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February 20, 2008
The Flores MBA Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series will commence toward the end of February with Maurice Coleman, who will be followed ultimately by Jeff Springmeyer and Luiz Carvalho.
Coleman, a managing director of Cherokee Investment Partners LLC, will be on campus Friday, Feb. 22, 2008. Cherokee is a private equity real estate firm with $2 billion of committed capital from institutional investors that was originally founded in 1984. A resident of Raleigh, N.C., Coleman earned his bachelor’s in finance from LSU in 1986 and his MBA from the Flores MBA Program in 1989. Last May, he joined the E. J. Ourso College of Business’ Dean’s Advisory Council as a member of its academic committee.
Springmeyer is the president of Geophysical Pursuit Inc., a privately owned seismic data company in Houston, Texas that the co-founded in 1984. GPI owns seismic data in more than a dozen states and the Gulf of Mexico, which it licenses to oil and gas exploration companies. Springmeyer earned his bachelor’s in marketing from LSU in 1981 and is also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee, serving on the business partnerships committee. He will appear in the series Friday, Feb. 29, 2008.
Carvalho, the chief executive officer and acting president of Proudfoot Consulting’s North American Division, will be the series’ last speaker this semester and will appear Friday, March 14, 2008. Proudfoot Consulting is a specialist consulting firm that implements sustainable operational improvements at no net annualized cost to its clients. Carvalho attended Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo before joining Proudfoot in 1982 as a process consultant in the company’s Brazilian unit.
The Distinguished Speaker Series is an integral part of the Flores MBA Program, the flagship program of LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business. Through the series, students gain insight into new ideas and forces shaping American and international businesses from executives who face a multitude of issues daily.
All Flores MBA Distinguished Speaker Series lectures are open to the public and are held from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. on their assigned days in LSU’s Energy, Coast & Environment Building on Nicholson Drive Extension. Reservations are required, however, and can be made by calling the Flores MBA office at 225-578-8867. Attire for all lectures is professional.
For more information about the series or the Flores MBA Program, contact Jennifer Loftin at jloftin@lsu.edu. For information about the E. J. Ourso College, visit www.bus.lsu.edu.
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