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Dinner Recap

From Negative EBITDA to $43B Exit

August 13, 2019

Our August 2019 CEO dinner was held at the delicious Fogo de Chāo – Brazilian Steakhouse!

At this dinner, 45 Atlanta CEOs who run later-stage, recurring revenue and product companies represented over $2 billion in valuation.

We offer our sincere thanks to the keynote speaker and valued ACEO board member, Asif Ramji. Here is Asif’s extraordinary acquisition journey as CEO of Paymetric:

  1. 2017 Paymetric acquisition by Vantiv at $550 million (CEO)
  2. 2017 Vantiv acquisition of WorldPay at $11.3 billion (C-Suite)
  3. 2018 State Bank acquisition by Cadence at $1.5 billion (Board)
  4. 2019 FIS acquisition of WorldPay at $43 billion (C-Suite)

We look forward to seeing you at our next dinner in September. Keep scaling!

Palaniswamy Rajan

Founder & Chairman | Atlanta CEO Council



2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Palaniswamy Rajan | Ashish Thakur | Harish Mamtani | Asif Ramji | Jeremy Wing Roger Barnette | Armistead Whitney | David Calhoun | Kelly Gay

2019 BOARD OF ADVISORS

Nelson Chu | Frank Dalton | Richard Fraim | Adam Ghetti | Rimus Kapeskas

Blake Patton | Micheal Reene | Mike Dowdle


A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS


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