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February 25, 2013

Tickets available for CBMC Metro Prayer Breakfast

OKLA. CITY — The 30th Annual CBMC Metro Prayer Breakfast is co-sponsored by CBMC and the mayor’s office. It is scheduled for March 26, at the Cox Convention Center Great Hall.

The Prayer Breakfast will open at 6:30 a.m. with a breakfast buffet and the program will be from 7–8:30 a.m. Individual tickets are $30 each. Pacesetter, Leadership, Patron, Corporate and Host tables, for 10, also are available.

Keynote speaker this year is Bob Doll, the chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager at Nuveen Asset Management. Doll recently served as BlackRock’s chief equity strategist for Fundamental Equities. Doll also was the head of the U.S. Large Cap Series equity team, with primary portfolio management responsibility for those strategies. Prior to his tenure at BlackRock, Doll was with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where he served as the president and chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager of the Merrill Lynch Large Cap Series Funds. Prior to joining MLIM, Doll served as the chief investment officer of Oppenheimer Funds Inc.

Doll received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Doll appears regularly in the national financial press discussing economic developments and markets. Doll and his wife Leslie live in Princeton, N.J., and have three children.

He is also choir director at his local church and holds leadership positions in the NYC Movement Project and in the Global Executive Leadership Forum within the Lausanne Movement. Doll serves on a number of boards including the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, Word of Life Fellowship, New Canaan Society Advisory Board, Kingdom Advisors, Cairn University and the Wharton Graduate Executive Board.

For more information, call CBMC Oklahoma City at 749-9418 or go online to https://www.cbmc.com/event/30thMetroPrayerBreakfast.

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