When
Thursday, November 17, 2011 | 6pm to 10 pm
Where
Vie, 600 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA
Complimentary Valet Parking Will Be Available
2011 Gala MC
Tracy Davidson
Anchor and Consumer Reporter
NBC10
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Honoree
Michael G. Rubin
Founder and CEO of Kynetic; Founder and Former CEO of GSI CommerceMichael began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 12, when he opened a ski-tuning shop in the basement of his parents’ home. Read more
Sponsors
Pioneer
DESCRIPTION:
Berwind is a fifth-generation, family-owned investment management company with a distinguished history and a bias towards action. With its roots dating to 1886, Berwind has evolved from its beginning as a coal mining company, to a diversified portfolio of highly successful manufacturing and service companies, which are leaders in their market niche. Representing several billion dollars in enterprise value, these companies serve a number of industries including pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, office and craft, automotive, pet food, and natural resources. Berwind is dedicated to investing in member companies to assist in the growth and development of existing industry platforms and building new platforms for future growth.
INDUSTRY:
Investment Management Company
CONTACT:
3000 Centre Square West
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
215-563-2800
information@berwind.com
www.berwind.com
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Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.
INDUSTRY:
Assurance, Tax, Advisory and Transaction Advisory Services.
CONTACT:
2001 Market Street
Suite 4000
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-448-5000
www.ey.com
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Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:
ICG (Nasdaq: ICGE) is a time-tested leader in guiding and growing companies that create expediencies and transform the way business is done by leveraging SaaS and tech-enabled BPO.
INDUSTRY:
Finance
CONTACT:
690 Lee Road
Suite 310
Wayne, PA 19087
entrepreneurs@icg.com
www.icg.com
Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:
With 22 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory, and intellectual property legal services to clients of all sizes—from global Fortune 100 companies to just-conceived startups—across all major industries. The firm’s service philosophy is grounded in a disciplined approach to advancing our clients’ interests as effectively and efficiently as possible.
INDUSTRY:
Law Firm/Legal Services
CONTACT:
1701 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-963-5000
sgoodman@morganlewis.com
raldridge@morganlewis.com
www.morganlewis.com
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Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1953, Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE) provides growth capital for entrepreneurial and innovative life sciences and technology companies.
INDUSTRY:
Diversified Investments
CONTACT:
435 Devon Park Drive
Building 800
Wayne, PA 19087
610-293-0600
IR@safeguard.com
www.safeguard.com
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Trailblazer
DESCRIPTION:
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software. With over 176,000 customers and revenue of €12.5 billion (2010), SAP has over 54,000 employees worldwide.
INDUSTRY:
High-Tech
CONTACT:
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073
610-661-1000
www.SAP.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Booth Bay Creative has been setting organizations into motion for more than 25 years. We understand and embrace the challenges and intricacies of the evolving media marketplace to bring our clients fresh, cutting-edge, creative solutions. Today, we offer a comprehensive, integrated marketing approach that begins with fully understanding your goals and that ends with strategic solutions, on-point messaging and award-winning creative – all designed to deliver the results you demand. Our clients count on us to solve their sales and marketing challenges and help them succeed.
INDUSTRY:
Marketing and Design
CONTACT:
1220 Valley Forge Road
Building 45
Valley Forge, PA 19482
610-933-5112
www.boothbay.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Campus Apartments is one of the nation's largest developers, owners, and managers of student housing, with more than 29,000 beds in 24 states serving over 70 colleges and universities across the country. Since our founding in 1958, we've maintained the sole focus of providing high quality housing to college and university communities. With over $1 billion in assets under management, our portfolio consists of garden-style, mid-rise, and high-rise assets, as well as mixed-use and urban scattered-site housing.
INDUSTRY:
Developer, Owner and Manager of Student Housing
CONTACT:
4043 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-243-7000
info@campusapts.com
www.campusapts.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
CBIZ is one of the nation's leading providers of business services including accounting & tax, benefits & insurance and a wide range of consulting services.
INDUSTRY:
Professional Business Services
CONTACT:
401 Plymouth Road, Suite 200
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
610-862-2249
www.cbiz.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
In the United States, Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries have 45,000 professionals with a single focus: serving our clients and helping them solve their toughest problems. We work in four key business areas — audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting — but our real strength comes from combining the talents of those groups to address clients’ needs. Fortune and BusinessWeek consistently rank our organization among the best places to work, which is good news for our talent and our clients alike. When the best people tackle the most compelling challenges, everyone wins.
