Meeting Recap for July 28, 2015
Posted by Jim Culleton
on Jul 30, 2015
Fish was on the menu!
Greeters Jerry Haley and Carolyn Carr welcomed all comers to our Tuesday lunch meeting. Members and guests were treated to a wine reception graciously donated by Bob McLean. Rick Davis gave us a few different versions of "the Golden Rule" during his Thought for the Day.
John McIntyre formally welcomed our guests who included two prospective members: Joe Lal of Lal Real Estate and Karla Weymouth of Hampton Inn and Suites. Judee Daniels visited all the way from her club, Point West. President Dave Cohen launched into the meeting with the pledge, his introduction of the head table and some general announcements. Our thoughts are with Gary McDonald who suffered a stroke two weeks ago. He would prefer no communication until he gets back to his normal routine. Kudos went out to Past President Brian Van Camp for chairing the Program Committee through the first half of President Cohen's term. Dave promptly thanked him with a donation to Brian's Eddie Mulligan. News that John Nunan, a longtime member had passed away. Services will be held at Arden Hills Country Club on August 12th at 10:30 AM. Thoughts and prayers went out to his family.
Ted White donated his time as the meeting sponsor to Jay Lowden of the YMCA Superior California. Jay reviewed the wonderful outreach programs they are serving Sacramento's youth. They include 700 swim lessons; swim lessons for detainees at the Sacramento County juvenile hall as well as 650 homeless youth participate in a daily summer camp, Summer Food Services, Bear Valley Mountain Camp and a Jr. Giants baseball camp.
Announcements from Bob Miller regarding Golf 4 Kids reminding everyone that we need golfers. Past President Susan Sheridan and Todd Andrews gave updates on the Century Ride October 10th which has over 500 riders signed up. Rick Davis gave a report on the Habitat for Humanity dedication ceremony on August 8th. Randy Friedman organized the Networking Nights meeting on August 12th at Bottles and Barlow on R Street. Judee Daniels promoted her Lunar Lunacy Bike Ride on August 1st. John Swentowsky bemoaned a softball loss in the playoffs last night.
Laura Heintz of Stanford Youth Solutions shared some recent success and local PR in the Business Journal and contributed to her Eddie Mulligan.
Mark Huffman introduced Roger Akers of Akers Capital, LLC a local venture capitalist. He built an IT consulting company of 500 people and sold it in 1996. He has since been in the venture capital arena and is very involved with local philanthropies. He reviewed the early stages of business, psychiatric profile of young company executives. What is their motivation? To be King? Make a lot of money? He touched on Angel investing, financing, managing growth, recruiting teams, governing boards etc. He shared some recent local success stories that included: Cloud Cruiser, Quantivo, Revionics, ipInfusion, Telemeteric, TubeMogul, Marrone Bio Innovations, SureClinical, vin Perfect, Bid Grid, and Preferred Dental Implant Corp. Questions followed and were addressed.
The meeting came to a close with a thank you from President Dave and Roger’s promise to help with Alpha K9.
John McIntyre then reminded everyone we are back at the Red Lion Woodlake next week and our guest speaker is Darrell Corti. Don’t miss this one.
Photos by Swentowsky Photography