Virginia Wesleyan’s student-led business conference, “The Marlin Prestige,” begins today and will continue throughout the week (April 24-28).
Our campus community and guests from the Coastal Virginia region are
invited to participate in workshops, presentations, and interactive
panels that embrace the spring 2017 theme, “The Pathway to Success:
People, Process, and Performance.”
The Marlin Prestige represents
months of hard work by students in Virginia Wesleyan's “Principles of
Management” business course. Students coordinate all elements of the
event, exercising key management skills such as product development,
networking, and project and financial planning.
Throughout the
semester I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with many of our outstanding
conference participants, including student leaders Kathryn Reavis (Chief
Executive Officer), Ulia Nelson (Chief Operations Officer), Nicholas
Hipple (Chief Information Officer), and Michelle Carter (Chief Marketing
Officer), and team members Lawrence Graves (Director of Financial
Planning), Lisa (Brown) Morton (Advertising Director), and Peter
Scrimgeour (Art Director). Along with fellow students and Virginia
Wesleyan business faculty, this group has worked hard to create a
conference that educates our community on the importance of marketing,
finance, operations, and management in the professional world.
I’m
also pleased to share that Virginia Wesleyan Trustees Jon Pruden,
Co-Owner and President of Taste Unlimited, and Ken Trinder, CEO and
President of EOS Systems, are among this semester’s guest speakers. They
join presenters Chris Dotolo '91, Financial Advisor at Edward Jones,
Bob Groves, Founder of Bob Groves Coaching, and Virginia Wesleyan's own
Dr. Travis Malone, Dean of the Susan S. Goode School of Arts and
Humanities and Professor of Theatre.
Daily activities will once
again include the popular “Shark Tank” presentations, which closely
mirror the ABC television series, and presentations by “Information
Systems Programs” (ISP) students. For more information and a complete
schedule of events, visit the webpage for The Marlin Prestige.
Many
thanks to Dr. Paul Ewell, Batten Associate Professor of Management,
Business, and Economics, and all Business Department faculty and
students for hosting this educational event for our community.