INDUSTRY:
Professional Services Firm
CONTACT:
1700 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-246-2300
www.deloitte.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
First Round Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs build remarkable companies. We are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies - and often provide a company's first outside capital. As former entrepreneurs, we understand the challenges of launching a new enterprise. We look to take an active role in most of the companies we invest in. We believe our insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital—and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same.
INDUSTRY:
Venture Capital
CONTACT:
100 Four Falls, Suite 104
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
info@firstround.com
www.firstround.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
In 1927 John Fitzpatrick founded the Fitzpatrick Container Company, a corrugated sheet plant providing local Philadelphia area businesses with corrugated shipping containers. Mr. Fitzpatrick founded the company on the cornerstones of quality, responsive customer service, and creative problem-solving. Still family owned and operated over 80 years later, these ideals remain the driving force behind the Fitzpatrick Container name.
INDUSTRY:
Manufacturing
CONTACT:
800 E. Walnut Street
North Wales, PA 19454
215-699-3515
www.fitzbox.com
Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Flaster/Greenberg PC is a full-service, commercial business law firm serving clients across a range of industries in the public, private, government and nonprofit sectors. Our six offices in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware are strategically located within the mid-Atlantic corridor in close geographic proximity to the hubs of business, industry and government.
INDUSTRY:
Legal
CONTACT:
1600 JFK Boulevard
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-279-9393
www.flastergreenberg.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Gregory FCA is a full service, strategically integrated public relations firm with over 20 years of experience in national media relations, investor relations, and financial communications. Ranked among the top 30 largest firms in America, Gregory FCA was among the first PR firms in America to incorporate social media into integrated communications campaigns.
INDUSTRY:
Public Relations / Communications
CONTACT:
27 West Athens Avenue, Suite 200
Ardmore, PA 19003
610-642-8253
www.gregoryfca.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Created in 1987 from the family's coal, lumber and steel businesses in West Virginia and Chester, Delaware County, the name "HBE" represents the first initials of the last names of the three families whose enterprise since 1831 earned the endowment.
INDUSTRY:
Private Foundation
CONTACT:
709 Great Springs Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610-526-9096
Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Lowe & Associates is a boutique corporate law firm that represents private, public and government clients. Our expertise and extensive experience in the fields of corporate law, structured finance, private equity, investment management, early stage social media and bio-tech firms permits us to handle complex legal matters and provide timely and efficient results to our clients.
INDUSTRY:
Legal Services
CONTACT:
One Liberty Place
1650 Market Street
36th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
267-675-7063
info@loweadv.com
www.loweadv.com
Innovator
Minority Angel Investment Network
Minority Angel Investor Network is a network of accredited investors with an interest and commitment to invest in high growth, minority owned or minority led companies. Minority Angel Investor Network is not a fund. It is a group of individual investors each of whom makes his or her own decision regarding investment in a specific opportunity.
INDUSTRY:
Non-Profit
CONTACT:
Building 100 Innovation Center, Suite 200
S 13th Street & Constitution Ave, The Navy Yard
Philadelphia, PA 19112
www.minorityangelinvestornetwork.com
Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation INDUSTRY: Non-Profit CONTACT: 1600 Market Street, Suite 3600 Philadelphia, PA 19103
Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation INDUSTRY: Non-Profit CONTACT: 1600 Market Street, Suite 3600 Philadelphia, PA 19103
Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
O'Neill Properties Group, LP, founded in 1988 by J. Brian O'Neill, is a leading privately owned real estate development company specializing in identifying and acquiring abandoned or underutilized industrial sites, remediating and transforming them into high-quality, Class A commercial space or luxury multifamily live, work, and play communities.
INDUSTRY:
Real Estate Development and Investment
CONTACT:
2701 Renaissance Boulevard
4th Floor
King of Prussia, PA 19406
610-337-5560
jsantora@oneillproperties.com
www.oneillproperties.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Sabre Systems is a quality-driven, professional services company that specializes in providing technology, scientific, and management solutions to government and commercial clients.
