Pre-Registration Information: Pre-Registration will close at 6:00 PM on Tuesday May 29th. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday May 28, 2012. All Pre-Registration are considered as Guaranteed Pre-Registrations and all No-Shows will be billed. We can only accept Credit Cards on our Website.

AGENDA: 5:15 PM Networking; 6:00 PM Self-Introductions & Dinner; 6:45 PM Presentation of the Gold Coast Venture Forum; 7:15 PM Panel Discussion

Moderator

Gail Liberman
Author & Journalist

Gail Liberman is a Palm Beach Gardens, FL.-based award-winning personal finance columnist for the "Palm Beach Daily News." She also is co-columnist for Dow Jones Retirement Weekly, a contributing editor to Financial Advisor magazine and coauthor of "Quick Steps to Financial Stability (Que)." A veteran journalist of 40 years, she helped start Bank Rate Monitor, now Bankrate, in the 1980s, and spent 15 years writing and editing for that and affiliate banking publications. Liberman’s book, “Rags to Riches (Dearborn),” coauthored with husband, Alan Lavine, was featured on Oprah’s television show. The couple’s “Family Finances” columns, for many years, appeared in newspapers nationally, including the Boston Herald, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Scripps newspapers on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Liberman coauthored such critically acclaimed books as “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money with Mutual Funds (Alpha),” “Love Marriage and Money (Dearborn), “Rags to Retirement (Alpha)” and “Improving Your Credit and Reducing Your Debt (Wiley).” The couple also coauthored a “Consumer Banking” column for Dow Jones MarketWatch. Liberman’s many personal finance articles have appeared in magazines, such as Consumers Digest, Your Money, the Journal of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and Worth. She has been a guest on radio and television shows, including CNN, PBS, CNBC, “The Early Show,” and “Fox & Friends,” and quoted in newspapers and magazines nationally, including both the “New York Times” and “The Wall Street Journal.” Liberman began her career with the Associated Press, United Press International and United Features Syndicate before working as a general assignment reporter for the Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, NJ. On March 31st the Palm Beach Daily News published an article by Gail entitled "Check crowdfunding investments carefully; pitfalls abound".

Panleists

Andrew Rachmell,
Co-Founder and VP of Business Development, peerbackers, LLC

Andrew is co-founder of peerbackers.com, a crowdfunding web site dedicated to helping entrepreneurs raise capital to start or grow their business. The site and its work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur magazine, Inc. magazine, The Huffington Post, Reuters and other business publications, and on MSNBC. As head of business development, Andrew secures partnerships and sponsorships with organizations serving entrepreneurs, including universities, nonprofits, businesses, government, trade associations and the media. In addition, he spends a portion of his time educating students, recent grads and entrepreneurs by hosting workshops and webinars that cover all facets of entrepreneurship, including crowdfunding. Prior to starting peerbackers.com, Andrew has been a principal in several television production companies and executive producer of more than 400 programs including the award winning documentary 1955-Seven Days of Fall; the music series Frequency hosted by Dave Koz; The Next Wave with Leonard Nimoy; and the long running interstitial series on public television entitled Fast Focus. His programs have appeared on ABC, PBS member stations, CNBC, Discovery Channel and ESPN among others. 
 

Rebecca G. DiStefano, Esq.,
Shareholder, GreenbergTraurig
 

Rebecca concentrates her practice in the areas of securities regulation, corporate finance, corporate governance, private equity, venture capital and mergers and acquisitions law. Rebecca counsels public and private companies in areas including debt and equity financing, registration of securities under the Securities Act of 1933, continuing disclosure requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, initial and continued listing of securities on the stock exchanges and electronic quotation systems and the creation and organization of non-U.S. regulated investment vehicles including private equity funds and hybrid funds. Rebecca regularly represents clients before government agencies and SROs including the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA.  Rebecca has served as outside general counsel for private corporations and provided extensive counseling to executive officers and directors with an emphasis on fiduciary duties under state law.  She has broad experience advising clients in preparing for meetings of boards of directors, audit committees, compensation committees and shareholders.  Rebecca has worked extensively with corporate executives throughout her career to assist corporations in achieving compliant and consistent disclosure through press releases, marketing disclosure and 1934 Act public filings. She received her B.A. degree at the University of Georgia, her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Nova Southeastern University, and her LL.M. degree, with distinction, in securities and financial regulation, from Georgetown University.


David C. Scileppi, Esq.
Shareholder, Gunster

Mr. Scileppi is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of the Securities and Corporate Governance Practice at Gunster, Florida’s Law Firm for Business with eight offices throughout the state. His principal areas of practice are securities, mergers and acquisitions, banking, and general corporate law. Mr. Scileppi has extensive experience in securities matters, including advising clients with regard to their private and public offerings of securities (including initial public offerings) and their ongoing disclosure obligations. He has taken companies public as an attorney and, while an auditor with KPMG LLP, as an accountant. Mr. Scileppi serves on the Securities Law Committee of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals and a member of the Advisory Board for the Florida Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He speaks regularly at conferences and is frequently quoted in the press on securities issues. Mr. Scileppi co-chairs Gunster’s Emerging Growth Companies Task Force, which provides guidance to Gunster clients on the implementation of the JOBS Act. Mr. Scileppi received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Hofstra University and his M.S. in Mass Communications (with distinction) and J.D. from the University of Florida (with honors), where he was a board member of the Florida Law Review. He is a member of the Florida Bar and a certified public accountant (currently inactive) in New York.

Reynolds Marion
Founder of Marion Hyper-Submersible Powerboat, LLC

Mr. Marion's company used crowd funding for their initial phase one capital raise to introduce a patent products to global marine brokers. In phase two a significant capital raise is needed. The company plans to take advantage of the JOBS ACT once the SEC rules are in place to again use a crowd funding platform to offer equity in the company.

Gold Coast Venture Forum

Two (2) Companies to present.

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TBA

The Gold Coast Venture Forum is designed to facilitate the flow of information between entrepreneurs and investors and does NOT function as a securities broker-dealer, securities exchange or an investment advisor and it is not registered as such with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies making presentations to the Gold Coast Venture Forum have not been recommended by any federal or state securities commission, regulatory authority and government entity or by the Gold Venture Capital Association. The GCVCA makes no representation or warranties regarding the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information provided by the entrepreneurs. The GCVCA is a not-for-profit networking membership organization. The Gold Coast Venture Capital Association does not recommend nor make investments.

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Guaranteed Pre-Registration No-Show/Cancellation Policy

You can make a Pre-Registration on our Website until 6:00 PM on the Tuesday May 24, 2011. All Pre-Registrations are considered as a Guaranteed Pre-Registrations. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday May 23, 2011 due to the fact that the Association must provide a guaranteed headcount to the meeting venue at that time. If the pre-registrant is a No-Show and has Pre-Registered using a Credit Card and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday May 23, 2011 the Credit Card payment will be forfeited. If the pre-registrant is a Member and has used the "Pay at the Door" option and is a No-Show and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday May 23, 2011 then the Member will be invoiced for the Pre-Registration and the Association would appreciate the payment of the fee indicated on the Guaranteed Pre-Registration Invoice so that the Association can cover its cost.

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