Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Acts as external general counsel to assist clients on a variety of governance and operational issues.

Advises venture capital, private equity, institutional, and strategic investors on financing, mergers and acquisitions, and portfolio transactions. 

Counsels founders, emerging businesses, and other innovative companies at every stage of their lifecycle.

Strategically structures, negotiates, and effectuates complex financing and M&A transactions. 

Leads multiple teams of lawyers and business professionals across multiple offices, countries, and practice areas as well as external legal and business teams.

Directs multifaceted corporate reorganizations and implements governance structures for joint ventures and minority ownership investments across a wide variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and real estate.

Dedicates a fair amount of practice to pro bono work, advising charitable organizations and small businesses.

Of Counsel

Norris McLaughlin & Marcus

Primary practice focus on commercial law including areas of transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and land use, banking and financial services, and liquor licensing and hospitality.  

Assist clients with all manner of commercial law, including formation, licensing, dispute resolution, and negotiating and drafting contracts of sale or agreements with vendors or suppliers.  

Drafting and reviewing real estate, land use, banking, and financial services agreements including commercial and residential agreements of sale or lease, mortgages, guarantees, promissory notes, and subordination agreements. 

Represent sellers, buyers and financiers in a broad range of transactions including mergers, consolidations, stock purchases, share exchanges, bulk sales, dissolutions, and asset transfers.

Provide short and long term strategic planning regarding rights, obligations, and liability on a transactional level and at an organizational level.

Associate Attorney

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Research and determine effects of local, state, federal, and international tax law and communicate findings in clear manner.

Assist Fortune 500 companies in properly documenting, securing and retaining tax incentives through drafting and negotiating items such as regulatory filings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, and other documents and instruments.

Ensure that matters impacting client transactions and operations are adequately addressed by anticipating potential issues and identifying issues as they arise, formulating solutions, and working with team to coordinate responses.

Serve as intermediary between client and state agencies to facilitate working relationships.

Consult clients in various industry sectors expand and relocate operations with tax credits, cash grants, tax increment financing, abatements, and exemptions from federal, state and local tax.

Identify tax and non-tax savings opportunities for past investments, job creation, research, training, and other qualified expenditures.  

Analyze and calculate foreign tax credits for public companies with foreign subsidiaries.

Compile and analyze legal precedents regarding tax exemptions available in various states and offer strategies for securing applicability.

New York State Science & Technology Law Center

Developed creative solutions on the commercial development of early-stage technologies.
 
Formulated project implementation strategies on behalf of universities, federal laboratories, established companies, and start-up ventures.
 
Performed detailed analysis of regulatory and commercial risks and opportunities and advised clients on favorable courses of action.

Effectively communicated findings to client through written reports, memoranda, position statements, and various levels of meetings.

Identified and analyzed intellectual property, including its effect on patent applications and market ventures.

Consulted clients on strengthening products and working around potential obstacles posed by third parties.

Analyzed and formulated alternative strategies for commercializing technologies such as licensing, partnering, or sale.
 
Presented detailed written and verbal market analysis including evaluation of market trends, competitors, and potential partners.

Senior Associate

Rothstein, Kass & Company now KPMG

Oversaw daily operation of engagement teams while communicating status and progress.

Formulated strategies specific to client, industry and financial data to implement profitable solutions and regulatory compliance.

Prepared required filings with regulatory agencies including The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Team member of engagements including financial statement audits, reviews, and initial public offerings for clients in the service, real estate, trading, telecommunication, employee pension plan, and manufacturing industries.

Maintained strong client relationships by working with client to formulate advantageous courses of action.
 
Prepared and reviewed financial statements and disclosures, communicated with client through written and oral correspondence.

Conducted all phases of project from internal mobilization to preliminary and final fieldwork through issuance of deliverable.
 
Created budgets and forecasts, worked with management regarding proposals, tracked jobs, analyzed results and communicated findings.

Monitored and reviewed staff as well as educated staff on internal and external regulatory procedures.

Senior Auditor

I serve as a trusted advisor and outside counsel to a broad array of clients on a variety of governance and operational issues. I focus my practice on corporate governance, debt and equity offerings, majority and minority investments, private capital markets and venture investment, recapitalizations, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). 

I assist clients at every stage of the business cycle, from initial company formation, financings, M&A, and general governance to initial public offerings. I also represent buyers and targets in public-private and private-private business transactions. My clients come from a broad variety of industries including technology, software, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity, gaming, fintech, retail, e-commerce, finance, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare.

I help institutional, sovereign wealth, family office, venture capital, corporate venture capital, private-equity, and angel investors structure and implement investments and manage portfolio companies. I also represent private and public companies providing general corporate and strategic advice on financings, partnerships, joint ventures and M&A transactions, as well as inbound, outbound, and cross-border transactions. 

In many of these matters, I draw upon my experience in corporate governance, transactional, intellectual property, technology, licensing, dispute resolution, employee benefits, labor and employment, and tax law. My diverse legal practice and business background enable me to holistically service clients. 

I use my knowledge of evolving market legal trends, ongoingly developed by representing a diverse group of clients, to achieve successful client outcomes.

I cultivate an atmosphere of congeniality and collaboration to strengthen stakeholder relationships. 

I understand a client’s business goals, help develop a strategy to achieve those goals, and then execute towards those goals.

