Black Leadership Roundtable

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St. Louis Black Leadership Roundtable’s
Center for the Acceleration of African American Business

(CAAAB)

and
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
Presents
“Leveraging Capital from the Public and Private Sectors”
Friday, November 14, 2008, 5-8pm
University of Missouri – St. Louis, Millennium Student Center
Program
Opening Remarks

Introduction of the MC

Eddie G. Davis,

Director Center for the Acceleration of African American Business
Introduction of Dignitaries

Charlotte Ottley,

Director of Communications & Special Initiatives for License Collector, City of St. Louis
Remarks

Rev. Sammie E. Jones, Chair,

St. Louis Black Leadership Roundtable

David Price,

Sire, Archon, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
Michael McMillan,

License Collector, City of St. Louis
Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Charlotte Ottley
Keynote Address

Vincent T. Volpe, Assistant Professor of Management,

John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University
Brief Introductions of Panelists
Move to Panel Discussions

Charlotte Ottley
Public Sector Financing Panelists - Session 1
Moderator: Donnell Reid, Member, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and former

President, Gateway National Bank
Patrick Banister, Director Business Development,

St. Louis Development Corporation
Celeste Metcalf,

Manager, Urban Enterprise Loan Program, St. Louis Minority Business Council
Page 2
Richard M. (Rick) Palank,

Senior Vice President of Business Finance, St. Louis County Economic Council
Lynne C. Steele, Director of Economic Development, Grace Hill Settlement House
Private Sector Financing Panelists - Session 2
Moderator: Carter Dunkin,

Member, CAAAB Business Roundtable Advisory Group and former Senior Vice President, Advantage Capital Partners Craig Fowler,

Managing Director/Senior Vice-President, Bank of America Capital Access Funds

Sibila Bacon,

Assistant, Home and Micro Business Loans, Justine Petersen.

Temeshia Qualls,

Micro-Enterprise Specialist, Justine Petersen Housing and Reinvestment, Inc

W. Thomas Reeves,

President, Pulaski Bank
Sponsors
St. Louis Black Leadership Roundtable
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity
Ingersol Rand
KAI – Kennedy Associates Architects
Z's Layout Design Graphics
Pulaski Bank
Grace Hill Settlement House

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