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2000: Panel of Experts

2000:  Harraseeket Inn, Freeport, Maine

Guest Speakers:  

Stephen A. Canders, Esq., Principal/Founder, Maine Legal Associates, Expertise: Corporate Law

Marcia Feller, Founder/Owner,  Couleur Collection:  Women’s clothing. Expertise: Retailing

Katherine M. Greenleaf:  Sr. VP Operations, Wright Express, Expertise: Business Management and Human Resources

Amy Kanyuk, Esq., Principal/Founder, McDonald & Kanyuk, Expertise: Non-profit law

William Seretta, Owner/Founder, WhatIf Networks, Expertise: Networking and Web Sites

R. Steven Thing, Business Consultant, R. Steven Thing Associates,  Expertise:  Accounting Issues and Business Planning


After our speakers’ presentations, attendees participated in roundtable discussion groups of their choice hosted by the various experts.  Following this, several of the grantees presented to the group at large their businesses: what they were doing, what problems they had confronted and how they addressed them, and current problems they needed to address.  A panel consisting of the experts then asked questions and made suggestions for the participants while the rest of us observed and asked questions.