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<strong>Entrepreneur</strong> <strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Series</strong><br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>University</strong> South Bend’s School of Business and Economics is proud to present the <strong>Entrepreneur</strong><br />
<strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Series</strong> for fall 2012. This is the tenth year that the school has hosted these outstanding presentations<br />
on the many facets of entrepreneurship.<br />
Tenth Annual<br />
<strong>Entrepreneur</strong> <strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Series</strong><br />
<strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Schedule</strong><br />
9.6<br />
9.13<br />
“Celebrating the Soul of our Economy: <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ship”<br />
Mark Tarner, President - South Bend Chocolate Company<br />
“Eat Well, Drink Well & Be Happy”<br />
Jonathan Lutz, Owner/Proprietor - Uptown Dining Group<br />
Carrie Hille, Executive Assistant - Uptown Dining Group<br />
[Each lecture is from 7:00–8:30 p.m. in Wiekamp Hall, Room 1001]<br />
The 11 lectures showcase many of the area’s premier business organizations and their leaders.<br />
For more information contact:<br />
Christine Pochert Ringle at cpochert@iusb.edu<br />
9.20<br />
“<strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Failure and Turnaround Strategies”<br />
Dennis Kebrdle, Managing Partner - Chikol<br />
The <strong>Entrepreneur</strong> <strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Series</strong> is generously sponsored by Lake City Bank. All lectures are Thursday<br />
evenings in Wiekamp Hall, Room 1001, beginning September 6 and continuing through November 15.<br />
Wiekamp Hall is located at the corner of Mishawaka Avenue and 20th Street on the IU South Bend campus.<br />
Leon Schjoedt, Ph.D. at leonschjoedt@ymail.com<br />
or Mark Fox, Ph.D. at mfox1@iusb.edu<br />
9.27<br />
10.4<br />
“The Lean Evolution: Creating an <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Environment”<br />
Larry Davis, President - Daman Products<br />
“The Journey of Invention: From Idea to Market”<br />
Tim Abbott, Business Advisor - Small Business Development Center<br />
New topics will include avoiding failure and turnaround strategies, the journey of invention, and harnessing<br />
the strength of human resources in entrepreneurial companies<br />
This series is part of the School of Business and Economics’s M.B.A. program and part of an undergraduate<br />
concentration in entrepreneurship.<br />
Supported by the Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County<br />
10.11<br />
10.20<br />
10.25<br />
“The Joy of <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Capitalism”<br />
Rob Bartels Jr., President & CEO - Martin’s Super Markets, Inc.<br />
“Staying Motivated for Success”<br />
Perry Watson III, President - Lexus of Mishawaka<br />
“Successes and Pitfalls”<br />
Amish Shah, President - Kem Krest<br />
Through the GENEROUS SUPPORT OF LAKE CITY BANK’S entrepreneurship<br />
scholarship, its ongoing support of this lecture series, and the financial<br />
leadership of numerous alumni and business leaders, IU South Bend is proud to<br />
support the spirit of entrepreneurship in our local communities.<br />
Sponsor of the <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ship <strong>Series</strong> Scholarship<br />
Paper: xpedx Endurance Silk 100# Cover<br />
Note: xpedx is a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified vendor<br />
and supplies paper from renewable sources.<br />
Thursdays, 7:00–8:30 p.m.<br />
September 6 – November 15<br />
Wiekamp Hall, Room 1001<br />
[lectures are free and open to the public]<br />
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND | SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS<br />
11.1<br />
11.8<br />
11.15<br />
“Studebaker to Ignition Park: Can South Bend have an <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Re-birth?”<br />
Rich Carlton, President and COO - Data Realty<br />
“People Power: Harnessing the Strength of Human Resources in <strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Companies”<br />
Terry Bush, Director Business Development and Human Resource Services - Kruggel, Lawton & Company<br />
“I Want the Money Now!”<br />
Mike Kubacki, President & CEO - Lake City Bank<br />
The IU South Bend Alumni<br />
Association will host a reception<br />
preceding the 11.15 lecture<br />
from 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.
