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Botanic Tonics, Maker of feel free, Voluntarily Raises Age Requirement to 21 for All Products in a Commitment to Responsible Consumption
Botanic Tonics, a leading provider of premium herbal supplements, today announced that it will voluntarily raise the age restriction for its products to 21 years and older, effective immediately. This decision underscores the company’s dedication to promoting responsible consumption and consumer education in an industry that currently lacks comprehensive regulations.
Cameron Korehbandi, CEO of Botanic Tonics, stated, "As a company, we have always been committed to providing the highest quality products for our consumers. In the absence of industry-wide regulations, we feel compelled to take this important step to promote responsible consumption and consumer awareness."
By raising the age requirement to 21, Botanic Tonics aims to encourage a more informed and mature consumer base while reducing the potential for misuse of its products. The company believes that this proactive measure will set a new standard for the industry and inspire other companies to prioritize consumer education and responsible practices.
In addition to the age restriction, Botanic Tonics is intensifying its efforts to educate consumers about its products, ingredients, and recommended servings. The company recognizes that empowering consumers with knowledge is crucial in fostering a culture of responsible use.
Korehbandi added, “We understand that this decision may have short-term impacts on our business, but we firmly believe that it is the right thing to do. By prioritizing safe consumption above all else, we are building a stronger, more sustainable brand."
Botanic Tonics is also advocating for appropriate regulations within the industry to ensure consumer safety and responsible practices. The company remains committed to innovation, growth, and making a positive impact on the lives of its consumers while supporting necessary legislation in the industry.
For more information about Botanic Tonics and its commitment to responsible consumption, please visit www.botanictonics.com.
About Botanic Tonics
Botanic Tonics is a plant-based herbal supplement company headquartered in Broken Arrow, OK. Established in 2020, it produces kava-forward tonics and capsules under its 'feel free' brand. Its two product lines, 'feel free CLASSIC' and 'feel free' are crafted with ancient functional plants to provide mood lift, energy, and focus. Botanic Tonics’ products are manufactured in an FDA-registered, cGMP-certified facility, and the company actively supports consumer safety regulations through transparent labeling and educational resources. Learn more at https://botanictonics.com.
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Activate Introduces Innovative Gaming Experience Featuring State-of-the-Art Technology to Cincinnatians
Activate, the pioneering live-action gaming venue and viral sensation on TikTok, is excited to announce the grand opening of its first Ohio location opening in Cincinnati on May 31, 2024. The unique and dynamic venue promises an opportunity for guests to immerse themselves in the nationwide gaming phenomenon. Activate Cincinnati is located at 3103 Disney St., Cincinnati, OH 45209.
Activate is transforming the gaming landscape, expanding its influence across the United States with 11 thriving locations and a momentum that shows no signs of slowing down. With a global player base exceeding 2.5 million, this exhilarating experience seamlessly merges state-of-the-art technology with thrilling challenges, offering an electrifying social escapade.
"Opening our first location in Ohio fills us with immense excitement,” says Will Gray, Director of Marketing at Activate Games. “We're eager to bring the thrill of Activate to a new market, where we can engage and entertain even more adventurers. Get ready, Cincinnati, because an unforgettable experience awaits!”
Activate Cincinnati’s new state-of-the-art gaming facility welcomes all ages and skill levels, encouraging players to explore and create their own unique gaming experience. Here’s what to expect:
- Guests can sign up in groups of two to five players
- Through progress tracking via Activate’s high-tech electronic RFID wristbands, players can rack up points, leveling up and earning prizes along the way.
- Top gaming rooms include the TikTok viral sensation Mega Grid with 500+ multi-activated rainbow-coloured tiles, blasting the beaming bullseye in a game called Strike, and feel like a modern day spy in the Laser room.
- Try Level 1 easy or take it to Level 10 extreme.
- Play as a team in cooperative mode, or challenge your friends in competitive mode games.
In addition to Cincinnati, Activate can be found in major U.S. markets such as Houston, Plano, Chicago, Atlanta, and New Jersey. Additional Activate locations are set to open in 2024 across the U.S. in markets such as Charlotte, Kansas City, Columbus, and Detroit, along with internationally in the UK and UAE. Today, Activate operates over 30 locations across Canada and the U.S.
Plan Your Visit
- Book in advance to save time and ensure a game room is available. Each game lasts 1-3 minutes. The full gaming experience lasts 75 minutes.
- Complete the safety waiver required for you to play in advance.
- Wear activewear and flat, closed-toe shoes.
- Age requirements: Children 10 and under require a paid adult with them at all times in gaming rooms. Children ages 11 to 13 must have an adult present at the facility.
- Where: 3103 Disney St, Cincinnati, OH, United States, 45209.
- When: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. | Friday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. | Sunday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Cost: Monday through Thursday, $24.99 | Friday through Sunday, $29.99
For a sneak peek into Activate’s action-packed gaming experience, and to keep tabs on the Activate Cincinnati grand opening, visit www.playactivate.com/cincinnati.
Gift cards are now available for Activate Cincinnati, here. Use promo code CINCYPRESALE50 to receive 50% off before opening day.
Join the Inner Circle to be the first to hear about new locations, behind-the-scenes information, deals, and more. As a thank you for signing up, Activate will extend 50% off your first booking, valid until June 17, 2024.
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About Activate
Founded in 2019, Activate is a state-of-the-art gaming facility with locations across the United States and Canada. Each Activate location offers a variety of unique gaming rooms with over 700 levels for players to compete, earn stars, and track achievements online. Activate combines physical activity and gaming to create an immersive experience as part of a healthy lifestyle. To learn more about Activate, please visit https://playactivate.com. Follow Activate on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/activategames and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/activategames/.
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Babson College Announces Tuscany as the Venue for Babson Connect Worldwide 2025, the Leading Global Summit on Entrepreneurship
Babson College announced that it will host its ninth Babson Connect Worldwide (BCW) conference in the picturesque Tuscan countryside of Italy, on March 27–29, 2025. The conference will take place at Castelfalfi, an alumni-owned five-star hotel that recently reopened after multi-million-dollar renovations that turned an 800-year-old abandoned village into an exquisite vacation destination.
BCW is a renowned global event that convenes founders, executives, and emerging stars within the entrepreneurial sphere, along with Babson alumni, faculty, and students. The summit is a platform for exchanging knowledge and insights, enabling participants to excel in their entrepreneurial pursuits.
“Babson Connect Worldwide is a vital component in our global effort to support and inspire entrepreneurial leaders to impact communities everywhere,” said Babson College President Stephen Spinelli Jr. MBA’92, PhD. “Babson alumni and friends around the world make us an everywhere institution, and BCW is the premier summit for our community of entrepreneurial leaders to recommit to lifelong learning and forge new and meaningful connections.”
The summit agenda features keynote speeches and panel discussions with prominent leaders addressing the most pressing issues faced by today’s global entrepreneurial leaders. Babson’s distinguished faculty will lead executive education workshops designed to provide current insights and practical tools, equipping participants to navigate and excel in the rapidly evolving business landscape.
The conference also offers attendees an immersive experience into Tuscan culture through planned excursions and signature after-hours events. The itinerary includes visits to iconic towns such as Siena, San Gimignano, and Volterra, and cultural activities like wine tastings, truffle hunting, scenic hikes, and bike rides. Additionally, a special “Green-Tie” gala is scheduled to take place in Florence.
Set against the backdrop of a region renowned for its crucial role in the Renaissance, Tuscany is the perfect example of the transition from traditional business frameworks to modern entrepreneurial achievements. This setting highlights the enduring impact of innovation, creativity, and the human spirit and aligns with the summit's emphasis on pioneering business practices.
Since its inception in 2015, BCW has served as a catalyst for uniting Babson’s extensive network of 45,000 alumni and friends from 129 countries. Registration will open in June 2024.
Learn more about the event here.
About Babson College
Based in Wellesley, MA, Babson College specializes in providing a premier business education through a unique entrepreneurial lens to produce highly effective leaders across all industries. Babson College has been revolutionizing business education since its founding in 1919 and is credited as the creator of entrepreneurship education. With a world-class alumni network that includes some of the most impactful executives in organizations of all kinds, Babson College prepares and empowers its students to become entrepreneurial leaders who add sustainable, economic, and social value everywhere. For more information visit: http://babson.edu/
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UNOS Applauds Passage of FAA Reauthorization Bill
Today, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) issued its support of Congress’ passage of the bipartisan, bicameral Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, which includes a provision to improve the safety and efficiency of the transportation of donor organs through the nation’s commercial aviation system. The bill now heads to the president’s desk for signature.
The Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act requires the Department of Transportation (DOT), in consultation with the FAA, to convene a working group to develop best practices for transporting organs in the cabin of a commercial aircraft. The working group will include organ procurement organizations, transplant hospitals, commercial airlines, flight attendants and other federal agencies. DOT is required to convene the working group no later than 90 days after the bill is enacted. No later than one year after convening, the working group must present recommendations to the secretary of DOT.
Before the September 11 attacks, organs – primarily kidneys – were transported within a commercial flight’s main cabin under supervision of the aircrew. The attacks prompted significant changes to airport protocols, including removing transplant professionals’ ability to accompany an organ through security without an airplane ticket. As a result, organs currently travel in the cargo hold and are subject to cargo business hours, which vary between airlines and are impacted by staffing shortages. Organs arriving when a cargo office is closed sit on ice for prolonged periods, increasing the potential for an organ not to be used.
“Ensuring a donated organ gets to a patient on time and safely is absolutely critical, which is why UNOS has been working with the donation and transplant community and Congress to create a process to bring organs out of the cargo hold and back into the cabin of an airplane,” said Maureen McBride, Ph.D., CEO of UNOS. “Thank you to those working with us to advocate for change and include this provision in the FAA reauthorization package, namely Senators Ron Wyden, Maria Cantwell, Ted Cruz, and John Thune, and Reps. Bruce Westerman, Greg Stanton, Beth Van Duyne, Sam Graves, and Rick Larsen. The bill’s passage highlights the bipartisan consensus and understanding of the lifesaving importance of this issue. I appreciate the commitment to honor the gift of life and do right by patients on the waitlist, generous donors, and their families. I look forward to working with the Department of Transportation to bring organs back into the cabin of an aircraft.”
Transportation is a cornerstone of the UNOS Action Agenda, a series of recommendations to strengthen the U.S. donation and transplant system. To further reduce the risk of delaying or damaging organs in transport, UNOS also recommends the next contracts for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) should require the use of physical trackers for unaccompanied donor organs recovered for transplant, and the establishment of a centralized organ tracking system.
“Donations and transplants are going up across the country, and so are the number of organs traveling every hour of every day,” said McBride. “This community owes it to patients and donor families to ensure that organs travel as safely and efficiently as possible. Every viable organ ultimately not transplanted represents a profound loss.”
The provision included in the FAA reauthorization bill is the result of ongoing advocacy by UNOS and other members of the nation’s organ donation and transplant community. Since 2022, UNOS has engaged with FAA leadership, the Transportation Security Administration and the House and Senate to pursue this reform.
Actions to move organs back to the airplane cabin and out of cargo are widely endorsed by the donation and transplant community, including the American Association of Kidney Patients, American Foundation for Donation & Transplantation, American Kidney Fund, American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Donate Life America, Donate Life Virginia, Kidney Care Partners, Kidney Transplant Collaborative, National Kidney Foundation, Nationwide Organ Recovery Transport Alliance, North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, Organ Donation Advocacy Group, Renal Physicians Association, Transplant Recipients International Organization, Transplant Families, Transplant Unwrapped, and Waitlist Zero.
About UNOS
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the mission-driven non-profit serving as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government. We lead the network of transplant hospitals, organ procurement organizations, and thousands of volunteers who are dedicated to honoring the gifts of life entrusted to us and to making lifesaving transplants possible for patients in need. Working together, we leverage data and advances in science and technology to continuously strengthen the system, increase the number of organs recovered and the number of transplants performed, and ensure patients across the nation have equitable access to transplant.
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PathAI Announces PLUTO: A State-of-the-Art Foundation Model to Enhance AI-Powered Pathology Tools
PathAI, a global leader in AI-powered pathology, today announced the launch of Pathology Universal Transformer (PLUTO), a pathology-centric foundation model, to further differentiate their portfolio of products geared towards biopharma and pathology laboratory customers.
In machine learning, a foundation model (1) (FM) is a model trained using self-supervised learning on a large scale of unlabeled data to mathematically capture salient information from inputs to the model. Once trained, the FM can be adapted to enable specific tasks in new contexts, especially including previously unforeseen contexts and tasks.
The process of adapting a high-quality FM yields better downstream pathology tools, with lower development time and cost, than building bespoke tools from scratch. For example, a pathology FM may be adapted variously to perform cell and nucleus segmentation at microscopic scale on immunohistochemistry (IHC) slides, or to perform histological subtyping at macro-scale for H&E slides. Developing high-quality FMs is particularly important and complex in pathology where there are many different kinds of tasks at different scales of the whole slide image (WSI) data including cell, tissue, and (whole) slide levels.
PathAI’s PLUTO was developed to enable this wide diversity of pathology tasks, and was trained using hundreds of millions of unlabeled image patches from about 160,000 WSIs across 30+ disease areas, numerous indications, stains, scanner types and magnification, and over 50 sources of data. To learn high-quality representations of the unlabeled training data, PathAI researchers designed a pathology-focused self-supervised training process using multi-scale, flexible deep vision transformer architectures with novel training objectives. Researchers then evaluated the quality of the resulting FM by adapting it to a wide diversity of pathology-specific tasks, and found that PathAI’s FM outperforms current state-of-the-art models on (whole) slide, cellular and subcellular tasks. Additionally, PathAI’s FM enables building AI-powered pathology tools at multiple scales and resolutions, and is significantly more compact than previously published models, driving massive reductions in training and inference costs, and enabling highly scalable data generation and product development.
PLUTO and its adaptations are set to power PathAI’s best-in-class suite of AI products (2) for diagnostic pathology labs and biopharma use. PLUTO will be adapted to develop the next generation of PathAI’s best-in-class products. PLUTO’s embeddings will enable prediction of underlying molecular alterations driving cancer and disease phenotypes–including those previously hidden to AI–as well as the discovery of new biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
“PLUTO is meticulously designed to fuel research efforts for better diagnostic and prognostic tools across multiple disease areas. This technology will enable users to compress their pathology workflows using an exceptionally diverse, multi-resolution foundation model at significantly greater speed and a much broader scale than before,” said Harsha Pokalla, Head of Machine Learning at PathAI. “Our aim is to deploy this single, robust model to address a diverse range of applications and use cases within pathology and to continue developing new high performance AI tools that serve our mission to improve patient outcomes.”
Footnotes:
(1) Foundation Models are for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
(2) PathAI’s AI products are for research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
About PathAI
PathAI is the leading precision pathology company providing software and AI-enabled solutions to all pathologist stakeholders including laboratories, research institutions, and the biopharma industry. Rigorously trained and validated with data from more than 15 million annotations, its AI-powered models can be leveraged to optimize the analysis of pathology samples to improve efficiency and accuracy of pathology interpretation, as well as to better gauge therapeutic efficacy and accelerate drug development for complex diseases. For more information, please visit www.pathai.com.
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Anthropos Raises $2.7M to Help Companies Build the Workforce of the Future Using AI
Talent shortage and skills development are among the top two priorities businesses are struggling to get to grips with today, according to Gartner. Helping them take control of the situation, startup Anthropos has raised $2.7M to create a new way for companies to help employees evolve their skill sets in accordance with business needs while improving retention.
With offices in the US and Switzerland, Anthropos’ pre-seed round is led by Switzerland-based Founderful with additional participation from Eden Ventures, Exor Ventures, Zanichelli Venture, Alessandro Rivetti and several angel investors across the EU and US.
“People want to see a clear path to grow in their organization and learn the exact skills they need to succeed there. At the same time, you can’t run your business without modern skills and a solution to constantly understand what your people can and cannot do. It’s a problem that is intensifying across all industries and it will get even more important as people need to adopt AI and make it part of their daily job,” said Stefano Bellasio, CEO of Anthropos.
Anthropos was founded by Stefano Bellasio and Giacomo Marinangeli after building Cloud Academy Inc, a cloud training platform they started in 2013. The duo scaled the business to over $25M in ARR with Fortune 500 customers like Microsoft, Warner Media, and Deloitte, and, in the process, realized the majority of their enterprise customers were struggling with the same interrelated problems: employee retention and skills development. After exiting the business to the UK's largest tech training provider, Stefano and Giacomo decided to focus on a completely different space with Anthropos, a solution that wants to help corporates with their constant challenges to retain and build their skills.
Anthropos helps companies centralize all their skills, employee experiences and training libraries in a modern, employee-focused platform. With Anthropos, companies can map out dedicated paths for every role inside the organization. As a result, employees can upskill themselves in accordance with the roles they want to advance in, and companies can constantly assess what skills are relevant for each role and verify which employees have those skills. This is a significant improvement from the status quo of long, convoluted employee questionnaires to ascertain skill abilities. Central to evidencing its approach, Anthropos is able to verify soft and technical skills at different stages of the employee lifecycle, from hiring to training and progression.
