Registration: 11th year “Inclusion & Multicultural Women & Men’s Technology, Entrepreneur, Career & Wellness Conference” October 28, 2016

Place: Marriott Hotel, Three Statehouse Plaza Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 (Salon A & B)

Date: Friday October 28, 2016

Time: 9am-2:30pm

Dress Attire: Business

Evening Reception Marriott Hotel (Salon A & B): 7pm-10:00pm Dress Attire: Cocktail

 

Sponsorship Levels:

Platinum: $20,000.00

3 tables VIP premier seating for 30 guests, 2 Booth, logo insert in all media outlets: Radio, TV,

Newspaper, two full page ad Magazine, Award, Program Book

 

 Gold: $15,000.00

2 tables VIP seating for 20 guests, 1 Booth, logo insert all media outlets: Radio, TV, Newspaper, one

page ad Magazine, Award & Program Book

 

Silver: $ 10,000.00

1 table VIP seating for 10 guests, 1 booth, logo insert all media outlets: Radio, TV, Newspaper, ½

page ad Magazine, Award, Program Book

 

Bronze: $7,000.00

1 table seats 10 guests, 1 Booth, Radio, TV, Newspaper, logo, Magazine, Introduction & Program Book

 

Table Sponsor: $5,000

(1 table seats 10-day Conf./evening reception) award, logos, Program book

 

Exhibit Booth: $1,000

Day & Evening Reception: $200

Day Event Registration: $100

For donations please contact us.

Executive Spotlight – Gilbert Andrew Garcia CFA

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Mr. Garcia received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. After graduating in 1985, he joined Salomon Brothers in New York City where he became a Vice-President specializing in mortgage-backed securities. In 1990, he joined former Mayor Henry Cisneros to build Cisneros Asset Management Company, ultimately becoming its President. In 2002, he joined Garcia Hamilton & Associates, and is the firm’s Managing Partner. Under his leadership, the firm has reached approximately $5.6 billion (July 2015) in fixed income assets under management.

 

Additionally, GH&A has received numerous recognitions including 2009 Core Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Emerging Manager Monthly, and 2014 Fixed Income Investment Grade Manager of the Year and 2015 Intermediate-Term Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor.

 
Mr. Garcia has served on many boards and currently serves as Chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County and as a member of the Board of Directors of Sanchez Energy [NYSE:SN]. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a non-profit providing summer internships on Wall Street for minority undergraduates. At this year’s Annual Awards Dinner, Mr. Garcia was awarded the SEO Alumni Leadership Award alongside other honorees, including former mayor of New York City, Michael R. Bloomberg, and Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein.

 
Previously, Mr. Garcia served as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Houston Downtown Management District, member of the Board of Directors of the Yale Club of Houston and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System. In addition, he is a Class X graduate of Leadership Houston. Mr. Garcia is married with four children and enjoys martial arts and coaching youth soccer.

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Executive Spotlight – Ruby Munoz Dang

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Ms. Dang received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston in 1994. Following graduation, she joined Garcia Hamilton & Associates, L.P. as a Portfolio Administrator and subsequently worked as the firm’s Assistant Equity Trader.

Ms. Dang was with the firm from 1994 to 1999. She relocated to Dallas, Texas in 1999 and worked at NFJ Investment Group, an investment firm specializing in small cap securities, as an Assistant Equity Trader. In this role she utilized electronic trading platforms, negotiated trade executions and facilitated cross trades. Ms. Dang rejoined the Firm upon her return to Houston in 2001 as an Assistant Portfolio Manager. In January of 2014, Ms. Dang was promoted to Director of Marketing and Client Services, and in 2014 she was made partner.

Executive Spotlight – Scott Hamilton

 

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Scott grew up in Little Rock, AR and is a 1988 graduate of Hendrix College. He also has an MBA from Rock Hurst College in Kansas City Missouri and a JD from the University of Missouri School Of Law.

Scott has over 23 years in the Energy business in various capacities including several roles with investor owned gas and electric utilities, starting with ARKLA Gas Company in 1988. Scott recently served as the Energy Advisor for the City of Detroit, Michigan which included managing the operations of its municipal electric generation and distribution system guiding the City through many challenging energy issues relating to de-regulation and the 2003 Northeast Blackout. He has also managed numerous energy related projects in the K-12 and Higher Education industry in several states.

Through the Arkansas Energy Office, Scott works to achieve the best opportunities for all energy related issues for the state. The department develops, promotes and manages energy related initiatives for the state, focused on improving energy efficiency and the availability of alternative and renewable energy options. In addition, the department is responsible for the state’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) energy programs which exceed $50 million. Scott maintains effective relationships and operating objectives furthering the state’s energy agenda with energy utilities, cooperatives, businesses and industry, the public service commission and its citizens.

Executive Spotlight – Dr. Juliette B. Bell

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Dr. Juliette B. Bell is the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 15th leader and the fourth woman to hold the institution’s top administrative post since its founding in 1886. She took office July 1, 2012.

