Johnson Club of the Finger Lakes Predictions Dinner
Details
Eighth Annual Finger Lakes Predictions Dinner
featuring
Executive Director, John and Dyan Smith Family Business Initiative at Cornell University
"Family Business on the Front Lines: Entrepreneurs, Enterprises, and Extremophiles"
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 Reception: 6:00 p.m. | Dinner: 7:00 p.m.
The Ithaca Country Club 189 Pleasant Grove Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850
Cost: Alumni and guests: $60/person | Early bird: $50/person if you register by 12/18 Students and guests: $30/person
Fees include reception and three-course meal
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Where
Ithaca Country Club
189 Pleasant Grove Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Speakers
Daniel Garrett Van Der Vliet
Executive Director of the Smith Family Business Initiative
Cornell University
Daniel G. Van Der Vliet is Executive Director of the Smith Family Business Initiative at Cornell University. Launched in 2014 with a generous gift from John (MBA ÔÇÿ74) and Dyan Smith, and housed in the S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, the SFBI @ Cornell is developing programs, courses and content for students, business owners and next generation thinkers in todayÔÇÖs global economy. As director of the Family Business Initiative @ UVM from 2003-2014, Dann worked with owners and their successors to find solutions that work for both family and business. Dann is co-founder of the Global Family Enterprise Case Competition, which has attracted over 30 schools from 15 countries in its first three years. He developed and taught the Leading and Managing the Family and Closely Held Business course at the University of Vermont. As Director of the Vermont Business Center from 2004-2008, Dann oversaw the launch and growth of the executive education curriculum and management development seminars at UVM in addition to establishing custom trainings offered by the University of Vermont School of Business. Previously, he has served on the Board of Directors for the Family Enterprise Research Conference, the board of advisors for the Family Business Wiki, on the Board of Trustees for the Birds of Vermont Museum, the Board of Corporators for the Northfield Savings Bank, and is past President of the Burlington Sunrise Rotary Club.