Published: January 27, 2015
Hall of Fame Speaker Series Continues Feb. 5 with CEO of RBC Wealth Management
The University of Tampa will welcome John G. Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management, on Thursday, Feb. 5, who will speak as part of the Sykes Hall of Fame Speaker Series.
The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in Falk Theatre, 428 W. Kennedy Blvd., with networking and coffee. The presentation, Back from the Brink of Disaster! Reinventing Capitalism, begins at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.
The great grandson of former U.S. President William Howard Taft and grandson of U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Taft has worked in the financial services industry for more than three decades. He is CEO of RBC Wealth Management, the seventh largest full-service retail brokerage firm in the U.S. with nearly 2,000 financial advisors in 42 states and more than $235 billion in assets under administration.
As an active member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) — Taft served as chairman-elect in 2010, chairman in 2011 and is now chairman emeritus — he advocated for responsible financial reform and testified before Congress in support of a federal fiduciary standard of care.
Taft is the author of two books, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance Can Restore Faith in Capitalism and Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, has been a guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box and been interviewed by other top news outlets, including FOX, FOX Business News, Bloomberg TV and radio, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune and Financial Times.
For more information or to RSVP, go to sykesspeaker.eventbrite.com or contact McKala Mason at mmason@ut.edu or (813) 257-3782.
On Friday, April 17, a panel of four industry professionals will present the obstacles and challenges faced in today’s business environment related to whistleblowing.
The panel will be held at The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business, Room 234, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. This “Hot Seat Event” is sponsored by UT’s Center for Ethics. The public is invited, and there is no charge for the event.University of Tampa film students will screen their work at the first annual Moon Dance Film Festival at UT’s Reeves Theater on Tuesday, April 14, at 8:30 p.m.
Aaron Walker, assistant professor of communication, said the festival is an opportunity for UT students both to screen their work and to curate the best work of their peers.“It’s fully student-run, so it shows how deeply the students care about celebrating the strong work of their peers, but also shows how much desire there is for our FMA students to create venues of success for one another,” Walker said. “It’s a terrific collaboration, and will be a terrific party for film. Plus, the movies are great.”
The Sustainable Business Coalition of Tampa Bay Inc. and The University of Tampa Center for Ethics is calling for nominations for their annual Sustainable Business Awards, which will be held on Wednesday, June 10, at The University of Tampa’s Vaughn Center.
Now in its seventh year, the Sustainable Business Awards, sponsored by the Sustany Foundation, recognize and honor for-profit businesses in the Tampa Bay area that engage in practices that increase economic opportunities and improve the environment and community.