Brian Slough

DealFlow Events

Managing Director of DealFlow Events, overseeing the day-to-day management of capital markets conferences covering topics including growth company investment, SPACs, PIPEs, and Venture Debt.

Managing Director

For over 20 years, DealFlow Events has hosted hundreds of in-person and virtual events covering a wide array of business and investment topics. We’ve built a reputation as a thought-leader and trailblazer for our commitment to covering cutting-edge topics in unique forums for networking and education.  Events cover healthcare services investment, microcap investing, venture debt, SPACS, and PIPEs.

Marketing Director

No Matter What Foundation

Our mission is to inspire hope and contribute to a world where every individual has the opportunity to reclaim their lives. We envision a future where every person seeking recovery from addiction has access to effective treatment, fostering a supportive environment that empowers individuals on their journey to wellness.

The No Matter What foundation is independent of any specific treatment center or location. Our primary aim is to financially support individuals in accessing the treatment they need, regardless of their circumstances.  Learn more: https://nmw-foundation.org/

Board Member

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Business Consultant

Rosenfeld Media

As UX becomes mission critical for more industries, organizations, and people, Rosenfeld Media will be there—as a trusted source of really helpful, really valuable expertise that helps make sense of user experience design.  We connect people interested in designing better user experiences with the best expertise available—in the formats that make the most sense, and in ways that demonstrate the value of UX.  Come to our conferences.  Read our books.  Attend our workshops.  Join our communities covering DesignOps, Enterprise, UX Reseaarch, and Civic Design.

Senior Director, Sales & Marketing

ReelSharp Media

ReelSharp Media provides business consulting, marketing, and events services to publishers, conference producers, and small businesses.  Recent clients include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mass Tort News, HealthTAC Conferences, and Great Escape Recovery Coach Training.

Co-Founder

DealFlow Financial Products, Inc.

Manage program development, speaker recruitment, sales, marketing, and operations

Vice President

Skytop Strategies

Skytop Strategies is a professional events and media company serving the global senior executive community.  Areas of concentration include board strategy, shareholder communications, investor activism, cyber security strategy, ESG, governance, risk and other topics of critical concern to CXOs and boards.

Accountable for marketing strategy, content creation, new  product development, conference delegate lead generation, database management, market research, branding and communications for this growing media and professional conferences company.  Lead 6 person department including designer/web developer, Salesforce database administrator, associate editor, video producer, partnership manager, and marketing coordinator.

Chief Marketing Officer

Euromoney Institutional Investor

Head of marketing for the mining investment conferences, including Investing in African Mining Indaba, the world’s largest mining investment conference (6,000+ attendees in South Africa).  Responsible for brand/marketing strategy, promotion deployment and analysis, pricing, competitive analyses, marketing communications and media relations, video production, event photography, 50 partnerships, social media, market research, and website design and management. Manage a marketing team of 3, as well as 14 service providers including PR firm, designers, web developer, and videographer.

Director of Marketing & Media Relations

Marketing Consulting

Provide marketing consulting services as interim marketing team leader or project lead including marketing strategy, branding, website development, database analysis, lead generation, copywriting, conference promotion, sales promotion, social media.   Clients included: Healthegy, The Economist, Argyle Executive Forum, RFID Journal, MicroEssential Labs, Portico, Seed Media Group, Informa Healthcare, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, America Direct Services, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Eaton Publishing, Massachusetts Medical Society, Broadridge Financial Solutions, KPMG, Genetic Engineering & Biotech News, Public Library of Science, and The Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium.

Marketing and Sales Consultant

Haymarket Media US

Head of marketing for SC Magazine, SC Conferences, and all other products, publications, and services for IT Security Professionals.   Responsible for delegate marketing and sponsorship sales support for live conferences, online traffic audience development for news website, and lead generation for white paper downloads, and webcast attendance.  Developed new strategic partnerships to accelerate brand exposure and sales growth.  Introduced new internal cross-selling efforts.  Member of team leading corporate-wide strategic initiative to plan long-term growth.

Director of Marketing

Phill has developed a wealth of experience through a diverse career – from banking to media, covering topics from capital markets, UX (user experience), financial services, science, cybersecurity, mining, and law; with roles from managing director, to consultant, CMO, and vice president; as individual contributor or team leader. He's a fast learner, uses past experience to inform new opportunities, and is a tenacious and creative problem solver.

Phill thrives on collaboration, bringing out the best in others by challenging and encouraging them. He is adept at inspiring the smartest folks in the room to produce their best work. He is well respected by colleagues and staff for fairness, honesty, and candor.  
 
Achievements have come in all sizes including small service changes that improve the customer experience, to new sales programs that yields hundreds of thousands of dollars.  
 
Here’s what others have to say about Phill:

“Great communications skills”

"a good-natured demeanor-along with his marketing insights, good business sense, and proficient people skills-make him a great asset to any team”

 “Phill brought energy, experience & fresh ideas”

“…an easy style, and great sense of humor”

 “Phill knows how to build a strong team and brings out the best in them! He leads by example and is an excellent mentor.”

Areas of expertise:

•	Strategic planning  
•	Event management 
•	Webcasts and virtual events
•	Brand  building
•	Conference marketing 
•	Staff recruiting, management & development
•	Lead generation
•	Integrated direct marketing (digital & traditional)
•	Copy writing 
•	Market research (qualitative & quantitative; execution & analysis)
•	Product launch 
•	Sales support (lead generation, sales collateral)
•	Partnerships
•	Subscription marketing

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