Economic Impact of Gay Marriage as photographed by New York event photographer Jeffrey Holmes.

December 9, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

The Economics of Gay Marriage panel discussion presented by Manhattan Chamber of Commerce held at MetLife Conference Center in New York. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

Christine Quinn, NYC Council Speaker and first openly gay NYC Council member, addresses The Economics of Gay Marriage Program. A panel discussion presented by Manhattan Chamber of Commerce held at MetLife Conference Center in New York.

The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce presented a panel discussion that focused on the role of the business community in pressuring the legislature to approve same-sex marriage.The event was held at the new Met Life Conference Center at 6th Avenue and 42nd Street. The event was photographed by event photographer new york, Jeffrey Holmes Photography for the MCC. The business community has a stake in this issue because of employee benefits, payroll taxes, talent retention and money will be made when tens of thousands of couples marry here in New York City rather than traveling to other states.

“Economic Impact of Gay Marriage” took place on Monday, March 14, 2011 and was organized by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, hosted by MetLife and sponsored by Bloomingdale’s, Gay City News, Microsoft and the Riverside Church.T

People have figured out that when permitted to marry, the gay community will be more likely to hire a realtor, purchase a home, buy insurance, travel on a honeymoon and use the services of a caterer, wedding planner, florist, and all of the other services engaged by traditional couples getting married.

MetLife Conference Center in New York where the Economic Impact of Gay Marriange Program was held and photographed by Jeffrey Holmes, new york event photographer.

Panel members included Jeremiah Frei-Pearson, Straight Allies Coordinator, Marriage Equality New York; George Carrancho, National Sales & Marketing Manager for LGBT Community, American Airlines; M. V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy at UCLA School of Law; Rachel B. Tiven, Executive Director, Immigration Equality; Paul Schindler (Moderator), Editor-in-Chief, Gay City News; Tracy Teofilo, President, Prestigious & Elegant Events, Inc; and, Jeffrey Hollander, JD, Assistant Vice President Advanced Markets Group, MetLife.

: MetLife Conference Center in New York where the Economic Impact of Gay Marriange Program was held and photographed by Jeffrey Holmes, new york event photographer.

Photographer Note on the venue: MetLife Conference Center is a great venue for medium size conferences. The lighting is ideal. The room features a large projection screen. While a the screen could have been positioned lower on the back wall, it d

oes provide for great viewing. The stage is lighted with with floods high above in the ceiling (perhaps a bit too much of an angle as to provide an uncomplimentary image) fill flash is a must. The venue provides a wonderful view of Bryant Park. Catering of the events is available.

SEO Annual Alternative Investments Conference as photographed by Jeffrey Holmes Photography, Event Photographer New York.

November 15, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

SEO Annual Alternative Investments Conference was held on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at the Essex House in New York City.

Interest in alternative investments has never been stronger. The path to this industry is not always clear. SEO’s Annual Alternative Investments Conference highlights professional and business opportunities as well as provides individuals from underrepresented groups within financial services exposure to the leading voices in the alternative investments arena. The Benefits of Participation: Learn more about career paths and industry trend

SEO 2nd Annual Alternative Investment Conference held May 17, 2011 at the Essex House Hotel in New York. Organized by Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), the conference is part of SEO's Alternative Investments Program, which includes the Alternative Investment Fellowship Program (AIFP), an initiative launched in 2009. The AIFP is an educational program for young professionals from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the alternative investments industry. The AIFP combines workshops, training and mentoring to strengthen Fellows as candidates for positions in private equity and other alternative investments. The program also improves Fellows' skills as analysts by exploring strategic decisions involved in transactions from the client's point of view. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

SEO 2nd Annual Alternative Investment Conference (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

s within the alternative investment arena; Network with experienced professionals from various segments of the industry and Share insights and dialogue with aspiring and experienced finance professionals.

