ACG Great Lakes Capital Connection Conference 2023 | Great Lakes ACG Capital Connection | 6 September 2023 | Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH 45202, USA

Each year, this high-energy event brings together more than 1,000 M&A professionals for incredible deal sourcing opportunities, networking and insights into the biggest trends in corporate growth, finance and exits.

Why Attend?

This conference is a dynamic networking, deal-sourcing and educational event that attracts a virtual who’s who of middle market M&A professionals from across the country. This conference will give you the ability to connect with more than 1,000 influential M&A professionals and ACG members, gain new insights into growth, acquisitions, finance partnership, and exit strategies, and learn from renowned speakers and panelists.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Barry Peterson
Managing Director, Northcreek Mezzanine

PANELISTS:
Jerry Luebbers
Partner, Plante Moran

Dan Fleming
Managing Partner, River Cities Capital Funds

Ashley Keating
Partner, CincyTech

David Kereiakes
Managing Partner, Windham Venture Partners

Tricia Balser
Managing Director and Head of Ohio Commercial Banking, CIBC

David Cardell
Regional President, Commercial Banking, First Financial Bank

Joseph Carson
Managing Director, Fifth Third Securities

Tony Schneider
Managing Director / FORVIS Capital Advisors, FORVIS Capital Advisors, LLC

Jim Vance
Senior Vice President & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Fort Washington Investment Advisors

Kyle Rudolph
Professional Athlete, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Patti Domm
Editor, CNBC Markets

Mike Bergeron
Managing Partner, Strength Capital Partners LLC

Marc Chandler
Managing Director & Chief Market Strategist, Bannockburn Global Forex

Katherine Judge
Director & Senior Economist, CIBC Bank USA

Nick Sargen
Senior Economic Manager, Fort Washington Investment Advisors

Steve Brady
Partner, Market Leader, Transaction Advisory, Withum

Kip Irle
Global M&ATS Leader, Hylant

Michael Livanos
Managing Director, Stellex Capital Management

Eric Potter
Senior Manager, Strategy and Transformation, MorganFranklin Consulting

Husnain Safdar
Vice President, Tecum Capital Partners

Kim Schaefer
Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP

Cynthia Booth
President & CEO, Emerge Manufacturing

Stacey Browning
Growth Catalyst, Multiply Impact Ventures

Barb Smith
President, Journey Steel

Paul Ryan
54th Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesPartner & Chair of the Executive Partner Group, Solamere Capital

John Barrett
Chairman, President, & CEO, Western & Southern Financial Group

Robert Walker
Managing Director, Group Head, US Central Region - CIBC

2023 Sponsors

CHARITY SPONSORS:
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

PRESENTING SPONSORS:
• Western & Southern Financial Group

KEYNOTE SPONSORS:
• CIBC

DEALSOURCE SPONSORS:
• Prairie

GIVEAWAY SPONSORS:
• Withum

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Hylant
• KERAMIDA
• Plante Moran
• Prestige
• Taft

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• FORV/S
• Strength Capital
• Woodbridge International

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Cohen & Co.
• Cincinnati Business Courier
• Frost Brown Todd
• Group2
• Northcreek Mitzan Ne
• Tier1
• Totum Realty Advisors
• VRC

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Amend
• Armanino
• Ascend Technologies
• BakerHostetler
• CRI
• CLA
• Connection Builders
• CopperRun
• EHS Support
• EHTC
• Entrada Group
• GBQ
• Hauser
• Howard&Howard
• Insperity
• KSM
• Marshall Stevens
• Navigate Capital Partners
• Northwest
• Pitchbook
• Right Brain + Left Brain
• RKCA
• Robert Half
• RSM
• Sapling
• Schneider Downs
• Scope Monitoring
• SourceScrub
• Tecum Capital
• Vaco
• ZRG

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Arkmalibu
• Claymore
• Farell Finch
• Fifth Third Bank
• H2R
• Huron Capital
• McGuireWoods
• Orchard Holdings
• Rehmann
• STNL
• Thompson Hine
• USBank

OPENING RECEPTION:
• First Financial Bank

CANDY BAR SPONSOR:
• BDO

PROGRAM(INSIDE FRONT COVER):
• Katz Teller

PROGRAM(INSIDE BACK COVER):
• Huntington

REGISTRATION BOOTH:
• Bannockburn

SNACK & BEVERAGE:
• PNC Riverarch Capital

CHARGING STATION & SILVER:
• Dinsmore

EVENT LANYARD:
• MelCap Partners, LLC

HOTEL KEY CARD:
• Cherry Bekaert

COFFEE BAR SPONSOR:
• PayCor

CHAIR MASSAGE SPONSOR:
• Chikol Equities

WIFI SPONSOR:
• Roebling Capital