PREMIER SPONSORS
The Michi­gan Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion
The Michi­gan Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion is the state’s sales and mar­ket­ing arm and lead agency for busi­ness, tal­ent and jobs, tourism and eco­nomic growth. We offer a num­ber of busi­ness assis­tance ser­vices and cap­i­tal pro­grams for busi­ness attrac­tion and accel­er­a­tion, eco­nomic gar­den­ing, entre­pre­neur­ship, strate­gic part­ner­ships, tal­ent enhance­ment and urban devel­op­ment.
Dis­cover Pure Michi­gan at www.MichiganAdvantage.org and www.Michigan.org.
Busi­ness Lead­ers for Michi­gan
Busi­ness Lead­ers for Michi­gan is an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to mak­ing Michi­gan a “Top Ten” state for job and eco­nomic growth. Serv­ing as the state’s busi­ness round­table, Busi­ness Lead­ers for Michi­gan is com­posed of the chair­per­sons, chief exec­u­tives or most senior exec­u­tives of the state’s largest job providers and uni­ver­si­ties, that pro­vide over 300,000 jobs in Michi­gan, gen­er­ate over $1 Tril­lion in annual rev­enue, and serve over 130,000 students.
Uni­ver­sity Research Cor­ri­dor
The Uni­ver­sity Research Cor­ri­dor is an alliance of Michigan’s three lead­ing research insti­tu­tions: Michi­gan State Uni­ver­sity, the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan and Wayne State Uni­ver­sity. Each of us fea­tures com­plete grad­u­ate and under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion, as well as pro­fes­sional degrees in med­i­cine, busi­ness and the law. Our research lab­o­ra­to­ries pro­duce hun­dreds of patents each year, and our hos­pi­tals develop inno­v­a­tive med­ical treat­ments that save lives. What is our vision? To unite and lead, play­ing a key role in cre­at­ing a vibrant Michi­gan econ­omy that lever­ages the intel­lec­tual cap­i­tal of its three pub­lic research uni­ver­si­ties, to work proac­tively to attract the knowl­edge econ­omy busi­nesses that can find the research activ­ity that feeds new enter­prise, edu­cates the work­force and plants the seeds for the new indus­tries of tomor­row. The com­bined expe­ri­ence and know-how of the URC uni­ver­si­ties are the hope of Michigan’s econ­omy, pro­duc­ing new ideas and bright young minds to lead us all to a bet­ter future.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Com­cast
Com­cast was founded in 1963 as a single-system cable oper­a­tion. Today, we’re the country’s largest provider of cable services—and one of the world’s lead­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­nies. We’re focused on broad­band cable, com­merce, and con­tent. We deliver dig­i­tal ser­vices, pro­vide faster Inter­net and clearer broad­band phone ser­vice, and develop and deliver inno­v­a­tive pro­gram­ming. As Com­cast evolves, we con­tinue to look to the future—seeking out new com­mu­ni­ca­tions tech­nol­ogy, new oppor­tu­ni­ties, and more choices. We want to con­tinue to pro­vide peo­ple with the com­mu­ni­ca­tions prod­ucts and ser­vices that con­nect them to what’s impor­tant in their lives.
JPMor­gan Chase & Co.
JPMor­gan Chase & Co. is a lead­ing global finan­cial ser­vices firm with assets of $2.3 tril­lion and oper­a­tions in more than 60 coun­tries. The firm is a leader in invest­ment bank­ing, finan­cial ser­vices for con­sumers, small busi­ness and com­mer­cial bank­ing, finan­cial trans­ac­tion pro­cess­ing, asset man­age­ment and pri­vate equity. A com­po­nent of the Dow Jones Indus­trial Aver­age, JPMor­gan Chase & Co. serves mil­lions of con­sumers in the United States and many of the world’s most promi­nent cor­po­rate, insti­tu­tional and gov­ern­ment clients under its J.P. Mor­gan and Chase brands. Infor­ma­tion about JPMor­gan Chase & Co. is avail­able at www.jpmorganchase.com.
