April 9th, 2013

If it's the second Tuesday..it's 
Capitalist Forum
April 9th, 5:30-6:30pm 
Rio Chama Restaurant, President's Room !! 
...
Our Program

and HD3's NOT EITHER!!!!

letting go that is..
As discussed in our March Program, the recent confirmation hearings held in our Capitol for NM's Secretary of Education, saw educators forthrightly advocating for 'Status Quo'. Status Quo of a 'broken system' to be left in the capable hands of those responsible for our next-to-the-bottom status, quoting Lew Wallace as reason-enough to stay on the bottom as it is NM's destiny.

MANY ARGUE THAT THE # 1 ISSUE IN NEW MEXICO IS LACK OF JOBS. AS IN FIRST , SECOND OR THIRD WORLD NATIONS; WITHOUT JOBS AND A THRIVING, APPRECIATED AND SUPPORTED ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AND RISK-TAKING BUSINESS CLASS, ALL THE SCHOOLS, BUILDINGS, WATER WELLS, ROADS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SIMPLY CAN NEVER HAPPEN MUCH LESS ADVANCE A NATION, STATE OR COMMUNITY.

THE TRUISM THAT NOT ONE PENNY WAS EVER CREATED BY GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE POIGNANT.

TO THAT END, YOUR PROGRAM COMMITTEE HAS DELIVERED AGAIN. 

ALL HANDS ON DECK!!  
"HD3 
AND THE CITIZEN'S MOVEMENT TO GROW WEALTH, JOBS AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR ECONOMY IN SANTA FE AND ACROSS NEW MEXICO".

YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THEM...NOW MEET AND HEAR FROM THEM!!!

Michelle D. Miller
Michelle D. Miller, MPA, is the founder and managing partner of Presence Marketing Communications and Public Affairs, LLC - a boutique marketing strategy firm headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Consultancy represents a global base of clients in a variety of sectors including high technology, consumer products, health care, real estate, telecommunications, and financial services as well as many in the public and non-profit sectors.  She is also the founder and creator of the High Desert Discovery District (HD3), a 501c3 private-public partnership launched in 2010 to stimulate, mature, commercialize and bring to market technologies created in New Mexico that will become companies that remain in New Mexico.
She has held positions in all business sectors including the National Conference of State Legislatures, U.S. Small Business Administration, United States Senate, Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) and the Wall Street-based Chamberlain Communications. A business and social entrepreneur, Ms. Miller brings over two decades of experience in marketing, public affairs and public relations activities, with significant expertise in the shaping, development and promotion of companies, products and brands.
Major career highlights include the fight for passage and signing into law one of the most high-profile, consumer-friendly legislation in the 104th U.S. Congress. In 2000, she led the concept approval, oversight and development of the Emmy-winning Lucas' Story, which aired on Dateline NBC and was deemed one of Eli Lilly and Company's most successful public relations efforts in their history. She has been an original member of the board and management counsel to some 25 start-up ventures.
Ms. Miller holds a master's degree in Public Administration and Public Affairs from the University of Colorado.
 

Gregory J. Edwards

B.S. Business & Finance, Marquette University
Graduate School of Banking, University of Wisconsin

Mr. Edwards has over four decades of senior management and financial engineering experience in commercial and investment banking, as well as numerous industrial executive management positions.  He has vast experience in mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring, both as a principal and intermediary, in addition to all types of financing and public offerings.  Through the last twenty years, he has owned and operated numerous companies for his own account.  He currently serves as Chairman of CASS Holdings, LLC, a holding company for five privately owned companies, in the industrial composites, Government services and financial services industries. 

Greg started his career, as a commercial lender for a banking institution, now known as US Bank, and he was based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for nearly twenty years.  He considers this experience as his "business finishing school."  He was recruited back to his home state of Oklahoma in 1983, as a bank consultant and "turn around" expert.  He started immediately on a major project of rescuing a large manufacturing company, CMI Corporation.  He designed, engineered, and implemented a $97 million recapitalization of this Company, which was publicly owned and subsequently was listed on the NYSE.  Following this restructuring, he was recruited as President and COO of the Company, where he negotiated a number of financing, divestitures and acquisitions.

Following his time at CMI, Greg returned for a time to the banking industry, where he was President and Director of a prominent Oklahoma banking operation, which was subsequently purchased by a bank, later purchased by Bank of America.  For a period of time, he was CEO of a NASDAQ listed financial services company.  He later became an investment banker with Stephens, Inc. 

Greg has always been an entrepreneur, and since 1993, he has purchased or started a number of profitable companies in the manufacturing, polymers, contracting and financial area.  He continues to be an active Director in a long list of companies in many parts of the United States.

Greg and his wife, Mary Ann, have had a second home in Santa Fe for over 16 years, but they have been a full time resident of Santa Fe since the middle of 2010.

GUYS..our membership has gown 100% for three years in a row!!
It's hard to imagine one could belong to a more interesting, dues friendly and informative group than Capitalist Forum.

So, keep bringing your friends.
MAKE NO MISTAKE..our assembly, questions and comments each month are having a significant effect in Santa Fe, the State and way, way beyond!!! 

 Your Program Committee