Breakout Sessions : Farmingdale Entrepreneur Conference

2. Business Startup: Creating A Launch Pad
Session will cover budgeting and financial planning, legal business setup and regulatory implications of starting a business.

Speaker: Ritu S. Wackett, Farmingdale SBDC, Business Advisor

Ritu S. Wackett joined the Farmingdale SBDC in March 2002 with experience in economic development and political community relations. As well as being a certified Business Advisor, Ritu serves as the Farmingdale SBDC's grant writer and Spanish speaking advisor. Though well versed in all sectors, Ritu specializes in assistance to child care centers and woman-owned businesses. Additionally, she authored both Business Basics and The Business Plan Guide, publications extensively used by the SBDC. Prior to joining the SBDC, Ritu was most recently employed by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s Manhattan-based Good Jobs New York Project, where she researched corporate retention subsidies and wrote Development Subsidies in New York: A Research Manual for Activists. Ritu has a B.A. in political science and psychology and an M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in public policy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she also completed two years of doctoral coursework.