DTE Energy
With over a decade of invest­ing expe­ri­ence, DTE Energy Ven­tures is at the fore­front of emerg­ing energy tech­nolo­gies. To date, we have invested over $100 mil­lion in energy-related com­pa­nies and funds, mak­ing us one of the largest Michigan-based ven­ture cap­i­tal operations. DTE Energy Ven­tures invests in and works with high poten­tial energy tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies to develop prod­ucts and nur­ture busi­nesses. We seek to build value by cre­at­ing mutu­ally reward­ing part­ner­ships with our port­fo­lio com­pa­nies that lever­age our exten­sive energy indus­try knowl­edge and tap our broad net­work of ven­ture cap­i­tal partners.
Ford Motor Com­pany Fund
Ford Motor Com­pany, a global auto­mo­tive indus­try leader based in Dear­born, Mich., man­u­fac­tures or dis­trib­utes auto­mo­biles across six con­ti­nents. With about 159,000 employ­ees and about 70 plants world­wide, the company’s auto­mo­tive brands include Ford, Lin­coln and Mer­cury, pro­duc­tion of which has been announced by the com­pany to be end­ing in the fourth quar­ter of 2010. The com­pany pro­vides finan­cial ser­vices through Ford Motor Credit Com­pany. For more infor­ma­tion regard­ing Ford’s prod­ucts, please visit: www.ford.com
Gen­eral Dynam­ics Land Sys­tems
Gen­eral Dynam­ics Land Sys­tems’ mis­sion is to pro­vide a full spec­trum of land and amphibi­ous com­bat sys­tems, sub­sys­tems and field ser­vices world­wide. Our strengths are world-class design and sys­tems inte­gra­tion, supe­rior pro­duc­tion and inno­v­a­tive life cycle sup­port. We deploy these strengths to meet our mil­i­tary cus­tomers’ needs in a chang­ing world.
Masco Cor­po­ra­tion Foun­da­tion
The Masco Cor­po­ra­tion Foun­da­tion sup­ports not-for-profit orga­ni­za­tions in areas of the arts, cul­ture, hous­ing and envi­ron­men­tal ini­tia­tives. Addi­tion­ally, the Foun­da­tion makes lim­ited grants to a num­ber of very spe­cific civic, edu­ca­tional and human ser­vice ini­tia­tives in the com­mu­ni­ties where it does busi­ness. The Masco Cor­po­ra­tion Foun­da­tion was founded in 1952 and is funded with con­tri­bu­tions from Masco Cor­po­ra­tion. Masco Cor­po­ra­tion is one of the world’s largest man­u­fac­tur­ers of brand-name con­sumer prod­ucts for the home includ­ing Behr® paint, Delta® and Hans­grohe® faucets, bath and shower fix­tures, and Kraft­Maid® and Mer­il­lat® cab­i­netry. For more infor­ma­tion on the Foun­da­tion and the Masco fam­ily of brands, visit www.masco.com.
Strate­gic Staffing Solu­tions
Strate­gic Staffing Solu­tions, also known as S3, is a pri­vately held, cer­ti­fied women-owned busi­ness enter­prise (WBE) founded in 1990 by Pres­i­dent and CEO Cyn­thia J. Pasky. Head­quar­tered in Detroit, Michi­gan, S3 is an inter­na­tional provider of IT and Busi­ness ser­vices in the U.S. and Europe. Under the lead­er­ship of Ms. Pasky, S3 has expe­ri­enced 20 years of con­sec­u­tive growth and is finan­cially strong. S3 achieved $205 mil­lion in rev­enue in 2010, hav­ing earned $170 mil­lion in rev­enue in 2009. This fol­lows $160 mil­lion in rev­enue in 2008. Accord­ing to Staffing Indus­try Report, S3 is the 7th largest Diver­sity Staffing Firm in the U.S. 

