Morning Kickoff Panel
Presented By: Smart Business Dealmakers
Moderator:
Chief Content Officer
Smart Business
Dustin is an award-winning business journalist, bestselling author, and the chief content officer of Smart Business. Over the past 30 years, he has interviewed thousands of business and civic leaders, and helped more than 50 CEOs and entrepreneurs transform their ideas into books. A trained investigative politics reporter and former digital media entrepreneur, Dustin joined Smart Business in 1997 after serving as an editor at several daily newspapers.
Panelists:
Managing Partner
SeventySix Capital
Wayne Kimmel is Managing Partner of SeventySix Capital, the venture capital company he founded in 1999, and invests in startup sports betting, esports, and sports tech companies. Among the top public companies that have acquired his portfolio companies are Aramark, DraftKings, fuboTV, Intel, IBM, Walgreens and Yahoo!. Kimmel also founded SeventySix Capital Sports Advisory, a sports consulting company, and the SeventySix Capital Athlete Venture Group, which allows athletes to invest, learn, and work directly with top sports tech startups and entrepreneurs. Kimmel is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park and the Delaware Law School.
EVP - Strategic Finance
Freedom Mortgage
At Freedom, I help oversee and manage all financial aspects related to investments, fundraising, and strategic planning. This includes the evaluation of potential investments and acquisitions, management of existing investments, capital raising and investment risk management.