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Wednesday, January 18, 2012 • The California Club
TODAY’S PANELISTS ANITA ANTENUCCI Houlihan Lokey Anita Antenucci is a senior managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. With 17 years of investment banking experience including mergers, acquisitions, financing and valuation, she leads the firm’s Aerospace Defense Government Group. Previously, she served as the copresident and managing director of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, a boutique M&A advisor to the aerospace, defense and government services industries. She held these and other roles at the firm and its predecessor company from its founding until 2002. Antenucci is on the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Space Foundation, the Board of the National Guard Youth Foundation and the NGYF Youth Challenge Corporate Advisory Board. She holds degrees from the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and from Northwestern University.
ROBERT P. CIESLA Boeing Bob Ciesla is Vice President and Program Manager for the C-17 Globemaster III program, at Boeing in Long Beach, CA. He is responsible for business, technical, production and support operations delivered to domestic and international military customers. Previously, he was deputy program manager for the C-17 program. Ciesla has more than 24 years of engineering and management experience at Boeing, including flight test and design engineering and project management. He serves on a number of non-profit and business-focused boards including the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation and the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from St. Louis University, a master’s degree in management from Polytechnic Institute of New York University and doctorate in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University. He also completed Boeing’s Program Management development program.and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
CHERYL WADESON United Airlines Cheryl Wadeson is a director of regional sales at United Airlines where she leads a team responsible for $500 million in sales. Prior to joining United in 2007, Wadeson served in various sales management positions with Northwest Airlines. Wadeson previously served with several healthcare organizations in Southern California, including Aetna Health Plan, Lakeside Healthcare, and as director of professional services at SMBP Healthcare/Saint John’s Health Center. Wadeson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
TODAY’S PANELISTS KEN GUSS Klune Industries Ken Guss is president of Klune Industries, which is owned by the private equity firm Vance Street Capital. Guss has over 20 years of executive-level leadership including the general management of three Fortune 500 companies and the chief executive role for 10 divisions of a publicly traded company in London. Prior to joining Klune in March 2011, he was group president and general manager of Meggitt Fluid Controls, a $300 million group of companies in the U.S. and Europe. Guss’ background includes the leadership of both public and private international companies in complex manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance, repair and operations in both the commercial and military markets. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and a J.D. from Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, Calif.
TODAY’S MODERATOR DALE E. WALLIS The Aerospace Corporation Dale Wallis recently retired as vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of The Aerospace Corporation. Wallis was responsible for finance, budgeting, contract administration, procurement, treasury and risk management. Before joining Aerospace in 1997, Wallis was vice president of administration and chief financial officer for COMPS Infosystems, Inc. and was director of finance for Mycogen Corporation. Prior to that, he held senior management positions at Ernst & Young and KPMG. Wallis is currently on the board of directors of Financial Executives International and serves on both the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Business at Loyola Marymount University and the Hills. He is an adjunct professor of accounting at the University of Southern California and was formerly a member of the faculty at East Central University. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in accounting from Oklahoma State University Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Business at California State University, Dominguez.
SPONSOR ACG LA Sponsoring ACG LA meetings is a great way to increase your firm’s visibility among the decision makers and deal makers who attend. Members know that your support helps maintain our high quality programming and they appreciate your involvement. For more detailed sponsorship benefits, please visit www.acgla.org or call Andrew Apfelberg, Vice President, Sponsorship at 310.286.1700.
TODAY’S SPONSORS
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sean P. Edrington, Director, Deutsche Bank Dale Wallis, Vice President, CFO & Treasurer, The Aerospace Corporation
PROGRAM GUIDE SPONSOR Greenberg Glusker is a 100 attorney, Los Angeles-based, full-service law firm that provides the highest quality legal services and strategic business advice to entrepreneurs and companies. Our areas of practice include: Corporate, Tax, Bankruptcy/Insolvency, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment, Real Estate, Environmental, Employment, Estate Planning, and International transactions. Contact: Andrew Apfelberg, Partner, 310.553.3610 or AApfelberg@greenbergglusker.com.