INDUSTRY:
Software Development, IT and Engineering
CONTACT:
865 Easton Road, Suite 300
Warrington, PA 18976
877-722-7379
busdev@sabresystems.com
www.sabresystems.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Located in suburban Philadelphia, PA, StoneRidge Investment Partners is an emerging and minority-owned, Registered Investment Advisor offering equity and fixed income investment solutions to institutional investors.
INDUSTRY:
Money Management
CONTACT:
301 Lindenwood Drive
Suite 310
Malvern, PA 19355
ssanders@stoneridgeinvestmentpartners.com
www.stoneridgeinvestments.com
Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States, UPS has grown into a multi-billion-dollar corporation by clearly focusing on the goal of enabling commerce around the globe. Today, UPS is a global company with one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world. We have become the world's largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. Every day, we manage the flow of goods, funds, and information in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
INDUSTRY:
Transportation
CONTACT:
15 E. Oregon Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19148
www.ups.com
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Innovator
DESCRIPTION:
Wells Fargo Commercial Banking provides credit and relationship banking services to middle market businesses, including manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, distributors, importers, and services companies.
INDUSTRY:
Financial Services
CONTACT:
300 Barr Harbor Drive, Suite 850
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
bill.mckeown@wellsfargo.com
www.wellsfargo.com/com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Ballard Spahr LLP is a national firm of more than 500 lawyers in 13 offices across the United States. Our mission is straightforward: to provide nothing less than excellence in every legal representation. We help clients achieve success as they define it, respecting and anticipating their needs. Our clients range from large public companies and privately held corporations to government agencies and nonprofit organizations. We provide counseling and advocacy in more than 40 areas within intellectual property, litigation, business and finance, real estate, and public finance.
INDUSTRY:
Legal Services
CONTACT:
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.665.8500
www.ballardspahr.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Beneficial Bank is a Pennsylvania chartered savings bank that operates from 60 locations in the greater Philadelphia Region, including South Jersey. Beneficial Bank offers a variety of deposit and loan products to individuals and small businesses, most of which are located in our primary market, which consists of Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania and Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties, New Jersey.
INDUSTRY:
Banking
CONTACT:
530 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215-864-6000
www.thebeneficial.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
In 1828, Citizens Financial Group got its start as a small community bank called the High Street Bank in Providence, Rhode Island. Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is a $132 billion commercial bank holding company. It is headquartered in Providence, RI, and through its subsidiaries has more than 1,500 branches, approximately 3,900 ATMs and more than 20,900 employees. It operates its branch network in 12 states and has non-branch retail and commercial offices in about 40 states.
INDUSTRY:
Banking
CONTACT:
2001 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
267-671-1000
www.citizensbank.com
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the world's leading media, entertainment and communications companies. Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet and phone providers to residential and business customers. Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.
INDUSTRY:
Media, Entertainment and Communications
CONTACT:
1700 North 49th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19131-4728
888-416-1267
www.comcast.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 73 countries, Deutsche Bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates.
INDUSTRY:
Investment Banking
CONTACT:
www.db.com/usa
SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Fox Rothschild is a law firm that delivers a full range of legal services—from the traditional (Litigation, Corporate, Labor and Employment) to the emerging services (Intellectual Property and Tech and Venture Finance). Over the past 100 years, Fox Rothschild has become more than 500 lawyers in 16 offices coast to coast.
INDUSTRY:
Legal
CONTACT:
2000 Market Street, 20th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-3222
215-299-2000
www.foxrothschild.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
JM & Company is a retained executive search firm headquartered outside of Philadelphia. Ranked in the top 30 nationally, JM & Company partners with small and mid-cap companies in all stages of development with an emphasis on Private Equity and Venture Capital backed businesses.
INDUSTRY:
Executive Search Firm
CONTACT:
1045 First Avenue
Suite 110
King Of Prussia, PA 19406
610-964-0200
info@jmsearch.com
www.jmsearch.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries.