MARK A. TARNER is president of the South<br />
Bend Chocolate Co., and vice president of the<br />
Chicago Chocolate Co. He is a graduate of Clay<br />
High School and Eastern Illinois <strong>University</strong>,<br />
where he earned both bachelor’s and master’s<br />
degrees in European history.<br />
He founded South Bend Chocolate in 1991<br />
and the company was incorporated in 1994.<br />
Today, there are 22 company-owned stores<br />
and franchises in <strong>Indiana</strong> and Michigan.<br />
The factory and chocolate museum on Sample<br />
Street in South Bend occupies 63,000 square<br />
feet and produces 6,000 pounds of chocolate<br />
per day.<br />
Tarner opened the Chocolate Café in 1998 and<br />
expanded the service areas in 2008.<br />
The SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & ECONOMICS<br />
welcomes you to the 2012 <strong>Entrepreneur</strong><br />
<strong>Lecture</strong> <strong>Series</strong>, sponsored by Lake City<br />
Bank. This series is a dynamic part of the<br />
entrepreneurship program at IU South Bend,<br />
and each speaker has been carefully selected<br />
to share his or her stories of entrepreneurial<br />
success.<br />
JONATHAN LUTZ is the owner and president<br />
of two successful restaurants - Uptown<br />
Kitchen and The Mark Dine & Tap.<br />
Lutz’s entrepreneurial interests with food<br />
began at the age of 7, when he first began<br />
cooking with his mother. By age 14 he was<br />
working in a restaurant. After graduating<br />
from <strong>University</strong> of Texas at Austin with a<br />
bachelor of science degree in finance, Lutz<br />
took a position with Lettuce Entertain You<br />
Enterprises, Chicago. His passion for food and<br />
people developed further in Chicago where<br />
he managed several top grossing concepts,<br />
including Shaw’s Crab House and The Pump<br />
Room.<br />
Seeing the opportunity to introduce the<br />
Michiana region to some new concepts, Lutz<br />
and his wife, Jenny, moved their growing<br />
family here in 2002.<br />
Lutz has plans to expand his company to<br />
include more dining experiences for the area<br />
and is currently working on obtaining the site<br />
for their third concept.<br />
CARRIE HILLE is the executive assistant<br />
at The Uptown Kitchen and The Mark,<br />
with responsibilities for accounting, HR,<br />
and management duties. Previously, Hille<br />
owned Entrée Vous, a healthy meal creation<br />
business that provided high-end entrees for<br />
busy families. Hille has more than 20 years<br />
of hospitality management and business<br />
development experience working in Fortune<br />
500 businesses.<br />
Hille holds a bachelor of science degree in<br />
hotel/restaurant management from Purdue<br />
<strong>University</strong>. She has been a speaker for various<br />
entrepreneurship groups in the area, as well<br />
as serving as an evaluator for the Kem Krest<br />
<strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ship & Business Problem Solving<br />
Competition. Hille is an instructor of hospitality<br />
management at Ivy Tech Community College,<br />
teaching cost control and human resource<br />
management.<br />
Hille is a consultant to a local entrepreneur<br />
that is building a business model for Renovare,<br />
a women’s health and spiritual renewal center.<br />
DENNIS KEBRDLE is a managing partner at<br />
Chikol, a management consulting company<br />
for troubled businesses. Kebrdle brings to<br />
clients his experience as president, CEO,<br />
or owner, of distribution and international<br />
manufacturing companies. His 26 years in<br />
the industry provides clients with an in-depth<br />
analysis focused on working capital review,<br />
administrative effectiveness, business plan<br />
rework, debt restricting support, interpersonal<br />
relationships within management groups and<br />
ownership issues, Kebrdle works with the<br />
client to chart a course to financial success<br />
and specializes in organizations that distribute<br />
through resellers or manufacture from multiple<br />
factories.<br />
Kebrdle serves as advisor to a number of<br />
company boards and to mezzanine and private<br />
equity funds on investment and acquisition<br />
analysis.<br />
LARRY DAVIS has been part of the Daman<br />
Products Company, Inc.’s manufacturing<br />
