Sav e th e date
4th Annual InDevelopment Conference
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Oshkosh Convention Center, Oshkosh
Keynote Speaker
Mark Barbash
Economic development consultant,
Columbus, Ohio
"Finding the Money for Challenging
Development Projects"
In a challenging economy, everyone wants to know: How do I get my deal financed?
Where is the money?
Mark Barbash has been financing tough deals for 30 years and he'll share his secrets for
where – and how – to find it today. He's a master at uncovering project funding, how to use
creative financing tools both public and private, from New Markets Tax Credits and TIFs to bond
financing, banks and everything in between.
Barbash brings 30 years of development experience in both the private and public sectors,
with the National Development Council, which worked across the country financing economic
development projects, in investment banking and in city, state and federal economic
development organizations. He's been "on the ground and in the trenches" doing economic
development nationwide.
From 2007 to 2011, Barbash served as chief economic development officer for the Ohio
Department of Development. He is a development financing consultant and serves clients in
Ohio, Wisconsin and Massachusetts and elsewhere. He grew up in Madison, is a graduate of
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and lived and worked in Madison and Milwaukee.
