Extraordinary Entrepreneurs: What Makes them Different?
Date and Time
Location
Dinner meeting and networking at Hilton Garden Inn, 450 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, Mass.
Cost: $50 - $65 – See website for details: www.spconsultants.org
Special offer for first-time attendees: $50
What makes entrepreneurs different? This is the question we will try to answer at our October dinner meeting. We have invited four highly successful entrepreneurs for a panel discussion about their mindsets and perspectives. We will try to understand the source of the business acumen that they clearly all have – acumen that has allowed them to soar.
• Tom Biggins is founder and president of Atlantis Technology, which provides Web and mobile software development and data services. His company motto is “We work with folks who have interesting and meaningful ideas to create products and services that put a dent in the universe.” And they do just that.
• Enrico Palmerino, while still an undergraduate, started a business that his professors found so compelling that they encouraged their other students to go to work for him. His company went international within a few years. He is presently managing director of SmartBooks, an outsourced bookkeeping and accounting company, where his team has increased nearly six-fold over the past three years.
• Jennifer Bylo’s path to entrepreneurship led through the emergency room: A former nurse, today she is president and owner of Bay State Re-Bath of Massachusetts, a specialty remodeling company. When she took over the business during the great recession, her first move to save her company and survive was to raise prices. Both she and the business survived. Since then she has made Bay State one of the more successful Re-Bath franchises.
• Eric Coolbaugh is considered an industry expert in commercial coach and transportation finance, lease, and valuation and has served on many panels and board discussions. Not wanting to retire at 45, he and two former partners have recently launched another venture, Access Commercial Capital, that will represent the best in class in financing geared toward the ground transportation industry.