Wednesday28Mar 2018

Fireside Chat - Have an exit strategy? How to get the most ENTERPRISE VALUE out of your business, a Fireside Chat with Michael Maas and Nima Taghavi (Moderated by our own form EOOC president, Daniel England).

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. PST
2018-03-28 18:30 2018-03-28 21:00 America/Los_Angeles Fireside Chat - Have an exit strategy? How to get the most ENTERPRISE VALUE out of your business, a Fireside Chat with Michael Maas and Nima Taghavi (Moderated by our own form EOOC president, Daniel England). Go to event listing for more details: https://events.chapman.edu/48458 Leatherby Center 549 W. Palm Karen Akiyama kmu@chapman.edu

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Leatherby Center

549 W. Palm

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Speakers:

Nima Taghavi

As Chairman and CEO of Solutions 2 GO, Nima has contributed greatly to the evolution of Solutions 2 Go into a market leader in the video game industry.  

 In addition to his leadership at Solutions 2 GO, Nima is also the founder, Chairman and CEO of Group 206 and is the firm's primary capital contributor, leader, deal-maker, and business builder, and serves as the Chairman of bkm Capital Partners.  His passion for entrepreneurship dates back to his teenage years when he, along with his family, founded Star Video Games, his first business, alter to become SVG Distribution.  Nima oversaw the successful growth of SVG from swap meet retailer to national distributor and service provider.

In 1997, Nima founded SVG Distributor's sister company, Crave Entertainment, in order to enter the video game publishing world.  The two businesses were integrated under Crave Entertainment Group (CEG), which grew into the largest independent privately held video game distribution company in the US.  In 2005, CEG was successfully sold to the Handleman Company, a publicly traded music distribution company.  Nima was the CEO and majority shareholder at the time of the sale, and remained with the company for one year post-transaction to ensure an ideal transition for the business as it integrated into Handleman's operations.

 

Michael Maas

Michael is a successful professional manager and entrepreneur who, over a 20 year period, helped build and grow two different companies in the video game sector (Crave Entertainment Group, Solutions 2 GO LLC) to $300M in annual revenue each year.  Professional highlights include:

- Helped build and grow two companies to $300M in annual revenue each and successfully exited both businesses

- Helped turn around a business from a $10M loss and near bankruptcy to a $15M profit and a successful sale in less than 5 years

- Helped lead a sale of a company to a publicly traded company for over $100M in enterprise value 

- Served as CEO for a subsidiary of a publicly traded company

- Led a team that built a business from inception to over $300M in annual revenue in less than 5 years

- Successfully exited a business by selling a majority of his ownership interest to his business partner 

 

You can contact the event organizer, Karen Akiyama at kmu@chapman.edu or (714) 744-7870.

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