As part of the platform, Anthropos has built its own skills taxonomy, which currently covers over 60,000 skills and 18,000 job roles. The company has also created a new technology, called AI Job Simulations, to screen candidates at scale by placing them into immersive real-life scenarios with virtual customers, stakeholders, and colleagues where they can solve missions that demonstrate their soft and hard skills. Early customers at Anthropos have decided to customize their AI Job Simulations to screen candidates at scale and to prepare them for new roles, letting them make mistakes talking to (virtual) customers and other teams and learning from them in a safe environment.
The founders describe Anthropos as the easiest way to build a school for each organization where people can learn and evolve with the business at different stages of the employee lifecycle. As part of this, Anthropos is also designed to act as a network. Employees can see the skills their colleagues have, learn how they acquired them, and ultimately pinpoint potential mentors to help them grow.
The team launched Anthropos earlier this year and their initial customer base, concentrated in the tech and tech consulting space, is already leveraging Anthropos to stay competitive and retain top talent. Current customers are using Anthropos to rapidly verify the skills of employees that were migrating to new roles, to easily identify the right people with the right skills for certain projects, and to screen candidates at scale by putting them in real scenarios related to their roles using the company’s AI Job Simulations.
“It’s a great opportunity for companies. We have seen it first hand, modern generations consider growth and a clear path to learning new skills as the most important aspect of their jobs. It’s more important than your salary or bonuses. If you can’t provide this, you will see employees joining and leaving within months.” said CEO Stefano Bellasio.
Antonia Albert, Principal at Founderful added: "We believe that every employee wants to grow and evolve, and that lack of career development and advancement is one of the key drivers of employee turnover. Using AI to democratize career paths and skills development is such a great mission. We are convinced that Stefano and Giacomo, after having successfully scaled and sold their previous tech company, are the right founders to give both companies and employees the transparency needed to enable clear career paths and professional as well as personal growth.
Looking ahead, Anthropos plans to provide companies and employees access to thousands of skill paths and AI Simulations for roles and skills across multiple departments that every organization can customize. The company is also planning to publish its first batch of AI Job Simulations in the coming months. “Giacomo and I envision Anthropos becoming the solution for companies to manage and develop all their competencies. In a world that will be redesigned by AI in every role, we believe it’s a great opportunity to help everyone transform their careers,” added CEO Stefano Bellasio.
About Anthropos
Anthropos reimagines the connection between people and companies as both adapt to a new way of working. People are more ambitious than ever but they are not ok staying in roles and companies that don’t invest in their growth, with values they don’t share.Similarly for companies: skills are changing so rapidly that looking for the right people is the biggest investment in the budget while retaining the existing talent is always a trial and error process. Our thesis is that both parties could use a different solution to solve this problem.For more information please visit https://anthropos.work/
About Founderful
Founderful is Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund, backing founder teams building tech companies with the potential to become global market leaders. Founderful has a track record of supporting exceptional founders in creating breakthrough companies and has the passionate conviction that the Swiss startup ecosystem is just starting to write its best success stories: www.founderful.com
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Investments & Wealth Academy Platform Adds to its Curated Continuing Education (CE) Content Library with New Offerings; Expands Popular Private Markets Course to Include Cerulli/Invesco Research
The Investments & Wealth Institute (“the Institute”), the leading membership organization and credentialing body for financial advisors and wealth management professionals, has unveiled a robust selection of new offerings on its Academy LMS platform (“the Academy”) and enhanced a popular certificate program. These updates underscore the Institute’s ongoing commitment to monitor and address the evolving investment and planning needs advisors have with respect to optimizing their clients’ financial lives. By providing timely, relevant, and world-class educational content, the Institute continually delivers applicable tools and strategies advisors can leverage to add value for the clients they serve.
NEW OFFERINGS
Best of Experience 2024 Bundle – Capitalizing on the extensive, high-quality programming that drives the Institute’s annual Experience conference, the Academy has digitally transformed the in-person event into a comprehensive online bundle eligible for up to 10 CE credits, including 4 tax & regulations credits, for CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® certifications (also eligible for 10 CFP® CE credits).
The select conference sessions featuring leading practitioners and thought leaders in the industry include:
- “Critical Tax Planning Update: Looking Ahead to Uncertain Times” (Steve Siegel, JD, LLM)
- “Estate Tax Planning Ahead of the Sunset: Key Things to Remember” (Sara Dorosti, JD)
- “Bitcoin, Your Portfolio, and the Future of Finance” (Matt Hougan)
- “Strategic Tax Deferral Techniques for Real Property Sales” (Marty Verdick, CPA)
- “Wealth Continuity: Navigating Generational Transitions with Purposeful Planning” (Leslie Geller, JD, LLM)
- “Crafting Wealth in the Digital Era: What You Need to Know About Custom Indexing” (Noel Pacarro Brown, CIMA®, CPWA®, Liz Michaels, Emily Gray)
- “The Most Aggressive Fed in History” (Danielle DiMartino Booth)
- “Beyond Numbers: The Human Side of Financial Planning and Cognitive Decline” (Annalee Kruger
- “Tax Strategies for Business Owners and Advising Clients on the Choice of Business Entity” (Steve Parrish, JD, AEP, ChFC, RICP, CLU)
- “Exploring Opportunities in Private Credit” (Earl Hunt, Corey Silva, CIMA®, CIMC®)
Global Financial Planning Essentials – This new certificate program focuses on international and cross-border planning and is an in-depth, 15-hour program broken down into three models, which are:
- Module 1 – “Introduction to Cross-Border Planning”
- Module 2 – “Tax and Immigration Planning”
- Module 3 – “Investments, Retirement, and Other Planning Considerations”
The course curriculum, developed through a strategic partnership with the Global Financial Planning Institute, outlines how ongoing uncertainty in various political, regulatory, and economic environments has led many affluent clients and their families around the world to consider ‘diversification’ not only in terms of their investments — but also in where they live and conduct business so that they may protect their lifestyles and preserve wealth for future generations. It is eligible for 15 hours of CE credit, including 5 hours of tax & regulations CE, for CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® certifications (also eligible for 15 CFP® CE credits).
Advice and Planning – This new, concise yet comprehensive microcourse is tailored for advisors and financial professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of advice and planning, which is rooted in two fundamental tenets:
- The financial planning process is most effective in a trust-based, advisor-client relationship.
- The financial planning process is both sequential and recursive.
This course covers the four-step financial planning process and touches upon the concept of advice engagement — highlighting strategies for fostering more meaningful client conversations and delivering advice in a more effective manner. Through a blend of theoretical frameworks, practical insights, and interactive exercises, this course is designed to help advisors navigate the complexities of financial planning with confidence, integrity, and a client-centric focus. It is eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® certifications (also eligible for 1 CFP® CE credit).
ENHANCED OFFERING
Private Markets for Advisors – This certificate program provides advisors with the knowledge, skills, and capabilities to enhance portfolio-return potential through private market exposure, and it is designed for professionals who wish to learn valuable best practices to implement alternative strategies into their practice. It breaks down the various strategies and provides guidance on the role of private market investments in diversified portfolios.
This program was originally developed as a 12-hour certificate course but has just been enhanced to include an additional 3 hours of new content that incorporates insights and best practices from a Q4 2023 research study, Adapting to Growing Private Markets: A Playbook for Practice Success, conducted by Cerulli, in collaboration with Invesco and the Institute.
The research highlights the potential benefits for financial advisors in offering private markets investments. Despite recognition of the importance of diversification and growing demand for private market exposure, many advisors allocate only a small portion of client portfolios to alternative investments due to challenges such as lack of liquidity, client education needs, and product complexity. The study suggests a need for enhanced education and support, particularly focusing on communication, coordination, and resources for advisors to better understand and articulate the benefits of private markets to their clients. The research draws insights from a comprehensive survey of 200+ advisors, primarily those holding certifications from the Institute, and provides guidance for practice success in navigating the complexities of alternative investments.
The certificate course is eligible for 15 hours of CE credit for CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® certifications (also eligible for 15 CFP® CE credits).
To learn more about the Academy offerings, log in or create an account on the homepage of the Institute’s website (by accessing ‘My Dashboard’ in the upper right corner).
