Three investors will join a business law professor on Wednesday, April 9 at Wayne State University Law School to discuss how economic development, entrepreneurship and the law are working together to help Detroit grow and thrive.
The panel discussion, “Detroit’s Renaissance: The Intersection Between Economic Development, Entrepreneurship and the Law,” will take place from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the school’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.
The event is sponsored by the dean’s office at Wayne Law. Dean Jocelyn Benson will moderate the discussion.
Panelists will be:
• Gabe Karp, a partner at Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that backs early stage technology companies.
Karp is frequent speaker and writer on legal issues surrounding interactive promotion. He previously was executive vice president and general counsel of ePrize Inc. (now HelloWorld Inc.), an interactive promotions company .
• Josh Linkner, CEO and managing partner of Detroit Venture Partners.
Linkner was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and was a President Barack Obama Champion of Change Award recipient. He is founder and former CEO of ePrize and founded three other technology companies.
• Gary Torgow, a 1985 Wayne Law alumnus, chairman of Talmer Bancorp Inc., chairman of Talmer West Bank and president and founder of the Sterling Group, a Michigan-based real estate and development, investment and management company.
Torgow’s company was part of the partnership that developed the commercial buildings of Campus Martius in Detroit.
The Sterling Group also bought the Guardian Building in downtown Detroit in 2003, renovated it and sold it to Wayne County in 2007.
• Eric Williams, assistant (clinical) professor at Wayne Law and director of the Program for Entrepreneurship and Business Law. The program offers early stage legal assistance to participating local startups and creates forums for entrepreneurs to receive general legal guidance, access community resources and share their own business experience.
The event is free and open to the public.
To register, contact Brianna Fritz at brianna.fritz@wayne.edu or (313) 577-2733.
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