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Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine The Annie E. Casey Foundation BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,” we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. If you’re like most salespeople, you may be: At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment. If you go: When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming. When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10 Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10 To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Title Accenture Ambassador Baltimore Development Corporation The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company University of Maryland Medical System Signature AT&T CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield BGE Baltimore Business Journal MedStar Health Merritt Properties Venable LLP Platinum The Shelter Foundation Gold Comcast The Daily Record DLA Piper Kaiser Permanente Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP SunTrust Bank Towson University University of Maryland, Baltimore VPC Table Wine BB&T The Howard Hughes Corporation Loyola University Maryland The Northeat Maglev – TNEM PwC University of Maryland University College Silver Baltimore City Community College The Bozzuto Group Community College of Baltimore County University of Maryland, Baltimore County Bronze Aon Corporation KELLY Legg Mason WSP If you go: When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 members This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Breakfast Sponsor: Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose. Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work. Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities. Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic. Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury. Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc. Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia If you go: When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.” Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive. Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance. Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day. Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization. Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results. She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group. Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University. If you go: When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe. Hear from: During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University. During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies. LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. If you go: When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161 Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome Golf Classic Package Plans “ACE” Package – $1,250 “EAGLE” Package – $850 “BIRDIE” Package – $500 “PAR” Package – $200 Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise! A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Event Sponsors: Ambassador The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Beverage Cart Douglass Memorial Community Church Golf Cart Advance Business Systems Luncheon Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll Hole-in-One Mahogany, Inc. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective. If you go: When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability. McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. If you go: When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $50 non-members Register to attend This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820. Chris McDonell Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training. The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges. The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important. If you go: When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202 Cost: $35 members $50 non-members A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund. For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Upcoming Events
May 8, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.
Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.
Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.
Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.
Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
May 13, 2019
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
June 11, 2019
7:30 am - 9:30 amJoin the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose.
School of Law.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
June 13, 2019
8:00 am - 9:45 am
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
June 26, 2019
7:30 am - 9:30 amDave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
July 10, 2019
7:30 am - 2:30 pmJoin the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
September 26, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
September 27, 2019
7:30 am - 9:30 amJoin the Greater Baltimore Committee for a Newsmaker Breakfast with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming president of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
November 20, 2019
7:30 am - 9:00 am
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
School of Law.Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
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| Newsmaker Breakfast with Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello – April 2019 7:30 am Newsmaker Breakfast with Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello – April 2019 @ Greater Baltimore Committee Apr 9 @ 7:30 am – 9:30 am  Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore City Councilman Eric Costello, Chair, Budget and Appropriations Committee, about Baltimore City’s financial condition, public safety budgeting and overtime expenditures and tax incentives to grow Baltimore’s economy. Costello, who joined the Baltimore City Council in October 2014, represents Baltimore’s 11th District, which includes Central West Baltimore, the Downtown Central Business District, Midtown, the South Baltimore Peninsula, State Center, the Inner Harbor and Camden Yards, as … Continue reading | ||||||
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee
for the second installment of a four-part speaker series featuring Keith Daw, Vice President and a trainer at McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training.
If you’re like most salespeople, you may be:
- Wondering how to get more warm referrals and introductions.
- Worrying about keeping up with the latest social media changes.
- Confused about where to best spend your time.
- Not understanding how social networking will actually lead to sales.
At “LinkedIn & The Art Of Social Selling” learn how to drive revenue by adding more people, information and opportunities to your sales pipeline, including the attitudes, behaviors and techniques of social selling that you can immediately implement in your next appointment.
If you go:
When: Wednesday, May 8, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost:
$35 members
$50 non-members
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 64th Annual Meeting, the state’s premier business event of the year. Additional event information is forthcoming.
