Positioning Your Company To Go On the Offensive After the Downturn
Presented By: BDO / Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Building a successful company means understanding how to navigate the upswings and downturns in the economy, as well as loosening and tightening of credit, access to capital, and learning how to be creative. What can you do today during a soft economy to ensure your company is ready to kick it into high gear once we reach the other side? Hear from veteran business owners and M&A advisors as they explore ways to prepare your company for its next phase of growth.
Moderator:
Managing Director, Business Restructuring Services
BDO Consulting Group, LLC
Robert is a Managing Director in BDO's Business Restructuring & Turnaround Services practice. His focus is on middle-market companies, both distressed and healthy, seeking financial financial and operational improvement through interim financial leadership and re-organization. Robert is a seasoned restructuring professional, with significant experience in the manufacturing, distributing, hotels/ hospitality and entertainment industries.
Panelists:
Partner, Chair Mergers and Acquisitions Group
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
Dominic focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, and public and private equity and debt securities offerings. He represents entrepreneurs, emerging-growth, and seasoned companies (public and private), investors, venture capital, and private equity funds, and real estate sponsors in a wide variety of corporate finance transactions. Dominic is chair of Taft’s Mergers and Acquisitions group.
Partner
Edgewater Capital
Bob Girton is a partner at Edgewater Capital, a private equity firm focused on investing in smaller performance materials businesses. In addition to traditional PE roles in sourcing, executing, and managing investments, Bob chairs Edgewater’s DEI initiative and is the partner in charge of the firm’s business development efforts. He lives in Shaker Heights, is a life long learner, and is very proud of his two kids, Ava and Theodore.
CEO & President
Process Technology
Passionate about travel and technology, Jody Richards is the CEO and President of Process Technology in Cleveland, Ohio. Using her passions to guide her, Jody transformed Process Technology from a regional player serving automotive/aerospace into the world’s leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing products critical to the production of microprocessors and memory chips.
Before joining Process Technology, Jody’s background was in Operations and IT, including working as a consultant to the US Navy in Japan. Jody has a BA in French and Spanish, an MA in French and Japanese, and speaks Japanese, French, and Spanish fluently. Jody also holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
In 2020, Jody became an EY Entrepreneur of the Year East Central Award Winner.
Chairman
Proformex
Lou has extensive experience in logistics, software, distribution, service, and manufacturing industries, private equity, venture capital, public and private companies as a CEO, CFO and board member. A key focus for Lou has been in sales and acquisitions of businesses. This includes over 30 sales and over 100 acquisitions.