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WIN Conference - November 14, 2019

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Date and Time

Thursday Nov 14, 2019
11:30 AM - 4:30 PM CST

Thursday, November 14
11:30am - 4:30pm

Location

The Worthington Renaissance Hotel - Downtown
200 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Please valet park. The cost for this is included with your ticket price.

Fees/Admission

$70 - Upper-tier Member
$80 - Standard Member
$1,000 - Silver sponsorship - includes a reserved table for 8 at lunch and the panel discussion and your company name in the program
$750 - Bronze sponsorship - includes a reserved table for 8 at lunch and the panel discussion and your company name in the program
$140 - Non-Chamber Member
All reservations must be accompanied by full payment. If no payment is received, it will not be considered a reservation. Due to catering guarantees payments are non-refundable and non-transferrable to another event.

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Contact Information

Leah Hersey 817-338-3371
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Description

Join professional women and women business owners for this year's WIN (Women's Insight Network) Annual Conference at the Worthington Renaissance Hotel!

Theme: inspireHER - Connecting Women in Business

Agenda:

11:15am – Registration Opens and Lunch Buffet

12:20pm – Welcome & Keynote Speaker Presentation

1:15 – 2pm: Roundtable discussions

2 - 2:30pm: Afternoon break with snacks and refreshments in the lobby.

2:30 – 4:15pm – Panel discussion with Q&A

4:15 - 4:30pm - Closing Remarks

4:30pm – Event Ends

Keynote Speaker: Theia Smith, Gender Inclusion Advocate and Strategist
Managing Director, Workforce of the Future, PwC
Founder of Atlanta's Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative
See her bio below:

Theia's Topics:

How to find inspiration in unexpected places.
How all women can tap into their individual power to create more opportunity for other women "at the table".

As the founder of the nation’s first city-funded business incubator for ventures that are 100% womenowned
and women-led, Theia Smith champions for equal access to economic self-sufficiency for women and
girls, particularly those whose talent is often overlooked and underestimated.
Theia launched the award-winning Atlanta’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative in 2014, positioning
Atlanta as the first U.S. city to financially invest in creating an incubation space and curriculum, for early
stage women entrepreneurs. Their developed a first-of-its-kind blueprint to equip women entrepreneurs
with unprecedented access in three core capital areas: financial, human and thought - to accelerate them
from ‘solopreneur’ business models, to viable high growth ventures.

Theia developed the programming, community outreach efforts and partnerships for WEI, which included
The Women’s Chamber of Commerce, Emory University Impact Investment Group, The James Beard
Foundation, WeWork and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). Under Theia’s leadership, WEI
received recognition from numerous national and international reports from research-leading institutes on
entrepreneurship and economic inclusion, including The Center for an Urban Future, Progress Cities, the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Prior to launching WEI, Theia’s professional portfolio includes more than a decade of executive-level equity
and inclusion efforts in the Fortune 100 landscape, as well as intersecting innovation opportunities with the
Billion Dollar Roundtable, for women and minority-led startup ventures.

Panel Speakers: "Susan Says"

Susan Gruppi, Co-President, M2G Ventures
Susan Roberts, CPA, Principal, CLA Fort Worth
Susan Sheffield, Executive Vice President and CFO, GM Financial

Theme: Learn from industry experts on how they have been inspired to create lives and careers that they love.

From left to right: Susan Gruppi, Susan Roberts, Susan Sheffield

Susan Gruppi is the founder and co-president of M2G Ventures, a commercial real estate investment, development, and consulting company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Guided by the leadership of Susan and her partner, Jessica Miller Essl, the fast-growing company carefully invests in distinctive, mixed-use, and industrial development projects primarily located in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. She has a grand passion for large-scale intentional public art that desires to inspire the community in which she lives. She has a servant’s heart when it comes to supporting people in pursuing their dreams.

Principal Susan S. Roberts enhances CLA’s corporate leadership through her extensive knowledge and experience providing customized solutions for manufacturing and distribution enterprises, along with serial entrepreneurs. With an ability to assess important aspects of external and internal financial reporting needs---and to gauge their impact on efficiencies and productivity---Susan’s agile interaction and absolute attention to detail are invaluable.
She has a remarkable depth of understanding of each industry and more than 20 years in public accounting, providing a particular penchant for strategic consulting on corporate taxation, entity selection, and multi-state taxation issues. Serving CFOs in mid-size companies, Susan capitalizes on her talents ranging from tax planning and avoidance to acquisition and divesture structuring.

Susan Sheffield has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2018. She previously served as Executive Vice President and Treasurer, a role she assumed in June 2014. Prior to that, she served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance, from 2008 to 2014. She served as Senior Vice President, Structured Finance, from 2004 to 2008 and Vice President, Structured Finance, from 2003 to 2004. Ms. Sheffield joined the company in 2001 as part of the Investor Relations department. Prior to joining the company, she worked in corporate and commercial banking for 13 years, primarily for JPMorgan and Wells Fargo Bank.