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.