The Venture Forum Entrepreneur Fair on June 5

The Venture Forum Entrepreneur Fair on June 5. A must attend event for emerging and potential entrepreneurs as well as the businesses and advisors that help make them successful.

The Venture Forum Entrepreneur Fair Hosted by Capital One Date:6/05/09 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Venture Forum Member Fee:$15 Non-Member Fee:$20

Event Information and registration: https://www.ventureclub.com/details_iwcalendaritem.jsp?ItemID=888

Join us for the first Entrepreneur Fair which will give emerging and potential entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from Richmond's experts about key topics to avoid some of the initial pitfalls of launching a company. This event will also give participants the opportunity to start the most critical component of success...building a solid professional network.

Topics include:
Entrepreneur panel - What I wish I knew when I started Successful CEO's discuss
Controlling Your Destiny – Why pursuing Your Entrepreneurial Dream Makes Sense Buying a Business –Hear the story and Learn from a Franchise Owner as well as an Entrepreneur that bought an existing Business
From Corporate Exec to Senior Manager in an Entrepreneurial Organization

Also bring your 1 page business plan summary - we will have successful entrepreneurs and business advisors that will sit down with you to discuss your ideas.

Venue: Capital One West Creek Campus, 15000 Capital One Drive, Richmond, VA 23238 Directions: http://www.capitalone.com/careers/organization/loc/richmond.php
Parking: Parking lot in front of the Town Center, or in the deck in front of the Town Center Security: Because of security, there will be NO WALK-INS for this event
Registration: First-come, first-served, pre-paid registrations. Space is limited so register early.

Tim Dempster joins Career Quest to lead Professional Temporary Staffing Division

Tim Dempster has joined Career Quest to lead our Professional Temporary Staffing Division. Tim brings years of experience with two large national staffing firms as well as years spent in the communications industry helping providers expand their client base and networks. Tim is an expert at developing new relationships while nurturing current client expectations in different environments. These relationships have been made successful by focusing on our client's needs and aiming higher than their own expectations.

Tim dedicates a lot if his spare time volunteering and giving back to the community. For the past two years Tim has been serving on an advisory board that decides the IT curriculum for students at Bryant and Stratton College, Richmond campus. He is also active in coaching for Chesterfield Little League as well as manages and coaches USSSA and AAU travel baseball teams. Tim is married to Christie and has 3 children (Van 11, Max 9 and Sadie 4 1/2).

We welcome Tim to the Career Quest team and hope that you will call us with your ptofessional temporary staffing needs.Tim Dempster - tim@career-quest.com / 804-377-8600 x 402

WTVR To Host CBS 6 Joblink Pink Slip Party

For more information contact: For Immediate Release: May 13 2009
Connie Salinas, CBS 6 Joblink Director
804-342-5753

WTVR To Host CBS 6 Joblink Pink Slip Party
(Richmond, VA) --- CBS 6 WTVR-TV is pleased to host a meaningful service for the community – The CBS 6 Joblink Pink Slip Party, Wednesday May 27th, from 5:30-7:30p.m. at TJ’s in the historic Jefferson Hotel.

A Pink Slip Party is a tradition that has been around since the early 1900’s. These “parties” were initially established by hundreds of unemployed workers to gather, commiserate being laid off, the closing of factories and the country being in a state of flux.

The CBS 6 Job Link Pink Slip Party will host a variety of beneficial services for Central Virginians. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with employers, career advisors, recruiters, and financial & health experts – just to name a few.

“This will provide a valuable service for Central Virginians feeling the pain of the economy,” said CBS 6 Joblink Director Connie Salinas. “Virginia has not been immune to the economic problems you hear about every day,” continued Salinas. “The CBS 6 Joblink Pink Slip Party will bring people together and allow them to network with other colleagues in the community or explore new career opportunities.”

To attend, please RSVP before May 25th by clicking the pink slip web banner on CBS6JOBLINK.com. Registration is limited to the first 125 entries.
Where: TJs at The Jefferson
101 W. Franklin St.
Richmond, VA

Details: $10 Admission at the door
Light appetizers
Attire: Business Casual
Parking: Free Parking at The Jefferson lot on Main Street

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Networking for Richmond Accounting and Finance Leaders

FENG - RICHMOND, VA Chapter Meeting Announcement

The basic purpose of Financial Executive Networking Group is to create an opportunity for you as a senior financial professional to network, share job leads and friendship with your peers in the financial community. Featured in the January 21, 2003 edition of The Wall Street Journal,

The FENG is a nationally recognized organization for senior financial professionals and is also the largest networking group of its type in the entire world. Through Matt’s efforts, members of this “circle of friends” are so well respected in the search community that all of the major firms contact him when they have appropriate searches.

