March 8, 2010

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The hard copy invitations are out the door this week and already the Awards Gala weekend (April 23-24) is 67 percent sold out. This is year's Awards Gala is the biggest Awards program the Council has ever had in several respects. First the event is a two day event. Second the event is over a weekend. Thirdly, the event is the first Awards Banquet in Boston of the recently merged Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council. And last but not least, we are pleased to announce that Earvin "Magic" Johnson will be the keynote speaker on Saturday at the Gala.

Here is a brief summary of the event:

Friday, April 23, 2010 - Westin Copley Hotel

Friday morning starts off with the Annual Meeting of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council. This meeting commences at 10:00 A.M. The business of this meeting is to report to corporate members, MBEs and other stakeholders the state of the organization and to elect new directors and officers of the organization. This is an informative meeting and all corporate members and MBEs are invited to attend. Only corporate members are eligible to vote during the meeting. The Annual Meeting is a great place for MBEs to meet directors, and for non-director corporate representatives to meet directors and MBEs. This meeting will conclude around 11:30 and will be followed by 30 minutes of networking. We are expecting about 100 attendees at the Annual Meeting.

At noon on Friday, we will begin the "Sports, Media and Minority Entrepreneurship Conference". This event will start with a luncheon and a keynote speaker. We are extremely fortunate to have Ms. Wendy Lewis, Executive Vice President of Major League Baseball as our keynote speaker. Ms. Lewis is one of the highest ranking African American women in professional sports and brings a unique perspective to supplier diversity and sports.

Following the luncheon, we will start with the first of two panels. The first panel will include, Herschel Walker of Herschel Walker Enterprises, Tate George of The George Group, Tim Sayers of Sayers40, and Magic Johnson Enterprises. This session will be moderated by an ESPN on-air personality. The purpose of this first panel is for the panelists to describe their successful transition from professional sports to business and some of the challenges they faced in the process. The athletes will also describe some of the things that professional athletes and others need to do to prepare themselves to be successful entrepreneurs.

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