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Agenda
5:30 – Registration & networking cocktail reception
6:15 – Annual Meeting is called to order 
6:30 – Annual Meeting is closed
6:30 – Speaker introductions & keynote presentation 
7:30 – Networking wrap up 
8:00 – Event concludes

Join the CFA Society Atlanta for an exclusive evening discussion on investing in the sports industry. This event will feature two prominent figures in sports ownership and investment: Marc Lasry, co-owner and chairman of the Milwaukee Bucks and co-founder of Avenue Capital Management, and Wes Durham, play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Falcons, ESPN and ACC college football and basketball. 

Investment in the sports industry has become increasingly attractive to investors, offering unique opportunities and challenges. This event will provide attendees with insights from two accomplished professionals on:
•    The current landscape of sports ownership and investment
•    The role that media rights and real estate are playing on the valuation of sports franchises
•    Identifying and evaluating investment opportunities in sports teams and leagues
•    Strategies for building value in sports franchises
•    The impact of data analytics and technology on the sports industry

Marc Lasry, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group
Mr. Lasry co-founded Avenue Capital Group in 1995, and credit investing has been the focus of his professional career for over 40 years. Prior to forming Amroc Investments, LLC (“Amroc”) as an independent entity, Mr. Lasry managed capital for Amroc Investments, L.P., an investment fund affiliated with the Robert M. Bass Group. Prior to that, Mr. Lasry was Co–Director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company. Prior to Cowen, he was the Director of the Private Debt Department at Smith Vasiliou Management Company, the firm where he first became involved in the distressed debt markets. He spent the prior year practicing law at Angel & Frankel where he focused on bankruptcies. Mr. Lasry also clerked for the Honorable Edward Ryan, former Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Lasry is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he has served and will continue to serve on various other boards of advisors/directors of both for-profit and not-for-profit private and public companies.

Mr. Lasry graduated with a B.A. in History from Clark University (1981) and a J.D. from New York Law School (1984).

Moderated by: Wes Durham

Wes Durham is an award-winning play-by-play sportscaster who has become a familiar voice on radio and television throughout the Southeast in the last three decades. For the last 11 years, his work covering ACC football and basketball has been seen on ESPN, ACC Network, Bally SportsSouth, and Fox. Since 2004, he has been the play-by-play announcer of the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL. 

From 1995-2013, he was the radio voice of Georgia Tech, and was on the call for more than 750 football and basketball games, including trips to the Final Four and the Orange Bowl.

In October of 2015, Durham was inducted into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame, for his 18-year career with the Yellow Jackets. 

He is an 11-time winner of the “Georgia Sportscaster of the Year” by the National Sports Media Association. 

Durham has also been recognized by the Atlanta Sports Council with the “Furman Bisher Award” for sports media excellence in Atlanta.

A 1988 graduate of Elon, he was honored by their School of Communications as their “Distinguished Alumnus” in 2013.

An avid golfer, Durham is married to the former Vicky Newman. She and Wes now live in her hometown, Cartersville, Georgia. He has adult twins as well. Emily, a Florida State graduate, lives in Washington, DC, where she works in Government Relations for Northwestern University. Will, works for “The Tech Way” NIL collective at Georgia Tech, and was married (Hannah) this spring.