SMPS Central Florida - Photo Gallery: March Mentoring Madness

The March Mentoring Madness event this year had the same excitement as the overtime victory of the Kansas Jayhawks over the Memphis Tigers in the 2008 Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament. The event hosted some of the most talented Business Development and Marketing Professionals in Orlando.

The March Mentoring Madness morning event held at Brick and Fire Pizza downtown was broken into two groups. Half the room was roundtable discussions and the other half of the room was one on one meetings. The roundtables were hosted by the following individuals.

- Michael Recchio Director of Corporate Marketing, Boyle Engineering discussed “Buying and Selling – How to Survive the Merger and Acquisition Process”
- Carole A.S. Hingtgen (CASH) Business Development and Senior Marketing Rep., TLC Engineering for Architecture discussed “The Art of the Debrief”
- Sandy Winkler Director of Marketing, Hunton Brady Architects discussed “Marketing to Developers”
- Sheri Ford Lewin President, Environmental Resource Marketing discussed “Finding and Growing Niche Markets”
- Peter Partlow President, E Sciences, Inc. discussed “Retaining Excellent Employees”
- Karen Keene Marketing Manager, National Programs, Foley & Lardner, LLP discussed “Making the Most of a Down Market”

The One-On-One meetings were hosted by another exciting group of Marketing and Business Development professionals:
- Dale Haupt, Director of Business Development - Balfour Beatty, Inc.
- Joseph A. Ranaldi, Vice President - Starmer Ranaldi Planning & Architecture, Inc.
- Larry T. Seel Marketing - Manager E Sciences, Inc.
- Vernice Atkins-Bradley, Director of Community Affairs & Business Development - Turner Construction Company
- Susan A. Pendergrass, Director of Business Development - Rogers, Lovelock, Fritz
- Jim Hamil, Vice President of Business Development Director - Nodarse, Inc.
- Tracey Renner Sibley, Vice President of Marketing - Skanska USA Building, Inc.
- Linda Hollingsworth, Vice President, Healthcare Business Development - Bovis Lend Lease, Inc.
- Sarah Kelly, Vice President of Business Development - Wayne Automatic Fire Sprinklers

The program was a slam dunk. The real world knowledge and information was invaluable. If you missed March Mentoring Madness this year you missed a wealth of information that you do not want to miss next year.

Thank you to our sponsors: Albu & Associates, Inc., Lochrane Engineering, Inc., and Vision IV Architecture.