Smart Business Dealmakers 2024 - Pittsburgh | Smart Business Dealmakers | 29 February 2024 | Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, 600 Commonwealth Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA

This Conference connects hundreds of local dealmakers — from middle-market CEOs to top investors and lenders to leading M&A advisers. With sessions ranging from raising capital to selling companies, the conference covers the breadth of the M&A landscape.

2024 Speakers

Tom Bakaitus
Partner, Louis Plung & Company

Bill Baker
CEO, Irwin Group of Companies

Brian Baum
Managing Director, Interchange Capital Partners

Robert Berdanier
Managing Director, Riveron

Beth Bershok
Chief Marketing Officer, Louis Plung & Company

Mike Blume
Partner, Tail End Capital

Dave Boyce
President, CEO, Bloom Engineering

Dan Broudy
CEO, Clayton Kendall

Michael Brown
Managing Director, First National Bank

Ryan Broze
Partner, Cohen & Co.

Joe Cardos
Founder, CEO, Free Market Health

Kristine Carpenter
Vice President, Legal, Global M&A and Corporate Governance, Wabtec

Jim Chiafullo
Member, Steptoe & Johnson

Robert Codol
Managing Director, PNC Mezzanine Capital

William Coleman
Senior Vice President, Aon

Patrick Colletti
Co-founder, Net Health, CEO, CoSage

Jeffrey Conn
Chairman, Member, Clark Hill PLC

Josh Curtis
Managing Partner, Footprint Capital

Brian Dandrea
Partner, Continuim Equity Partners

Bill Delaney
President, Distributor Service, Inc.

Brad Domitrovitsch
Chairman, CEO, American Environmental Partners, Inc

Ron Donatelli
Pittsburgh Regional President, First National Bank

Shaun Duffin
Partner, FORVIS

David Eichenlaub
Managing Director, Confluence Advisors, LLC

Buddy Flerl
Chairman, Datastrike, RDX/Navisite

Jeff Ford
Partner, Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP

Meredith Meyer Grelli
Entrepreneur in Residence & Faculty Member, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Stephen Gurgovits
Managing Partner, Tecum Capital

Donald Hall
CFO, EVP ePMO, Zippo

Timothy Hays
Retired Business Owner, Metsch Refractories Inc.

Craig Heryford
National Chair Business Transactions Sections, Gordon Rees LP

Adam Houseknecht
President, Best Line Equipment

John Lewis
Founding Member, Metz Lewis Brodman Must O'Keefe LLC

Dean Marshall
Managing Director, The Peakstone Group

Brian McGowan
Chief Financial Officer, Armada

Al Melchiorre
President, MelCap Partners, LLC

Kaylee Miner
CPA, Former Chief Financial Officer, Donegal Construction Corp

Nathan Moeri
Managing Director, Mesirow Financial

Kenn Moritz
President, CEO, Stonewood Capital Management

Ron Mumbray
President, CEO, Anchor Holding Group - Fluid Sealing International

Pete Muth
Senior Vice President, Stonewood Capital Management, Inc.

Jim Nickel
Pennsylvania Region Head, CIBC Bank USA

Patrick O'Brien
CFO, Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Chris Reinhart
Director, KLH Capital

Lori Scott
President, CEO, The Selinsky Force LLC

Pete Veltri
Partner, COO, City Line Capital

Brian D. Walters
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Matthews International Corp.

Andrew Wiechkoske
Managing Director, PNC Riverarch

Kevin Wills
Attorney at Law, Babst Calland

Jason Wolfe
Founder, CEO, Wolfe, LLC

Penny Zacharias
Partner, McGuireWoods LLP

Wolfgang Zahner
Director, Capstone Partners

2024 Sponsors

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
• Aon
• Babst Calland
• CIBC
• Clark Hill
• Cohen & Company
• Confluence Advisors
• Continuim Equity Partners
• First National Bank
• Footprint Capital
• FORVIS, LLP
• Grossman, Yanak, Ford
• Huntington
• Interchange Capital Partners
• Louis Plung & Company
• McGuireWoods
• MelCap Partners, LLC
• Peakstone Group
• Riveron Consulting, LLC
• Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

SPECIALTY SPONSORS:
• BDO USA LLP
• Fort Pitt Capital Group
• IMA Financial Group
• Insperity
• JP Morgan Chase Bank
• MILHEM DTL
• Northwest Bank