Ser­vice Offer­ings – S3, an IT Ser­vices and Busi­ness Con­sult­ing Firm
S3 is a global IT ser­vices and Busi­ness con­sult­ing firm. S3’s Staff Aug­men­ta­tion, Man­aged Staffing Pro­grams, Solu­tions, and Direct Hire offer­ings allow us to deliver ideas and solu­tions that meet all of our cus­tomers’ IT and Busi­ness resource needs.
Dow Corn­ing
Dow Corn­ing pro­vides performance-enhancing solu­tions to serve the diverse needs of more than 25,000 cus­tomers world­wide. A global leader in sil­i­cones, silicon-based tech­nol­ogy and inno­va­tion, Dow Corn­ing offers more than 7,000 prod­ucts and ser­vices via the company’s Dow Corn­ing® and XIAMETER® brands. Dow Corn­ing is equally owned by The Dow Chem­i­cal Com­pany and Corn­ing, Incor­po­rated. More than half of Dow Corning’s annual sales are out­side the United States. Fol­low Dow Corn­ing on Twit­ter: www.Twitter.com/dowcorning Visit Dow Corning’s YouTube chan­nel: www.YouTube.com/dowcorningcorp
AARP
AARP is a non­profit, non­par­ti­san social wel­fare orga­ni­za­tion with a mem­ber­ship that helps peo­ple 50+ have inde­pen­dence, choice and con­trol in ways that are ben­e­fi­cial and afford­able to them and soci­ety as a whole. AARP does not endorse can­di­dates for pub­lic office or make con­tri­bu­tions to either polit­i­cal cam­paigns or can­di­dates. We pro­duce AARP The Mag­a­zine, the defin­i­tive voice for 50+ Amer­i­cans and the world’s largest-circulation mag­a­zine with over 35.1 mil­lion read­ers; AARP Bul­letin, the go-to news source for AARP’s mil­lions of mem­bers and Amer­i­cans 50+; AARP VIVA, the only bilin­gual U.S. pub­li­ca­tion ded­i­cated exclu­sively to the 50+ His­panic com­mu­nity; and our web­site, AARP.org. AARP Foun­da­tion is an affil­i­ated char­ity that pro­vides secu­rity, pro­tec­tion, and empow­er­ment to older per­sons in need with sup­port from thou­sands of vol­un­teers, donors, and spon­sors. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the Dis­trict of Colum­bia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Vir­gin Islands.
Credit Suisse AG
Credit Suisse AG is one of the world’s lead­ing finan­cial ser­vices providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of com­pa­nies (referred to here as ‘Credit Suisse’). As an inte­grated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its com­bined exper­tise in the areas of pri­vate bank­ing, invest­ment bank­ing and asset man­age­ment. Credit Suisse pro­vides advi­sory ser­vices, com­pre­hen­sive solu­tions and inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts to com­pa­nies, insti­tu­tional clients and high-net-worth pri­vate clients glob­ally, as well as to retail clients in Switzer­land. Credit Suisse is head­quar­tered in Zurich and oper­ates in over 50 coun­tries world­wide. The group employs approx­i­mately 50,700 peo­ple. The reg­is­tered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse’s par­ent com­pany, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzer­land and, in the form of Amer­i­can Deposi­tary Shares (CS), in New York. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com.
PANEL
Honig­man Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Honig­man is a lead­ing busi­ness law firm based in Michi­gan with an inter­na­tional prac­tice. Head­quar­tered in Detroit with offices in Lans­ing, Oak­land County, Ann Arbor and Kala­ma­zoo, the firm has attor­neys prac­tic­ing in more than 50 dif­fer­ent areas of con­cen­tra­tion. Honigman’s highly-credentialed attor­neys and staff, along with its customer-service focus, pro­vide clients in a wide vari­ety of indus­tries timely and cost-effective counsel. 