About the Investments & Wealth Institute
Founded in 1985, the Investments & Wealth Institute is the premier professional association, education provider, and standards body for financial advisors. Through its award-winning events, publications, courses, and acclaimed certifications—Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®), Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®), and Retirement Management Advisor® (RMA®) certifications—the Institute delivers Ivy league-quality, highly-practical education to more than 30,000 practitioners annually in over 40 countries. Members of the Institute include the industry's most successful investment consultants, advanced financial planners, and private wealth managers who embrace excellence and ethics in applying a broad set of knowledge and skills in their daily work with clients. Learn more at www.investmentsandwealth.org.
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Battery Mineral Resources Corp. Announces Resumption of Copper Concentrate Production at Punitaqui
Battery Mineral Resources Corp. (TSXV: BMR) (OTCQB: BTRMF) (“Battery” or “BMR” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the resumption of mill operations and first production of copper concentrates at its Punitaqui project in Chile.
Martin Kostuik, Battery’s CEO stated, "The commencement of copper concentrate production at Punitaqui marks a significant milestone for BMR and in establishing Chile's next copper mine. Having efficiently applied capital, it has paved the way for near term copper production at Punitaqui and positioning the company favorably to generate meaningful cash flow. With the commencement of copper concentrates production, a proficient operational team, and a promising outlook for robust copper markets, we aim to enhance shareholder value further. We eagerly anticipate sharing our progress and results as 2024 progresses."
Operational Highlights 2024
The Company has initiated copper concentrate production after the successful commissioning of the recently refurbished and upgraded mineral processing facility at Punitaqui. Mining activities to establish access to the mineralized zones in both Cinabrio and San Andres continue to ramp up with stockpiling of fresh mill feed. Cinabrio is the original mine that supplied feed for the first 10 years of prior operations, primarily by Glencore plc.
During the ramp up period of the mines, the Company is looking to boost the revenue stream by processing mill feed from external sources. Supply to the mill over the coming months will be a combination of fresh material from the Punitaqui mines and feed from outside sources including material from private mines in the area, and copper smelter slags.
Anglo-American Agreement
The source of slags supply is made possible by the Anglo-American PLC (“Anglo”) agreement announced on February 13th, 2024. Anglo has agreed to purchase all the copper concentrate to be produced from 240,000 tonnes of Anglo-supplied copper smelter slags.
Milestones
The timeline from first fresh mine feed through the mill to reaching planned capacity is expected to require approximately nine months, reaching a run rate of ~90,000 tonnes per month. BMR expects that the Punitaqui full annual copper production rate will be in the range of 19 million to 23 million pounds of copper in concentrate with an operating margin of $35 million to $50 million at current copper prices.
While the Cinabrio and San Andres mines are reaching full production, the Company will continue processing mill feed from outside sources and advancing toward its newly discovered Cinabrio Norte zone, to commence production of mill feed from that zone in H2 2025.
As part of the ongoing operational readiness during 2024, BMR is executing underground infill and extensional drilling at San Andreas and Cinabrio. The drilling program is designed to further define areas that could be included in near-term mine sequencing and for grade control purposes. The company looks forward to reporting the results of this drilling during the course of the year.
Closing of Convertible Debenture Offering
BMR is also pleased to announce that it has closed its US$400,000 (approximately C$549,360) private placement (the “Private Placement”) of senior unsecured convertible debentures (the “Debentures”), which was previously announced on March 11, 2024.
As previously announced, the Debentures will mature on September 30th, 2026 (the “Maturity Date”) and will bear interest at 10% per annum, compounding annually on September 30th of each year, not in advance. Interest accrued from the date of issuance up to and including March 30th, 2025, will be paid by way of issuance of common shares of the Company. Interest accrued following March 30th, 2025, will be, at the option of the holder, paid either in cash or by way of issuance of common shares of the Company. The issuance of common shares as payment of interest will be at the then current market price of the Company’s common shares at the date the interest becomes payable and will be subject to the prior acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable securities laws.
The holder of a Debenture may, at their option, at any time preceding the Maturity Date, convert all, but not less than all, of the principal amount of such Debenture into common shares of the Company at the conversion price of US$0.22 per share (approximately C$0.30 per share).
All Debentures issued in the Private Placement and in connection with the debt consolidation are subject to a four month hold period under applicable Canadian securities laws and under the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Debenture issuances are subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange.
MI 61-101 Matters
Weston Energy II LLC, a subscriber for Debentures in the Private Placement, is a “related party” to BMR pursuant to pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101“). Prior to giving effect to the transactions disclosed in this news release, Weston Energy II LLC and its affiliates owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) 107,578,740 BMR Common Shares on an undiluted basis (representing approximately 59.4% of the outstanding BMR Common Shares on an undiluted basis).
Weston Energy II LLC’s participation in the Private Placement constitutes a “related party transaction” for the purposes of MI 61-101. The transaction is exempt from the formal valuation requirements of MI 61-101 as the fair market value of the transaction does not exceed 25% of BMR’s market capitalization and BMR is not listed on a specified market (pursuant to the exemptions set forth in Section 5.5(a) and 5.5(b) of MI 61-101, respectively) and is further exempt from the minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 by virtue of Section 5.7(1)(a) and 5.7(1)(b) of MI 61-101 which provides that a related party transaction is exempt from the minority shareholder approval requirements if the fair market value of the transaction is not more than 25% of the issuer’s market capitalization or is not more than $2,500,000, respectively.
Additional Disclosure Regarding the Fiera Credit Agreement
BMR is also providing additional information in connection with the C$8M credit agreement with Fiera Enhanced Private Debt Fund. ESI Energy Services Inc., a subsidiary of BMR and the borrower under the credit agreement, paid a commitment fee of C$120,000 in connection with the signing of the credit agreement.
Exchange Rates
All USD amounts for which CAD equivalent amounts are given in this news release were calculated at CAD/USD exchange rate of 1.3734, the exchange rate published by the Bank of Canada on May 8th, 2024.
About Battery Mineral Resources Corp.
Battery Mineral Resources has re-started and is currently ramping up mine and mill operations at the Punitaqui Mining Complex, a historic copper-gold-silver producer, in the Coquimbo region of Chile. The mission of the Company is to provide shareholders with an opportunity to realize growth in value via generation of positive cashflow at Punitaqui and to use this momentum as a platform to build a mid-tier copper producing company. BMR strives to be a company providing shareholders accretive exposure to the global mega-trend of electrification while being focused on growth through cash-flow, exploration, and acquisitions in favourable mining jurisdictions. Battery Mineral’s mission is the discovery, acquisition, and development of battery metals (primarily copper and also cobalt, lithium and graphite), in North America, South America and South Korea and to become a premier and responsible supplier of battery minerals to the electrification marketplace. BMR is the largest mineral claim holder in the historic Gowganda Cobalt-Silver Camp in Ontario, Canada, and continues to pursue a focused program to build on the +1-million-pound high-grade cobalt resource at McAra. In addition, Battery Mineral owns 100% of ESI Energy Services, Inc. (including ESI’s wholly owned USA operating subsidiary, Ozzie’s, Inc.), a profitable mainline pipeline and renewable energy equipment rental and sales company with operations in Alberta, Canada and Arizona, USA. Battery Mineral Resources is based in Canada and its shares are listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol “BMR” and on the OTCQB under the symbol “BTRMF”. Further information about BMR and its projects can be found on www.bmrcorp.com.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release includes certain “forward-looking statements” under applicable securities laws. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections of the Company on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors, both known and unknown, could cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and the parties have made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation, risks related to share price and market conditions, the inherent risks involved in the mining, exploration and development of mineral properties, the ability of the Company to meet its anticipated development schedule, government regulation and fluctuating metal prices. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Battery undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of new information or future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. For further information regarding the risks please refer to the risk factors discussed in Battery’s most recent Management Discussion and Analysis filed on SEDAR+.
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Martin Kostuik, CEO of Battery Mineral Resources Corp.
+1 604-229-3830

Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust Files Quarterly Report for the Period Ended March 31, 2024
Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust (“the Trust”) has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. As previously announced, the Trust will host a live conference call to discuss its recently filed financial and operating results.
Additional information, including the Trust’s Monthly and Quarterly Reports, as well as other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) can be accessed via the Trust’s website at www.ctltrust.net.
Conference Call Details
- Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Time: 11:00 am CDT | 12:00 pm EDT
- Dial-in: U.S. & Canada Toll Free: (877) 841-2983 or International (215) 268-9893
- Webcast: www.ctltrust.net via the Investor Relations Section or click here to access
- Replay (available for 30 days):
- U.S. & Canada Toll Free: (877) 660-6853 / International: (201) 612-7415
- Conference ID#: 13746668
Telephone replays will be made available approximately 3 hours after the conference end time. Participants will be required to state their name and company upon accessing the replay.
About Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust
Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust (the “Trust”) was established to acquire 160 retail properties and 6 warehouse distribution centers (the “Properties”) from J.C. Penney as part of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. The Trust’s operations consist solely of owning, leasing and selling the Properties. The Trust’s objective is to sell the Properties to third-party purchasers as promptly as practicable. The Trustee of the trust is GLAS Trust Company LLC. The Trust is externally managed by an affiliate of Hilco Real Estate LLC. The Trust is intended to be treated, for tax purposes, as a liquidating trust within the meaning of United States Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-4(d). For more information, please visit https://www.ctltrust.net.
Forward Looking Statement
This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements”. All statements other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by the use of forward looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “our vision,” “plan,” “potential,” “preliminary,” “predict,” “should,” “will,” or “would” or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology and include, but are not limited to, the Trust’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events and stock price performance. The Trust has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Trust believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond its control. These factors, including those discussed in the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), may cause its actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Trust’s filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. The Trust cautions you that the list of important factors included in the Trust’s SEC filings may not contain all of the material factors that are important to you. In addition, in light of these risks and uncertainties, the matters referred to in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release may not in fact occur. The Trust undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.
Media Contact
Jessica Cummins, Investor Relations
+1 847-313-4755

Port Authority NY NJ Certifies Park Slope Cleaning in Women-owned Business Program
Park Slope Cleaning, a M/WBE and WBE-certified company specializing in commercial cleaning and janitorial services for establishments in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens, today announced that The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has certified them to participate in their Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) program. This certification allows Park Slope Cleaning to provide services to The Port Authority's transportation infrastructure, including airports, bus terminals, and transit centers.
Port Authority NJ NJ is a joint venture between the states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress. The Port Authority oversees much of the regional transportation infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports, within the geographical jurisdiction of the Port of New York and New Jersey.
This certification is a significant milestone for Park Slope Cleaning as it opens up new opportunities to work with Port Authority NY NJ and contribute to the maintenance of their facilities. By being recognized as a Women-owned Business Enterprise, Park Slope Cleaning can showcase their commitment to diversity and excellence in the commercial cleaning industry.
The impact of this announcement is twofold, both validating Park Slope Cleaning's expertise and professionalism in the field and also highlighting the company's dedication to serving a wide range of clients in the New York City area. As a M/WBE-certified company, Park Slope Cleaning stands out as a reliable and inclusive service provider for businesses in need of top-notch cleaning solutions.
Looking ahead, Park Slope Cleaning plans to expand their reach within the commercial cleaning market and continue upholding the highest standards of service quality and customer satisfaction. By leveraging their M/WBE certification, they aim to attract more clients and establish themselves as a trusted provider in the industry.
For more information about The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visit https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/index.html. To learn more about Park Slope Cleaning and their services, visit https://www.parkslopecleaning.com.
About Park Slope Cleaning
Park Slope Cleaning is a leading M/WBE and WBE-certified commercial cleaning company based in New York City. Renowned for its commitment to excellence and client satisfaction, Park Slope Cleaning provides a comprehensive range of cleaning services tailored to meet the unique needs of businesses in Miami and the New York City area.
Media Contact
Diana Ciechorska



Benchmark International Has Successfully Facilitated the Transaction Between L&D Mail Masters, Inc. and Ironmark
The seller, L&D Mail Masters, Inc., is a full-service direct marketing firm incorporated in 1986. They enable their clients to create campaigns that Relate, Captivate, Cultivate, and Resonate with their target audience. L&D Mail Masters, Inc. offers a wide range of solutions for direct marketing needs, from campaign design to implementation and all the services in between. Their facility enables their clients to design, print, and mail all in one location. They provide direct marketing at its best by bringing expertise, experience, passion, and professionalism to their clients.
The buyer, Ironmark, helps businesses grow by removing complexity across the marketing supply chain and bridging the digital and physical worlds for marketers. With their unique ability to strategize, execute, and measure across channels, they offer a unified solution that aligns with today’s consumer behavior. They excel in both realms, creating value for marketers whose efforts would otherwise be fragmented, disjointed, and costly.
"This strategic acquisition will hone Ironmark’s strategy of providing a complete package to their respective customers. Congratulations to all that worked tirelessly to accomplish this transaction." —Matthew Kekelis, Senior Director, Benchmark International
About Benchmark International
Benchmark International is a global M&A firm that provides business owners with creative, value-maximizing solutions for growing and exiting their businesses. Benchmark International has handled over $11 billion in transaction value across various industries from offices across the world. With decades of M&A experience, Benchmark International’s transaction teams have assisted business owners with achieving their objectives and ensuring the continued growth of their businesses. The firm has also been named the Investment Banking Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor and the Global M&A Network as well as the #1 Sell-side Exclusive Privately-held M&A Advisor in the World by Pitchbook and Refinitiv's Global League Tables.
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Brittney Zoeller
+1 813-898-2350



Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust Files Amended Annual Report for the Year Ended December 31, 2023
Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust (“the Trust”) has filed Form 10-K/A with the SEC containing its amended Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2023. The 10-K was amended to include the consolidated financial statements of Penney Intermediate Holdings LLC for the Year Ended February 3, 2024, which were not available when the Annual Report on Form 10-K was initially filed.
Additional information, including the Trust’s Monthly and Quarterly Reports, as well as other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) can be accessed via the Trust’s website at www.ctltrust.net.
About Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust
Copper Property CTL Pass Through Trust (the “Trust”) was established to acquire 160 retail properties and 6 warehouse distribution centers (the “Properties”) from J.C. Penney as part of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. The Trust’s operations consist solely of owning, leasing and selling the Properties. The Trust’s objective is to sell the Properties to third-party purchasers as promptly as practicable. The Trustee of the trust is GLAS Trust Company LLC. The Trust is externally managed by an affiliate of Hilco Real Estate LLC. The Trust is intended to be treated, for tax purposes, as a liquidating trust within the meaning of United States Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-4(d). For more information, please visit https://www.ctltrust.net/.
Forward Looking Statement
This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements”. All statements other than statements of historical fact are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by the use of forward looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “our vision,” “plan,” “potential,” “preliminary,” “predict,” “should,” “will,” or “would” or the negative thereof or other variations thereof or comparable terminology and include, but are not limited to, the Trust’s expectations or beliefs concerning future events and stock price performance. The Trust has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Trust believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond its control. These factors, including those discussed in the Trust’s Registration Statement on Form 10 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), may cause its actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. For a further list and description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to the Trust’s filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. The Trust cautions you that the list of important factors included in the Trust’s SEC filings may not contain all of the material factors that are important to you. In addition, in light of these risks and uncertainties, the matters referred to in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release may not in fact occur. The Trust undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law.
Media Contact
Jessica Cummins
+1 847-313-4755

Triomics Automates Oncology Workflows with GenAI Powered Platform, Raises $15M
Currently, oncology staff must manually search thousands of patient health records to find the right trials or care pathways for their patients. Triomics is today announcing it has raised $15M to help cancer centers streamline these workflows and process oncology data at scale by applying their framework to build, institution-tuned large language models (OncoLLM™) and use case-specific software. The company has raised from several Silicon Valley firms making pioneering investments in generative AI and healthcare, including Lightspeed, Nexus Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Y Combinator.
Manual chart review can take hours per patient, and many health systems face significant backlogs in completing key oncology-related workflows for thousands of patients. This workload leads to clinical delays, such as patients missing out on clinical trials or biomarker-driven treatments, lagging quality reporting, and provider dissatisfaction and turnover.
Triomics co-founders Sarim Khan (CEO) and Hrituraj Singh (CTO) were college friends who later worked as an MIT biotech researcher and Adobe AI researcher, respectively. They knew software existed to quickly analyze the ~20% of medical data that is stored in a uniform, structured manner, like a patient’s demographics or laboratory values. However, they realized recent advances in generative AI created the possibility of similarly analyzing the ~80% of medical data that exists in an unstructured format, like a doctor’s free-text note.
“Hrituraj and I decided to partner to build solutions leveraging the advances in the field of generative AI and LLMs to help hospital staff,” said Sarim Khan, CEO of Triomicss. “We want our solutions to reason and sound like experts in oncology.”