Tim Weld, CFA, Director, Parish Capital Advisors moderates panel at the SEO 2nd Annual Alternative Investment Conference held May 17, 2011 at the Essex House Hotel in New York. Organized by Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), the conference is part of SEO's Alternative Investments Program, which includes the Alternative Investment Fellowship Program (AIFP), an initiative launched in 2009. The AIFP is an educational program for young professionals from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the alternative investments industry. The AIFP combines workshops, training and mentoring to strengthen Fellows as candidates for positions in private equity and other alternative investments. The program also improves Fellows' skills as analysts by exploring strategic decisions involved in transactions from the client's point of view. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

Tim Weld, CFA, Director, Parish Capital Advisors moderates panel at the SEO 2nd Annual Alternative Investment Conference. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

The event organizers engaged the services of Jeffrey Holmes Photography. Jeffrey has been the photographer of choice for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity since 2007. His dynamic images grace the pages of the SEO’s collateral materials and reports.

During this day long event, industry discussions were facilitated by leaders who focused on the private equity and hedge funds sector, providing insight to rising professionals with valuable information. Institutional investors, fund managers, consulting firms, and other providers within the alternative investments industry foster the growth and knowledge of the next generation of leaders by participating as panelists and supporters of the conference.

The conference was organized by Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO). The conference is part of SEO’s Alternative Investments Program, which includes the Alternative Investment Fellowship Program (AIFP) which was launched in 2009. The AIFP is an educational program for young professionals from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the alternative investments industry. The AIFP combines workshops, training and mentoring to strengthen Fellows as candidates for positions in private equity and other alternative investments. The program also improves Fellows’ skills as analysts by exploring strategic decisions involved in transactions from the client’s point of view. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG partner with SEO for the AIFP. Most recently, Audax Group joined with SEO to identify talent for Audax’s undergraduate summer analyst program, providing another pathway for talented individuals to gain access to the industry.

Institutional Investors’s Africa Investment Forum Event Photographer

November 6, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

African dignitaries and investment leaders came together at Institutional Investor's Africa Investment Forum held April 11-12, 2011 at the Metropolitan Club in New York. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

Event Photographer in New York, Jeffrey Holmes was Institutional Investor’s choice to photograph the Africa Investment Forum as it has for their international forums since 2004. This long standing relationship demonstrates the confidence they have in his ability to consistently get the images Institutional Investor Events needs for promotional and media release purposes. This assignment was particularly challenging as it was held in the West Room of the Metropolitan Club, New York. While it is a gorgeously rich room featuring a stunning ceiling mural. This is a very dark venue. Added to the challenge was the dark skin tones. Limited light includes 4 windows on the west wall and only eight dimly lighted wall sconces. Generally stage lighting is provided by 2 spots for video recording. The wide f-stop range between stage and audience called upon all of Jeffrey’s talents in order to make great event photography. His camera of choice is the Canon 5D Mark2 with its minimum noise at higher ISO setting and 1Ds Mark2 for its 8 frames per second capture rate.

The event was eye opening as to the future of the continent. Africa is making significant strides in focusing global investors’ interest on the opportunities there. Africa’s new vision of its future highlights the potential that can be found in these nations while addressing many of the obstacles that have hindered foreign investment in the past. This long-term, comprehensive strategy for increasing foreign investments means applying the lessons learned and building on the comparative strengths of the region’s markets and key sectors. In response to these steps forward as well as significantly increased interest among US institutions, Institutional Investor’s Africa Investment Conference is the premier, Africa-focused event in the US in 2011. With the theme, The Gateway to Opportunity, the event embodied Africa’s vision for sustained economic development driven by targeted, informed foreign investment. The Conference was the ideal forum for the necessary exchange of information among senior decision-makers from the region’s governmental and regulatory authorities, executives from Africa’s leading corporations, and the US institutional investors who are interested in learning more about the opportunities in Africa. The Africa Investment Conference supplied investors with the macro information they require about governmental, regulatory, and economic policies coupled with intensive examinations of key sector initiatives, including: Capital markets and banking developments; Tax and legal reforms; Monetary and fiscal policies; Infrastructure public-private partnerships; and Project and leverage financing opportunities in oil and gas, telecoms, transportation, tourism, health services, metals/mining, agribusiness, renewable energy, and power.

