Session will consist of three panelists talking about different points related to crowdfunding including Shawn Rice, Jenn Turner, and Laura Schmitz.
Shawn Rice
Shawn Rice is a transactional entrepreneurial attorney in Wisconsin focused on start-up and smaller businesses. He practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate, business, real estate, banking and finance, and estate planning. Shawn provides counsel and strategic direction to business clients and individuals, guiding them through a variety of transactional matters. Shawn focuses his practice on business, corporate and commercial matters. He advises businesses of all types and sizes, from closely-held, family companies to multi-national corporations.
He has extensive experience providing counsel on general business matters such as start-up and formation, limited liability companies, joint ventures and partnerships, corporate governance, shareholder relations, bank and other financing, securities, real estate matters, and contracts including venture capital, franchises, employment, vendors and consulting arrangements. Shawn also maintains an active practice assisting clients with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including leveraged buy-outs and business succession planning. Shawn also represents local nonprofit organizations and financial institutions.
Jenn Turner
Jennifer Turner has applied her background in theatre, event planning and marketing to work for small companies like Midwest Scenic & Stage and large organizations such as the Milwaukee Area Technical College. She is currently the director of communications and a founding member of the Bucket Brigade, a for-profit social enterprise focused on collaboration and social technology. She also volunteers as the communications director and community manager for School Factory, a nonprofit organization that supports and creates transformative educational communities such as makerspaces and hackerspaces around the globe. In Milwaukee, she helps support the work of programs like Bucketworks and BarCampMilwaukee. Her passion is the application of research, market mapping and public dialogue to enhance the collaborative and communicative potential of organizations.
Laura Schmitz
Laura Schmitz is the business development manager at the UW-Milwaukee Small Business Development Center (SBDC). She provides individual counseling to second stage companies who want to develop and grow their business. Her specialties include marketing strategies, market research, customer relationship management and cash flow analysis. Since joining the SBDC in 2007, Laura has counseled more than 200 clients. Laura also teaches classes in marketing and business planning.
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