After developing an OncoLLM™ with Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, Triomics found that, in just minutes, it found 90% of eligible patients for clinical trials, which would have taken days or weeks for qualified nurses. It also extracted structured data points from unstructured notes at similar or higher accuracy to proprietary models like GPT4 or Claude while being 40 times cheaper. Triomics recently also published the results of its information retrieval engine for oncology, which they found to be 1.5-2 times better than other state-of-the-art retrieval models.
“Most of the solutions on the market today claim they use GenAI, but many lack published evidence. Triomics is setting themselves apart by taking a truly collaborative approach to co-developing these models,” said Bradley Taylor, Chief Research Informatics Officer at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of the CTSI Center for Biomedical Informatics.
Anai Kothari, a surgical oncologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center added: “The ability to quickly and accurately convert complex cancer data into a format that can be used to improve patient care is crucial. Triomics has been a great partner in integrating our suggestions and rigorously studying their approach to ensure safety.”
OncoLLM™ powers proprietary Triomics software that integrates with health system EHRs to complete specific clinical and administrative tasks. For example, Triomics Prism aids in patient-trial matching by prescreening oncology patients with upcoming appointments to find relevant clinical trials. Triomics Harmony curates EHR data to support quality reporting, cohort analysis and precision oncology.
Hrituraj Singh, CTO at Triomics, commented: “Our investments in our core areas of focus have been deliberate. We have successfully merged expertise in two complex functional areas: our AI researchers, who are specialized in customizing language models to specific domains, and our clinical staff, who have decades of oncology-specific experience. As a result, our software can complement the strengths of these advanced models while also proactively addressing potential flaws, all with the intricacies of cancer research and care in mind.”
Given the heightened importance of accuracy for oncology data, Triomics partners with leading academic cancer centers and researchers to develop generative AI performance and safety benchmarks and best practices. Partners include the Collaboration for Oncology-focused LLM Training (COLT), a consortium of leaders from a dozen NCI-designated cancer centers, and the Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers (CI4CC) Society.
“We differentiate ourselves by building tailored models specifically for oncology and pairing them with GenAI native workflows,” said Sarim Khan. “While other solutions address some of the use cases we’re working on, like patient-trial matching, they are broad based solutions that use or modify legacy technologies that have proven not to have the scalability or ROI the industry is requesting.”
Triomics next plans to publish additional data on OncoLLM efficacy across a diversity of settings and patient populations, and develop software that powers additional use cases.
“Triomics is leveraging existing healthcare datasets and Generative AI to empower hospital staff to automate clinical trials and streamline cancer center workflows,” said Dev Khare, partner at Lightspeed. “We are excited to back Triomics in this important mission.”
“With robust early results for their proprietary oncology specific LLMs and partnerships with leading cancer care and research centers, Triomics is well poised to deliver significant value to cancer care providers and patients in the U.S. and globally,” said Jishnu Bhattacharjee, managing director at Nexus Venture Partners. “We are thrilled to partner with Sarim and Hrituraj to help build a remarkably impactful company!"
About Triomics
Triomics uses generative AI to streamline workflows for cancer centers. Its oncology specialized generative AI model (OncoLLMTM) and use case-specific software help cancer providers process free-text health record data at scale, match patients to clinical trials, improve quality of care operations, deliver precision oncology and more. Based in San Francisco, the company has raised $15 million from leading VC investors.
About Lightspeed
Lightspeed is a global multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally including Affirm, Acceldata, Carta, Cato Networks, Darwinbox Epic Games, Faire, Innovaccer, Guardant Health, Mulesoft, Navan, Netskope, Nutanix, Rubrik, Sharechat, Snap, OYO Ultima Genomics and more. Lightspeed and its global team currently manage $25B in AUM across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia.
About Nexus Venture Partners
Nexus Venture Partners is a leading early-stage venture capital firm partnering with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build product-first companies. With $2.6 billion under management, Nexus operates as one team across the US and India. Nexus portfolio includes Apollo.io, Aryaka, Clover Health, Delhivery, Druva, FingerprintJS, Hasura, H2O.ai, Infra Market, Kaltura, Mezi, MinIO, Observe.ai, Postman, Pubmatic, Quizizz, Rancher, Sibros, Snapdeal, TileDB, Turtlemint, Unacademy, and Zomato.
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Bilal Mahmood
+44 7714 007257



Investments & Wealth Institute’s Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) Certification Added to NASAA Model Rule’s Series 65/66 Exam Waiver List
Denver, CO — Investments & Wealth Institute (“the Institute”), the leading credentialing body for financial advisors and wealth management professionals, is pleased to announce that the Institute’s Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) certification has been recognized by the North American Securities Administrators Association ("NASAA") as a designation eligible for waiver from the Series 65 or 66 exams. These exams are administered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and serve as minimum qualifications for new investment adviser representatives (“IARs”).
“NASAA membership’s approval of the CIMA designation to the Series 65/66 waiver list represents a major step forward for CIMA certified professionals,” said Sean Walters, CAE®, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute. “We are exceedingly proud that our CIMA certification is the first new voluntary certification to be approved and added to NASAA’s model rule in 24 years. We are aware that NASAA’s primary mission is consumer protection, and we believe this addition of the CIMA designation is consistent with an adviser’s duty of care owed to its clients.”
Walters noted that, in the year 2000, NASAA revamped the Series 65 exam from a knowledge of securities law exam to include extensive knowledge of investing in the securities markets. At the time, five professional designations were approved under the waiver section of the model rule.
“Each state must still adopt NASAA’s amended rule for CIMA certification to automatically qualify as a waiver from the Series 65 or 66 exam requirement,” commented Rob Frankel, General Counsel and Managing Director of Certifications at the Institute. “We could not be more pleased that the curriculum and exam that fuels this certification have been recognized as an appropriate waiver under the states’ licensing requirements for IARs.”
At the time of NASAA’s announcement, the Chair of the NASAA Exams Advisory Committee publicly noted that the amended rule was an enhancement to the evaluation and registration process for investment adviser representatives, while maintaining high standards within the financial services industry.
The Institute’s CIMA certification already enjoys accreditation under a global personnel certification standard by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANSI/IEC 17024), the largest multi-disciplinary accreditation body in the western hemisphere. To qualify for certification, CIMA candidates must have three years, at minimum, of verified professional experience in financial services or a related industry at the time of certification. Candidates must successfully pass two background checks—at time of application and at time of certification. The CIMA curriculum is taught through Registered Executive Education partners, including programs offered by two of the world’s most elite business schools, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the Yale School of Management. Passing the exam is not easy. The average first time pass rate over the past two years is approximately 48 percent.
CIMA-certified professionals often work in roles such as investment consultants, financial planners, portfolio managers, and investment analysts. The CIMA certification program covers a wide range of topics related to creating, managing, and evaluating portfolios for individual or institutional clients. CIMA certified professionals know how to evaluate model portfolios, target-date funds, ETFs, and index funds; and perform asset allocation, manager selection, and performance attribution. They learn to manage risk and return based on client objectives—including when and how to incorporate alternative investments into client portfolios—and how to build proper investment policy statements. CIMA certified professionals understand how to apply behavioral finance to address cognitive biases in client decision-making, and how capital markets and global macroeconomic trends affect portfolio design. In summary, they are equipped to prudently assemble, evaluate, and/or manage portfolios that meet client objectives and outcomes as fiduciaries.
CIMA practitioners are required to exhibit knowledge of 89 topics, organized within 20 sections and five knowledge domains. The exam and curriculum were recently updated as the result of a professional job analysis. Approximately 3% of advisory professionals have earned and maintained the certification. However, more than 15% of teams or practices with $500M or more in AUM have at least one CIMA certified professional serving on the team. (Cerulli Associates, 2023)
About the Investments & Wealth Institute
Founded in 1985, the Investments & Wealth Institute is the premier professional association, education provider, and standards body for financial advisors. Through its award-winning events, publications, courses, and acclaimed certifications — Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®), Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®), and Retirement Management Advisor® (RMA®) — the Institute delivers Ivy league-quality, highly practical education to more than 20,000 practitioners annually in over 40 countries. Members of the Institute include the industry's most successful investment consultants, advanced financial planners, and private wealth managers who embrace excellence and ethics in applying a broad set of knowledge and skills in their daily work with clients.
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Allison Edmondson
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Joseph Bish
+1 303-850-3076

SFAA Members Elect New Board, Honor Outgoing Chair at Annual Meeting
The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan trade association representing all segments of the surety and fidelity industry, held its annual meeting this past week with more than 185 members and guests attending. Robert Murray, SFAA Chair, Executive Committee Member, Head of Surety, Zurich North America, and Ryan Work, SFAA president and CEO, presided over the event, providing updates on SFAA’s accomplishments and ongoing initiatives.
