The Harvard Business School Club of South Florida,

and


CFA Miami (a member of CFA Institute)

cordially invite you to attend our

2010 ANNUAL ECONOMIC BRIEFING

with special guest speakers

James Grinney, CFA
 Chief Investment Officer (Florida)
Northern Trust NA

and

J. Antonio (Tony) Villamil, Ph.D.
Principal Advisor
The Washington Economics Group, Inc.

on

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010
6:00 - 6:45 PM:  Registration and Networking
6:45 PM:  Presentation and Dinner

at
Rusty Pelican
3201 Rickenbacker Causeway
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
(305) 361-3818
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Cost for this event (dinner included):
HBS Club of S. FL Members (plus 1 guest): $35.00 per person  
 
You must register no later than Wednesday, January 20, 2010.    All ticket purchases are non-refundable.  If you have any questions, please contact Gabriela Sanchez, Club Administrator at admin@hbssouthflorida.org or (786) 866-9765.


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JAMES GRINNEY, CFA
James R. Grinney, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, is responsible for leading the statewide investment functions throughout Northern Trust's Florida operation.  Jim has over 35 years of investment management experience.  He joined the bank in 1986 as Vice President and Senior Investment Officer for Palm Beach.  In 1988 he was promoted to Senior Vice President.  Jim was promoted to Chief Investment Officer for Florida in 1997.

Jim holds his Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota and has done graduate work at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin.

Jim earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1983, and is past President and an active member of the Financial Analysts Society of South Florida.

Jim and his wife live in Palm Beach Gardens.


J. ANTONIO (TONY) VILLAMIL, Ph.D.
Tony Villamil has over thirty years of successful experience as a business economist, university educator and high-level policymaker at both federal and state governments. He has served as a Presidential appointee as the U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, and is the founder of a successful economic consulting practice, The Washington Economics Group, Inc. (WEG). Since August 2008, Tony is the Dean of the School of Business of St. Thomas University, Miami Florida, while continuing to serve as Principal Advisor to the clients of WEG.

Tony is a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in Washington, D.C. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors of Florida, and during 1999-2000, he directed the Tourism, Trade and Economic Development activities of the State in the Office of Governor Jeb Bush.  Presently, he is on the Board of Directors of the Spanish Broadcasting System (NASDAQ), Mercantil Commercebank, N.A. and Enterprise Florida – the State’s principal economic development organization.

Among other leadership positions, he served in 2008 as the economist of the Constitutionally mandated Tax and Budget Reform Commission of Florida (TBRC), and is currently Chairman of the Economic Roundtable of the Beacon Council – Miami-Dade County’s official economic development organization. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Florida TaxWatch, an established fiscal and policy research organization of the State. After winning the gubernatorial election in November 2006, then Governor-elect Charlie Crist appointed him as his Economic Advisor during the transition period.

Tony earned Bachelor and advanced degrees in Economics from Louisiana State University (LSU), where he also completed coursework for the Ph.D. degree. In 1991, Florida International University (FIU) awarded him a doctoral degree in Economics (hc), for “distinguished contributions to the Nation in the field of economics.” He speaks frequently to business, government and university audiences on economic topics, and was until the summer of 2008 a member of the Graduate Business Faculty of Florida International University (FIU).


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