TUNE IN Tuesday, April 14, from 4-4:45pm EST, for an important economic briefing and Q&A on the impact of the coronavirus on businesses and efforts to save them, particularly smaller business, with former Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank Fred Hochberg, moderated by Kay Koplovitz, founder of USA Networks and Founder and Chairman of Springboard Enterprises.
Not since the attacks of 9/11, has a crisis enveloped so much of the economy so quickly. The pullback from public life is sending out shock waves akin to a real natural disaster that’s affecting people at the most basic level - loss of jobs, income, wealth and predictability. How do we recover? How will the CARES Act help? Will it be enough?
Fred Hochberg is a leading world expert on business, trade, and the economy.
Under his leadership, the Ex-Im Bank supported more than 1.4 million American jobs and financed exports with a value exceeding $240 billion, while generating $3.8 billion in surplus revenue for U.S. taxpayers and reducing internal costs by nearly 30 percent.
Mr. Hochberg also spearheaded the Small Business Administration. Hochberg knows business: he served as an executive for the extremely successful catalog company, Lillian Vernon Corp., founded by his mother. He recently published a book on trade entitled, "Trade is Not a Four Letter Word."
Kay Koplovitz is an extraordinary business leader having founded USA Networks and Springboard Enterprises. USA would eventually become the number one ranking cable network in primetime viewership for 13 consecutive years and made Koplovitz the first woman ever to head a television network. Springboard is a non-profit organization fostering venture capital investments in women-led high growth companies and raised over $10.3 billion and created over 10,000 jobs since its inception.