SFAA members were on hand to celebrate outgoing SFAA Chair Robert Murray after his two-year term, in addition to congratulating him on his upcoming retirement. Murray will be succeeded as chair by Michael Keimig, president and CEO of Markel Surety Corporation. Keimig has been an active participant in the SFAA for over a decade, most recently as a Board and Executive Committee member.
Videos celebrating SFAA’s accomplishments throughout 2023 and honoring the 2023 Surety Industry Awards winners were also shared.
The SFAA Membership elected the following Board of Directors and Executive Committee in a unanimous vote.
Officers and Executive Committee Members
- Michael Keimig
- Stephen Ruschak
- John F. Welch
- Rick Ciullo
- Timothy Mikolajewski
- Antonio C. Albanese
- Bryce Grissom
Other Elected Board Members
- Ken Bearley
- John Guglielmo
- Stephen M. Haney
- James Kawiecki
- Matt Lubin,
- Robert Murray
- Alan Pavlic
- Sharon Sims
- Gary Stumper
- Larry Taylor
- Mike Zurcher
About the Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA)
The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan trade association representing all surety and fidelity industry segments. We promote the value of surety and fidelity bonding and its vital protections through advocacy, outreach, promotion, and education. The more than 425 member companies write 98 percent of surety and fidelity bonds in the U.S. SFAA is licensed as a rating or advisory organization in all states, and state insurance departments have designated it as a statistical agent for the reporting of fidelity and surety experience. www.surety.org
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Peter Roth
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Association of Pickleball Players Announces Historic Sponsorship with The James at Ohio State
The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) announced today a landmark sponsorship with The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James), one of the nation’s leading cancer research and treatment centers. The OSUCCC – James is now the presenting sponsor of the inaugural APP Women’s Open, which will take place Oct. 4-6, 2024, at Pickle & Chill in Columbus, Ohio and broadcast nationally, to kick off National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Evident in its name, this APP Signature Event will be a global platform for female competitors at all levels. The professional and amateur tournament will offer $75,000 in prize money and feature women competing in doubles and singles, including skinny singles for women 50 and over. The event will also feature social programming and entertainment designed to celebrate and fuel the growth of pickleball for women, ultimately creating a healthier and more active community. All key elements of the vibrant, multi-day event will be presented by women—from players and referees to administrators and broadcasters.
“I am thrilled to stand alongside The James to elevate and celebrate women in pickleball and support Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” said Shannon Dan, APP EVP of global partnerships. “The APP Women’s Open presented by The James will be part tournament, part festival and 100% fun for women of all ages and skill levels. It’s an event designed by and for women: a place to compete, celebrate and connect.”
The OSUCCC – James is a world-class cancer treatment and research institution. It has been a designated National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1976 and has been one of the top cancer hospitals in the nation as ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 25 years. It also has achieved Magnet® recognition, the highest honor an organization can receive for quality patient care and professional nursing practice. With 21 floors, more than 1.1 million square feet and 356 inpatient beds, The James is the third-largest cancer hospital in the nation.
In addition to the presenting sponsorship of the APP Women’s Open, The James has been named the official and exclusive hospital of the upcoming 2024 APP Vlasic Classic in Cincinnati on May 7-12, and for the APP Tour beginning in 2025.
Pickle & Chill in Columbus, Ohio, the largest dedicated indoor/outdoor pickleball facility in the Midwest, will host the first-of-its kind pickleball event. Founded in November 2022, Pickle & Chill features 19 total courts, a 30,000-square-foot event plaza, and an indoor bar and mezzanine space. Additional information on registration, tickets and more will be available at theapp.global.
About The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James), is the only cancer program in the United States that features a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer center aligned with a nationally ranked academic health center and a freestanding cancer hospital on the campus of one of the nation’s largest public universities.
The OSUCCC – James has been designated as an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1976. Also, it is one of only a few centers funded by the NCI to conduct both phase I and phase II clinical trials on novel anticancer agents provided by the NCI.
As the cancer program’s adult patient-care component, The James is one of the top cancer hospitals in the nation as ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 25 years and has achieved Magnet® recognition, the highest honor an organization can receive for quality patient care and professional nursing practice. With 21 floors, more than 1.1 million square feet and 356 inpatient beds, The James is the third-largest cancer hospital in the nation.
About the APP
The Association of Pickleball Players (APP) provides opportunities for pickleball players of all ages and skill levels—professionals, amateurs and recreational—to compete in world-class pickleball events for the opportunity to win prize money and be seen on more than 40 hours of nationally televised pickleball action on CBS Sports, ESPN and FOX Sports. Since its launch in 2019, the APP has operated the first and only pro and amateur pickleball tour fully and officially sanctioned by USA Pickleball and became the first pickleball organization ever to establish an official headquarters and training center with The Fort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The APP Tour’s 2024 schedule features the most robust pickleball showcase across pro and amateur competitions, with 20 events across the country offering various combinations of single, doubles and mixed doubles play as well as pro team competitions. The APP prides itself on growing the game and developing the next generation of pickleball champions through its nationwide network of APP UTR Sports Pickleball Leagues and the Doubles Dink for Cancer fundraising program benefitting the American Cancer Society; support of international pickleball events and the APP’s Atlantic Cup, featuring Team USA vs. Team Europe; and youth initiatives including the APP Junior Circuit, APP Next Gen Series and APP Next Gen U.S. National Team. The 2024 tournament schedule, recent news and additional information about the APP are available at theapp.global and on Instagram, X, Threads, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Daniel Sagerman
847-800-8182

AGI Entertainment Media & Management Enters Into Partnership with PunchUp Live
AGI Entertainment Media & Management, a leading talent management and production company, has signed a partnership with PunchUp Live, the new innovative platform for comics and comedy fans alike. The collaboration marks a pivotal moment for PunchUp, affirming its significance and necessity in the entertainment landscape, while also setting a precedent for management companies like AGI to support their clients' success utilizing data-driven strategies. The deal will provide AGI's comedy touring clients with PunchUp's proprietary services, offering a direct pathway for them to convert media exposure into ticket sales.
PunchUp Live, co-founded by former Meta executive Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani, is a trailblazer in connecting comedians directly with their fan base and providing critical analytics on what drives ticket sales. Recognizing the misaligned incentives of current social media platforms and other distribution channels to relinquish data on their fans, Frenkel and Dajani created PunchUp Live, empowering comedians to manage their careers autonomously. This initiative is reshaping the landscape of comedy in the digital era by giving comedians control over their content and audience data. Furthermore, the platform provides easy consumer navigation to watch content, purchase tickets, and buy their favorite comedian’s merchandise.
Under this exclusive agreement, AGI Entertainment Media & Management’s comedy touring clients will gain access to a suite of services tailored to maximize their reach and impact:
- Proprietary Technological Analysis: Leveraging cutting-edge technology to analyze the sources of ticket sales, providing valuable insights to optimize marketing strategies.
- Paid Media Support: Amplifying clients' visibility through targeted Facebook/Instagram ads and location-specific email campaigns.
- Content Editing and Posting: Streamlining content creation and dissemination, ensuring maximum engagement across digital platforms.
- Fan Data Accumulation: Facilitating the accumulation of fan data both online and in-person, empowering comedians with a deeper understanding of their audience.
- AI-Driven Insights: Harnessing AI analysis to identify the optimal times for posting content to drive ticket sales.
"We are thrilled to embark on this partnership with PunchUp Live," remarks Kenneth Slotnick, CEO of AGI Entertainment Media & Management. "This collaboration underscores our commitment to providing our clients with innovative solutions that amplify their reach and impact in the ever-evolving entertainment landscape. We are here to support our clients and are excited about the possibilities PunchUp presents for our roster of talented artists."
In response to the partnership, Danny Frenkel, co-founder of PunchUp Live, says, "We are delighted to join forces with AGI Entertainment Media and Management. This partnership represents a significant step forward in our mission to empower artists and revolutionize the comedy industry. We are thrilled AGI is taking advantage of our services to further support their clients. Together, we will continue to push boundaries and redefine the way comedians connect with their audience. This is only the beginning."
Comedians currently working with PunchUp include: Roy Wood Jr, Tim Dillon, Gary Gulman, Phil Hanley, Sam Morril, Mark Normand, Jordan Jensen, Jared Freid, Are You Garbage Podcast, Rachel Feinstein, Adam Ray, Joe List, Robert Kelly, Rick Glassman, Steve Byrne, Yannis Pappas, Chris Gethard, Nimesh Patel, Zoltan Kaszas, Francis Ellis, Carmen Lynch, Avery Pearson, Caitlin Peluffo, Aaron Berg, Mike Cannon, Caitlin Cook, Mike Feeney, Eddie Pepitone, Ian Fidance, Raanan Hershberg, Tanael Joachim (TJ), Joe Kilgallon, Nathan Macintosh, Josh Adam Meyers, Eric Neumann, Dan Perlman, Matt Ruby, Joey Mulinaro.
