I recently attended… Nashville Business Journal’s 40 under 40 event held at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel, downtown. It was an event that honors NBJ’s top picks for Middle Tennessee’s bright young business professionals.
Honorees normally are announced one by one and they come to the stage as an interesting bio is read about them. They make their way across stage to meet the publisher Kate Herman, receive a keepsake and have their photo taken (that was always my part).
This year was different. Groups were called to the stage and as they sat in their “hot seats” random bios were read and the crowd tried to guess which 40 under 40 recipient was being described. I liked it, it was kind of like a game show. I have to hand it to my old crew at NBJ for coming up with something else interesting fresh.
I had great conversations at my table during lunch. I sat with a couple guys from Avenue Bank. David Dahlroos, Assitant VP and Relationship Manager and Andy Moats, Senior VP Credit Underwriting Manager. I had taken their photos before when I was with NBJ. It was nice to catch up with them. All in all it was a great event.
