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Arianna Huffington will make her first Cleveland-area speaking engagement on April 25 at the first ever Female Entrepreneur Summit.
The conference is presented by Cleveland Business Connects magazine and Ursuline College.
The summit will feature eight prominent businesswomen and will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 700 Beta Banquet and Conference Center in Mayfield Village.
Huffington, co-founder of the The Huffington Post will headline the summit and present the keynote speech at noon. An audience question and answer session will follow.
Huffington is also a nationally syndicated columnist and author of 13 books.
Other businesswomen taking part in the summit are:
- Lee Ann Howard, chief executive office, Howard and O'Brien Associates
- Dawn Hanson, president, The Fairmount Group
- Heather R. Ettinger, managing partner, Fairport Asset Management
- Candace Klein, founder, Bad Girl Ventures
- Lynn-Ann Gries, chief investment officer, JumpStart
- Heather Kramer, business development manager and social media strategist, Cyrid Media
- Barbara J. Danforth, senior vice president, Ratliff-Taylor CPI Partner
Tickets are $195 for CBC magazine subscribers and $295 for nonsubscribers.
To register for the event, visit http://www.cbcmagazine.com/FES/2012 or call 216.831.9557.
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