Our approach is built on rela­tion­ships. That means a com­pre­hen­sive and sus­tained focus on ser­vice at the high­est lev­els through­out the firm to meet and antic­i­pate our clients’ evolv­ing needs.

Our results are evi­denced by the acco­lades we receive. Cham­bers USA: America’s Lead­ing Lawyers for Busi­ness 2011 ranked Honig­man as Michigan’s No. 1 law firm in the areas of Cor­po­rate, Lit­i­ga­tion and Real Estate for seven years run­ning. In addi­tion, the Labor and Employ­ment, Employee Ben­e­fits, and Bank­ing and Finance prac­tices were rec­og­nized as lead­ing prac­tices in Michi­gan. In the 2012 edi­tion of Best Lawyers in Amer­ica, 86 of the firm’s attor­neys were listed. In that same edi­tion, the firm also had the high­est num­ber of attor­neys in Michi­gan in each of the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories: Biotech­nol­ogy, Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance and Com­pli­ance, Cor­po­rate, Fran­chise, Health Care, Insur­ance, Lever­aged Buy­outs and Pri­vate Equity, Merg­ers & Acqui­si­tions, Pri­vate Funds, Project Finance, Real Estate, Secu­ri­ties, Tax, and Ven­ture Capital.

With the rapid shift to a global econ­omy, clients need quick and reli­able advice on the laws, rules and reg­u­la­tions which affect their busi­ness deal­ings around the world. To pro­vide this global knowl­edge and reach, Honig­man is a mem­ber of Inter­law Ltd., an inter­na­tional asso­ci­a­tion of sev­enty inde­pen­dent law firms with nearly 5,000 attor­neys in more than 126 cities world­wide. Since 1982 Inter­law has been the pre­ferred net­work for global com­pa­nies that require the exper­tise of busi­ness lawyers who are flu­ent in the native lan­guage, laws, rules, reg­u­la­tions, and cus­toms of their own juris­dic­tion, and who are broadly edu­cated and expe­ri­enced in work­ing with domes­tic and inter­na­tional matters.
Seneca Part­ners
Seneca Part­ners is a pri­vate invest­ment and invest­ment bank­ing firm serv­ing mid­dle mar­ket com­pa­nies in the health­care, tech­nol­ogy, busi­ness ser­vices and high-value man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­tries. Draw­ing on its man­age­ment, invest­ment and trans­ac­tion expe­ri­ence, Seneca Part­ners pro­vides the guid­ance and resources nec­es­sary to nav­i­gate the com­plex­i­ties of man­ag­ing growth and exe­cut­ing acqui­si­tions, divesti­tures and other strate­gic ini­tia­tives. In select sit­u­a­tions, Seneca Part­ners pro­vides debt, mez­za­nine or equity cap­i­tal, directly or with its part­ners, to fund growth financ­ings, acqui­si­tions or change of con­trol trans­ac­tions for com­pa­nies serv­ing our tar­get indus­tries. Seneca also man­ages Seneca Health Part­ners, a ven­ture cap­i­tal fund ded­i­cated to sup­port­ing emerg­ing health care prod­uct, ser­vice, device and tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies based in Mid­dle Amer­ica and Seneca Growth Part­ners, an operationally-focused pri­vate invest­ment fund pro­vid­ing equity and mez­za­nine cap­i­tal to acquire and sup­port the growth of lower mid­dle mar­ket com­pa­nies in its tar­get industries.
VENTURE PARTNERS
Michi­gan Ven­ture Cap­i­tal Asso­ci­a­tion
The MVCA is a trade orga­ni­za­tion designed to bring together ven­ture cap­i­tal indus­try par­tic­i­pants in the state of Michi­gan. The organization’s goal is to grow and sus­tain a vibrant ven­ture cap­i­tal com­mu­nity in Michi­gan. Our mem­ber­ship includes pri­vate and cor­po­rate ven­ture cap­i­tal firms, angel investors, and other entre­pre­neur­ial infra­struc­ture par­tic­i­pants, such as Uni­ver­si­ties, entre­pre­neur­ial and eco­nomic devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tions. The MVCA is a vehi­cle to bring together indus­try par­tic­i­pants and to pro­vide a con­certed voice for Michigan’s ven­ture cap­i­tal industry.
National Asso­ci­a­tion of Seed & Ven­ture Funds
The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Seed & Ven­ture Funds (NASVF) is an inter­na­tional mem­ber­ship orga­ni­za­tion that advo­cates for the growth of seed and early-stage inno­va­tion cap­i­tal. NASVF con­nects the peo­ple in the world of ven­ture cap­i­tal and regional eco­nomic devel­op­ment. We col­lab­o­rate with pub­lic and pri­vate fund man­agers and tech trans­fer pro­fes­sion­als, the folks who are com­mit­ted to build­ing their local economies by invest­ing in entrepreneurs. 

NASVF began in 1993 as an ad-hoc group of prac­ti­tion­ers seek­ing the best mod­els to encour­age cap­i­tal for­ma­tion in their states, par­tic­u­larly for new tech­nol­ogy ven­tures. These founders con­tin­ued to meet each year and in 1997 for­mally incor­po­rated the group as a not-for-profit named the National Asso­ci­a­tion of State Ven­ture Funds. The name was changed in 2000 to reflect the Association’s expand­ing ser­vice to pri­vate sec­tor funds and programs.
VIP DINNER
Quicken Loans
Quicken Loans — Com­mit­ted to Our Clients for More than a Quar­ter Cen­tury! For a quar­ter cen­tury, we’ve been cre­at­ing inno­v­a­tive mort­gage solu­tions for peo­ple just like you. The result: exclu­sive tech­nol­ogy pro­vid­ing unpar­al­leled ser­vice and the fastest, eas­i­est mort­gage available.
Detroit Ven­ture Part­ners
We’re a Detroit-based Ven­ture Cap­i­tal firm on a crazed mis­sion. We back seed and early-stage tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies who have a pur­pose. Our pur­pose is to help rebuild the Detroit area through entre­pre­neur­ial fire. We view busi­ness build­ing as a palate for cre­ative expres­sion and an oppor­tu­nity to make a dif­fer­ence and change the world. If not, why bother? 

