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The next OCA Business Forum webinar will give participants a look inside i2E, the private not-for-profit corporation focused on fostering high-growth companies in Oklahoma.

Participants in the free hour-long webinar, which starts at 9 a.m. Jan. 26, will have access to the latest information on the programs and will be able to ask questions.

The webinar will feature Wayne Embree, vice president of Entrepreneur Services. Topics will be “Venture Advisory Services and Access to Capital” – especially programs available only to Oklahoma businesses and entrepreneurs – such as the new $13.2 million initiative Accelerate Oklahoma! program developed in conjunction with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce.

Embree leads the team of venture advisors and entrepreneurs-in-residence at i2E in assisting Oklahoma’s high-growth companies.

He has more than two decades of experience as an investor in entrepreneurial companies and has been a seed-stage investor since 1986, serving as the lead investor in numerous startups in the energy, environmental, life science and information technology sectors.  He co-founded Portland-based Reference Capital Management and Cascadia Partners which managed six funds, investing in more than 100 companies, including many from research universities and corporate labs.

The webinar is sponsored by Business Finance & Development. The Tulsa Business Journal joins Oklahoma Corporate Acquisitions as a strategic partner in presenting the OCA Business Forum, a series of webinars designed to give the business community easy access to local experts on timely topics.

To submit ideas for future webinar topics, or if you are interested in being a sponsor or featured expert, contact Jennifer Thompson at jthompson@okcorporate.com or 918-438-8218.

More details about the Jan. 26 webinar are available on the OCA website and TBJ website.

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