September 2010

Overview

Creative ways to Finance Your 21^st Century Business workshop includes a comprehensive workbook to identify and evaluate financing alternatives and develop a creative strategy specifically tailored to your company.   Experienced advisors will help you plan and prepare to leverage strengths and assets to maximize these opportunities.   You will leave the workshop with your custom alternative financing plan to drive your business growth.

Objective

To identify and understand the vast array of non-traditional (non-bank) financing sources and how to use them to grow your business.

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Paul Mitchell – Mitchell Capital Corp.

Mitchell Capital Corp. was founded in 1996 by Paul A. Mitchell, who has been financing small and middle-market businesses in the Delaware Valley for 35 years.  Mr. Mitchell was the founding President of Core States Enterprise Fund, the venture capital subsidiary of Core States Bank (now part of Wells Fargo Bank). In that capacity he provided the pre IPO financing for Urban Outfitters. He was  formerly President of Southeastern Pennsylvania Development Fund, a regional small business lender.  He has been active in numerous Venture Capital and Entrepreneurs’ Associations (including the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group, ACG and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce), is a frequent speaker/panelist on mezzanine finance, and is the author of articles on bank owned SBICs and Venture Capital. Recently, he has been a featured guest on Money Matters TVand is the Host for a DVD available on Amazon.com, “Entrepreneurial Financing: Tips from investors.”. He is Chair of the  Financial Executives Subgroup of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group.  His experience includes serving as Regional Associate for Allied Capital of Washington, DC and as Vice President of various areas of commercial banking including Regional Lending and Commercial Real Estate Finance.  Mr. Mitchell received his B.A. from Colgate University.

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Overview

Workshop includes a comprehensive workbook to develop a plan for personal and professional growth based on individual strengths to identify new opportunities in new domains and how to use mentors as resources.  Experienced advisors will help you plan and prepare to leverage strengths and assets to maximize these relationships for tangible results.   You will leave the workshop with your personal and professional development plan, including learning path, new targeted opportunities, and defined mentors to drive your impact.

Objective

• To understand your strengths, your environment, and how you will plan to maximize both for career growth and your organization’s success.
• To plan to engage others in helping you balance independent and interdependent activities for best organizational and business results.

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Jane Hartman Frankel, Principal, The Art of Performance LLC

Jane Hartman Frankel combines internal and external business focuses to help organizations and their leaders leverage 21^st century challenges into performance and growth cultures.  She has worked in the technology arena for 20 years, developing organizations for outstanding performance using a collaborative approach to partnering and organizational alignment. Her unique approach to building organizations for growth places primary importance on internal and external customer relationships and capabilities as they directly relate to scorecarding for business results. She has developed and managed several alliances between large and small companies resulting in new business models and significant revenue generation.  She founded The Art of Performance LLC in 2007 to help organizations build the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborative capability that fosters innovation and growth.  As an advocate of lifelong learning, she holds Master’s degrees in Education (Temple University) and in Organizational Dynamics (University of PA) and is an Adjunct Professor of Business Communications, Entrepreneurship, and International Organizational Behavior at area universities.

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