We are cre­ative busi­ness builders, not money man­agers. We are entre­pre­neurs help­ing other entre­pre­neurs build and grow mean­ing­ful com­pa­nies. It’s not just about the idea or the indus­try. To us, it’s about back­ing pas­sion­ate entre­pre­neurs that can both dream and exe­cute. Great think­ing trumps fancy diplo­mas. Imag­i­na­tion beats pedigree.

Look­ing for invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties in these sec­tors: inter­net, dig­i­tal media, mar­ket­ing tech­nol­ogy, direct-to-consumer, sports & enter­tain­ment, social media, e-commerce, soft­ware. Your biotech or advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing idea may be ground­break­ing, but that’s not our focus. We’d just screw it up if we got involved.
RECEPTION
Per­rigo
Per­rigo Com­pany is a lead­ing global health­care sup­plier that devel­ops, man­u­fac­tures and dis­trib­utes OTC and generic pre­scrip­tion (Rx) phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, infant for­mu­las, nutri­tional prod­ucts, and active phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal ingre­di­ents (API). The Com­pany is the world’s largest man­u­fac­turer of OTC phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal prod­ucts and infant for­mu­las, both for the store brand mar­ket. The Company’s pri­mary mar­kets and loca­tions of man­u­fac­tur­ing and logis­tics oper­a­tions are the United States, Israel, Mex­ico, the United King­dom and Aus­tralia. Visit Per­rigo on the Inter­net.
SRT SOLUTIONS

SRT Solu­tions, head­quar­tered in Ann Arbor, Mich., writes soft­ware for grow­ing and inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies that see soft­ware as a strate­gic asset. It uses the best avail­able tools and processes to pro­vide cus­tomized, reli­able, secure soft­ware. SRT writes soft­ware for mobile, tablets, web, desk­top, and enter­prise sys­tems, focus­ing on high-value appli­ca­tions that have the poten­tial to change a client’s market.
ATTENDEE PACK
The Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan — Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing and Com­puter Sci­ence
The Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing and Com­puter Sci­ence offers eight under­grad­u­ate degree pro­grams, two under­grad­u­ate degree pro­grams that are col­lat­eral to a prin­ci­pal under­grad­u­ate degree in engi­neer­ing or com­puter sci­ence, and a minor in com­puter sci­ence. At the grad­u­ate level, thir­teen master’s degree pro­grams and two Ph.D. pro­grams are offered. Grad­u­ate and Ph.D. classes are avail­able in the evenings, mak­ing them con­ve­nient for many stu­dents who work in local indus­try. The college’s part­ner­ships with major domes­tic auto­mo­bile com­pa­nies and auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers have led to many edu­ca­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties for its stu­dents and research for both stu­dents and fac­ulty. Reg­u­lar feed­back from its Vis­it­ing Com­mit­tee, a group of indus­trial lead­ers, helps shape the cur­ric­ula, develop lab­o­ra­tory facil­i­ties, and design col­lab­o­ra­tive research projects in the col­lege. Some out­comes of the indus­try part­ner­ship were the estab­lish­ment of the Cen­ter for Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion and Prac­tice in 1991, which was renamed the Henry Pat­ton Cen­ter for Engi­neer­ing Edu­ca­tion and Prac­tice (HP-CEEP) in 2004, and the Insti­tute for Advanced Vehi­cle Sys­tems (IAVS) in 1997. HP-CEEP helps to incor­po­rate engi­neer­ing prac­tice, design, inno­va­tion and con­cepts of man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­ogy at all lev­els of engi­neer­ing edu­ca­tion by inte­grat­ing the teach­ing envi­ron­ment with the world of prac­tice. The mis­sion of IAVS is to accel­er­ate applied research for advanced vehi­cle sys­tems in the areas of prod­uct devel­op­ment and manufacturing. 