This years program included presentations from key government officials and regulators, panel discussions among corporate executives and large US investors, and case studies focusing on some of the region’s more notable achievements. The event photography of Jeffrey Holmes is included in this post with more images available in the Institutional Investor Africa Investment Forum gallery.

Small Business Summit brings technology solutions to business by event photographer New York Jeffrey Holmes Photography

May 8, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

Christopher McCann, President of 1-800-Flowers, explains how a single flower shop in Manhattan became the world

The Sixth Annual Small Business Summit, sponsored by Dell Computers, was a special environment where small business owners meet their peers and learn from vendors offering cutting edge technology for small business. Attendees learned, shared and connected with both old and new relationships. This year featured Chris McCann, President of 1-800-Flowers and Jim Fowler, CEO/CoFounder of Jigsaw, plus panels of experts, interactive sessions and networking with exhibitors. Sponsors gave away some fabulous prizes. The event was was organized by Smallbiztechnology.com and Prime Strategies and held at Digital Sandbox in New York. The event photographer for the 5th year was Jeffrey Holmes Photography, a respected business event photographer New York producing great event photography.

The Small Business Summit also presented the 2011 Small Business Strategy Award and Hot Tech Demo winners on at Digital Sandbox in New York City. Winner the 2011 Small Business Strategy Award, ath Power Consulting, a leading financial services market research and strategy firm. Shady Grove Eye and Vision Care and Great Bear Auto and Body Shop were named as runner up winners for this award. Twisplays, a technology firm that allows you to conveniently display whatever Twitter streams you desire from a larger LED screen, has been named the winner of the 2011 Hot Tech Demo. “This award recognizes and honors businesses that have developed and executed a strategy producing significant growth in profits or market share over the past few years,” says Marian Banker, MBA, Co‐Producer of the Small Business Summit and President of Prime Strategies. “ath Power Consulting is an excellent example of success using the strategy of finding and leveraging their opportunity in a market downturn” adds Marian Banker. “We feel honored to be presented with the 2011 Small Business Strategy Award,” said Frank Aloi, President and CEO of ath Power Consulting. “As the downturn in consumer sentiment continued in financial services, we knew that analyzing and improving the customer experience would ‐ or certainly should ‐ be a top strategic priority in the U.S. banking industry. Our goal was to prove how ath Power could help financial institutions rebuild sustainable profitability, trust in the market and return to high performance by using our solutions. We achieved that goal by implementing a solid business strategy, ultimately leading us to increased customer retention and profits. ath Power is proud to be recognized for our achievement.”

Ken Weyel of Microsoft Advertising presents his insight into web marketing at the Small Business Summit 2011 at Digital Sandbox in New York.

“I am so pleased again this year that the ‘Hot Tech’ demo segment has received such a great response,” says Ramon Ray, Co‐Producer of the Summit, Editor & Technology Evangelist of Smallbiztechnology.com. “Small businesses want to see how technology can transform within their business and budget and Twisplays is a perfect example of this. Providing any business the ability to extend their brand and messaging by leveraging their existing Twitter stream is a perfect example of how to expand to a larger audience without breaking the bank”, adds Ray. “We are excited to be named the 2011 Hot Tec Demo Winner, says Joshua Persky, CEO of Twisplays. Our goal is to help businesses promote their brand and increase sales by leveraging existing social media marketing programs, in this case with Twitter.” During the Summit, each of the winners will showcase and tell how their products help a growing business and why it’s important. To learn more about the Summit or these business owners, visit smallbiztechsummit.com

Ramon Ray moderates a panel including Matthew Weiss, Traffic Ticket Lawyer, Andy Steuer of Deluxe and Ken Weyel, Microsoft Advertising. They shared their views on how to achieve outstanding.growth using online marketing techniques.Small Business Summit 2011 at Digital Sandbox in New York. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

Ramon Ray moderate a panel including Matthew Weiss, Traffic Ticket Lawyer, Andy Steuer of Deluxe and Ken Weyel, Microsoft Advertising. They shared their views on how to achieve outstanding.growth using online marketing techniques.Small Business Summit 2011 at Digital Sandbox in New York.

