; RSM US LLP; Robert Half/Protiviti; BNY Mellon Wealth Management; Hardesty, LLC; Farella Braun + Martel, LLP; Moss Adams, LLP; Wells Fargo Capital Finance; HR Matters, Inc.; Comerica Bank; Bank of America/U.S. Trust; Burr Pilger Mayer LLP; RoseRyan; Umpqua Bank

Full Moderator & Expert Panel Bios:

Brent Meyers, Newport Board Group, LLC
With over a 25 year career in senior-leadership roles as a Partner, CEO, and Board Member, Brent delivers high-value growth, scalability and M&A solutions to startup, middle market and Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, consumer products, technology, retail, hospitality, and service industries.

In addition to rapidly identifying and deploying strategic solutions for clients, Brent also assists with sell-side and buy-side strategic, management and operational due diligence. He has developed thought leadership and service offerings to maximize enterprise value via growth strategy, management, corporate alignment, and M&A planning and integration. He leads Newport Board Group’s Value Accelerator solutions, designed to maximize company valuations, enable capital readiness, and formulate exit strategies for middle market companies and private equity firms.

Earlier in his career Brent was U.S. Managing Partner of Strategic Consulting at Grant Thornton LLP and launched and grew Arthur Andersen LLP’s first strategic consulting practice worldwide as its Pacific Region Director of Strategy & Revenue Enhancement. Click here to learn more.

Mark Sloneker, Entomol
Mark was raised working on a 180 year old family farm in Illinois. He studied bioscience and earned a degree in marketing. He has 30 years’ experience developing brands, launching companies and marketing products worldwide through his own marketing consultancy. He sold his first firm to a global IT company, developing their US and European offices’ marketing divisions. With a passion for travel and other cultures, Mark has worked with companies in other countries developing supply chains, business systems, quality control standards, branding, marketing and creating fair trade import channels into the US, Europe and Asia. Click here for more information.

Julie Arvan, Nesting Days
Using her experience as a mother, educator, businesswomen, and postpartum doula, Julie is dedicated to making the transition from womb to world easier, happier and healthier.

In 2014 Julie received her first US patent on the Nesting Days carrier. Soon after, her dream of changing how we welcome babies into the world was coming true as she travelled to Rwanda as the guest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to attend the Kangaroo Mother Care Product Forum.

"The local manufacturing of the product and managing a startup has filled my days (and some nights). I liken it to having a ‘baby’ at 69, and I’m proud to say that I’m living proof that – it’s never too late to do what you love and to make a difference." Click here to learn more.

Eric Hutchinson, Serial Entrepreneur & Formerly Madison Reed, Inc.
Eric is a serial entrepreneur, fitness fanatic, nomad, and inquisitive mind. Nothing motivates Eric more than a new adventure, a new business idea or an impossible challenge. Eric find happiness challenging his beliefs, executing new ideas and helping others achieve their goals. When Eric is not chasing his own ideas, he advises early stage companies.

In need of a hiatus from finance and insurance, Eric teamed up with Amy Errett in 2013 to launch Madison Reed. Madison Reed is disrupting traditional CPG companies like Unilever and P&G by taking women’s personal care direct to consumer. In less than three years Madison Reed has grown to be the number one seller of women’s hair color online and attracted the attention of top VC’s including True Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. Eric stepped out of an operating role in Sept 2015 to pursue new interest.

Amidst the turmoil of the 2009 housing crisis, Eric launched Home Value Protection (HVP), an innovative insurance product that protected the value of people homes against declines in the real estate market. Backed by Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, HVP was the first new personal line insurance product to come to market in over 20 years. The business was sold to Amtrust Insurance in 2012.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Eric had a career in finance working at Providian Financial and Paypal. 2004 – 2009. Click here to learn more.

Hosted by: ACG

Chapter

San Francisco