8:30 AM– 9:15 AM
Check-in and Breakfast

9:15 AM
Welcome and Introductions, Lou Rappaport and Valerie Gaydos
• Instructions and group assignments
• Companies will have 4 minutes for set up, 10 minutes for their
presentation with an additional 6 minutes for Q&A with the judges.
(See presentation guidelines attached)

9:40 AM–12:15 PM
Company Presentations

12:15 PM– 1:15 PM
Networking Lunch, Main Floor of the Marvin Comisky  Conference Center

1:30 PM– 4:00 PM   INVESTORS DELIBERATE ON SELECTIONS

1:30 PM– 4:00 PM   ENTREPRENUER'S ROUNDTABLE

Growing a company is hard work. Building value so that you preserve as much equity for your self and founders only makes you become more attractive to investors.  Increasing revenues and profits, tackling your most difficult decisions, developing your key people, and beating your competition in an increasingly chaotic and commoditized world all command an extraordinary amount of an entrepreneur’s time and energy. And, when you hit a glass ceiling, how do you break through it?

Vistage, the world’s leading CEO membership organization, has been helping entrepreneurs break through the proverbial glass ceiling for over 50 years. Vistage CEOs are intent on becoming better leaders who make better decisions and achieve better results and thus become better investments for investors.  Through our unique combination of peer group interaction, expert workshops, coaching, and access to our Vistage View™ web-portal, our members are able to stay focused on their key strategic initiatives, grow revenues and profits, and develop their key people. Over 14,000 CEOs in 16 countries around the world are members of Vistage.

The Private Investors Forum is pleased to partner with Vistage to provide the Selection Day entrepreneurs with the opportunity to experience Vistage.  We will run three concurrent roundtables – dividing you up into groups of non-competitive companies and without investors preset, in order to provide you the opportunity to work in a confidential manner, on some of your toughest issues. 

After the session, you will have actionable items that you can take back into your business, and the opportunity to follow up if you choose, with a Vistage facilitator in a confidential one-on-one format.