LEADERSHIP
COUNCIL

Ted Balestreri
Restaurant Central/
Cannery Row Company

Lew Bauman
County of Monterey

David Bernahl, II
Pacific Tweed

Larry Daniels
Daniels and House

Jeff Davi
California Real Estate
Commission

Leonard Ferrari
Naval Postgraduate School

David Gill
Growers Express

Tom Greer
Monterey Peninsula
Airport District

Dianne Harrison
CSU Monterey Bay

Claude Hoover
Veritas Associates, LLC

Nancy Kotowski
Monterey County
Office of Education

Marcia McNutt
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute

Steve Packer
Community Hospital of
the Monterey Peninsula

Louis F. Provenzano, Jr.
Language Line Services

Mark Verbonich
Pebble Beach Company

The Monterey County Business Council and the
Competitive Clusters Education & Research Cluster
Invite you to join us for our
3rd Annual Higher Education & Research Leadership Summit

Friday, October 30, 2009
7:30 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.
Monterey Marriott
Ferrante's Bayview Room (top floor)
350 Calle Principal
Monterey, California 93940

$35 per person (includes breakfast)

RSVP Required by 10/28/09 (info@mcbc.biz)

Welcome by Doug Garrison, President, Monterey Peninsula College
Dan Oliver, President, Naval Postgraduate School

Featuring: Mitchel Winick, Dean of Monterey College of Law on the "Economic Impact of Monterey Bay Higher Education & Research" and Kathy Cruz-Uribe, Provost, California State University Monterey Bay on the Institute for Innovation and Economic Development.

Speakers will include: Mary Ann Leffel &ndash President, Monterey County Business Council, Lew Bauman – Monterey County Administrator, Dan Cort – Author, Urban Building Blocks- How to Save America's Downtowns– Rick Falconer, President, American Takii, Inc.

Briefings on "Workforce Training, Partnerships and What's Next" from Defense Language Institute, Monterey Peninsula College, Hartnell College, UC Santa Cruz, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Hopkins Marine Station, and Golden Gate University.

Closing comments by Mary Claypool, Executive Director of Monterey County Business Council on "Collaboration – Increasing Our Impact Together."

Press conference immediately following Summit.

See Registration Form for detailed registration instructions.

Questions? Contact Wynette at info@mcbc.biz, (831) 883-9443 ext. 16.

The Monterey Bay Area is home to more than 20 higher education and research institutions that had a combined operational budget of over $1.4 billion in 2006. It's also home to five of the country's premiere military educational and research institutions with the first Homeland Security degrees anywhere. Six institutions provide language programs from community college through graduate level making the peninsula the "Language Capital of the World." Eleven institutions of higher education, five wildlife and/or marine related reserves, and seven government agencies contribute to Monterey Bay's extensive research environment.