Smart Business Dealmakers Conference 2020 - Pittsburgh | Smart Business Dealmakers | 5 March 2020 | Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, 600 Commonwealth Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA

The Smart Business Dealmakers Conference connects thousands of local dealmakers - 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 alternative asset investing, our conference covers the breadth of the M&A landscape.

To experience Dealmakers, take a look inside last year's event (previously known as ASPIRE)

2020 Speakers

Jim Altman
Middle Market Banking Regional Executive- PA and WVA, Huntington

Thomas L. Bakaitus Jr.
Partner-In-Charge, Western PA, Herbein + Company Inc.

Leroy Ball
President & CEO, Koppers, Inc.

Michael Bernstein
CEO, Woodland Management

Beth Bershok
Regional Marketing Director, Herbein + Company Inc.

Don Braun
Managing Director, AB Bernstein

Bart Bucci
Managing Director, Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management

Gregory D. Cessna
CEO, Extrel CMS

Bill Collier
Vice President, Holsinger P.C.

Jeff Conn
Managing Partner, Pittsburgh, Clark Hill PLC

Brian Dobis
EVP, Managing Director of Commercial and Industrial Banking, S&T Bank

Ron Donatelli
Pittsburgh Regional President, First National Bank

Christian A. Farmakis
Shareholder; Chairman of the Board, Babst Calland

Jeffrey A. Ford
Partner, Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP

Thomas B. Grealish
President, Henderson Brothers

Dan Griffith
Senior VP, Director of Wealth Strategy, Huntington Private Bank

Stephen J. Gurgovits Jr.
Managing Partner, Tecum Capital

Mark Guterman
Vice President, Capital Markets, First National Bank

Christian Harsch
Managing Director, Confluence Advisors, LLC

Craig Heryford
Partner & National Co-Chair, Gordon & Rees

Matthew Helfrich
President, Waldron Private Wealth

Hugh Hinton
Founder; Former Owner & CEO, Sterling Transport

Jay Katarincic
Managing Director, Draper Triangle

Jud Kroh
CFO & Executive VP, Robindale Energy Services, Inc.

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

Louis Plung
Managing Partner, Louis Plung & Company

Rocky Pontikes
Managing Director of Investment Banking, Mesirow Financial

Scott Powell
CEO, Quick Med Claims LLC

David G. Schaich
Region Manager, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Andrea Steiner
Director, Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

Louis Testoni
Retired Market Managing Partner, PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Michael Wagner
President & CEO, Target Freight Management

Jason Wolfe
Founder & CEO, Wolfe, LLC

Benjamin A. Wilson
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

HOST COMMITTEE:

Jim Altman
Middle Market Banking Regional Executive- PA and WVA, Huntington

Thomas L. Bakaitus Jr.
Partner-In-Charge, Western PA, Herbein + Company Inc.

Shannon Baker
President, Gatesman Agency

Lynn Banaszak
Executive Director, Disruptive Health Technology Institute (DHTI) at Carnegie Mellon University

Robert P. Bauer
President and CEO, L.B. Foster Company

Craig Blank
Director of Investments, Woodland Management

Don Braun
Managing Director, AB Bernstein

Christopher Brodman
President, Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC

Bart Bucci
Managing Director, Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management

Yvonne Campos
Founder & President, Next Act Fund

Gregory D. Cessna
CEO, Extrel CMS

Bill Collier
Vice President, Holsinger P.C.

Jeff Conn
Managing Partner, Pittsburgh, Clark Hill PLC

Brian Dobis
EVP, Managing Director of Commercial and Industrial Banking, S&T Bank

Ron Donatelli
Pittsburgh Regional President, First National Bank

Andrew Dubois
Chief Operating Officer, Tulco Labs

Ann Dugan
Senior Managing Director, Family Office Exchange LLC

David Eichenlaub
Managing Director, Confluence Advisors, LLC

Christian A. Farmakis
Shareholder; Chairman of the Board, Babst Calland

Buddy Flerl
Chairman, RDX

Jeffrey A. Ford
Partner, Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP

Sreekar Gadde
Executive Director, BlueTree Capital Group

Avi Geller
CEO, Maven Machines

Jessica Gibson
Chair and CEO, Ariel Precision Medicine

Mark Gleason
President, Gleason & Associates, P.C.

Scott Graham
Director, Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

Thomas B. Grealish
President, Henderson Brothers

Vivek Gupta
President and CEO, Mastech Digital

Stephen J. Gurgovits Jr.
Managing Partner, Tecum Capital

Lee M. Koury
Managing Partner, Smart Business Network Inc.

Michael J. Lewis
Founder & Executive Chairman, Quick Med Claims LLC

Michael Matesic
President & CEO, Idea Foundry, Inc.

Kit Needham
Director, Project Olympus

Louis Plung
Managing Partner, Louis Plung & Company

Scott Powell
CEO, Quick Med Claims LLC

John Roppo
Principal, Roppotunity LLC

David G. Schaich
Region Manager, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

April Simile
Partner, Business Development, Incline Equity Partners

Robert Stein
Executive Director, Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence, University of Pittsburgh

Suzy Teele
Head of Marketing & Communications, Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM)

Jamie Van Buren
Managing Director, GT Entrepreneurs

Andy Vollmer
Managing Director, BellMark Partners, LLC

2020 Sponsors

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
• Cohen & Grigsby
• First National Bank
• Henderson Brothers
• Huntington
• Morgan Stanley
• Louia Plung & Company
• JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• Think Holsinger
• Clark Hill
• Bbst Calland
• AB Bernstein
• Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP
• Herbein
• S&T Bank
• Confluence Advisors
• Bellmark Partners

SPECIALTY SPONSORS:
• Gleason
• CIBC
• FlexJet