DEARBORN – The Detroit chapter of TiE (Talent, Ideas, Enterprise) announced Thursday that Bill Birdsall, CEO, president and chairman of MicroMed Cardiovascular, will deliver a keynote speech at TiECon Midwest 2010, Michigan’s Largest Conference on entrepreneurship Oct. 28-29 at The Henry, in Dearborn.
Birdsall, an attorney, joined MicroMed Cardiovascular in October 2008. In the 1970s he played a significant role in the establishment of Ticketmaster, as founding Executive Vice President of the team that built the company into a world leader in the entertainment industry.
Birdsall has also been a pioneer in the public real estate markets. He was Chairman, CEO & CFO of The Price REIT, a New York Stock Exchange company he co-founded in 1991 with retailer Sol Price and which is now part of Kimco Realty; was co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Host Funding, Inc., a public real estate investment company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
He is also founding director and major shareholder of Sub-Crypto Systems, a software firm providing digital security systems to military and corporate clients. Birdsall has been a pioneer in promoting U.S. business activities in Asia, especially in the People?s Republic of China. He has served as legal counsel to the Interior Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and to the Joint Oversight Committee for the Office of Technology Assessment, as well as Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona.
Online registration and more information are immediately available for TiECon Midwest 2010 at TiEConMidwest.Org
For more information about the conference, please contact Jessica Matthews, Conference Coordinator, TiE Detroit (248) 254-4013.
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