The mis­sion of the Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing and Com­puter Sci­ence is to be the leader in pro­vid­ing qual­ity under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate pro­grams in an envi­ron­ment inte­grated with engi­neer­ing prac­tice, research, and con­tin­u­ing pro­fes­sional edu­ca­tion, in close part­ner­ship with the indus­trial community.
BREAKFAST
Henry Ford Health Sys­tems
Henry Ford Health Sys­tem, one of the country’s largest health care sys­tems, is a national leader in clin­i­cal care, research and edu­ca­tion. It includes the 1,200-member Henry Ford Med­ical Group, six hos­pi­tals, Health Alliance Plan, Henry Ford Physi­cian Net­work, 32 pri­mary care cen­ters and many other health-related enti­ties through­out south­east Michi­gan. In 2010, Henry Ford pro­vided nearly $200 mil­lion in uncom­pen­sated care. Henry Ford also is a major eco­nomic dri­ver in Michi­gan and employs more than 23,000. The health sys­tem is led by CEO, Nancy M. Schlichting.
SILVER
Growth Cap­i­tal Net­work
The Growth Cap­i­tal Net­work (GCN) serves the early state to mid-market busi­ness com­mu­nity by exe­cut­ing pro­grams to con­nect growth com­pa­nies with the nec­es­sary cap­i­tal to accel­er­ate their vision. With this plat­form, GCN runs the Accel­er­ate Michi­gan Inno­va­tion Com­pe­ti­tion, the Green Tech­nol­ogy Entre­pre­neur Acad­emy and the Mid­west Mid­mar­ket Cap­i­tal Sur­vey. Our team can con­nect highly qual­i­fied com­pa­nies who are can­di­dates for cap­i­tal to ven­ture, mez­za­nine and pri­vate equity firms. Our team has exten­sive global cap­i­tal and cor­po­rate con­nec­tions that they bring to bear in a num­ber of pro­grams for the ben­e­fit of high value com­pa­nies and cap­i­tal sources. We have exten­sive expe­ri­ence deal sourc­ing for cap­i­tal as well as screen­ing and prepar­ing com­pa­nies to move to the next level of success. 

Lau­ren Bigelow and her team at GCN serve the busi­ness com­mu­nity by exe­cut­ing pro­grams to con­nect entre­pre­neur­ial and growth com­pa­nies with the nec­es­sary cap­i­tal to accel­er­ate their vision. With this plat­form, GCN runs the Accel­er­ate Michi­gan Inno­va­tion Com­pe­ti­tion, the Green Tech­nol­ogy Entre­pre­neur Acad­emy and the Mid­west Mid­mar­ket Cap­i­tal Survey.

The Growth Cap­i­tal Net­work has devel­oped dozens of pro­grams for uni­ver­si­ties, eco­nomic devel­op­ment orga­ni­za­tions and com­mer­cial orga­ni­za­tions in Europe, Asia and North Amer­ica. Core to these pro­grams is an under­stand­ing of the value neeeded to moti­vate investors and high value com­pa­nies to con­nect in a highly effi­cient man­ner. Find out more at www.GrowthCap.net.
BUTZEL LONG

Founded in 1854, Butzel Long is one of the old­est law firms in the Mid­west and has offices in Michi­gan, New York, Wash­ing­ton, D.C., Mex­ico, and China. Since our incep­tion, we have played a promi­nent role in the devel­op­ment and growth of many industries.

