Annual Meeting & Membership Breakfast
Friday, September 5
8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Korbel Ballroom – Colorado Convention Center
Todd Buchholz,
Economist Expert and Bestselling Author
What is your biggest fear for the economic future of your business? In these unpredictable times do you know what the forecast of our economy really is? With the future of the US economy so unknown, CEDIA is proud to present Todd Buchholz as the 2008 CEDIA EXPO Keynote Speaker. Buchholz is a world-renowned economist expert, best-selling author, and award-winning economics professor at Harvard. The Associated Press says, “he lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the Twentieth Century.”
Buchholz has authored numerous books that have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities nationwide, the likes of which include Harvard, Brigham Young, and Princeton. Market Shock: 9 Economic and Social Upheavals that Will Shake Our Financial Future, was released to rave reviews and dubbed “outstanding” by the Wall Street Journal. Buchholz is also author of the best-selling New Ideas from Dead Economists and From Here to Economy, which were lavishly praised by The New York Times and Financial Times. His newest book, Bringing the Jobs Home, was published by Penguin in September 2004.
His editorials in the Wall Street Journal correctly forecasted the 2001 slowdown in the U.S. BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market. Buchholz entertains his audiences and shows them how to thrive in a challenging economy, while gearing up for future prosperity. He is currently a Managing Director of a $15 billion Tiger hedge fund and is a contributing editor at Worth magazine, where he writes the “Global Markets” column. He has also penned articles for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Reader’s Digest. He has previously been a keynote speaker before such groups as Microsoft, Citibank, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining Tiger in 1996, Buchholz was President of the G7 Group, Inc., an international consulting firm, whose clientele included many of the top securities firms, investment banks, and money managers in New York, London, and Tokyo. Buchholz served as White House Director for Economic Policy from 1989 to 1992. Buchholz won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize at Harvard and holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge and Harvard. He also holds several engineering and design patents.
Ovations for Todd Buchholz
“Todd Buchholz was just amazing. His energy, effervescence, and educational material was just what we needed to kick-off the Reinsurance Conference. Todd jam-packed us with information. I likened him to un-corking a bottle of champagne and letting the good times roll. Todd was a fountain of insightful information; all that from an economist!"
-Ellen S. Hattenbach, PricewaterhouseCoopers
"Buchholz knows his stuff." - The New York Times
“I just can’t say enough about Todd. He did a fantastic job! Our audience really enjoyed his informative, realistic, and very witty presentation. I am still receiving praise from attendees. One even stated, “This was the first time in my life I ever went to anything like that and was sorry when it was over!”
-Cheryl M. Marty, Deputy Director, World Trade Center Saint Louis
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