Meet the CEOs - A Conversation with Herb Cohen & Mike Krupit

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Worlds collide when our region's super-connectors get together to discuss relationships, networking, opportunity, and career growth.

Takeaways:

• How do you navigate networks and know what are the best ones for you?

• How do you meet the right people and get introductions?

• Why is it necessary to develop thought leadership and an online presence?

• What are the best places to develop that online presence?

• What are best practices for networking with C-suite executives?

Meet Herb Cohen - Founder and CEO of Executive Leaders Radio

Herb Cohen, host and co-founder of Executive Leaders Radio, has a recognized gift for connecting with CEOs, which helps explain the program's success. As a co-host, he meets more than 900 CEOs each year running business with revenues ranging from $10 million to $16 billion. A down-to-earth host, Cohen has fine-tuned the art of connecting CEO’s life stories with their successes, a key ingredient with helping listeners relate and appreciate them as potential role models. With his huge contact base, he also introduces mutually beneficial opportunities among C-level executives, students and young business professionals. An active entrepreneur in his own right since the age of 19, Cohen has co-founded several small-businesses and organizations including, QuiqMeds, Pennsylvania Private Investors Group, The Pros Video and The Pros Entertainers. His academic innovations include co-founding the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Entrepreneurial Network, Fairleigh Dickinson Entrepreneurial Center, and the Center for the Advancement of Study of Entrepreneurship at Temple University.

Meet Mike Krupit - Founder and Chief Coach at Trajectify

Mike Krupit is the veteran of eight diverse startups, on both the east and west coast, and has been a fixture in the booms and busts of the last three decades of tech. He is the founder of Trajectify LLC, coaching entrepreneurs of young companies and small businesses to help them to cross the chasm, find and develop opportunities, and grow. His story is one of a young software geek that grew from CTO to COO to CEO. He honed his management skills and business prowess with young companies as they became successful exits and mature businesses, including three IPOs, a bunch of mergers and acquisitions, and a turn-around.

Mike spent a decade in Silicon Valley where he helped build Verity (a pioneer in search engines, IPO and sold to Autonomy/HP) and KnowledgeSet (one of the first companies to put data on a CD). In the Northeast, he developed the e-commerce technology and operations at online music pioneer, CDNOW, was part of taking the company public, later becoming CDNOW's CEO. Mike also worked with Infonautics (a pioneer in online information services) and Knite, a spin-out from Princeton University to commercialize an innovation to the spark plug.

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Herb Cohen

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