Our firm's founder Doug Bruhnke is moderating a panel of entrepreneurial business founders and owners including the extraordinary Lon Safko on February 3rd.  The panel will discuss what it's like to start and work in a small business. The event is February 3rd at Scottsdale Job Network in North Phoenix www.scottsdalejobnet.com

Panel

Lon Safko – Lon is an award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, CEO, consultant, author and speaker www.lonsafko.com. His 18 inventions and more than 30,000 papers are in the Smithsonian, and he was recently selected by the Smithsonian to represent “The American Inventor” at their annual conference. Lon is the founder of eight successful companies, including Paper Models, Inc. His latest book The Social Media Bible by Wiley & Sons unlocks the mysteries of the hottest new Internet wave, Social Media, such as Facebook and YouTube.

Abhay Jajoo – Abhay is a serial entrepreneur with growing businesses in Phoenix. One of his companies is Eupath, which provides US and Canada-based companies with software development, analytics and legal processing services to incubate and scale operations at lower cost in India while keeping their proprietary business processes "in-house" www.eupath.com

Lesley Gates-McCulley – Lesley is the owner of Gates to HR www.gatestohr.com, which she founded after leaving Phelps Dodge. She has extensive human resources management experience in diverse corporate and work site environments, including small business through Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Throughout her career she has created HR infrastructure and led project teams aimed at streamlining HR processes and establishing best practices resulting in improved human capital and operational performance.

Jeffrey Taylor – After a corporate career with Citibank and Peat Marwick, Jeffrey read an issue of Entrepreneur and became one. During his successful consulting career he published two textbooks which are still used by global financial institutions. In the last couple of years he has lectured on Sarbanes-Oxley to major financial institutions, developed business plans for start-up companies, prepared companies to go public, helped companies raise both private and public capital and made independent movies. His new book, "Going from W2 to 1099", will be published this summer.