Entrepreneurs Forum of Southern New Jersey Meets on Family Businesses
Entrepreneurs Forum of Southern New Jersey Meets on Family Businesses
December 2, 2004
The Entrepreneurs Forum of Southern New Jersey (EFSNJ) will meet on Wednesday, December 15, 2004, from 8 to 10 a.m. at the RiverWinds Community Center, 1000 RiverWinds Dr., West Deptford, for a panel discussion on Family and Closely Held Businesses ? Opportunities and Challenges.
Panelists for the meeting are Art Silver, marketing director, Rutgers (Camden) Center for Management and Entrepreneurship (CME); John R. Honovich, principal, Legg Mason Investment Banking; and Gerald E. Darling, Esq., shareholder, Archer & Greiner, P.C.
Silver primarily is responsible for directing the Rutgers-Sun National Bank Family Business Forum. He spent most of his early career as a sales executive in the health and beauty care industry, with firms such as Smith Kline, Bristol Myers, and Jeffrey Martin, and also operated a successful general merchandise brokerage firm from 1976 through 1994 and was employed by a major food broker prior to joining CME. Silver is a graduate of Hofstra University and holds an MBA from New York University.
Honovich has 20 years of experience in investment banking and specializes in investment banking for middle-market, mid-cap and emerging growth companies with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private financings and public offerings. Honovich has a breadth of transactional experience and began his investment-banking career in New York with Salomon Brothers before moving to Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. He lectures on planning for family-owned businesses at Villanova Law School and is a member of the Harvard Schools Committee. Honovich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
Darling, who graduated cum laude from Rider College and summa cum laude from Delaware Law School and earned an LLM in taxation from Temple University School of Law, has more than 20 years of experience in estate planning; planning for closely held and family businesses; estate administration; and estate, gift and transfer taxation. He has extensive experience in assisting owners of closely held companies successfully transfer their businesses, utilizing buy-sell agreements, shareholder agreements, gifting, and liquidity planning, to avoid potential problems.
Dedicated to promoting a more entrepreneurial environment in the South Jersey region, the EFSNJ includes representatives from Rowan University, Rutgers University and area businesses and industry. The not-for-profit EFSNJ was formed late last year to foster the development of entrepreneurial ideas and ventures, as well as strive to improve the success rate of emerging, growth-oriented companies. The organization focuses on meeting the needs of entrepreneurs, businesses and educational institutions throughout South Jersey.
To register for the December meeting, visit http://www.efsnj.org/register.htm. For more information, contact Dr. Mark Weaver at (856) 256-4126.
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Panelists for the meeting are Art Silver, marketing director, Rutgers (Camden) Center for Management and Entrepreneurship (CME); John R. Honovich, principal, Legg Mason Investment Banking; and Gerald E. Darling, Esq., shareholder, Archer & Greiner, P.C.
Silver primarily is responsible for directing the Rutgers-Sun National Bank Family Business Forum. He spent most of his early career as a sales executive in the health and beauty care industry, with firms such as Smith Kline, Bristol Myers, and Jeffrey Martin, and also operated a successful general merchandise brokerage firm from 1976 through 1994 and was employed by a major food broker prior to joining CME. Silver is a graduate of Hofstra University and holds an MBA from New York University.
Honovich has 20 years of experience in investment banking and specializes in investment banking for middle-market, mid-cap and emerging growth companies with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private financings and public offerings. Honovich has a breadth of transactional experience and began his investment-banking career in New York with Salomon Brothers before moving to Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. He lectures on planning for family-owned businesses at Villanova Law School and is a member of the Harvard Schools Committee. Honovich graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
Darling, who graduated cum laude from Rider College and summa cum laude from Delaware Law School and earned an LLM in taxation from Temple University School of Law, has more than 20 years of experience in estate planning; planning for closely held and family businesses; estate administration; and estate, gift and transfer taxation. He has extensive experience in assisting owners of closely held companies successfully transfer their businesses, utilizing buy-sell agreements, shareholder agreements, gifting, and liquidity planning, to avoid potential problems.
Dedicated to promoting a more entrepreneurial environment in the South Jersey region, the EFSNJ includes representatives from Rowan University, Rutgers University and area businesses and industry. The not-for-profit EFSNJ was formed late last year to foster the development of entrepreneurial ideas and ventures, as well as strive to improve the success rate of emerging, growth-oriented companies. The organization focuses on meeting the needs of entrepreneurs, businesses and educational institutions throughout South Jersey.
To register for the December meeting, visit http://www.efsnj.org/register.htm. For more information, contact Dr. Mark Weaver at (856) 256-4126.
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