Bell is widely recognized for encouraging students to pursue careers in
science, technology, engineering and mathematics – known collectively as the STEM disciplines.

She leads an institution where roughly half its graduates are like her – the first in their immediate families to pursue a college degree.

Bell graduated as valedictorian from Talladega (Ala.) College in her hometown, earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Her Ph.D. in chemistry is from Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), and she completed postdoctoral work in biochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After a stint as a researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bell accepted an appointment in 1992 as a chemistry professor and biomedical research director at Fayetteville State University. There, she established the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement program to prepare students for biomedical science careers and was founding dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences. Her work earned her a promotion to FSU’s provost / vice chancellor for academic affairs.

In August 2009, Bell became chief academic officer at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. At Central State, she restructured the academic colleges to create the College of Science and Engineering. Bell also developed University College, an academic unit to improve student retention, oversaw the implementation of online courses and enhanced
international education programming.

Among her honors: the 2001 National Role Model Citation from Minority Access, Inc. and the 2000 Millennium Award for Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology at Historically Black Colleges from the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

 

Executive Spotlight – Kimberly Friedman

 

Kimberly Friedman serves as the communications director for the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services, a state agency that provides employment and unemployment insurance services to job seekers and employers around the state.

Friedman has held this position for more than 11-and-a-half years. As communications director, she facilitates internal and external communication regarding agency services, programs and events.

Friedman serves as the agency’s point of contact regarding media inquiries about agency services. This includes preparing press releases and providing interviews to newspapers, radio stations and television stations. In addition to responding to requests for information regarding Arkansas’ unemployment rate, as well as layoffs and closures, she also assists with the development of marketing campaigns and promotes agency services and programs, including the Arkansas Career Readiness Certificate and TORQ occupational skills assessment system.

With so many job seekers still struggling to find employment in today’s tough job market, Friedman’s goal is to inform employers and job seekers about the many free services DWS offers to assist them with their employment needs. She also ensures that internal staff stay informed by preparing newsletters, taking photos at agency events and developing informational e-mails that are distributed to staff statewide.

Friedman grew up in DeWitt, a small town in southeast Arkansas. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree with a minor in History. Prior to working for the state, Friedman was a reporter for the Pine Bluff Commercial, did page layout and design for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and worked for St. Vincent Medical Center at Little Rock, where she wrote articles, took photos and designed graphics.

She lives in Sherwood, Arkansas, and is the proud mother of her 13-year-old daughter, Sarah.

Executive Spotlight – Helaine Williams

 

Helaine Raye Palmer Williams — the youngest in a blended family of eight children — was born Feb. 17, 1962, to Army Sgt. Saul Palmer and Betty June Carson Palmer at Fort Leonard Wood., Mo. She resided in Fort Leonard Wood and Rolla, Mo., before moving to Little Rock at the age of 6. She grew up in Woodson, Ark., the home of her late stepfather, Haywood Lewis, and the final home of her late mother, Betty Lewis.

It was very early in life that Helaine realized what her career path would be: She began writing in the third grade, creating popular stories about a fictitious club that starred herself and her favorite classmates. She continued this series into high school.

Helaine is a 1980 honor graduate of what is now Wilbur D. Mills University Studies High School. From 1980 to 1984 she attended the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Helaine resumed studies at UALR and graduated in August 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Journalism.

In May 1981, Helaine came to the then-Arkansas Democrat as a city desk news assistant, writing obituaries and performing various other clerical duties. Nearly two years later, she became a consumer affairs reporter and author of her first newspaper column, “Action and
Answers.” She wrote the column for four years before starting over again in the Democrat’s Style department as bridal editor.

In September 1989, Helaine took over authorship of a weekly column, “Let’s Talk,” begun by the Style editor shortly before her departure to a new job. Helaine was also promoted to the position of reporter for the revamped LifeStyle section.

In the years since, Helaine has written for a number of current and former special sections of what is now the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.  Her stories appear in the Style, ActiveStyle, Family, Weekend, HomeStyle, and High Profile (society) sections. “Let’s Talk,” her column of life and humor, is now in its 21st year. Helaine also writes a biweekly fashion column, “Dressing Room.” In 2009 she added “professional photographer” to her repertoire when she began helping
to cover charity events for the High Profile section.

In spite of a busy career, Helaine has found time for a number of community and civic activities throughout the years. She a member and past chairwoman of the board of directors for United Cerebral Palsy
and currently serves as vice president of Cerebral Palsy Group Living Inc. Past activities include the board of trustees for the Center for Women in Transition (member and chairwoman); the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Steering Committee; and the Junior League of Little Rock.

Helaine also serves as a publications editor at her church, Word of Outreach Christian Center; and is a member of the Transformed Ministries International fellowship. In addition, she is founder/CEO of Make It Plain Ministries, through which she provides spiritually-based writing and editing services.

Helaine is married to Renarda André Williams, a Louisiana native, freelance writer and founder/CEO of The Umoja Network (TUN). In her spare time she enjoys a variety of hobbies, including reading, travel,interior
decorating and antiquing.