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EVENTS

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EO Brooklyn MAIN EVENT: Go BIG or Go HOME Learn from CEOs who Scaled EXPONENTIALLY
 

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't BIG enough. If you are waiting for a sign from the universe, this is it. Now go BIG. Are you in the money business? Or in the EMPIRE business? Are you in it to win? Or DOMINATE? One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Will it be worth watching?

Join EO Brooklyn and EO2030 and a panel of CEOs of emerging companies as they share their secrets of how they grew their enterprise:

Into the largest film and TV production complex on the East Coast
To include 16 stores in three states and a successful e-commerce website
Into a lending platform with over $250 million in credit facilities.
 
This is your chance. ASK. KNOW. GO BIG.
 
Panelists
   

Douglas Steiner, Chairman
Steiner Studios

Douglas Steiner is the Chairman of Brooklyn-based 580,000 square foot Steiner Studios, the largest film and TV production complex on the East Coast. "Spider-Man," "Men in Black," "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Sex and the City" and "Boardwalk Empire" are just a few of the productions that have filmed there. Steiner is also a real estate developer. The company Steiner Equities Group, started by his father, develops commercial buildings nationwide and residential buildings in New York.

   

Lexy Funk, CEO
Brooklyn Industries

Artist turned entrepreneur Lexy Funk the co-founder and CEO of Brooklyn Industries, a business that has grown since 1998 from making messenger bags out of used billboard vinyl to a full men 's and women 's lifestyle clothing and accessories retailer. The visionary entrepreneur has grown the retail company organically to include 16 stores in three states and a successful e-commerce website. Lexy graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Art and Intellectual History from Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

   

Jeffrey Rogers, President and CEO
LiftForward

Jeffrey Rogers is the CEO and President of LiftForward, Inc., which operates a marketplace platform which enable retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and other organizations to offer their small business customers with invoice and inventory financing. Prior to his current role, Jeffrey grew and ran several companies and spent time on Wall Street as an investment banker.

   

Moderator

Richard Levychin, CPA, CGMA is a Partner with KBL, LLP where he is the Partner in charge of KBL's Emerging Business practice group. KBL is a CPA and Advisory firm with offices located in New York City. KBL was the winner of the 2015 Best of Manhattan Award (CPA category) and was the 2014 SmartCEO Magazine Accounting Firm of the Year. Richard is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He has over 25 years of accounting, auditing, business advisory, and tax experience working with both privately owned and publicly held entities in a variety of industries.

In 2015 Richard was presented by his alma mater Baruch College with the Baruch College Alumni Association's "Alumni Leadership Award for Business". In 2013 Richard received the title of "Best Accountant" from The New York Enterprise Report. Richard is a past winner of The Network Journal's prestigious "40 Under 40" award.

 
 
Date : Thursday, April 21, 2016
Time : 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location : Steiner Studios
15 Washington Avenue Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn, NY
RSVP : Janet Grosso at jgrosso@kbl.com . When you RSVP please indicate to Janet if you will be taking the van from Manhattan per below.
 

Transportation from Manhattan

Need transportation from Manhattan to Brooklyn? EO 2030 will be providing transportation services from Grand Central Terminal to Steiner Studios, and from Steiner Studios back to Grand Central Terminal or the Barclays Center subway station.

Meet us at Beer Table. Beer Table is located at 22 Grand Central Terminal in the Graybar Passage in Grand Central Terminal. It is on street level, in the southeast corner of the terminal, near the entrance at 43rd Street and Lexington Avenue. It is directly across the hallway from Track 13.

The bus to Steiner Studios will board near the entrance at 43rd Street and Lexington Avenue.

Have a beer on us, hang with some EOers, and then get on the bus to Brooklyn and Go BIG! Then Go HOME!

We will start gathering at Beer Table at 4:30pm. The bus will leave promptly at 5pm.

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