Columnist to moderate Charlotte Chamber panel on entrepreneurism | Business

CHARLOTTE – Chia-Li Chien, Charlotte business owner and expert columnist for WomenEntrepreneur.com, will moderate a panel on entrepreneurism at the Charlotte Chamber’s day-long summit, “Access to Capital for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs.”

The panel takes place on Tuesday, June 29th from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Chien will moderate the workshop, Understanding Your Financial Position, at 1:30 p.m., which will include panelists John Blair, CPA, Blair, Bohle & Whitsitt, PLLC; Tom Davis, Senior Vice President, Business Banking, First Citizens Bank; Mary Hall, Senior Vice President, Charlotte Regional Credit Officer, BB&T; and Jim Mortimer, Business Counselor, SCORE.

Admission for the day-long summit is $50 in advance/$65 at the door (Chamber members & non-members), and includes lunch.

The summit will begin with a general session and panel of local entrepreneurs that will discuss the current state of their businesses, followed by a variety of concurrent workshops, lunch with a keynote speaker (Alan Krueger, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Treasury), and the expo in the afternoon.

Chia-Li Chien is a business owner and leading authority on the topic of financial independence. Her columns can be found regularly at WomenEntrepreneur.com and FoxBusiness.com.

Recent interviews have appeared in The New York Times’ “You’re The Boss” blog.  She is also a Midas advisor of MidasNation, a community dedicated to helping private business owners increase the value of their firms.

She recently released a book, Show Me the Money – Run Your Business Like a Prosperous Investor, which helps small business owners view their business as an investment and learn how to build a foundation to position that business for transfer.