We have a long and suc­cess­ful his­tory of devel­op­ing new capa­bil­i­ties and deep­en­ing our exper­tise for our clients’ ben­e­fit. We strive to be on the cut­ting edge of tech­nol­ogy, man­u­fac­tur­ing, e-commerce, biotech­nol­ogy, intel­lec­tual prop­erty, and cross-border oper­a­tions and trans­ac­tions. Busi­ness lead­ers have turned to us for inno­v­a­tive, highly-effective legal coun­sel for over 150 years.
Col­liers Inter­na­tional
Col­liers Inter­na­tional is a lead­ing global real estate ser­vices orga­ni­za­tion defined by our spirit of enter­prise. Through our cul­ture of ser­vice excel­lence and a shared sense of ini­tia­tive, we have inte­grated the resources of real estate spe­cial­ists world­wide to accel­er­ate the suc­cess of our clients.
Our head­quar­ters in Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton and more than 480 offices world­wide share a com­mon brand and vision to pro­vide the best ser­vice expe­ri­ence avail­able. To us, that means empow­er­ing our ser­vice teams to part­ner with each client, truly lis­ten to their unique busi­ness needs and design an inte­grated ser­vice offer­ing. Our goal is to make your prop­erty a com­pet­i­tive busi­ness advan­tage and ensure your entire ranges of prop­erty needs are met.
We also chal­lenge our pro­fes­sion­als to go the extra mile in their atti­tudes and actions, allow­ing our val­ues of exper­tise, com­mu­nity, ser­vice and fun come through in every­thing we do.
Most com­mer­cial real estate firms are either loose net­works of var­i­ously owned com­pa­nies, or a tightly con­trolled cor­po­rate struc­ture. Col­liers Inter­na­tional has cre­ated a unique oper­at­ing model, com­bin­ing the power and account­abil­ity of a global enter­prise with local equity and flex­i­bil­ity. We are backed by the finan­cial strength of First­Ser­vice Corp., a strong, diver­si­fied cap­i­tal part­ner, allow­ing us to invest in major client resources.
MEDIA
Corp! mag­a­zine
Corp! mag­a­zine was founded in 1998 to inform, intrigue, and enter­tain busi­ness own­ers and top level exec­u­tives by pro­vid­ing fea­tures, news and pro­files. In 2006, the pub­li­ca­tion was acquired by the pub­lish­ing team of Editor-in-Large Edward Deeb and Jen­nifer Kluge, Pub­lisher. Keep­ing pace with today’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions indus­try, Corp! Mag­a­zine is proud to pro­duce infor­ma­tive and intrigu­ing busi­ness fea­ture con­tent in two dis­tinct pub­li­ca­tions — print and online. Corp! in print pro­vides busi­ness fea­tures, news and pro­files with a Michi­gan empha­sis. In 2006, Corp! magazine’s print cir­cu­la­tion was expanded to reach 31,000-plus busi­ness own­ers, exec­u­tives and man­age­ment through­out Michi­gan.  The Corp! online edi­tion, which con­tains its own orig­i­nal con­tent, goes to opt-in sub­scribers every other week and has a reach into the Mid­west and beyond. Spe­cial online edi­tions focus on Human Resources, Green/Sustainability, Digital/Technology and other spe­cial top­ics. 		Corp Magazine
Michi­gan Busi­ness Net­work
Michi­gan Busi­ness Network.com is The resource for com­mu­ni­ca­tion and infor­ma­tion for the entire Michi­gan busi­ness com­mu­nity. MBN is now the hub of all busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the state of Michigan.

The 24/7 broad­cast com­po­nent fea­tures Inter­net radio broad­cast with shows that fea­tures busi­ness news, infor­ma­tion, leg­isla­tive updates and pro­files. Lis­ten­ers can tune in to shows that speak to the diver­sity of busi­nesses as well as those that high­light busi­nesses and busi­ness leaders.