Event Photographer Comment: Digital Sandbox is a great venue for technology events. WiFi is available for attendees. From a photographer’s perspective, the lighting is substandard. The room used for the exhibition hall is dark with the spot lighting, exposed ceiling with vents and conduit painted black. This is not a great environment for bounce flash lighting. I make it work by shooting manual strobe and over powering the ambient light. Exposure and color correction is adjusted in post production of RAW files. The rooms where presentations and programs are generally held have white ceilings with fluorescent lighting and make photographing the speakers easier. However in the end, program producers should consider adding supplemental lighting to the stage area.

Top CEO’s gather at New York Enterprise Report’s International Roundtable in New York.

February 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

The New York Enterprise Report’s CEO International Roundtable

Discussion by leading CEO's at the NYER International CEO Roundtable Program.

This unique and timely CEO roundtable produced informative discussions between business leaders that operate in the international arena. Roundtables include: International Sales & Marketing Strategies, Optimizing the Supply Chain: Minimizing Costs / Production Time, Reducing the Risks of Doing Business Overseas and more.

Kevin Logan, HSBC U.S. Chief Economist photographed by Jeffrey Holmes, event photographer New York

Kevin Logan, HSBC U.S. Chief Economist, Global Banking and Markets addresses NYER International CEO Roundtable.

The program’s Keynote Speaker was Kevin Logan, HSBC U.S. Chief Economist, Global Banking and Markets. Based in New York City, Logan is responsible for U.S. economic forecasts and publication of key economic research for the bank’s institutional client base across the world. Specifically, he looks at how U.S. economic developments impact other markets and how other markets, especially emerging markets, are affecting U.S. economic trends and data.

The event will be photographed by Jeffrey Holmes Photography. Jeffrey has photographed New York Enterprise Report magazine covers and premier events since 2007.

Attendees will walk away with new ideas and the latest best practices from other CEOs which they can implement into their own businesses. A wrap up panel discussion will follow the roundtable conversations. Continental breakfast will be provided.

Roundtable Moderators included:

Jordan Finger, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Ardis Health

Jordan Finger, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ardis Health leads a discussion at the NYER International CEO Roundtable Program.

Mr. Finger has over 15 years of executive level management experience in Internet marketing, advertising and e-commerce. As the CEO and founder of Ardis Health, a leading Internet marketer of health, beauty and cosmetic brands, Mr. Finger has built the company into an international powerhouse doing business in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany & Spain and product fulfillment o customers of over 500,000 units a year. Read full bio.

Alexander Gordin, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Broad Street Capital Group
Gordin is a leading expert and speaker on international trade to emerging economies. He is also a Trustee at the strategic think-tank Princeton Council on World Affairs. His vast experience includes cross-border strategic advisory services in export finance, international project finance and risk management, especially for developing countries. Read full bio.

Mitesh Lakhani, CEO, Reliable Group at the NYER International CEO Roundtable Program.

MiteshLakhani, CEO, Reliable Group
Under his tenure as Chief Operating Officer, Reliable has see 300% growth with the Key Line of software and the expansion of customized software to various industries. Reliable and Ledger have earned a coveted status as Oracle Certified Advantage Partner (CAP), in a rapid 6 months, which typically takes over 5 years. There are currently less than 100 CAPs worldwide. Read full bio.

Jeremiah D. Schnee, President and CEO, ABA / RFR – the Business Advisory Affiliate of Anchin

Jeremiah D. Schnee, President and CEO, ABA/RFR-the Business Advisory Affiliate of Anchin leads a roundtable discussion.

