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rooms, and press boxes — and it’s here where Ross has met and interviewed thousands of professional athletes over the years. There are reasons specific teams win consistently, whereas others don’t, and Ross explains why. It’s mainly based on the “Good to Great” concept of how the best companies can separate themselves from the rest of the pack through servant leadership, creating a culture of ex- cellence, developing deeper relationships, and giving ex- traordinary customer service. Learn more about Ross at rossbernsteinspeaking.com . Focus Session Speaker: George Staphos, Managing Di- rector, Bank of America Merrill Lynch George Staphos is a managing director and co-sector head in Equity Research. Regular research publications produced by his team include the Packaging & Paper Wrap-
Up and BofA Corrugated Surveys. He and the team are known for their deep, global supply/demand and supply chain work in contain- erboard, beverage cans and other markets. Staphos has been voted a member of the Institutional Inves- tor All-America Research Team for
George Staphos
31 consecutive years by portfolio managers and buy-side analysts who invest in packaging and paper stocks, includ- ing 24 No. 1 rankings in the past 25 years. As a result, he was inducted into the Institutional In- vestor Hall of Fame in 2011, and has also previously been voted No.1 in Greenwich. Staphos has been with the firm since 2003 and his past experience includes analyst and management positions at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney and PaineWebber. His Wall Street career began while he was still in college. He has a BS in management and mar- keting from New York University and an MBA in finance from the Columbia Business School. . Focus Session Speaker: Jules VanSant, Executive Direc- tor, Two Sides North America Jules VanSant, Executive Director of Two Sides North America, has decades of experience in a variety of roles
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in the corporate, manufacturing, non-profit, and association space, with a primary focus on the mar- keting, print, and graphic commu- nications industries. Two Sides is focused on telling the truth about the sustainability story the paper, packaging, print, and mailing industry has to tell
Read the articles in Board Converting News every week to learn about the people, places and machinery that will open the doors to new or repeat business.
Jules VanSant
and its positive environmental impact. Their work includes research, marketing, content creation, speaking, direct outreach, and community building within the industry. In 2018 Jules co-founded Bubble & Hatch Marketing
Len Prazych at 518-366-9017 lprazych@nvpublications.com
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