Visionary Entrepreneur Speaker Series 2011-12
Tom Freiling
Mr. Freiling will speak on Wednesday, February 15 @ 7:00 pm in Sticht Lecture Hall. His presentation is entitled, “About Our Father’s Business: Opportunities to Serve God as Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs.”
Tom Freiling is an accomplished, senior-level Internet marketing entrepreneur with broad based experience in digital publishing, new media, and fundraising with a focus on churches and consumers in the “faith and family” market. He founded two Internet companies with combined lifetime revenue exceeding $40 million dollars and serves as VP at Salem Communications (NASDAQ: SALM), the country’s leading Christian and conservative radio broadcaster and Internet communications company. He is the author of Walking With Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America’s Favorite President and Reagan’s God and Country: A President’s Moral Compass.
Mr. Freiling and his wife reside in Fairfax, VA, with their four children. His oldest two children, Matthew ’15 and Nicholas ’13, are currently students at Grove City College.
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All VE lectures are free and open to campus and community. For more information about any of these speakers, or to register, please contact Mrs. Lynn Stillwaggon, Program Manager, The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ 724-458-2003.
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Previous speakers this year included:
Sean Ammirati ’02
Mr. Ammirati will speak on Monday, September 26 @ 7:00 pm in Sticht Lecture Hall. His presentation is entitled, “High Growth Entrepreneurship.”
Sean Ammirati is the Chief Operating Officer at ReadWriteWeb and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to becoming ReadWriteWeb’s COO, he was Co-Founder & CEO at SaaS startup mSpoke, which focused on semantic processing of content and recommendations. Sean led the company to an acquisition by LinkedIn – LinkedIn’s first acquisition. Prior to that, Mr. Ammirati was involved in a few other venture backed startups and was a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Industry Center. He is particularly interested in technology and how it is changing media’s creation, optimization and delivery. Sean holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Grove City College.
David W. Gill
Dr. Gill will speak on Tuesday, November 1 @ 7:00 pm in Sticht Lecture Hall. His presentation is entitled, “The Calling & Career King: Who Is It Going To Be?”
Dr. Gill, Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology & Business Ethics and Director, Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace; Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, will give the strong biblical case for making Jesus Lord of our career choices and behavior, and underscore that by talking about how needy (and often receptive) our business world is for some help on ethics, values, leadership, the meaning and purpose of work.