INDUSTRY:
Audit, Tax and Advisory Firm
CONTACT:
1601 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
267-256-7000
www.kpmg.com
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Leader
DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1963, the Science Center is the oldest and largest urban research park in the United States. We support technology commercialization and technology-based economic development on our campus and in the Greater Philadelphia region. Our 31 nonprofit shareholders include many of the distinguished colleges, universities, hospitals, and research institutions located throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The University City Science Center provides lab and office space for start-up, growing and established companies. We offer business incubation, support services and programming for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. We help move technology out of the lab and into the marketplace, where it can benefit the region and the world.
INDUSTRY:
Incubator
CONTACT:
3711 Market Street, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-966-6000
info@sciencecenter.org
www.kpmg.com
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Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
Grid is an online advertising platform built to serve the unique needs of candidates and causes. We offer these organizations the reach of television and the precision targeting of direct mail, but up to 90% cheaper. No more wasting money on broadcast television ads that are viewed by people who cannot vote for you. Grid serves three markets: (1) Campaign Grid serves campaigns, committees, PACs, 527, trade associations, and other organizations that want to influence public policy. (2) Franking Grid serves members of Congress by facilitating online advertising using their MRAs and in compliance with franking regulations. (3) World Benefactor serves some of the world's finest non profits (501c3s) by assisting them in starting online advertising and social networking programs.
INDUSTRY:
Online Advertising for Candidates, Causes, Companies, and Non-Profits
CONTACT:
223 Summit Avenue
Fort Washington, PA 19034
Phone: 215.283.1005
info@campaigngrid.com
www.campaigngrid.com
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Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
At Maxpro, we distribute industrial equipment such as RAD torque equipment including pneumatic torque wrenches and electronic torque wrenches. We also distribute IBT hydraulic equipment and other torque, tension, and bolting equipment. We also provide repair, callibration, and rental service for our industrial equipment.
INDUSTRY:
Industrial Equipment
CONTACT:
418-5 Caredean Drive
Horsham, PA 19044
215-293-0800
www.maxprocorp.com
Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
Newmark Knight Frank Smith Mack is a regional commercial real estate firm with offices in Center City Philadelphia, Suburban Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. Since its inception in 1984, Newmark Knight Frank Smith Mack has secured a leading position in the Delaware Valley's commercial real estate market. With multi-disciplined competency in Tenant Representation, Corporate Real Estate Services, Property Management, Investment Sales & Mortgage Finance and Owner Representation, Newmark Knight Frank Smith Mack discovers, develops, and implements full service solutions for your commercial real estate needs.
INDUSTRY:
Commercial Real Estate Firm
CONTACT:
880 E. Swedesford Road
Suite 100
Wayne, PA 19087
610.265.0600
www.newmarkkfsm.com
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Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
Penn Mezzanine is a premier mezzanine / minority equity firm with a history spanning nearly three decades. Penn Mezzanine has a diversified approach, pursuing $2-$7 million investments in a wide variety of privately held lower middle market companies including: Sponsored and non-sponsored, family-owned, management-owned, and fundless sponsor (or independent sponsor) transactions; Manufacturers, consumer and business service businesses, value-added distributors, and other companies and industries; and Buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, debt refinancings, and other types of transactions.
INDUSTRY:
Subordinated Debt and Equity Financing
CONTACT:
435 Devon Park Drive
Building 700
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
610-977-7595
info@pennmezz.com
www.pennmezz.com
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Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
The College of Education is ideally situated in the heart of North Philadelphia with city schools, student and teacher populations at our doorstep. Our prominent location brings us all the resources and challenges of a large, diverse and lively urban center. By pursuing our mission, to empower children and their communities through education, we serve our surrounding neighborhoods, the city of Philadelphia, schools and school districts across the region and the nation.
INDUSTRY:
Education
CONTACT:
1301 Cecil B. Moore Ave.
Ritter Hall/Ritter Annex (003-00)
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.8011
www.temple.edu/education
Entrepreneur
DESCRIPTION:
TYMEL provides clients with innovative marketing services and promotional solutions that include event management, marketing consultation, graphic design, corporate branding, and eco-friendly promotional products. TYMEL specializes in providing a wide and unique range of custom products to allow clients the ability to communicate an effective marketing message. Our management team has over 30 years of combined experience making TYMEL a leader in the marketing consulting industry.
INDUSTRY:
Marketing Services and Promotional Solutions
CONTACT:
50 West Skippack Pike
Ambler, Pennsylvania 19002
888-287-1415
www.tymelstyle.com
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