Sponsored by WSSU’s University College and Lifelong Learning’s Office of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the summit will focus on strategies for building a successful business. The speakers are successful entrepreneurs, whether as owners of small businesses, leaders of not-for-profit organizations, or media personalities whose entrepreneurship happens daily in the way they market their unique skills to find new opportunities.
Tracey McCain, WFMY 2 Good Morning Show field anchor, will serve as master of ceremonies. Speakers include: Skip Brown, First Community Bank Triad region president and founder of the former TriStone Community Bank; Algenon Cash, managing director at Wharton Gladden, a boutique real estate investment banking firm headquartered in Greensboro; Busta Brown, former WQMG radio personality; Joy Cook, director of strategic communications, Welfare Reform Liaison Project in Greensboro; John Davenport, civil engineer consultant and former NCDOT engineer; Andrew Dreyfuss, fund executive at Piedmont Angel Network (PAN), an early stage committed capital fund based in the Triad; Derwin Montgomery, Winston-Salem city councilman; Nadia Moffett, Miss North Carolina USA 2010 and an active leader in the state; and Michael Suggs, executive director of Goler Community Development Corporation and former marketing and government relations executive with RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. Read More.
