Speakers

Martin "Skip" Farber Job Title: Principal Company Name: Carlin Capital Partners Summit   “Going Green” – The Symptoms of a Bad Lunch or a Strategic Business Trend? Carlin Capital Partners is an equity investment firm focusing on opportunities in the micro- lower middle markets of several industries including tradeshows. Skip Farber has nearly thirty years of operating and business development experience in the business-to-business media markets with emphasis on trade shows, publishing and data base marketing. During his career as Chief Executive Officer of WSA Global Holdings, owner of The WSA Show (World Shoe Association), Executive VP of Advanstar Holdings and VP for Business Development for Reed Publishing USA (Reed Exhibition Companies and Cahners Publishing) he has consummated more than fifty material transactions on four continents (with a total value over two billion dollars), plus countless other strategic alliances and joint ventures. After the sales of WSA, to ENK International and previously of Advanstar to DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, Mr. Farber established MCF & Associates, a media investment and consulting firm specializing in business development, strategy, mergers, acquisitions and valuations for the trade show, publishing and related businesses. Earlier Mr. Farber was SVP/Division Manager at Reed Exhibition Companies, the owner/president of a major supplier to the trade show industry and served as a board member of Gainshare Media, a private equity fund with operating assets in the tradeshow industry. Mr. Farber has been an active member of American Business Media (ABM), the Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) and the International Association of Exposition & Events (IAEE), organizations where he has been a frequent speaker.