team for more than 35 years. Daman designs<br />
and manufactures hydraulic valve manifolds<br />
and related products. As president, he led<br />
the company’s transformation from traditional<br />
management systems to a culture driven<br />
by mastery, autonomy, and purpose. This<br />
continuous improvement process is rooted<br />
in a drive to “do the right things for the right<br />
reasons” and “help customers be successful.”<br />
Those tenets guide Daman’s journey toward<br />
understanding what matters from the<br />
customer’s perspective and building a culture<br />
around meeting those needs.<br />
Among its many accolades, Daman received<br />
the Great Lakes Manufacturing Excellence<br />
Award in 2009. In 2005, Davis was honored as<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong>’s Small Business Person of the Year.<br />
Davis is a graduate of St. Joseph’s High School<br />
and IU South Bend.<br />
TIM ABBOTT is an entrepreneur who has<br />
been involved in several startup businesses<br />
over the past 30 years. He has also helped<br />
others with their startups.<br />
In 2004, Abbott became the founding<br />
president of Irrigation Systems Inc. after<br />
inventing Hydro-Edge, a unique irrigation<br />
system for flowerbeds. He gained experience<br />
in the invention process and eventually<br />
licensed Hydro-Edge to Easy Gardener<br />
Products, leading the product to be distributed<br />
in Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Lowe’s, and to<br />
be featured on QVC.<br />
Since then, he has been awarded six U.S.<br />
patents and continues to follow his passion<br />
for the invention process. After serving on<br />
the Advisory Board of the North Central<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> Small Business Development Center<br />
for two years, Abbott joined the organization<br />
as a business advisor. In addition to working<br />
with established businesses and aspiring<br />
entrepreneurs, he heads up an inventors<br />
peer group that addresses the challenges that<br />
inventors face, as well as exploring the many<br />
new technologies that are available to today’s<br />
inventors.<br />
ROB BARTELS is president and CEO of<br />
Martin’s Super Markets, Inc. The first store<br />
opened in 1947 on Portage Avenue in South<br />
Bend. Today, there are 21 stores in <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
and Michigan with 3,400 employees.<br />
He began as a bagger in 1981 and during<br />
his college years, he worked in the meat<br />
department, in produce, and as a member of<br />
the night crew. He graduated with a bachelor’s<br />
degree in marketing from <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Following graduation, he worked at Macy’s in<br />
Newark, N.J.<br />
Bartels returned to the area in 1989 and<br />
worked for six years in various management<br />
positions with Martin’s. In 1997, he<br />
was promoted to director of corporate<br />
development. In 1998, he was director<br />
of marketing. He became executive vice<br />
president in 1999, president and chief<br />
operating officer in 2001, and in 2005, he was<br />
named CEO.<br />
During this time, management has added<br />
services to many of the stores including<br />
pharmacies, pet supplies, deli-cafés, and gas<br />
stations.<br />
PERRY WATSON III is president of Lexus<br />
of Mishawaka. Before the Lexus dealership<br />
opened in 2001, Watson had a Dodge<br />
dealership that he operated in Minnesota<br />
for nine years. He was part of the Chrysler<br />
Minority Dealer Training Program from 1990 to<br />
1993.<br />
Watson is originally from Muskegon Heights,<br />
Michigan. He received his bachelor’s and<br />
master’s degrees from Western Michigan<br />
<strong>University</strong>, Kalamazoo.<br />
Watson is a member of the St. Joseph County<br />
and Elkhart chambers of commerce, <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
Auto Dealers Association, and the National<br />
Association of Minority Dealers board. Locally,<br />
he is a mentor with the Urban League, Boys<br />
and Girls Club, and Jack and Jill of America.<br />
He is a member of Memorial Hospital’s<br />
<strong>Entrepreneur</strong>ial Advisory Committee.<br />
AMISH SHAH has been president of Kem<br />
Krest in Elkhart since 1999. Under his<br />
leadership, the firm has grown to nearly $100<br />
