GROWTH & IMPACT WEEK SPEAKER LINEUP
The speakers at Growth and Impact Week are award-winning advisors, operators, and thought leaders who don’t just understand growth and impact, they execute it. Each speaker has been selected for their ability to translate methodology into real-world implementation, sharing how they’ve built in-demand practices through intentional, ROI-driven relationships with business owners. Expect candid perspectives, practical frameworks, and honest discussion around what works in today’s market, from client selection and trust-building to accountability, culture, and value creation. This is not a stage of theorists; it’s a room of practitioners committed to helping you apply what you learn and accelerate results in your firm.
Mark Kossow
Meet Mark Kossow:
Mark R. Kossow advises corporate, banking, and financial services clients on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
He represents clients in ESOP transactions consisting of stock purchases, buyouts, and mergers and acquisitions....
ABOUT MARK
Meet Mark Kossow:
Mark R. Kossow advises corporate, banking, and financial services clients on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
He represents clients in ESOP transactions consisting of stock purchases, buyouts, and mergers and acquisitions. He supports individual and institutional trustees, directors, shareholders, banks, and private and public companies on a variety of ESOP-related matters, both transactional and non-transactional.
Clients look to Mark to help them structure, negotiate and implement leveraged and non-leveraged ESOP transactions.
Clients also seek Mark’s counsel regarding corporate governance issues, ESOP plan design and compliance, succession planning, and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) fiduciary issues. He actively represents ESOP clients in IRS and Department of Labor audits, and in correction programs offered through these agencies.
Mark further provides productive advice on the implementation of synthetic equity plans based on his experience with nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. These plans consist of performance and retention-based stock appreciation rights plans and phantom stock plans.