Advisory: media invited to lecture featuring IBM CFO John Joyce

John JoyceMembers of the media are invited to Wake Forest University’s Calloway School of Business and Accountancy’s 17th annual Hylton Lecture at 8 p.m. April 3 featuring IBM’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, John Joyce. The event, at the Adam’s Mark Winston Plaza Hotel, is not open to the public.

The event begins at 6 p.m. and will feature a cocktail reception and dinner followed by the announcement of several Calloway School awards. Joyce will present his address, “CFO Perspectives on Corporate Leadership,” at 8 p.m.

To arrange coverage of the event and Joyce’s address, contact Sarah Mansell at manselss@wfu.edu or 336-758-4393.

The Hylton Lecture Series in Accountancy was established in 1980 in honor of Professor Emeritus Delmer P. Hylton, who started Wake Forest’s accountancy program in 1949. The series is designed to bring heightened awareness of important challenges facing the accounting profession to students, accounting professionals, and friends and alumni of the Calloway School.

The Calloway School, the largest undergraduate program at Wake Forest, is ranked 25th among all undergraduate business programs by U.S. News & World Report and its accounting students have scored first or second in the nation on the CPA exam for the past five years.

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