Other shows cover aspects of run­ning a busi­ness, from human resources issues, to shows ded­i­cated to account­ing, mar­ket­ing, event plan­ning, tech­nol­ogy and so much more. Together, these shows are “the Tool­box” that every busi­ness needs to utilize.
Michi­gan Radio
Michi­gan Radio is an NPR News Sta­tion that strives to inform, edu­cate and enlighten lis­ten­ers about the world around them. In addi­tion to car­ry­ing a full range of pro­gram­ming from NPR and the BBC, the sta­tion also pro­duces local fea­tures like The Envi­ron­ment Report, Michi­gan Watch inves­tiga­tive reports, and local news reports and spe­cials deal­ing with Michigan’s most press­ing issues. The station’s Chang­ing Gears ini­tia­tive is explor­ing the eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tion of the indus­trial Mid­west, through the sto­ries of peo­ple dri­ving and expe­ri­enc­ing this change.
Michi­gan Radio is the state’s most lis­tened to pub­lic radio ser­vice, reach­ing over 500,000 lis­ten­ers each week across south­ern Michi­gan. The sta­tion broad­casts from three trans­mit­ters: WUOM 91.7 FM in Ann Arbor/Detroit, WVGR 104.1 FM in West Michi­gan, and WFUM 91.1 FM in Flint, as well as online at michiganradio.org. Michi­gan Radio is a ser­vice of Michi­gan Pub­lic Media, the pub­lic broad­cast­ing orga­ni­za­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan.
PR Newswire
PR Newswire is the pre­mier global provider of mul­ti­me­dia plat­forms and solu­tions that enable mar­keters, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tors, sus­tain­abil­ity offi­cers, pub­lic affairs and investor rela­tions offi­cers to lever­age con­tent to engage with all their key audi­ences. Hav­ing pio­neered the com­mer­cial news dis­tri­b­u­tion indus­try 56 years ago, PR Newswire today pro­vides end-to-end solu­tions to pro­duce, opti­mize and tar­get con­tent – from rich media to online video to mul­ti­me­dia – and then dis­trib­ute con­tent and mea­sure results across tra­di­tional, dig­i­tal, social, search and mobile chan­nels. Com­bin­ing the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion and opti­miza­tion net­work with com­pre­hen­sive work­flow tools and plat­forms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enter­prises to engage oppor­tu­nity every­where it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thou­sands of clients from offices in the Amer­i­cas, Europe, Mid­dle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company.
WWJ News­ra­dio
WWJ News­ra­dio 950 is Detroit’s award win­ning all-news radio sta­tion and is live, local and com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing metro Detroi­ters the place to turn for up-to-the-minute news, traf­fic, sports, busi­ness and com­mu­nity infor­ma­tion. Deeper resources can be found at wwj.com. WWJ offers more to lis­ten­ers and busi­ness through a series of niche e-publications includ­ing Auto­Beat Daily, The Great Lakes IT Report, The Daily Dash and GreatStuff.
XOLOGY Mag­a­zine
X-OLOGY Mag­a­zine is a hybrid of tech­nol­ogy and lifestyle top­ics infused with dynamic graph­ics. As the offi­cial pub­li­ca­tion of Automa­tion Alley, X-OLOGY was cre­ated to pro­mote South­east Michigan’s unpar­al­leled tech­nol­ogy inno­va­tions and lifestyle oppor­tu­ni­ties. In-depth arti­cles cover the region’s emerg­ing tech sec­tors, includ­ing life sci­ences, alter­na­tive energy, robot­ics and automa­tion, advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing and more.
Each issue also explores edu­ca­tional oppor­tu­ni­ties, busi­ness suc­cess sto­ries and per­sonal pro­files high­light­ing exec­u­tives, edu­ca­tors and lead­ing experts in diverse tech indus­tries. Round­ing out the scope, X-OLOGY touches on the best rea­sons to live and play in South­east Michigan..
INNOVATION SPONSOR
Biz­dom U
Biz­dom U helps aspir­ing entre­pre­neurs turn their ideas into well devel­oped, client focused busi­ness con­cepts and get their star­tups funded, by sur­round­ing them with top busi­ness, sales, mar­ket­ing and tech­nol­ogy experts. Biz­dom is a non-profit, entre­pre­neur­ship accel­er­a­tor that was founded in 2007 by Dan Gilbert, Founder and Chair­man of Quicken Loans, and Major­ity Owner of the Cleve­land Cavaliers. 

The goal of Biz­dom U is to cre­ate an entre­pre­neur­ial hub in the cities of Detroit and Cleve­land They do this with two dis­tinct pro­grams: Idea Gen­er­a­tor, an eight-week, part-time pro­gram that shows aspir­ing entre­pre­neurs how to break down their idea, research it and turn it into a busi­ness; and Launch Labs, a three month, full-time accel­er­a­tor where entre­pre­neurs receive up to $24,000 in seed fund­ing to launch their busi­ness with the assis­tance of busi­ness, sales, mar­ket­ing and web devel­op­ment experts. Launch Labs par­tic­i­pants have the oppor­tu­nity to pitch for addi­tional fund­ing if needed. The launched busi­nesses must be head­quar­tered in Detroit or Cleve­land. Biz­dom U uses its 8% share of own­er­ship in each busi­ness to fund future entre­pre­neurs that will launch addi­tional inno­v­a­tive busi­nesses in these cities. For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.Bizdom.com.

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