When: Monday, May 13, 2019; 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost:
Members: $225 individual, $2,000 table of 10
Non-members: $275 individual, $2,750 table of 10
To be eligible for a refund the Greater Baltimore Committee requires a 72-hour cancellation notice.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Event Sponsors:
Title
Accenture
Ambassador
Baltimore Development Corporation
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
University of Maryland Medical System
Signature
AT&T
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
BGE
Baltimore Business Journal
MedStar Health
Merritt Properties
Venable LLP
Platinum
The Shelter Foundation
Gold
Comcast
The Daily Record
DLA Piper
Kaiser Permanente
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
SunTrust Bank
Towson University
University of Maryland, Baltimore
VPC
Table Wine
BB&T
The Howard Hughes Corporation
Loyola University Maryland
The Northeat Maglev – TNEM
PwC
University of Maryland University College
Silver
Baltimore City Community College
The Bozzuto Group
Community College of Baltimore County
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bronze
Aon Corporation
KELLY
Legg Mason
WSP
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh.
If you go:
When: Monday, June 3, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost: $50 members
This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Breakfast Sponsor:
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Michael Hankin, President & CEO of Brown Advisory, about building a firm guided by purpose.
Hear from Hakin about how this focus has led the firm to understanding its higher purpose: to make the future better for the firm’s clients, colleagues and the communities in which they live and work.
Hankin will share his thoughts about how a purpose-driven organization can inspire colleagues to find greater meaning in their work, deliver more impactful results for clients and empower connections across our collective communities.
Check out Michael Hankin’s TedX Talk from January 2018 here for more on the topic.
Hankin is a Partner of Brown Advisory Incorporated, an independent investment firm, where he serves as President and CEO. The firm was founded in 1993 as part of Alex. Brown & Sons.Hankin has led the firm since 1998 when it became independent and largely colleague-owned. Today, Brown Advisory has offices in Austin, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York, Wilmington, Del., Chapel Hill, N.C. and London, and has clients in every state and 36 other countries. Prior to joining Brown Advisory, Hankin worked extensively with clients as a tax and business law partner with Piper & Marbury.
Hankin serves in leadership roles for nonprofit organizations with a particular focus on the environment and land conservation, education and health care. As Chairman of the Baltimore Healthy Harbor Project and Executive Committee Member of the Baltimore Waterfront Partnership and Management Authority, the public/private business tax district that is responsible for the landscaping, clean-up and safety of Baltimore’s waterfront, he has challenged the City to achieve a goal of making Baltimore’s Inner Harbor swimmable and fishable by 2020. He is also a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University, Trustee and Vice-Chairman of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Applied Physics Lab. He also serves as President of Land Preservation Trust, is a Trustee of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation as well as a Director for the National Steeplechase Association and Associated Black Charities. Hankin also serves on the Board of Directors of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., as well as on the Boards of Directors of three private companies, Tate Engineering Systems, Inc., The Wills Group, Inc., and 1251 Capital Group, Inc.
Hankin earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor from The University of Virginia
School of Law.
If you go:
When: Tuesday, June 11, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Join the GBC’s Baltimore Women’s Advisory Board for a #bWomen event: The Business Case for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity featuring Aster Angagaw, Former CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America.
Angagaw will explain what women and organizations need to do to get more women to the C-suite. She will discuss her rise in Corporate America. Furthermore, she will share the career experiences of 20 female executives in five continents whom she has been interviewing for her forthcoming book “Unintentional Choices.”
Although these women faced very different cultural, economic and geopolitical challenges, Angagaw will explain what these highly successful women have in common. She will also address how CEOs, CHROs and other organizational leaders can create an environment in which women can thrive.
Angagaw is a seasoned global business executive with a demonstrated track record of success in senior leadership positions in operations, strategy, organizational transformation, business development and client retention. She is successful in delivering results, and developing and retaining leaders, as well as managing team and individual performance.
