Philly ACG SaaS & Tech Enabled Services Conference on March 12 in Philly

Tom Paine


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ACG Boston, ACG New York and ACG Philadelphia are teaming up for the 2nd Annual ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Northeast Industry Tour.

Philly is hosting the first leg, the SaaS & Tech Enabled Services Conference at the Union League on March 12.

Stephanie P. McAlaine, Executive Director of ACG Philadelphia, explained to me in a phone interview that ACG, long a generalist organization, was seeing increased demand among its membership for specialty programs, in this case SaaS and the huge increase in non-tech companies that have come to rely on technology, because that's where many deals are coming from.

Last year the inaugural event drew more than 250 people.


McAlaine sees the opportunity to establish the ACG Philly Conference as the most prominent of its kind on the east coast, where no event dominates. That would have many benefits for the Philly private equity and SaaS communities.

Christian Bullit of Raymond James New York, formerly of LLR Partners, is a lead organizer of the event along with Dan Ryan of Milestone Partners & Peak Equity Partners. Bullett emphasized that the event will draw not only from up and down the east coast, but nationwide. He also made it clear that this is a PE event, not a VC event.

Although this conference has more bankers than company operators, leaders of three exceptional SaaS companies will present: Anaplan, with a recent IPO success, represented by Philly native Paul Melchiorre; Exton's iPipeline, and iCIMS, a big NJ-based SaaS HR venture back originally by Susquehana Growth Equity. Not to omit Malvern's Frontline Education.




Speakers named to date include:


David Badler, Portfolio Operations & Growth, Susquehanna Growth Equity
Robert L. Berstein, Managing Director - Technology Investment Banking, Piper Jaffray & Co.
Christian Bullitt, Managing Director, Raymond James
Jim Catalino, Chief Client Success Officer, Frontline Education
Tony Diodato, AVP, iPipeline
Pete Elkes, CFO, Occasion Brands
Adam Feigenbaum, Chief Customer Officer, iCIMS
Ryan Hays, Director, Lazard
Jerry Huskins, CEO, Fonteva
Reid Jackson, President & CEO, Unison
Paul Melchiorre, Global Customer Officer, Anaplan
Justin Nadile, Vice President, NewSpring
Ian O'Neal, Managing Director, Raymond James
Ken Wasick, Managing Director, Stephens
Don Yount, CEO, Critical Mention

There will also be five roundtable discussion panels, on subjects ranging from eCommerce platform evolution to scaling inside sales groups.

The Conference will take place on Tuesday, March 12 from 10am to 6pm, at the Union League. Members (any ACG Chapter): $195
Non-members: $275