For Immediate Release – Lawton, OK, August 14, 2008
CETES, CU Business Research Center
present Business Forum
Cameron University’s Center for Emerging Technologies and Entrepreneurial Studies (CETES) and the
university’s Business Research Center will present “The Housing Market Crisis and Its Fallout on the Local
Economy,” a business forum, on Thursday, August 28 at 11 a.m. in the Wichita Room of the Shepler
Center. The forum is open to the public at no cost and provides an opportunity for local citizens to garner
feedback on this current issue from experts in the field.
Chad Wilkerson, Vice President and Branch Executive, Oklahoma City Branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas, will present the keynote address. Wilkerson, who holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy
from the University of Chicago, serves as the Bank’s regional economist and representative in the state of
Oklahoma, working closely with the branch’s board of directors. He is responsible for briefing the Kansas
City Fed’s president – a member of the Federal Open Market Committee – on economic and business
activity in the state. He also supervises the Bank’s monthly Survey of Manufacturers.
Following Wilkerson’s address, Lawton realtor Barry Ezerski, ReMAX of Lawton, David Madigan, president
of Arvest Bank and chairman of the Lawton/Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce, and Robert Milner, vice
president of City National bank, will participate in a panel discussion and take questions from the audience.
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Editors and Broadcasters: For more information, contact Janet E. Williams, Director of Media Relations, in
the Office of Community Relations at 580.581.2611.