For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks to Dane Czaplicki, CEO of Members Wealth LLC.

Dane co-founded Members’ Wealth with a team of exceptional individuals. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services including investment analysis, portfolio construction, operations, service, trading, sales, management, and leadership.

On the first episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob discusses the real estate market and where we go from here with Lesley Deutch, Managing Principal at John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

Lesley Deutch leads all custom consulting projects in the Southeast. She has more than 25 years of experience consulting with executives in the finance and real estate industries throughout North America. She works across a wide spectrum of industries including apartments, for-sale housing, high-rise development, urban projects, single-family rental, building products and commercial developments.

Previously, she spent eight years on Wall Street working in public finance for Lehman Brothers and as a Vice President in the Global Real Estate division of Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank, where she authored reports on real estate and economic conditions in the major US metropolitan areas and conducted due diligence for the investment bank, the CMBS team, and the Deutsche Bank Mezzanine Fund. She then moved to the research team at RREEF (owned by Deutsche Bank), writing quarterly updates on RREEF’s existing properties and due diligence reports for acquisitions on the East Coast.

Lesley holds a B.S. from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

This podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Mori Taheripour. 

Mori is a globally recognized negotiation expert, an 11-time award-winning faculty member at the Wharton School, a highly sought-after speaker, and the author of Bring Yourself: How to Harness the Power of Connection to Negotiate Fearlessly. 

With more than 20 years of experience in negotiations, DE&I, and sports business, Mori’s impressive roster of clients includes Fortune 100 companies, major sports leagues, leading charitable institutions, and government agencies.

During this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Zeke Hernandez, the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor. at The Wharton School.

Zeke publishes pioneering research in two broad areas. In the first, explores how immigration patterns affect the investment choices, strategic decisions, and performance of firms in foreign markets. The linkage between immigration and economic growth in this first line of work has crucial implications for immigration policy. In the second area of research, he studies how firms strategically design corporate strategies through alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures to enhance their innovation and performance. 

His book, the Truth About Immigration, can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Immigration-Successful-Societies/dp/125028824X

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Lisa Forrest, Head of Live Oak Bank’s Searchfund Lending, about SBA lending considerations.

Lisa Forrest is a seasoned banking professional with over 35 years of experience. Renowned for her expertise in SBA and Conventional lending products tailored to the unique needs of SMBs in the lower middle market, she specializes in guiding searchers and SMB acquirers through transactions of up to $25M in enterprise value.

During this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks to Robert Herzog, the CEO and founder of ZogSports and ZogCulture.

After working as a consultant for a decade, Rob founded ZogCulture and ZogSports, two companies that focus on building real personal connections, caring communities, and a sense of play (whether at work or after hours). 

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Kevin Kaiser about value versus price. 

Kevin is Senior Director of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Adjunct Full Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Management Practice and on the Finance faculty at INSEAD since 1992.

Kevin’s research has focused on private equity, corporate restructuring and financial distress, more recently oriented around corporate governance and management for value creation. In addition to his research in academic and practitioner journals and newspapers, he has co-authored two books, The Blue Line Imperative, with David Young, and Becoming a Top Manager, with Michael Pich and I.J. Schecter.

With a professional journey intertwined with the iconic Yankees franchise, Tony's expertise extends far beyond the confines of the diamond.

As the former head of the Yankee Stadium tours department and a proud inductee into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame for his insightful book, Baseball, the New York Game: How the national pastime paralleled US History, Tony possesses a wealth of baseball knowledge that listeners are sure to find captivating.

For this episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Lauren Knausenberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of SAIC, a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation’s technology transformation, with annual revenues of $6.9 billion and approximately 24,000 employees.

During this podcast episode of Business Talk with Chalfin, Bob talks with Thomas Vladeck, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Gradient Metrics and Recast.

Recast is built by scientists, for marketers and is committed to using the world’s most advanced techniques and technologies to solve the most important problems in marketing measurement.