Smart Business Dealmakers 2024 - Detroit | Smart Business Dealmakers | 18 April 2024 | The Townsend Hotel, 100 Townsend St, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA

This Conference, formerly known as ASPIRE, connects hundreds of Detroit business leaders — from middle-market CEOs to top investors and lenders to leading M&A advisers.

With sessions ranging from raising capital to buying and selling companies to planning for liquidity events, our conference covers the breadth of the M&A landscape.

Take a look at this brief video from our event (previously named Aspire) to hear what people had to say about the content, speakers and participants.

2024 Speakers

James Bagian
Professor, University of Michigan

Joe Basilico
Principal, Transaction Advisory Group, Doeren Mayhew

Robert Berdanier
Managing Director, Riveron

Larry Brinker, Jr.
President & CEO, Brinker

Paul Brown
Managing Partner, ELab Ventures

Ian Bund
Senior Advisor, Founder, Plymouth Growth

John Decker
Partner, Taft

Kevin DiDio
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Kim Gorman
Managing Director & Michigan Market Executive, Wells Fargo Bank

Rob Grimaldi
COO, Viscogliosi Brothers

Rick Hampson
President, Old National Bank

Mike Haverdink
President, Great Lakes Region, High Street Insurance Partners

Cale Kaczmarek
Principal, Huron Capital

Edward Kim
Managing Director, Transaction Liability, Lockton

Michael King
Vice President, Charitable Wealth Strategist, National Christian Foundation

Mike Krol
Partner & Head of Wealth Advisory, Waldron Private Wealth

Kellie Kucik
Vice President, Payments & Embedded Finance, Serent Capital

Tracy Larsen
Partner, M&A Practice Leader, Honigman

David Mitchell
Managing Partner, TRP Capital Partners

Mitchel Nakken
Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Consulting, Palm Tree LLC

Naimish Patel
General Partner, Providus Capital Partners

Mark Ostach
Author & Leadership Coach, MarkOstach.com

Erin Pawlowski
Member, Dickinson Wright, PLLC

Bob Purcell
Founder & President, Purcell Advisor

Callie Root
Associate Attorney, Dickinson Wright

Dominick Schiano
President and Co-Founding Partner, Evergreen Capital Partners LLC

Josh Schulze
Managing Partner, Green Light Growth Partners

Sam Valenti III
Chairman & CEO, Valenti Capital, LLC | World Capital Partners

Brittany Westerman
COO, 365 Retail Markets

Jon Zimmerman
CEO, Jax Kar Wash

Jim Zwiers
Executive Vice President of Global Operations Group, Wolverine World Wide

2024 Sponsors

PRESENTED:
• Old National

HOST:
• Smart Business Dealmakers

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
• barnes & ThornBurg LLP
• Dickinson Wright PLLC
• Doeren Mayhew
• Honigman
• Lockton
• National Christian Charitable Foundation
• Palm Tree
• Riveron Consulting, LLC
• Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
• Waldron Private Wealth
• Wells Fargo

SPECIALTY SPONSORS:
• Chief Outsiders
• Famiglia Wealth
• Fifth Third Bank
• Hightower Advisors, LLC
• Synergy Capital Solutions
• Stout