A Game Plan for Driving Corporate Growth in America

Peter R. Orszag

Keynote Speaker

Peter Orszag is the first member of President Obama's cabinet to return to private life, and there is no other speaker who can provide deeper insights into the game plan for driving corporate growth in America.

Orszag has been at the center of some of the most consequential and contentious Washington debates over the last three years. He was head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for two years before joining the Obama administration in January 2009. He was one of Obama's top lieutenants on two of the president's signature legislative efforts: the stimulus bill, passed early in the administration, and the healthcare overhaul passed earlier this year.

Orzag's keynote at the 2010 Midwest ACG Capital Connection will address the dynamics of the Administration’s, Congress’ and the world’s wrangling over economic issues and the very real challenges of job creation, economic growth, deficit reduction, and Washington and the world’s attitude toward business. 

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Chunka Mui

Author, Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years.  

Chunka Mui is the managing director of the Devil’s Advocate Group, an advisory group that helps clients stress test their innovation strategies.  He is the co-author of two important books on business strategy. He lectures widely, and hehas spent more than two decades as a consultant on strategy and innovation.

Chunka is the co-author, with Paul Carroll, of Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years. (Portfolio, 2008) The Globe and Mail named Billion-Dollars Lessons the best business book of 2008. Inc. recognized it as one of the best books of 2008. He is also the co-author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Harvard Business School Press, 1998). In 2005, The Wall Street Journal named that book one of the five best books on business and the Internet.  

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Click Play below to view the Chunka Mui Coaching Workshop. You may access video podcasts from the 2010 Capital Connection by visiting the ACG Video Library.

Afternoon Coaching Workshop

David Teten

CEO, Teten Advisors; Author, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online

David Teten recently completed the first-ever research project on best practices in private equity & VC deal origination.  His presentation at ACG will be his first public discussion of his final results. He and his team interviewed over 150 private equity & VC institutional investors and built a proprietary dataset of these investors' pipelines and origination practices.  His coauthor is Chris Farmer, formerly of Bessemer Venture Partners. 

David Teten runs Teten Advisors, an investment bank which specializes in advising private equity funds in originating and executing new investments. He was most recently Managing Director of Evalueserve, the world's largest knowledge process outsourcing company, a 2,500-person provider of outsourced financial research and analytics. David joined Evalueserve when the firm acquired his investment research firm, Circle of Experts, of which he was Founder and CEO. Previously, he was Founder and CEO of GoldNames, an investment bank serving the internet domain name asset class. He worked with Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense M&A team. He holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA, both with honors.

 

David is lead author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, the first book on how businesses can use online networks and other social media technologies to originate deals, raise capital, win new clients, recruit star employees, and market their firm. He is a frequent keynote speaker to finance and technology conferences.

 

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