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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University’s School of Excellence in the Department of Business and Information Technology and the National Urban League will hold their annual Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Conference March 5-6, 2007 in Dickey Hall Auditorium.
With the theme “From Success to Significance,” the conference will feature keynote speaker John Milligan of Milligan and Company, LLC, and senior level managers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Cigna. Also appearing at the two-day event are PNC advisors, professional image consultants, the Delaware public safety director and other prominent business executives.
As part of the National Urban League movement, BEEP aims to share the learning and experiences of executives, cultivate new leaders and inspire achievements in college students through committed involvement and operational excellence.
Milligan is a certified public accountant, founder and chief executive officer of Milligan & Company, LLC, the largest minority owned certified accounting and consulting firm headquartered in the tri-state area. In addition to managing the company, Milligan serves as the firm’s project manager for financial assessments of multi-billion dollar infrastructure projects throughout the country. He is currently involved with financial oversight of the $5.6 billion project to rebuild the infrastructure at the World Trade Center site.
Founder of the Greater Philadelphia Minority Business Strategic Alliance, Milligan also leads assessments of infrastructure projects in San Francisco, Boston, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His community activities include serving on the boards of directors of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Norristown Education Foundation.
The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, call Dr. Oswald Richards at (484) 365-7377.
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University is a premier, historically Black University that combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University is nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics); computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln has an enrollment of 2,423 undergraduate and graduate students.