Schnee has been recognized as one of the most respected business consultants in the tri-state area. He brings his clients nearly 20 years of experience in delivering innovative business advisory services to a wide variety of businesses. Schnee’s clients have included many leading middle-market CEOs and business owners as well as multinationals, including Allstate, Pfizer, Colgate Palmolive and Northrop Grumman. Read full bio.

Round table topics included:
» International Sales & Marketing Strategies

Does your message translate? What mediums work in which markets? Discuss the latest marketing tools/strategies necessary to thrive in an international and inter-cultural environment and to become better marketers in the global marketplace.

» Optimizing the Supply Chain

Learn tactics for gaining better control over your supply chain by minimizing costs and shortening production time when doing business overseas and across borders.

» Reducing the Risks of Doing Business Overseas

Discuss the latest trends associated with risks in international trade for importing/exporting. Identify the best practices and risk management tools available to mitigate contingencies. Topics include, but are not limited to, currency fluctuations and payment and performance risk.

» Taping Into Emerging Markets

Which emerging markets are opportunities for your business? Discuss the hottest markets and proven strategies for succeeding in them.

Young Leaders for Tomorrow, MLT shapes them today.

January 26, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

Management Leadership for Tomorrow

Management Leadership for Tomorrow seminar at Google by Jeffrey Holmes (Click on photo to view gallery)

Management Leadership for Tomorrow is a favorite non-profit for which I am their preferred photographer for events photography.

Here is a summary, from their web site, of the great things that MLT does for the world today and tomorrow:

MLT is the premier career development institution that equips high potential African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans with the key ingredients—skills, coaching and door-opening relationships—that unlock their potential. By cracking the code on career potential, MLT is developing the next generation of minority leaders, for the corporate, non-profit and entrepreneurial sectors, who will in turn have transformational impact on our communities.

MLT delivers programming that puts minorities on the fast-track to success at every stage of their careers: from College through MBA and the Executive levels.

MLT is a leading source of minority talent for top graduate business schools and for many of the nation’s premier corporations including Citi, Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey & Co, PepsiCo and Target. MLT’s innovative solution has also resulted in strategic partnerships with leading philanthropies such as New Profit, Inc. and The Starr Foundation. MLT has been featured on the cover of Fortune and in CNN’s “Black in America 2: Tomorrow’s Leaders.”

The Problem

Corporate photographer Jeffrey Holmes captured these inspiring images as New York event photographer for MLT. Students participate in programs that prepare students for leadership in future positions. Corporate photographer Jeffrey Holmes captured these inspiring images as New York event photographer for MLT. Students participate in programs that prepare students for leadership in future positions.

There is a leadership pipeline crisis in the US.

Although comprising nearly 30% of the US population, African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans comprise only 3% of senior leaders in corporations, non-profits and entrepreneurial ventures.

Despite having broader preparation, access and financial support for the best colleges and graduate schools, these minorities continue to fall out of the leadership pipeline at alarming rates. As a result:

Corporations, non-profits and entrepreneurial ventures struggle to attract and retain the best diverse talent they need to achieve their goals.
The individuals who are most connected to our struggling communities, and therefore most motivated to improve them, are not in a position to make those solutions possible.

Because conventional wisdom is that higher education ensures the American dream, we have not invested in giving those who make it to college the other ingredients they need to realize their full potential as leaders.

MLT is the Solution

Corporate photographer Jeffrey Holmes captured these inspiring images as New York event photographer for MLT. Students participate in programs that prepare students for leadership in future positions. Corporate photographer Jeffrey Holmes captured these inspiring images as New York event photographer for MLT. Students participate in programs that prepare students for leadership in future positions.

The path to leadership is not taught in school.

It takes more than classroom education to create leaders. It takes hard and soft skills. It takes early exposure to high-impact career opportunities. It takes an understanding of the path to the senior levels; and it takes inspiring leaders and mentors.

