Economic Business Forum
Join us at the 23rd Annual Economic Business Forum!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Doors Open at 11:00AM, Program starts at Noon
Cohen Pavilion at The Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.
- Since its incorporation in 1909, Palm Beach County has been the model of culture, affluence, economic strength, and the growth of businesses for all of South Florida to follow and emulate.
- Each year, the Executives’ Association of the Palm Beaches provides the community with an iconic event, the Economic Business Forum. Local and National speakers have joined this event and speak to current and future economic matters, here in South Florida and beyond. Just as it’s proved to be a beneficial networking event, it has also fortified the business leaders of this economy.
- The economic strength and business growth we enjoy here is helped in a large part by the individual businesses and members of Execs’. Through mentoring, networking, conducting commerce and extending friendships and business partnerships of all kinds, Execs’ provides a business-to-business ripple effect throughout Palm Beach County.
2025 Guest Speaker
Bryce is an economist and is part of the First Trust Economics Team that Bloomberg has ranked as one of the top forecasters of the U.S. economy over the past several years.
At First Trust, Bryce is responsible for analyzing economic indicators, writing economic commentaries and producing articles on the First Trust Economics Blog. He. Is also one of First Trust’s national speakers, traveling around the U.S. to present timely information on the economy and financial markets to both professional and everyday investors. Cogent’s 2017 Survey of Advisors rated First Trust’s thought leadership material as number one for most read and most shared by financial professionals with colleagues or clients.*
Bryce is based in First Trust’s Austin, TX office and received an MBA from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and a BA in economics from Miami University (Ohio).
*Cogent Reports conducted an online survey of a representative cross section of 1,078 financial professionals in April through June 2017. Survey participants were required to have an active book of business of at least $5 million and offer investment advice or planning services to individual investors on a fee or transactional basis.
2025 - Bryce Gill
Economist First Trust
The Previous Years
2024 - Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD
Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Global Allocation Team
2023/2022 - Jack Manley
Global Market Strategist on the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Global Market Insights Strategy Team
2020 - Kevin Harrington
Inventor of the Infomercial, Original Shark on Shark Tank and As Seen on TV Pioneer
2019 - Todd Buchholz
Acclaimed author, former White House economic policy director and economist.
2018 - Bill Manegio
Executive Director, Client Advisor for JP Morgan Funds in the Southeast