“Most companies, if not all, use some kind of tricks to smooth out earnings,” remarked Dr. Howard Schilit, Founder & CEO of Schilit Forensics, who has been called the Sherlock Holmes of Accounting, as he recounted his decades of experiences conducting forensic accounting and fraud investigations for global investors to a rapt audience gathered at the Carey Private Equity and Venture Capital Club speaker event.

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“Land was the raw material of the agricultural age, iron was the raw material of the industrial age, and data’s the raw material of the information age.”

This quote comes from Alec Ross, best-selling author of The Industries of the Future, a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and a former senior official in the Obama administration at the U.S. Department of State. Alec was a guest speaker at the Carey Private Equity and Venture Club on September 18, 2017, and he shared his insights on the industries that would play a key role in the economy in the future.

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