Date: Monday, 5/11/09
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 (Capital Ale House, Innsbrook, social to follow…$1 Burger Night!)
Location: Genworth Financial, building # 4 (see below), the “Forum” room
6620 West Broad Street, Richmond VA 23230
Speaker: Robert T. Skunda, President and Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Biotechnology Research Park

AGENDA
5:30 Informal networking
5:45 Deep Run High School demonstration of Richmond FENG Website
5:55 30 second Individual Presentations down front (please queue by the columns). Group wants to know:
(i) What are your skills, or
(ii) What are your problems, or
(ii) What are your target companies, or
(iii) How the group can help you, or
(iv) How you can help the group
6:15 Speaker -- Robert T. Skunda
6:50 Chapter business / Informal networking
7:15 Capital Ale House, Innsbrook, social…$1 Burger Night!

Genworth’s offices are located on West Broad Street across from the Philip Morris - Altria Headquarters in the Brookfield office complex beside the Richmond Sheraton (Shula's restaurant), east of the Broad Street and Glenside intersection, just east of I-64 exit #183.
Meeting will be held in Building #4 in the “Forum”
To get to building #4, turn into complex from Broad Street
Dead ends - turn left
Dead ends at Sheraton - turn right
Building 4 is on the left just past the parking deck
Park in the parking lot on the left just past the building (i.e. at the far end of the building)
Enter the building using the side entrance directly off the parking lot
Identify yourself to the guard as a member of the "Financial Executives Networking Group"
You will be requested to show an I.D. and sign in.
Bring a friend to introduce them to FENG. Let’s grow this chapter!
All FENG members, active and alumni, plus your guest, are welcome. Dress is business casual.
Save the second Monday of every month for this meeting, starting at 5:30.
Call or email Tom Kranz for questions. 804-402-6529 tom.trkranz@gmail.com

Robert T. Skunda, President and Chief Executive Officer
Virginia BioTechnology Research Park
Robert T. Skunda became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Bio∙Technology Research Park in November 1997. In this position, he oversees the management, development, leasing and operations of the Research Park and is responsible for carrying out the policies outlined by the Boards of Directors of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority and Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Corporation.

The Research Park is located on 34 acres in Richmond, adjacent to the VCU Medical Center and the new Richmond Convention Center. The mission of the Park is to develop Virginia’s biotechnology and biomedical industries; to foster technology transfer and new business creation in the life sciences; and to create new jobs and investment through attraction of life science companies to the Park. When complete, the Park will house over 1.5 million square feet of research, office and ancillary space in 15 or more buildings, representing a total investment of over $750 million, and will be an employment center for 3,000 researchers, scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative personnel. The Research Park currently has nine buildings, including two under construction, totaling over 1.1 million square feet of research, laboratory and office space. This represents a current investment in excess of $500 million and an employment base of over 2,000 individuals working in private sector companies and not-for-profits, research institutes of VCU and state laboratory facilities.

Prior to joining the Park in this newly-created position, Mr. Skunda was Secretary of Commerce and Trade for Governor George Allen. As Secretary, he directed 15 agencies of state government and over 2,000 employees. In the four years of his leadership, an all-time record of $14 Billion in new capital investment was committed by companies locating in or expanding in Virginia. He was directly involved in recruitment of many well recognized international companies such as Siemens, IBM, Toshiba, Motorola, Gateway, Frito-Lay and Volvo Trucks.

An architect and planner by training, Mr. Skunda was a managing principal for 14 years with Dewberry & Davis, one of the nation’s largest architecture and engineering firms, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. He received both his Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.

Mr. Skunda has served on a number of boards of directors, including the Greater Richmond Technology Council, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, and the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. He is also a director of LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc., Richmond, Virginia. He has held several appointments under four Virginia governors and is a past chairman of both the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, and has received a number of awards and recognition for his service and contributions to a variety of organizations, including the 2001 “Leadership Award” presented by the Greater Richmond Technology Council.

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