Most recently, she served as CEO, Sodexo Healthcare North America. She was a member of the North America Regional Leadership Committee as well as the Healthcare Global Executive Committee for Sodexo, the 19th largest employer in the world and the leader in delivering integrated facilities management, foodservice operations and recognition programs in 80 countries. With $9.3 billion in annual revenues in the U.S. and Canada, Sodexo’s 133,000 employees in North America provide more than 100 unique services that improve performance at 9,000 client sites and deliver Quality of Life services for 15 million consumers every day.
Prior to becoming a CEO, Angagaw was Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sales and Business Development for Sodexo, responsible for directing business development for the global Healthcare segment operating in 35 countries. Previously, she served as Sodexo’s Group Vice President, Global Transformation. In this role, Angagaw led the transformational design as well as coordination of the change management effort globally as the company underwent a transformation from an 80-country to a truly global operational organization.
Angagaw’s experience spans operations, strategy and business development. She served as Senior Vice President of Market Development for Sodexo’s Corporate and Leisure market segments for the U.S. In this role, she was charged with leading and implementing the overall business development strategy, as well as creating and implementing new offers. As Vice President of Operations, she received a leadership award for achieving the highest level of client and customer satisfaction and financial results.
She is an active member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and is part of its Community Impact Initiative committee and Membership committee. She is also served as a member of Sodexo’s African American Leadership Forum as well as the company’s Women’s Network Group.
Angagaw is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. She earned an Executive MBA from Temple University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management from Eastern University.
If you go:
When: Thursday, June 13, 2019; 8-8:30 a.m. Registration and networking; 8:30-9:45 a.m. Program
Where: Ballard Spahr, 300 East Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
For event information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation about cybersecurity in the workplace and what you need to know to help keep your company’s data safe.
Hear from:
Dave Hartman, President and Co-Founder of Hartman Executive Advisors, founded Hartman with his wife Marie to transform executives’ long held, traditional views of IT and demonstrate how a technology-aligned business strategy is critical for long-term success. This pioneering approach still catches some by surprise; he continues to hear from executives that conversations with Hartman are often the first business discussions they’ve had that include technology.
During his eight years as a Naval Flight Officer, and in his early career in IT supporting the healthcare, commercial, retail, government and nonprofit industries, Hartman developed strong leadership, analysis and execution skills. He’s also a dedicated collaborator and lifelong relationship builder, expertise he strengthened as an IT management consultant with Andersen Consulting, now Accenture. Hartman earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies from College of the Holy Cross and a MBA from Embry Riddle University.
Ryan LaSalle, Managing Director – North America Lead, Accenture Security, leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect Accenture’s clients. He is also accountable for delivering on Accenture’s commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.
During more than 20 years with Accenture, LaSalle has led client engagements across commercial, non-profit and the public sector by integrating emerging technologies into advanced solutions to drive agility and meet business needs. His recent engagements with Media, Energy and Banking clients help leverage new models and practices across the unique business challenges of each industry. He consults with customers on focused solutions that bring together analytics, knowledge discovery, and cyber-security to improve threat assessment and response methodologies.
LaSalle is a Ponemon Institute Fellow, active with the Greater Washington Board of Trade and sits on security innovation advisory councils for clients across multiple industries. He holds patents in human resource management, knowledge discovery and establishing trust between entities online. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences and has authored numerous articles on cyber security. LaSalle earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
Robert Wallace, President, CEO and Founder of BITHGROUP Technologies, Inc., Bithenergy, Inc., and EntreTeach Learning Systems, LLC, is an internationally-known entrepreneur, author, speaker and consultant. With more than 30 years of business experience spanning engineering, energy and IT, Wallace blends decades of research with practical real-world advice to educate and inspire entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. His rags-to-riches story began in the Baltimore projects amidst poverty and racial segregation, before overcoming obstacles to establish three companies: BITHGROUP Technologies, Bithenergy, and through RobertWallace.com, EntreTeach.
If you go:
When: Wednesday, June 26, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost: $35 members, $50 non-members
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for its 2019 Golf Classic on July 10, 2019 at Greystone Golf Course. Amenities include continental breakfast; greens fees, cart rental and range balls; beverages and snacks on course; and awards luncheon.
