TSBDC - Oak Ridge offers you the opportunity to learn how to launch your own business and turn ideas, passions, and side hustles into functioning businesses. This seminar will walk you through a basic business guide to help you get started. Limited seating available for this seminar; register as soon as possible.
Speaker(s): Stephen W. Williams, TSBDC Director Stephen has over 35 years of experience in leadership, operations, financial, and strategic management with international manufacturing and consulting firms. He has developed sales and marketing strategies that increased sales volume by over 120% within one year of implementation. In addition, Stephen is experienced in company operations optimization, JIT production, debt restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. He has established joint ventures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, and the U.K. and has negotiated relationships with General Electric, ABB, General Dynamics, and Westinghouse Electric. Stephen has held the following positions, marketing & sales director, vice president, chief operations officer, president, chief executive officer, and chairman. Before joining TSBDC, he founded Stone Lion Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm providing M&A, deal structuring, and access to capital services.