The Marlin Prestige Business Conference, Virginia Wesleyan University’s week long student-led business seminar, opened Monday evening with a social and featured speaker in the Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center. The biannual conference is the culmination of months of hard work by students in the VWU business course, "Principles of Management." Students coordinate all aspects of the conference, exercising key management skills like product development, networking, and project and financial planning. Pictured at the social with Maynard Schaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Paul Ewell, Dean of University College; and Justin Robins, MPBC Chief Executive Officer.