March
1, 2007
LINCOLN UNIVERITY TO HOST TWO-DAY BLACK EXECUTIVE EXCHANGE
PROGRAM
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University’s
School of Excellence in the Department of Business and Information
Technology and the National Urban League will hold their annual
Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Conference March 5-6,
2007 in Dickey Hall Auditorium.
With the theme “From Success
to Significance,” the
conference will feature keynote speaker John Milligan of Milligan
and Company, LLC, and senior level managers from the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York and Cigna. Also appearing at
the two-day event are PNC advisors, professional image consultants,
the Delaware public safety director and other prominent business
executives.
As part of the National Urban League movement,
BEEP aims to share the learning and experiences of executives,
cultivate new leaders and inspire achievements in college students
through committed involvement and operational excellence.
Milligan
is a certified public accountant, founder and chief executive
officer of Milligan & Company, LLC, the largest
minority owned certified accounting and consulting firm headquartered
in the tri-state area. In addition to managing the company,
Milligan serves as the firm’s project manager for financial
assessments of multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects
throughout the country. He is currently involved with
financial oversight of the $5.6 billion project to rebuild
the infrastructure at the World Trade Center site.
Founder of
the Greater Philadelphia Minority Business Strategic Alliance,
Milligan also leads assessments of infrastructure projects
in San Francisco, Boston, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His
community activities include serving on the boards of directors
of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Norristown
Education Foundation.
The conference is free and open to the
public. For more
information, call Dr. Oswald Richards at (484) 365-7377.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University is a premier, historically
Black University that combines the best elements of a liberal
arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected
graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly
technological and global society. The University is nationally
recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate
degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics);
computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln
has an enrollment of 2,423 undergraduate and graduate students.
