We're Hosting David Gertler & Eric Orlinsky, Founders of Treble Network

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David Gertler and Eric Orlinsky are co-founders of Treble Network, a new platform that is fundamentally disrupting the traditional business networking paradigm.

ABOUT TREBLE

TREBLE is built on the premise that most successful people know networking is about helping others! TREBLE goes beyond traditional networking platforms and enables users to post 'business wishes,' make referrals, and gain highly valuable, actionable insights from within the TREBLE network using their proprietary A.I. engine. Treble Website (https://www.treblenetwork.com/home)

Treble empowers business professionals to efficiently engage, grow, and most importantly leverage their trusted network to generate new business opportunities and advance their careers. Treble’s A.I. Engine provides actionable insights to guide you to make the most of your real-world relationships. Our Wish Engine unlocks the potential power trapped within your network so your closest associates can help you achieve your career goals. Treble also makes it easy for you to reciprocate and help those who have helped you in your career.

Agenda
6:00 pm: Relax and make new partnerships
7:00 pm: Fireside Chat with David & Eric
8:00 pm: Surprises, Announcements & Celebration

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Speakers
David Gertler - Treble Network (CEO)
David is co-founder and CEO of Treble Network, a new platform that is fundamentally disrupting the traditional business networking paradigm. He's a software executive with over 25 years experience leading multiple Fortune 500 and early stage technology companies specializing in software, hardware and professional services.

Eric Orlinsky - Treble & Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP) (Co-founder of Treble and Partner)
Eric is a partner at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr in Baltimore. He concentrates his practice in general business and securities law. He chairs the firm’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Practice. In his Private Equity practice, he has represented many companies raising venture capital funding, as well as numerous venture capital, private equity and angel investors.

Hosted By
Chris Haug, Chapter Director
Chris is the Columbia, mid-Maryland Startup Grind Chapter Director and Founder | CEO of 360° Strategy Solutions Group. He's a veteran of three start-ups of his own including the first sporting goods specialty e-commerce retailer and played critical roles in the creation and growth of 12 additional ventures. He's active in the mid-Maryland Tech and Innovation community through his involvement with the Howard Tech Council and Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship.

Ellen Stokes, Community Communications & Marketing
Ellen Stokes is a highly regarded strategic marketing, communications and business development executive, with years of leadership in branding, market development, digital strategy, market research, management and revenue generation. She brings a wide perspective from her experience in industry, healthcare, higher education and non-profits. Ellen works with companies to develop brands, target markets, align marketing and sales strategies, and implement marketing plans. She has worked with startups as well as multi-million dollar companies to drive revenue, increase efficiency and help make strategic connections. Ellen holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied marketing and operations research and was honored with membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honor society. Her BA in Business Administration with a minor in Economics is from Bowling Green State University.

Joe Barndt, Operations & Logistics
Joe Barndt serves as Chapter Ambassador for Startup Grind's Columbia chapter and is responsible operations and development for the chapter. He continually works to create new exciting forms of community engagement by developing new events and refining meeting formats. Lastly he works to enlarge the network for the chapter by finding additional partnerships and recruiting new members. Joe was raised by a hay farmer and a French teacher in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up as part of a successful small business taught him a lot of what it takes to make it as an owner. Namely hard work, sacrifice, and intelligent investments. Throughout his career he has continually looked for ways to improve processes to make work more efficient and to save companies money. These improvements have ranged from automation of account reconciliations to brand new detailed forecasting of funding and cash for a $9 billion dollar portfolio. His passion for helping others develop creative solutions is what led him to management consulting and joining Startup Grind.

Anne Howard, Community Development
Anne Howard has spent the last 20 years in the education space, as an accomplished executive offering extensive experience managing operations, sales, business development, and team leadership in high-visibility, customer-focused environments. Anne became a curious “tech geek” when she saw how technology could provide a personalized experience and allow learners of all ages to customize how they learn and perform with the use of technology. Anne decided to take her curiosity of technology and started her own consulting business. She works with small start-up companies as well as established companies in the technology, education, and investing space. Both entities looking for ways to grow revenue and find new areas of business to increase the top and bottom line of their businesses Outside of the office, Anne is an avid rower, loves to travel, make a mean playlist on ITunes, and be with family and friends. Specialties: Sales – Education Technology, Program/Project Management, Product Development, Strategic Growth, Marketing, Business Planning, and P&L/Finance.

Patrick Rockhill, Community Logistics and Data Analytics
As Ambassador and Chief Technical Grinder for the Columbia Chapter, Patrick Rockhill brings over thirty years of entrepreneurial experience in business and civic group management and marketing, mostly as principal and co-founder. He helped build a half-dozen such organizations and sold his last major one eight years ago. During his entrepreneurial career, he also developed and installed full-stack, enterprise-wide systems in over 75 contact centers throughout the U.S. and Canada. His current venture is developing innovative technological solutions to problems in the communications media space. Patrick can often be found in geek mode improving and expanding that platform. At home, Patrick encourages and helps the pre-school grandkids to read (a lot); while out in the community, he invests his time in drug education and recovery programs.

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Global Partner
Google for Entrepreneurs (http://www.google.com/entrepreneurs/)
Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

Partners
Hub Spot (http://www.copt.com/Properties.aspx)
Hub Spot is the next generation is meeting and co-working space in the Columbia Gateway Innovation District.

Treble (http://www.treblenetwork.com/home)
Treble empowers you to efficiently engage, grow, and most importantly leverage your network to generate new business opportunities and advance your career. Easily track when you give and receive valuable referrals and introductions Post business wishes so others know how they can help you; you will also know how to help others in return. Let our AI engine help you effectively guide your networking activities

360 Strategy Solutions Group (http://www.360semg.com)
360° Strategy Solutions Group is the business behind your business. We design, construct & manage business operating platforms so owners and executives can focus on the highest & best use of their time; growing successful businesses. www.360semg.com We're extensions of the business. We work side by side across all levels of the organization; doing the heavy lifting of executing & managing strategies, freeing clients to focus on the highest & best use of their time, talents & strengths.

Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship (http://www.hceda.org/maryland-center-for-entrepreneurship.aspx)
We’re growing tomorrow’s great companies today. The Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship (MCE) offers a rich, collaborative network of resources for entrepreneurs

Stokes Branding and Marketing
Stokes is a branding and marketing strategy company helping companies refine their marketing and messaging and grow revenue through customer and client acquisition.

Outerloop Media (http://outerloopmedia.com)
Discover How Our Video Production Services Can Help You Grow Your Audience & Customers

Digitech Marketing (http://www.digitechmarketing.com/)
Digitech Marketing is a nationwide, full service, social media - first, digital marketing agency. We specialize in bringing premium marketing services to startups, and small to mid-sized businesses for over 80% off traditional agency rates. We have helped countless startups go from an idea in a garage, to raising venture funding from a test campaign alone. B2B or B2C and in any industry we grow businesses."

Corporate Office Properties Trust (http://www.copt.com/)
Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) (NYSE: OFC) is an office real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in owning, managing, leasing, developing, and selectively acquiring high quality office and data center properties.

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THIS IS A PAID EVENT - PURCHASE YOUR TICKET IN THE LINK BELOW
https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-columbia-md-presents-were-hosting-david-gertler-eric-orlinsky-founders-of-treble-network