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SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital FormationSEC Headquarters
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9:00 a.m. | Call to Order Gerald J. Laporte, Chief of the SEC Office of Small Business Policy, Division of Corporation Finance Opening Remarks SEC Chairman Christopher Cox |
9:15 a.m. | Roundtable Panel on Small Business Capital Formation and the Current Credit Crisis
Moderators: Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, Oakton, Virginia Chad Moutray, Ph.D., Chief Economist & Director of Economic Research, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. Panelists: David A. Bochnowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peoples Bank SB, NorthWest Indiana Bancorp, Munster, Indiana Tom W. Burke, Senior Vice President, National Program Director/Compliance Manager, SBA Lending, Wells Fargo & Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota Daniel M. Covitz, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Chief, Capital Markets Section, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. Kenneth R. Pelowski, Founder and Managing Partner, Pinnacle Ventures, Palo Alto, California Ned Pollock, Deputy Comptroller for Credit and Market Risk, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. Andrew J. Sherman, Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Washington, D.C. Eric R. Zarnikow, Associate Administrator, Office of Capital Access, U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. |
10:45 a.m. | Break |
11:00 a.m. | Roundtable Panel on Current Issues in Securities Regulation for Smaller Companies
Moderators: Gerald J. Laporte, Chief of the SEC Office of Small Business Policy, Division of Corporation Finance, Washington, D.C. Steven E. Bochner, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto, California Panelists: David A. Bochnowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Peoples Bank SB, NorthWest Indiana Bancorp, Munster, Indiana Brian V. Breheny, Deputy Director, SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Washington, D.C. Aaron M. Gurewitz, Head of Equity Capital Markets, Roth Capital Partners, LLC, Newport Beach, California John D. Hogoboom, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, New Jersey Kara B. Jenny, Chief Financial Officer, Bluefly, Inc., New York, New York William D. Lutz, Ph.D., J.D., Director, SEC 21st Century Disclosure Initiative, Washington, D.C. E. Rogers Novak, Jr., General Partner, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, Bethesda, Maryland |
1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
2:15 p.m. | Reassembly to Divide into Panel Discussion and Breakout Groups to Develop Recommendations
(SEC Auditorium)
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3:30 p.m. | Break |
3:45 p.m. | Continuation of Breakout Group Discussions
(with same room assignments) |
4:45 p.m. | Plenary Session to Develop Next Steps (Auditorium)
Moderators: Gerald J. Laporte, Chief, Office of Small Business Policy, SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Washington, D.C. Gregory C. Yadley, Partner, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Tampa, Florida |
5:30 p.m. | Networking Reception at B. Smith’s Restaurant in Union Station |
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