Mike Kirby
Retired Co-Founder and Managing Director of Stonehenge Capital Company, a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999 with approximately $600mm of capital under management.
Speaker Type: Judge - Finalist
Deborah Sternberg
Deborah Sternberg is the Founder and Chair of Young Entrepreneurs Academy of Baton Rouge (YEA BR). This non-profit works with the LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business and other partners to transform area high school students into confident entrepreneurs. Deborah is also the former President of Starmount Life Insurance Company in Baton Rouge. Coming …
Padma Vatsavai
As Founder and CEO, Vatsavai leads day-to-day operations and business strategy for the award-winning Vinformatix LLC (est. 2008), a Baton Rouge-based software development firm providing innovative technologies to improve medical administration and research, business processes and public sector initiatives. With 25 years’ experience and driven by an uncompromising insistence on smart, elegant solutions, Vatsavai serves …
Barbra Barnett
Barbra’s practice predominantly focuses on securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate matters. Businesses-including entrepreneurs, emerging companies and investors-rely on her for guidance on a variety of transactions and through all stages of a company’s life cycle, from formation and private placement through expansion. Prior to joining Stone Pigman, Barbra taught ethics at Elmhurst University and …