million in revenues. He has more than 10<br />
years of experience in executive management<br />
and business development both domestically<br />
and internationally.<br />
Shah is also a co-founder and director of<br />
Educational Software for Guiding Instruction<br />
(ESGI), a technology start-up company<br />
focused on early literacy by developing tools to<br />
improve education.<br />
Shah holds a bachelor’s degree from<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>University</strong> in finance, a certificate<br />
in international business from the American<br />
College in London, England, and a certificate<br />
in executive management and an M.B.A. from<br />
the <strong>University</strong> of Notre Dame.<br />
RICH CARLTON is president and COO of Data<br />
Realty, and is responsible for sales and data<br />
center operations teams.<br />
Carlton was previously the executive VP for<br />
GramTel, Inc., a South Bend based datacenter<br />
services organization. At GramTel, he<br />
led sales efforts that resulted in more than<br />
300 percent growth and a fivefold increase in<br />
managed data center space in three states.<br />
After GramTel’s acquisition by Cincinnati Bell,<br />
Carlton’s responsibilities increased to include<br />
overseeing the overall operational team, as<br />
well as the sales team efforts in <strong>Indiana</strong>,<br />
Illinois, and Michigan.<br />
Carlton has a long history of building service<br />
and solution-driven teams that provide<br />
great value to the clients of the organization<br />
while building value for shareholders. He is<br />
a member of the St. Joseph County (Ind.)<br />
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, a<br />
member of the board of Fellowship of Christian<br />
Athletes, and chairman of the St. Joseph<br />
Regional Medical Center’s People, Vision, and<br />
Mission committee. Carlton earned a bachelor<br />
of science degree in business from the IU<br />
Kelley School of Business.<br />
TERRY BUSH is a director at the Michianaarea<br />
CPA firm of Kruggel, Lawton & Company,<br />
LLC. He is responsible for the firm’s human<br />
resources (HR) functions, with an emphasis<br />
on recruiting, developing, and retaining talent.<br />
In addition, he works primarily with privatelyowned<br />
companies to address a variety of<br />
HR challenges and opportunities, including<br />
compensation and rewards, and recruiting<br />
for professional, management and executive<br />
positions.<br />
He also plays a lead role in the firm’s business<br />
development activities. Bush has an M.B.A .in<br />
HR management and a B.S. in Management &<br />
organizations, both from IU Bloomington. He<br />
is a senior professional in Human Resources.<br />
Bush is a member of the Society for Human<br />
Resource Management (SHRM), the <strong>Indiana</strong><br />
CPA Society, the American Institute of Certified<br />
Public Accountants, and he is also 2012-2013<br />
president of the Rotary Club of South Bend.<br />
MICHAEL L. KUBACKI is chairman and CEO<br />
of Lake City Bank and its holding company,<br />
Lakeland Financial Corporation. Lake City<br />
Bank is a $2.9 billion bank headquartered in<br />
Warsaw, with locations throughout northern<br />
and central <strong>Indiana</strong>. In 2011, Mr. Kubacki<br />
was named Community Banker of the Year<br />
by American Banker. In addition, Kubacki<br />
was cited by the Greater Fort Wayne Business<br />
Weekly as its Best Value CEO for 2008.<br />
Kubacki joined the company in 1998 after 25<br />
years with Northern Trust Corporation, serving<br />
in its offices in Chicago and Los Angeles. He<br />
grew up in Pierceton, Ind. Kubacki earned<br />
his B.S. degree in business from IU, and an<br />
M.B.A. from the <strong>University</strong> of Chicago. He<br />
is currently involved on the boards of the<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> Chamber of Commerce (where he<br />
was past Chairman), Regional Chamber of<br />
Northeast <strong>Indiana</strong>, Elkhart County Community<br />
Foundation, IUSB School of Business<br />
Advisory, LaCasa Business Advisory Council,<br />
Centerfield Capital Partners Advisory, the<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> chapter of The Nature Conservancy,<br />
and the <strong>Indiana</strong> Society of Chicago.