Dr. John Mulford will be giving a talk on; Do you know what business you are in? What is your value proposition? John Mulford is Director of the Regent University Center for Entrepreneurship (RCE) and Professor in the School of Business and Leadership. Mulford has trained, consulted, and lectured on business and economic development with groups of business, education and government leaders in many countries, including Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Burundi, Cameroon, South Africa, Guatemala, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Indonesia and Ukraine. He has been active researching and furthering the Business as Mission movement, serving on boards of FCCI, C12, NPIM, and launching seven business development centers in Africa & India. Through the Center for Entrepreneurship, Mulford has consulted with franchise organizations, helped incubate a non-profit franchise, and franchised the business development center concept begun in Rwanda. Before coming to Regent University as a founding faculty member in the School of Business, Mulford conducted research at the Rand Corporation and served as Vice President and senior economist of First Interstate Bank. At Regent, he served as Dean of the Business School from 1990-2004. From 1994-1997 and 2000-01, Mulford also served as Regent’s Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations & CFO, and from 1994 to 2002, he served as Chief Investment Officer, managing the university’s $300 million endowment. Mulford earned the B.S. in Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from Brown University, and the Ph.D. in Regional Economics from Cornell University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.