Many organizations focus on providing minorities with access to educational opportunities and preparation for academic success. MLT delivers key skills that are not taught in any classroom and that are critical to fulfilling one’s potential. Virtually every senior leader would say that they would not be where they are today without some or all of those key ingredients, yet these ingredients are not taught in even the best classrooms and instead are delivered through informal channels to which minorities have limited access:

A roadmap of specific steps to take to achieve one’s short and long-term goals
Coaching to develop the specific skills needed to distinguish oneself as a high performer
Mentorship to avoid career-limiting mistakes
Door-opening relationships that can lead to a “big break”
High-performing peers who provide motivation and support

MLT has formalized the delivery of these ingredients, filling a major gap in our education system and significantly broadening the pipeline of senior minority leaders who can catalyze change in our communities.

Inspiring images of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

January 26, 2011 by Jeffrey Holmes

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity photographed by Jeffrey Holmes, event photographer (Click on photo to view gallery)

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

I have had the privilege of documenting the great work of SEO since 2007. Here is a collection of those moments. View Photo Gallery

From SEO’s website: What began in 1963 as one of New York City’s first mentoring and college preparatory programs for underserved high school students of color has matured into a dynamic national organization. Each year we provide a broad range of educational and career development opportunities to hundreds of high school students, college students and young professionals.

With more than 6,000 program graduates, SEO alumni are well-represented as leaders in virtually every imaginable profession. Our alumni are committed to using their success to create opportunities for the next generation.

Jeffrey Holmes Photography has been capturing impactful images of these inspired associates since 2007. A number of favorite photos have originated with this organization. As a corporate portrait and event photographer who is experienced in corporate portrait photography and portrait corporate. Jeffrey Holmes is an accomplished artist among corporate portrait photographers and is a noted photographer in New York. Jeffrey Holmes Photography is known to his clients as a New York event photographer, photographer for events, professional photographer, event photography New York. These students in these programs are the subjects of the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Gallery.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity photographed by Jeffrey Holmes, event photographer

The SEO Career Program recruits and trains outstanding underrepresented college students of color for summer internships that lead to full-time jobs with investment banks, corporate law firms and other leading global companies. Over the past two years, SEO has provided more than 700 internships with more than 50 corporate and philanthropic partners. What begins as a 10-week summer internship turns into a lifelong professional network and a resource base for SEO alumni through every step of their development.

The SEO Scholars Program prepares motivated New York City public high school students to gain admission and succeed at competitive colleges and universities throughout the country. The program assists more than 400 high school and college students of color each year, offering a comprehensive roadmap to competitive college admissions and career success. We provide academic preparation, guidance, mentoring, and enriching life experiences that prepare students to take leadership roles in all areas of their lives.

The Alumni and Philanthropy Program drives SEO as an organization. Once a student is accepted into SEO, s/he becomes a member of a global network of more than 6,000 alumni representing 47 U.S. states and 43 countries, supporting each other professionally. SEO Alumni are at the core of a new generation of highly successful people of color. Programming for this unique group focuses on bringing professional development events to our alumni and other young professionals who are in various stages of their careers, while helping them build capacity for, and commitment to, strategic philanthropy.

The Alternative Investment Fellowship Program is an educational program for recent graduates from groups underrepresented in financial services. The program is open to SEO alumni and non-alumni. The aim of the fellowship is to educate these young professionals on various aspects of the alternative investment industry and to strengthen fellows as candidates for positions in the alternative investment sector at the conclusion of their two-year investment banking analyst programs.