When: Wednesday, July 10, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration and breakfast, 8 a.m. shotgun start
Where: Greystone Golf Course, 2115 White Hall Road, White Hall, MD 21161
Cost: $200 individual golfer; $750 foursome
Golf Classic Package Plans
“ACE” Package – $1,250
- Two complimentary foursomes.
- Company name displayed at registration.
- Company name displayed at two holes.
- Company name displayed on scoreboard, scorecards, carts and GBC website.
- Prominent mention during awards presentation.
- Company name displayed prominently in program.
“EAGLE” Package – $850
- One complimentary foursome.
- Company name displayed at registration.
- Company name displayed at one hole and at driving range.
- Company name listed in program and on GBC website.
“BIRDIE” Package – $500
- Two complimentary golfers.
- Company name displayed at one hole.
- Company name listed in program and on GBC website.
“PAR” Package – $200
Not a golfer but interested in getting some extra exposure for the company? The Par Package is great for people who attend the event and are not golfing or do not attend but want to advertise!
- Company name displayed at one hole.
- Company name listed in program and on GBC website.
- Free admission for two to awards luncheon after tournament.
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Event Sponsors:
Ambassador
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Beverage Cart
Douglass Memorial Community Church
Golf Cart
Advance Business Systems
Luncheon
Kelly & Associates Insurance Group/Kelly Payroll
Hole-in-One
Mahogany, Inc.
Chris McDonell
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the third installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training.
The purpose of a presentation is to obtain a decision. The prospect’s commitment to making that decision must be obtained before you start your presentation. During the session “Closing the Sale: How To Inspect What You Expect,”we will discuss how to obtain that commitment, deliver a presentation consistent with the prospect’s priorities and obtain the buying decision (yes or no). You will better understand how to close the sale and be aware of the potential roadblocks to achieving that objective.
If you go:
When: Thursday, September 26, 2019; 5:30 p.m. registration, 6-7 p.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost:
$35 members
$50 non-members
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for a conversation with Debra L. McCurdy, the incoming President of Baltimore City Community College. She will assume the Presidency of BCCC in the spring 2019 semester.
For the past 11 years, McCurdy has served as President of Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio where she oversaw the transformation of the institution as it expanded its programs to include associate of arts and associate of science degrees. The college also expanded its reach into the region through distance and online programs and developed a manufacturing consortium to provide skill enhancement and training to serve 26 companies. Bringing a strategic vision for program development and growth, she was instrumental in securing increased grant funding and maintaining fiscal stability.
McCurdy previously served for nine years as Provost and Chief Operating Officer for the Dunwoody Campus at Georgia Perimeter College and for seven years as Assistant and Associate Provost at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier positions included serving as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Paul Quinn College in Texas and as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Brandeis University in Massachusetts.
McCurdy earned bachelor of science, master of education and doctoral degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
If you go:
When: Friday, September 27, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost: $50 non-members
Register to attend
This event is limited to GBC member companies and employees of GBC member companies. A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.
Chris McDonell
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for the final installment of a four-part speaker series with Chris McDonell, President and CEO of McDonell Consulting Group/Sandler Training.
The odds are high that anyone who is involved in business development will interact with others who are different from them. These differences can cause relationships to stagnate, disappear or grow depending on how you proactively address the challenges.
The program will explore a self-discovery process to assess whether or not you are aligning your current business development/networking strategy to what the environment calls for and why it’s important.
If you go:
When: Wednesday, November 20, 2019; 7:30 a.m. registration, 8-9 a.m. program
Where: Greater Baltimore Committee, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 1700, Baltimore, MD 21202
Cost:
$35 members
$50 non-members
A 72-hour cancellation notice is required for a refund.
For event and sponsorship information, contact Lisa Byrd, GBC’s Director of Events and Business Development, at 410-727-2820.