We are pleased to welcome fellow alum Fred Brown, MBA‘85, as Medicinal Biochemist for a discussion on “Defeating Covid19.”

Fellow HBS alum Fred Brown, MBA ’85, is a medicinal biochemist who has been on the discovery, development and/or launch teams of 27 major pharmaceutical, 13 diagnostic and 6 vaccine products. Collectively, these products save the lives of over 5.6 million people annually and generated over $35B of revenue in 2020.

Fred comes to the fight against the COVID-19 virus from a forty-year career developing pharmaceutical solutions to fight infectious diseases and suppressing epidemics including HIV, H5N1, Ebola, Zika, measles and malaria. His extensive experience managing past pandemics is accelerating and supporting personal, business and government responses to COVID-19 around the world.

Fred has assisted 17 U.S. state governments, 5 national governments, 2 NGO’s, various agencies and selected mayors with their COVID response during this outbreak.

You will not want to miss this 90-minute, in-depth presentation to deepen your understanding of this life-and-death crisis which affects our families, our businesses, our country, and the entire world.  It might even save your life.

 Fred’s presentation will include:

• The latest regarding what we know regarding treatment strategies, transmission, immunity, testing, and economic impact
• Efficacy and factors for non-pharmacological interventions
• Performance of the U.S. vs. other nations
• Forecasts for the progression of the pandemic through this winter and beyond
• Updates on WARP speed vaccines:  development, efficacy, timelines, politics and challenges
• Economics:  impacts by sector, best-tools for government intervention, and forecast

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Link to the virtual platform will be sent to you prior to the event.

Virtual Chef’s Table Dinner for Two
A unique opportunity brought to you by the HBS Club of NEO

HBS Members  are invited to a “Virtual Chef’s Table Dinner & Cooking Class” with Union Club Master Chef Arnaud Berthelier.

“Chef’s Table Dinner”  last year was a huge success and a repeat was planned –  now we have added the aspect of a virtual cooking class. In your own kitchen you will prepare a dinner of scallops and risotto with ingredients assembled by Chef Arnaud and picked up at the Union Club in advance.

PRICING
Patron Members – no charge
Members – $ 50
Non-members $ 75
New Grads and New to Cleveland—no charge

PICKUP DETAILS
Pickup your box of ingredients at the Valet Desk of The Union Club on August 25  at 11 am or 3 pm by entering the garage off of East 12th St.  Union Club Staff will bring the box to your car.

Evan Miller, President & CEO, Greater Cleveland Film Commission

Miller returns to Cleveland after 15 years in the Los Angeles area working with film and television talent for two agencies. Evan has represented talent on Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and other shows.

He grew up in Orange and graduated from Orange High School and Ohio State University, earning a bachelor of science degree in business administration and marketing.

McMaster-Carr is one of the country’s oldest and largest privately held industrial distributors. 

Founded over 100 years ago, the company sells in excess of 500,000 unique items out of only five locations around the country, including a major full service facility in Aurora, Ohio.

The company distributes to tens of thousands of businesses without employing a sales force or advertising.  McMaster-Carr combines Amazon’s reputation for execution and delivery speed (same day or next day delivery throughout the US and Canada) with customer service and a return policy that is unique to just about any industry.

This is a company that rewrites the book on many of the lessons we learned in business school.

Please join Traci Rourke, Vice President & Branch Manager, of the facility, and her colleagues, for a tour of the state of the art distribution and call center.     

“Economic Forecast and Trends in Digital Currency”

TOM DOCKMAN is executive vice president of the eGovernment Department at the Cleveland Fed. Mr. Dockman joined the Bank as vice president of ecommerce strategic initiatives in 2015, and before that time he held senior leadership positions at financial services and technology companies such as Mitek Systems, Ally Bank, and Intuit. He has more than 20 years of product development and delivery experience in the financial services, insurance, and retail markets.

 

GUHAN VENKATU is a group vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. He leads the department’s regional analysis and outreach group. He joined the Bank in 1998 as a research analyst. In his tenure with the Bank, he has held positions of increasing responsibility including economist and vice president and senior regional officer of the Bank’s Pittsburgh Branch. His research and analysis have been a resource for the public, and he has advised and informed the Bank’s president and boards of directors.