List of Breakfasts hosted from 2012 to 2013 by Corporate Partners
Breakfasts held in 2012-2013
Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 - Opening Breakfast Featuring USM President Theo Kalikow
President Kalikow will introduce USM's leadership team including our new Provost, Michael Stevenson. She will share the University's mission and priorities for the upcoming academic year. Please bring your ideas about how USM can continue to be a vibrant member of the Greater Portland area serving the needs of our businesses and communities.
Before coming to USM, Dr. Kalikow served as the President of the University of Maine at Farmington from 1994-2012. Kalikow is a guiding force in Maine’s educational and civic life. She is known for her tireless efforts to provide the kind of honest, active, forward-thinking leadership and deep commitment to education that has been the hallmark of her administration. With a tenure of 18 years, she was the longest-serving UMF president since the Farmington school became a four-year college in 1945. Her intelligence, hard work and focused commitment to her goals have earned her the respect of the people she has worked with and recognition by many organizations in Maine and beyond. To learn more click here.
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Wednesday, October 24th - Made in Maine Business Featuring PowerPay
PowerPay is a premier provider of integrated eCommerce payment solutions and point-of-sale (POS) payment processing solutions, including credit card machines and terminals, merchant account credit card processing and more. Our innovative, customizable solutions and 24/7 technical support help merchants accept major credit and debit cards, recurring payments and a wide variety of card-based and electronic or web enabled payments.
Since it was first launched in 2003, PowerPay has become one of the nation’s premier providers of integrated eCommerce, industry and point-of-sale payment processing solutions. In that time, they have been recognized for several major achievements in the industry including Level 1 Service Provider PCI Compliance, Inc. 500, Better Business Bureau (BBB), registered Independent Sales Organization (ISO), Gold LEED Certified work environment, Green-e® Energy certified renewable energy credits, and an affiliate member of the Maine Businesses for Sustainability (MBS).
They currently serve over 50,000 merchants in the U.S. and Canada and 40 countries worldwide, making them the largest independent credit card processing company in New England and one of the top 40 nationwide. On average, they process 140,000 transactions a day—safely, securely and efficiently.
Join us as Jim Raftice, President, shares with us the company's history, why they chose Maine and their future plans here in Maine.
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Tidestone Solutions
Thursday, November 8th - Wellness Works!
Health, or "sick care" costs continue to rise at twice the rate of inflation. With a health care system oriented toward sickness, not health, success is measured in number of interventions and procedures, all of which are becoming more and more expensive. The bulk of the demand on the health care system is for chronic disease – yet as much as 70% of these chronic diseases can prevented through changing at-risk health behaviors.
Wellness has evolved from feel good programs to outcomes based interventions that change at risk health behavior, impact spend and improve participants quality of life. Dr Catlett of Occupational Medical Consulting (OMC) will outline the essential elements of outcomes-based programs and discuss their effectiveness over a broad range of OMC clients in and out of Maine. Representatives of the Cianbro Companies and Norway Savings Bank, both clients of OMC, will discuss the role of business in wellness (or wellness in business?) and the impact of wellness on their employees health and productivity.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 - Breakfast with Charlie: The 2013 Maine Economic Forecast
The tradition continues as Professor Charles Colgan from USM’s Muskie School of Public Service shares the economic forecast for Maine and the nation. Charlie will review 2012 and see where the ups and the downs were in Maine’s economy and the impact of regional and national trends. Then he’ll share, in his unique style, the outlook for 2013. Join us for a relevant, interesting and engaging presentation at this year’s Breakfast with Charlie. This event is open to the public so be sure to bring guests!
To access the MP3 Audio File of Charlie's presentation and accompanying Powerpoint presentation in PDF format visit the Muskie School of Public Service audio archive.
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