RTP CFO Forum - Pandemic, Recession, Inflation, Another Recession: When Will the Economy Return to Normal?

The RTP CFO Forum will hold
its next monthly meeting on Thursday, August 18, 2022

The Forum provides a peer-to-peer
networking opportunity for approximately 250 CFOs and similar senior financial
executives to learn practical solutions to the challenges they face.

PLEASE NOTE: We have resumed meeting in person with an
afternoon time!

Please RSVP to Jessica Smith
by Wednesday, August 17, at 919.232.5991 or email rsvp@rtpcfos.com

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Networking

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.   Program

5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.   Networking

Meeting
Location:  Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP • 1500 Sunday Dr. • Suite 300
• Raleigh

Topic: Pandemic,
Recession, Inflation, Another Recession: When Will the Economy Return to
Normal?

Program
Objective: The speaker will review the economic recovery since the pandemic,
current issues being confronted (labor shortages, gas prices, inflation,
Federal Reserve policy) and forecasts for the upcoming years.

Speaker: Michael Walden, Ph.D., William Neal Reynolds Distinguished
Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and President of Walden
Economic Consulting, LLC

Please join the RTP CFO Forum and Dr. Michael Walden
for an afternoon review of the current economic recovery since the pandemic.
Dr. Walden will discuss all the current issues that are confronting the economy
including labor shortages, gas prices, inflation, and the current Federal
Reserve policy. He will also provide a forecast for the upcoming years.

Michael
Walden, Ph.D., is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished
Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and President of Walden
Economic Consulting, LLC.  During his 43
years on the faculty at NC State, Walden became recognized as an expert on the
state economy and public policy.  He is
the author of twelve books and over 300 articles and reports, and he has made
3000 personal appearances.  Walden is
also a frequent contributor to the national and state media, and continues to
write a biweekly newspaper column. 

He has won numerous awards, including two
Champion-Tuck Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting, the UNC Board of Governors
Award for Excellence in Public Service, the Holladay Medal for Excellence from
North Carolina State University, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. 

His new book is Re-Launch: How the Family Can Be
Renewed and the American Dream Revived in the New Independent Lifestyle of the
Post-Pandemic Economy. Walden is a member of the North Carolina Economic
Development Association, and he resides in Raleigh with his wife, Mary.

About
the RTP CFO Forum:

The
RTP CFO Forum serves approximately 250 CFOs and similar senior financial
executives in the greater Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill region. The Forum
provides interactive networking and discussion of technical and strategic
topics in a secure environment created exclusively for senior-level peers,
sparking new ideas and practical solutions to pressing issues. The combination
of relevant speakers and topics with opportunities to build professional
networks enables its members to grow and thrive.  CPE is provided on
select topics. To learn more, visit http://www.rtpcfos.com/.

Please
note that the RTP CFO Forum is typically scheduled for the third Thursday of
every month from 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Attendance is limited to CFOs or senior
financial professionals in similar positions.

The
RTP CFO Forum is sponsored by Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP.  For more information, please contact us.