Fortune After 50

Today’s guest Laura Palker CEO of Trade Show Solutions Center speaks on success after 50

On this kick-off episode of "Fortune after 50" host Charlie Webb has a casual conversation with trade show leader Laura Palker. Laura has an amazing background starting her work life picking tobacco. Laura is the founder and CEO of Trade Show Solution Center/Trade Show Studio and the Solution Center Network. Hailing from Long Island, NY, Laura Palker is an accomplished business executive with more than 25 years of experience in the Trade Show Marketing and Sales industry. Guest Description: Laura Palker is the founder and CEO of Trade Show Solution Center/Trade Show Studio and the Solution Center Network. Hailing from Long Island, NY, Laura Palker is an accomplished business executive with more than 25 years of experience in the Trade Show Marketing and Sales industry. Palker has developed a distinguished career working for some of the region’s top companies in the trade show industry where she was able to hone her marketing, logistics and analytical acumen. Some of the firms who benefitted from her efforts include Dale Carnegie, MetLife, Flightdocs, and the Palmer’s Brand. In 2002, she branched out on her own with a vision of building a company that did more than simply sell trade show displays – one that supported the entire sales cycle with tools that worked in tandem to grow her clients’ business. That resulted in the founding of Trade Show Solutions Center, a full-service agency that offers sales and lead generation tools, marketing collateral, corporate communications, trade show displays and management, and promotional items – all with an eye to presenting a clear, consistent and compelling message that drives sales and effectively builds your brand. Giving back to the community has always been a priority to Palker as evidenced by her involvement with a variety of philanthropic and professional organizations.  Palker serves as President of the Moxxie Mentoring Foundation.  She proudly supports her husband as First Lady of the Global Board of Directors for the Institute of Management Accountants.  Palker sits on the EAC Network Board and served as former Marketing Chair and the 2014 EAC Spring Luncheon Chair.  She served on the EAC Spring Luncheon Committee in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and the EAC Golf Committee in 2011.  Finishing her term on the Board of Directors of the Executive Women’s Golf Association, Long Island, NY Chapter as the Sponsorship Chair and former Communications Chair; Palker is now co-site director for LPGA Girls Golf on Long Island.  Leading the way in an annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, she chaired the Island Hills Golf Club Babe Zaharias Tournament in 2008 and 2009 and served on the Executive Committee in 2011. Previous to that she served on the Board of the Foundation Fighting Blindness and worked with the Long Island Foundation for Hospice Care and Research where she lobbied in both Albany and Washington D.C. to help build awareness and support for hospice as an alternative to traditional Cancer treatment in the late 1980’s. Palker continues to offer seminars and webinars on profitable trade show exhibiting and smart selling.  She is a regular columnist in Golfing Magazine, Networking Magazine and hosted the FIOS1 My LI Show “Golfing on Long Island in 2011.  Laura Palker and her husband Marc P. Palker reside in South Huntington, NY. Contact: Laura@tssolutioncenter.com

Welcome to the introduction of the "Fortune after 50" Podcast

Join Charlie Webb as he shares his insight and passion on how you can create wealth and success from your life experiences and wisdom that comes after 50. Millions of dollars are being made right now by individual startup entrepreneurs in their 50s, 60s, and beyond. This is the time in your life to gain the wealth and lifestyle you that know you deserve. Millionaire business owner Charlie Webb is a patented inventor that structured his work part-time so he can enjoy family and friends. Learn how you can Brokerage your lifetime experience into a Business that can free you to enjoy these valuable days of your life. Join the ranks of thousands of wealthy and successful seniors that have discovered life really does begin at 50. Charlie Webb is a life long entrepreneur and the founder and President of a medical device packaging machine company and an ISO accredited Laboratory; He also hosts SPOT Radio (sterile packaging on track) www.spotradiopodcast.com [http://www.spotradiopodcast.com/] as well as the Fortune after 50 Podcast Charlie earn his BS degree in Management at the University of Redlands and completed the medical device development program at the Andersen graduate school of management at UCLA. Charlie is a “lifetime” certified packaging professional “CPPL” certified through the institute of packaging professionals as well as a “Six Sigma Master Black Belt”. As a member of a scientific review board, he co-developed micro-surgical devices that broke away from the conservative innovation models. Charlie has been in sterile device packaging for 26 years and has been involved in numerous FDA and ISO audits as a regulatory advisor. He is also a certified internal auditor and is the Quality Manager for his demanding ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. Charlie is a member of the IOPP Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee, and the ASTM F02 technical committee as well as a program director for KIIP. Charlie has multiple granted and pending patents on medical device packaging machinery and pouch testing systems. His current patent-pending technologies include a medical device tray sealer that will integrate pouch testing within the packaging machine to provide 100% real-time seal testing. Also, in development is his patented  HTIP system (human tissue isolation pouch) this disposable system is designed to help avoid packaging machine contamination. The seal-through HTIP system isolates the donor tissue during the packaging process to help thwart cross-contamination between donor events. This system will help prevent machine contamination and increases packaging machine component life cycles, saving money while managing infection risks to donor recipients. His company was also recently awarded a federal contract as a medical device packaging machine provider for the VA Hospital group and his laboratory client list includes NASA and the CDC (center for disease control). He continues to grow his company’s new product development program with the aim of reaching more users of their equipment in order to better manage healthcare packaging failures. Contact: Charlie@fortuneafter50.com