Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Lunch with a Leader
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Lunch With a Leader provides opportunities to converse with industry leaders in a casual setting. Learn more about career paths and industry trends while you enjoy a free lunch that begins at 11:30 a.m.
Registration is required and you may register for multiple speakers by using the links below. If it turns out you cannot attend a lunch, please notify entrepreneurship@lclark.edu as soon as possible so we can release the spot to a wait listed student. You may not transfer your position to another student–we will go through the wait list first, but encourage your friends to sign up.
These lunches count for credit for Passport to Leadership and the Work Study Pilot.
February 11th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:00pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Brian Druker
Recognized as “Oregon’s best known scientist,” Brian Druker will talk about his inauspicious beginning and his path to becoming the Director of OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute. He will explain why he believes cancer will be treatable and curable.
February 13th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:00pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Jaime Schmidt
Hear the story of developing a personal products brand in her kitchen, selling her products at farmers’ markets, and then selling her company to Unilever. Schmidt’s next venture is elevating emerging and underrepresented entrepreneurs.
February 20th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:30pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Jan Chernus
Learn about being mentored by an uncompromising leader in the natural food world and Jan’s rise to head of international sales in an employee-owned company with over $100M in sales and in over 80 countries.
February 25th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:00pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Rukaiyah Adams
Overseeing an investment portfolio of about $750M and chairing a board that manages $90B of Oregon funds, hear how this liberal arts graduate weighs social justice in her investment decisions.
March 11th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:00pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Ana Chaud
Learn how Ana moved from Sao Paulo to the US and made (and recently sold) a business based on a mission to provide fresh, healthy and delicious salads for busy people.
March 12th, 2020
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11:30am - 1:00pm:
Lunch with a Leader: Zoe Feldman
Come learn about Zoe’s mission to make the food sector more diverse and inclusive and why she is backing companies overlooked by traditional investors.
These events require pre-registration. Space is limited.