Please join us for the an exciting, interesting & thought-provoking meeting of the HBS Club of Atlanta's Entrepreneur Special Interest Group @ Georiga Tech's ATDC 

7:30AM-8AM NETWORKING  8AM-9AM SPEAKER

Crisis Management

Crisis can come at any time while operating a business.  How do you handle them?  Bob Hill has faced his fair share over the course of his 40 year career.  He has been involved in many turn-arounds and start-ups throughout the years.  He will discuss relate the primary crisis facing each turn around or start-up, he was involved in, and the response to it.  In some situations, the crisis was caused externally.  In other situations, the crisis was lack of focus, lack of ownership control, lack of owner/board level control/supervision, lack of liquidity, etc.

 

SPEAKER: Bob Hill  Former Chairman & CEO Advanced Metals Services Group, Inc.  

Bob Hill has a fascinating range of experiences.  From founding and running a motorhome company through the 1970's oil embargo to taking over a company that had never been profitable for a group of VCs with minority ownership, Bob has seen it all.  He has over 40 years experience in management as CEO or COO of six companies with distinctly different products ranging from blow molded plastic bottles, motor homes, microfilm readers and printers, heat pumps to aerospace control parts.  Experience includes three turn-around situations and the co-founding of two companies that attained sales levels of $5 to $15 million before selling or merging with larger companies. He has worked through a variety of funding situations, including private investors, venture capital firms, a large research consortium and large U.S. and Japanese companies.

He received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and his MBA from Harvard Business School.  He is married with 3 children & 3 grandchildren.  He was an early member of Young Presidents Organization.  Also, he was inducted into the Georgia Tech Distinguished Engineers.  He has been a leader in through various Georgia Tech Alumni boards & Alumni Associations as well as Director, Recreational Vehicle Institute, and the Trailer Coach Association.  He has been active in charity work through serving as Lay Leader and Administrative Board Chairman, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church and Division Chairman, United Way.
 

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Cost is $5 cash at the door & includes continental breakfast.

 

Location: GEORGIA TECH ATDC BOARDROOM 75 5th Street, NW   BOARDROOM Atlanta, GA 30308

75 5th Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30308

***Please note that the Centergy One Parking Garage is no longer open.  You can find some street parking or park at the Georgia Tech Hotel @ 800 Spring Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308***

Directions from Southbound I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector:

• Take exit 249D toward Georgia Tech/US-78/US-278/N Ave.
• Merge onto Williams Street.
• At the red light, turn right at North Ave.
• Turn right at the first road onto Techwood Drive. Continue on Techwood Drive and then turn right at 5th Street.
• After you cross over the bridge on 5th Street, take your first left onto Williams Street.
• Then take your first right and turn left into the Centergy One parking garage.

Directions from Northbound I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector:

• Take exit 84 (10th Street/14th Street).
• At the top of the exit ramp, turn right onto 10th Street and follow it one block to Spring Street.
• Turn right onto Spring Street.
• Turn right into the building driveway in front of the LA Fitness and then turn right into the Centergy One parking garage.
• Walkway from the parking garage to the building:
  • When leaving the parking garage, take the elevator to the fifth floor, then follow the covered walkway to the courtyard between the ATDC Building (Centergy One) and the Technology Square Research Building. The ATDC Building (Centergy One) will be to the left. Enter the ATDC Building, and the main ATDC office will be straight ahead in Suite 100. 

Directions back to I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector:

• On exiting the parking deck, turn right. Immediately turn right again, onto Williams Street. (Williams Street is one way at this point).
• Stay in the right lane.
• Travel two blocks to 10th Street.
• Turn right onto 10th Street and travel one block to Spring Street.
• Turn right onto Spring Street. (Spring Street is one way southbound).
• Follow Spring Street across Fifth Street and across North Avenue.
• For northbound I-75/85, an entrance ramp will be to the right of Spring Street at Pine.
• For southbound I-75/85, stay on the left side of Spring Street and follow the signs to the southbound entrance ramp.
• For northbound I-85, quickly move into one of the four left lanes of the I-75/85 Downtown Connector, as I-85 splits off soon after the entrance ramp. I-75 will split off to the right.