A complete press kit for PunchUp Live can be found here.
About AGI Entertainment Media & Management
AGI Entertainment Media and Management, LLC, a Y Entertainment Group company, is a leading artist management and production company in the entertainment industry, representing a diverse roster of talented artists across various categories and platforms. With a focus on innovation and strategic partnerships, AGI is committed to empowering artists and creators to reach their fullest potential.
About PunchUp Live
PunchUp Live is an innovative platform founded by former Meta executive Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani. Revolutionizing the comedy industry, PunchUp connects comedians with their fans, enabling independent career navigation with minimal censorship while offering comprehensive analytics and show-finding features. Visit punchup.live for more information.
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MJ Brackin



PrestigePEO Wins Two Stevie Awards in 2024 American Business Awards
PrestigePEO, one of the nation’s largest professional employer organizations (PEO), announced today it was named winner of two Bronze Stevie® Awards in both the Company of the Year – Business & Professional Services – Medium and Achievement in Sales or Revenue Generation categories of The 22nd Annual American Business Awards®.
The American Business Awards are the U.S.A.’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Tuesday, June 11. Tickets are now on sale.
PrestigePEO was recognized in this prestigious competition for its distinctive model and service offering to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as its commitment to customer service, market expansion, and introduction of innovative solutions. As a PEO, PrestigePEO supports SMBs nationwide by providing an extensive menu of human resources and administrative services to expand their employee benefits offerings and provide their HR operations with deep guidance and expertise.
“This recognition is a tribute to PrestigePEO’s team. They work tirelessly every day to ensure our clients and their employees receive exceptional service and a broad portfolio of best-in-class benefits options. Our distinctive service model is dedicated to the delivery of top-notch service, which is the primary reason why PrestigePEO was recognized by the Stevie Awards program,” commented PrestigePEO’s Chief Operating Officer Robyn Rusignuolo.
“From our humble roots as an entrepreneurial start-up organization in 1998, PrestigePEO has since morphed into one of the nation’s top PEOs. We earned this ranking not only from our ever-increasing menu of benefits and services but also because of the people we employ, the diverse companies we serve, and our unrelenting efforts to continually expand our offerings. We thank the judges for recognizing our company and team,” said PrestigePEO Chief Executive Officer Andrew Lubash.
An excess of 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 300 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year’s Stevie Award winners.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2024 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the new Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
About PrestigePEO
Melville, N.Y.-based PrestigePEO, also known as Prestige Employee Administrators LLC, provides integrated, end-to-end outsourced solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for managing all integral benefits and human resources operations. This includes support for employee benefits management, payroll administration, workers’ compensation, compliance, and HR guidance, among other areas. PrestigePEO’s full spectrum of solutions helps SMBs lower employee benefit costs, reduce administrative workloads, and manage critical HR functions.
PrestigePEO is among only 1% of PEOs accredited by the Employer Services Assurance Corporation (ESAC), certified (CI) through Workers Comp Risk Management and classified as a Certified Professional Employer Organization (CPEO) by the IRS – demonstrating financial stability and strict adherence with a diverse range of regulatory and security standards.
To learn more, visit www.prestigepeo.com and follow PrestigePEO on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Susan Turkell
+1 303-766-4343



AdvicePay Promotes Kelsey Lewis to President
AdvicePay, the industry-leading platform for processing payments and overseeing compliance of fee-for-service financial planning, announced today that it has appointed Kelsey Lewis as President, promoting the former Head of Customer Success to the No. 2 position at the company, where she will closely collaborate with founder and CEO Alan Moore to execute on his vision.
Lewis joined AdvicePay in December of 2021 as the firm’s first Head of Customer Success and helped build the team and systems that ensure AdvicePay is delivering on its promises to customers. In that role, Lewis worked with many of the industry’s largest RIAs and broker-dealers, overseeing customer success and support efforts, including onboarding, relationship management, and solutions consulting. Her efforts helped AdvicePay achieve a 36% increase in transaction volume while maintaining a 100% enterprise customer retention rate.
"After conducting a thorough search that included internal and external candidates, the board unanimously agreed that Kelsey is the right person to help lead this company into the future," Moore said. "Kelsey has been a key contributor to AdvicePay’s leadership team, and this promotion reflects her commitment to our customers and her passion for furthering AdvicePay’s strong culture and mission. I look forward to working with her to create a blueprint for delivering on our ambitious growth strategy as industry and consumer demand for fee-for-service planning continues to grow over the next several years."
In her new President role, Lewis will serve as an Integrator, overseeing day-to-day company management and ensuring all departments are working closely to execute on the strategic goals of the company. She will also serve as the highest point of escalation for customers.
"I am incredibly, deeply honored to take on this new role at AdvicePay, a company whose core values resonate deeply with me," Lewis said. "Having spent most of my career in a customer-facing role, I am acutely aware of their needs and priorities. We are serving more advisory firms than ever, and by elevating me to this important leadership position from being Head of Customer Success, AdvicePay and its Board are demonstrating their customer-centric focus and commitment at the highest level. I am committed to nurturing the collaborative and people-first culture of AdvicePay as we continue to grow."
Before joining AdvicePay, Lewis held positions as the Director of Operations at a consumer goods company, and before that, was the Director of Client Experience at a learning management software company. Lewis earned her MBA from the University of Utah – David Eccles School of Business. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Westminster University.
About AdvicePay
Established by well-known financial advisors Michael Kitces and Alan Moore, AdvicePay is the industry-leading platform for overseeing the compliance, delivery, and payment processing of fee-for-service financial planning. Financial services firms and their advisors benefit from efficient workflows designed exclusively to support their fee-for-service financial planning revenue, including up-to-date compliance and data security management, all in one unified platform.
Media Contact
Shannon Beck
+1 406-412-2047

The Bethune/Height Recognition Program Announces Its 50th Anniversary Gala
Join us for the 50th Anniversary NYS Bethune/Height Recognition Program (BHRP) gala, hosted by the esteemed National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), acknowledging a half-century of commitment to empowerment and positive change.
The landmark event will be held by all the New York State Sections of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) on Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Leonard's Palazzo, located at 555 Northern Blvd in Great Neck, NY 11021.
To purchase tickets, visit here.
Under the theme "Advancing Our Mission, Strengthening Our Message, Refining Our Method," this celebration serves as a beacon of unity, reflection, and inspiration. For five decades, the BHRP has stood at the forefront of community empowerment, advocating tirelessly for African American women and girls.
We are thrilled to announce Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Boyd as our esteemed keynote speaker. A distinguished American scientist, mechanical engineer, civic leader, former Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. national president from 2000 to 2004 and former Alabama State University president, Rev. Dr. Boyd brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this auspicious event. Her address promises to enlighten and inspire all who attend as a lifelong STEM advocate and community servant.
Leading the charge for this historic event are Johnnie M. Walker & Dawna M. Fields, National BHRP Co-Chairs, alongside Carol Moore, NYS BHRP Chair, and Gladys Keller & Evelyn Kinsey, NYS Luncheon Co-Chairs.
The Bethune-Height Recognition Program is the pinnacle of the year for the New York State National Council of Negro Women. Funds raised during this celebration will directly contribute to programs and services dedicated to advancing the well-being of African American women and girls.
For media inquiries and updates regarding the 50th Year Anniversary Celebration, please contact the Publicity Committee at ncnwnysbhrp2022@gmail.com
Further information can be found on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/NCNWNYSBHRP.
Join us as we commemorate 50 years of unwavering commitment to positive change, social justice, and community empowerment. Save the date, May 18, 2024, for an event that promises to be a highlight of the year, celebrating our journey and looking forward to a future filled with promise.
About the Bethune/Height Recognition Program
The Bethune/Height Recognition Program (BHRP) was founded in 1974 and has grown into a great national movement. Its uniqueness comes from the annual opportunity it gives individuals to live the legacy of NCNW’s founder, Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune by contributing to the work for which she dedicated her life. Proceeds from the Program help to undergird the vital work of the National Office by broadening and strengthening the financial base that is so crucial to NCNW's survival and its ability to affect much needed change. For more information, visit: https://ncnw.org/bhrp
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Michelle Mitchell
+1 516-387-2227




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