Serial Entrepreneur / Author / Investor Jack Killion

Join us as Jack discusses why networking is so important and shares his real life experiences including several successful exists and investments as well as his book called Network all the time, everywhere with everybody (https://www.amazon.com/network-everywhere-everybody-Master-Career-ebook/dp/B016FLIJY6). And after he discusses the book on networking let's do some networking!

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Entrepreneurship is in Jack’s DNA.In fact, Jack’s masters degree thesis at MIT’s School Business School focused on consulting with entrepreneurial companies in New England. Prior to graduating from MIT Jack received his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University.The early career years

Jack’s launched his entrepreneurial career, in the early 70’s. He spent the first five years working with two partners in KBO, Inc. to raise growth funding for high potential emerging, younger ventures and providing strategic growth and turn around advisory serves to investors in early stage companies. Next Jack and his partners raised funding from a major mid west publishing company to launch Country Music Magazine, the first national consumer publication to serve this sector of the music industry. Simultaneously, KBO served as the publisher of Harper's Magazine during a turn-around period.. Jack also assumed leadership for the manufacturing company, Killion Extruders, Inc. that his dad started. Eventually Harper's was sold and Jack sold his interest in Country Music to his two partners. He continued successfully growing Killion Extruders for ten years and turning the company into a global leader in its sector before selling the company to a Public UK company.

Jack, following the sale of Killion Extruders, teamed up with another ex-McKinsey colleague to start and grow a publishing and events company in the emerging wireless and mobile communications sector. Wireless for the Corporate User quickly emerged as the leading media company in this niche. Continuing up to today

Following the sale of this media company Jack evolved into the hedge fund industry both as an investor and as founder and general partner of the Eagle Rock Diversified Fund. In 2012 Jack and a partner launched Bluestone + Killion, a training firm that continues to teach others how to network and develop significant relations that will accelerate their careers, increase their value to their employers and enrich their personal and family lives. Since then Jack has trained well over 1000 business professionals and university students to develop and use their networking and relationship development skills. Jack has given back by being an adjunct professor at three New Jersey universities (Rutgers, Montclair State and Fairleigh Dickinson) and serving on the boards of various significant corporations and non-profit organizations He is writing his next book pulling together his lessons for entrepreneurs. He expects it to be published in early 2016.

Jack credits his constantly evolving networking and relationship development skills as being vital to building his successful, international, diversified career ranging from working with the major corporations in the world to developing deep experience and roots in the entrepreneurial world.

ORGANIZATION NOTE: We will now be charging a minimal $5 for our monthly meetups. The proceeds of this and any sponsorship we get, after paying for refreshments and minor organizational costs like nametags, are being donated to the Morris Tech Meetup's official charity: 'Making a Difference Scholarship Fund (http://makingadifferencescholarship.org/)' which helps disadvantaged youth attend STEM-oriented private schools.

Agenda for the evening is as follows:

6:30 to 7:00 Pizza & Networking

7:00 to 7:10 Updates

7:10 to 7:20 Audience/Member Announcements and Requests

7:20 to 7:30 Startup Pitch #1

7:40 to 7:50 Startup Pitch #2

7:50 to 8:30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jack Killion

8:30 to 9:00 Networking

After 9:00 Drinks at Vanderbilt's in the Hamilton Park Hotel 175 Park Ave Florham Park, NJ 07932 (https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&oi=plus&q=https://maps.google.com/maps?expflags%3Denable_star_based_justifications:true%26ie%3DUTF8%26cid%3D16356950445471689601%26q%3DHamilton%2BPark%2BHotel%2B%2526%2BConference%2BCenter%26iwloc%3DA%26gl%3DUS%26hl%3Den) - Just exit through the Florham Road / Park Ave exit of FDU and you will see the Hotel on the left before you reach Park Ave.

Directions - Complete directions to the FDU library are available here - http://view.fdu.edu/files/directionstolibrarymonningercenterandorangerie.pdf

Parking - Park behind the library, across from of the dorms or in one of the larger (but further) lots. See the parking map below.

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