2012 ANNUAL SPONSORS ACG L A is generously suppor ted by our Annual Sponsors, whose commitments enable us to produce the highest quality programming with reasonable attendance fees:
Avant Advisory Group
James F. Davidson, Managing Director, 714.924.7888, JDavidson@AvantAdvisory.com
Crowe Horwath
Jeff Tillman, Director, 818-325-8416, jeff.tillman@crowehorwath.com
DLC
Rahul Merani, Director of Client Services, 310.895.7000, rmerani@dlcinc.com
Frank Crystal & Company
Shawn Bernardini, Executive Director, 619.265.6305, bernardinis@FCRYSTAL.COM
Gallagher Equity Advisors
Michael Patrick, Managing Director, 818.539.1421, Michael_Patrick@ajg.com
Grant Thornton
Harris Smith, Partner, 213.596.3445, harris.smith@us.gt.com
Green Hasson & Janks LLP
Sherri Gastelum, Director Business Development, 310.873.1605, sgastelum@ghjadvisors.com
Houlihan Lokey
Scott Kolbrenner, Managing Director, 310.712.6524, SKolbrenner@hl.com
Intrepid Investment Bankers LLC
Gary S. Rabishaw, Managing Director, 310.478.9000, grabshaw@intrepidib.com
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Scott Adamson, Partner, 213.612.7365, sadamson@morganlewis.com
PNC Business Credit
Gail Bernstein, Executive Vice President, 626.432.7540, gail.bernstein@pncbusinesscredit.com
Sheppard Mullin
Eric Klein, Partner, 213.228.3728, eklein@sheppardmullin.com
SingerLewak LLP
Ronit Koren, Director of Marketing, 310.477.3924. rkoren@singerlewak.com
Windes & McClaughry
Peter Lee, Partner, 562.435.1191, plee@windes.com
ABOUT ACG
Driving Middle Market Growth in Los Angeles ACG LA is one of the largest and most active chapters of the Association for Corporate Growth (“ACG”) and the premier association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions. ACG LA delivers thought provoking, knowledge-based events and networking opportunities for professionals responsible for facilitating corporate growth initiatives at middle market companies. Participants in ACG LA’s monthly meetings, world class conferences and intimate roundtable discussions include corporate officers, private equity sources and service providers who seek to remain abreast of current issues relating to corporate growth and to interact with thought leaders. ACG presently has 53 chapters in North America and Europe, with 14,000 members from corporations, private equity, finance and professional service firms. Visit www.acgla.org or call 310.426.9710 to join.
MEMBER BENEFITS • ACG’s dynamic global membership database. • Intergrowth, ACG’s annual global conference, facilitates informal deal exchange and networking with more than 2,000 leading international corporate growth professionals. • Mergers and Acquisitions: The Dealmaker’s Journal, ACG’s monthly publication. ACG members may submit articles and columns for publication. • Achieving Corporate Growth, ACG’s monthly e-newsletter. •
Merger Mogul, an e-newsletter from Source Media that provides expert commentary, analysis and news on corporate and private equity-backed mergers and acquisitions, focusing primarily on middle market deals, people and transactions.
Become a member today to gain access to the above benefits and more: • Attend ACG LA’s monthly events at a large discount from the non-member rate. • Attend ACG LA’s Annual Conference on September 11-12, 2012 a $150 savings. As a reminder, any ACG members who refer a new member to our chapter, will receive free admission to one of our monthly chapter meetings. For more details, please contact Christyne Buteyn or Ari Nadelman, our VP of Membership.
2012 ACG LA DIRECTORS & OFFICERS Andrew Apfelberg - Chairman Greenberg Glusker aapfelberg@greenbergglusker.com 310.553.3610
Steven Moon - VP Private Equity Duff & Phelps Securities steve.moon@duffandphelps.com 310.689.0070
Jason Brown - Past Chairman GE Capital jason.brown@ge.com • 213.615.2116
Chris Hebble - VP ACG Cup Cerberus California, LLC. chebble@cerberuscapital.com 310.903.5016
Thomas Cleary - Secretary Dykema Gossett, LLP tcleary@dykema.com • 213.892.5080 Suzie Doran - Treasurer SingerLewak LLP sdoran@singerlewak.com • 310.477.3924 Paul Gurrola - VP Programs BDO USA, LLP pgurrola@bdo.com • 310.203.1208 Ari Nadelman - VP Membership Lionfish Advisors, LLC ari@lionfishadvisors.com • 310.396.8000 Lewis Stanton - VP Corp Exec Stanton Associates LLC lstanton@stantonassoc.com 818.752.6500
Bill Webster - Chief Executive Officer 310.245.5942 • bill@acgla.org Christyne Buteyn - Chapter Executive 310.426.9710 • info@acgla.org Paulette Dallas - Chapter Administrator 310.426.9710 paulette@paulettedallas.com
UPCOMING EVENTS January 26, 2012 - Manicures & Merlot Women of ACG, Bellacures - 6:00 - 8:00 pm January 31, 2012 - Rush Hour Networking Craft Restaurant, Century City February 16, 2012 - Tribal Leadership Breakfast Meeting Beverly Hilton Hotel
Amy Oswick - VP Women of ACG Lockton Companies amy.oswick@gmail.com • 213.689.4205 Gary Rabishaw - VP Sponsorship Intrepid Investment Bankers grabishaw@intrepidib.com 310.478.9000 DIRECTORS AT LARGE John Brumlik KPMG LLP 213.955.8680 Tom Hayes PNC Business Credit 818.752.6104 Eric Klein Sheppard Mullin 310.228.3728 Scott Kolbrenner Houlihan Lokey 310.712.6524 Lisa Westhafer PNC Business Credit 310.809.9701