14th Annual Wharton Economic Update


Date and Time
Friday, January 24, 2020
12:00pm— 1:30pm
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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
401 S Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
United States
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Join us for the 14th Annual Wharton Economic Update when Wells Fargo Managing Director, Senior Economist Mark Vitner presents the current state of the economy in the city, our region and the nation.

Date: Friday, January 24, 2020

Time: 12:00p - 12:30p - Networking

12:30p - 1:30p - Presentation and lunch (Boxed lunches are included in the registration price.)

About Dr. Mark Vitner, our speaker:

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Mark Vitner is a managing director and senior economist at Wells Fargo, responsible for tracking U.S. and regional economic trends. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, he also writes for the company’s Monthly Economic Outlook report and the Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary, and he provides regular updates on the housing markets, commercial real estate, regional economies, consumer spending, and issues impacting small business. Mark joined a Wells Fargo predecessor institution in 1993. Before that, he spent nine years as an economist for Barnett Banks in Jacksonville, Florida. Mark’s commentary has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and many other publications.

Originally from Atlanta, Mark earned a B.B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from the University of North Florida. He has completed further graduate work in economics at the University of Florida. He also completed the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Advanced Training in Economics program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark is a member of NABE and is also a member of that group’s inaugural Certified Business Economist class. Mark is a past president and co-founder of the NABE Charlotte chapter, The Charlotte Economics Club. He serves as a distinguished lecturer and practitioner at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and the Western Economic Association. He also chaired the Economic Advisory Council for the California Chamber of Commerce for three years. He currently serves as the chief economist for the North Carolina chapter of the CCIM Institute, which confers the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. He is a member of the Blue Chip economic forecasting panel and the Western Blue Chip forecasts panel, and he serves on the Joint Advisory Board of Economists for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

 


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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein

401 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, United States,
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