District Breakfast

Join us for the third District Breakfast of the 2015-16 Rotary year. We have a very special keynote speaker- Austin Beutner, the founder and chairman of Vision To Learn. 

Clubs should make reservations by February 4, 2016 to qualify for the early bird price of $38/person. Reservations after this date are $43/person. Download the reservation form/flyer on the left-hand side of this page. 

Registration opens at 7:00am and the program begins at 7:30am.

​Keynote Speaker: Austin Beutner, Founder and Chairman of Vision To Learn, a nonprofit organization that provides free eyeglasses to children in low-income communities. Austin Beutner is most recently the former Publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Earlier in his career, he worked at The Blackstone Group, and at age 29 became the firm’s youngest partner. He left Blackstone to serve in the U.S. government, where he led efforts to help Russia transition to a market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

After his stint in Russia, Beutner Co-Founded Evercore Partners and, as President and Co-CEO,  helped build the company into one of the leading independent investment banks in the world.

In 2010, Beutner accepted a $1 annual salary to serve as First Deputy Mayor and Jobs Czar for the City of Los Angeles. In that role, he oversaw the policy and operations of 13 city departments ranging from the Los Angeles World Airports, the Port of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, to the Departments of Planning, Building and Safety, and Housing and Homeless. 

In 2012, he created Vision To Learn, a nonprofit organization that provides free eye exams and free glasses to children in low-income communities.  As many as 2 million kids in American lack the glasses they need to see the board, read a book and participate in school.  Vision To Learn solves the problem by providing the access to care these children lack.