ELEW RockJazz inspires Entrepreneurs

November 17, 2010 by Jeffrey Holmes

Eric Lewis-ELEW RockJazz Music performs at NYEW

A modern day pop artist and musical revolutionary, piano iconoclast, ELEW is making a substantial impression on the music world with a thunderous new style of playing: an inspired melding of ragtime, rock and pop that he calls Rockjazz. Photographed by a great event photographer Jeffrey Holmes. His amazing portfolio can be seen at www.jeffreyholmes.com

ELEW has toured the world, recorded, and performed continuously with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He won the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, his mesmerizing piano theatrics even then hinting at the new musical paradigm he would one day create.Now, in the jazz tradition of interpreting popular tunes of the day, much like Art Tatum and John Coltrane, ELEW has turned to rock, combining a guitarist’s approach to the piano with an explosively physical style of playing that would be at home in any arena. An imposing force even before he stands (not sits) behind the piano, ELEW is known for playing his instrument like an athlete plays a sport—going inside the instrument, testing the limits of his body, pushing through the pain and exhaustion….but never stopping.

Samsung Experience

November 16, 2010 by Jeffrey Holmes

The Samsung Experience. 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019 (212) 823-9520 – Venue Website

Manhattan Chamber of Commerce hosts Web Marketing Seminar at The Samsung Experience

The Samsung Experience is a branded showroom in the Time Warner Center that holds up to 300 people for a film screening or reception. It is a great venue for luxury product launches, and often holds panel discussions and cocktail receptions.

Manhattan Chamber of Commerce held a Web Marketing Seminar at The Samsung Experience. It is a venue that is an interactive brand emporium that provides a creative experience through Samsung’s vision of digital convergence. Your guests will captivate both their senses and imagination. Explore the art of the possible within the new digital culture. Touch, hear, and engage the latest technology to create your own digital lifestyle and discover a fusion of new ideas in art, entertainment, and design.

Photographed by a great New York event photographer Jeffrey Holmes. View entire portfolio at www.jeffreyholmes.com

Best and brightest faces of NYEW-New York Entrepreneur Week

November 15, 2010 by Jeffrey Holmes

Faces of today and tomorrow’s brightest entrepreneurs and business leaders come together over the five days of New York Entrepreneur Week. This year, as in the past, the emotion and engagement of the participants were photographed by a great New York Event Photographer, Jeffrey Holmes of Jeffrey Holmes Photography.

View Photo Galleries of each day by clicking on the links below:

MONDAY Images - Click above to view. (Jeffrey Holmes)

New York Entrepreneur Week brings entrepreneurs, investors and dealmakers together. (Jeffrey Holmes/JeffreyHolmes.com)

Allen Murabayashi, CEO, Co-founder of Photoshelter(Jeffrey Holmes)

: WEDNESDAY Images -Click above to view

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Great event photography features images of the participants interacting with each other as well as business and financing leaders. As official photographer for NYEW, Jeffrey Holmes knows that Gary Whitehill expects great images to feature in web and marketing materials as well as for press release. He appreciates the talents of New York Event Photographer, Jeffrey Holmes Photography. View his portfolio of work at www.JeffreyHolmes.com

NYEW provides a chance to learn from and directly engage some of the world’s most renowned entrepreneurs, and rising entrepreneurial talents. They are business leaders from a wide range of industries including: beverage, clean tech, film, finance, media, mobile, retail and telecom.

The five day series of events during business and after hours is focused on providing high impact content and precise direction to companies here and now through Educational workshops; Invaluable networking opportunities; Inspiring keynote speeches by recognized business leaders; and Expert panels delivering relevant mission critical advice.

Since November 2009, NYEW has made a strong impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, featuring more than 200 speakers from 18 states and 3 continents, and attracting more 135,000 viewers live in attendance and via live, web video streams, from 14 countries.

NYEW is the catalysts for conquering today’s harsh economic challenges. They are the leaders that will turn economic adversity into opportunity. To take part in the revolution, join us and attend New York Entrepreneur Week.

The New York Enterprise Report’s CEO International Roundtable Discussion by leading CEO's at the NYER International CEO Roundtable Program.

Management Leadership for Tomorrow

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

The New York Enterprise Report’s CEO International Roundtable

Discussion by leading CEO's at the NYER International CEO Roundtable Program.