DURHAM, N.H. - Why founders and CEOs should plan an exit strategy will be discussed at the next meeting of the University of New Hampshire CEO Forum.

The event will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 21, 2013. The program begins at 8 a.m. in Huddleston Hall with coffee and networking, with a full breakfast at 8:30 a.m.

Brad Sterl Jr., founder and CEO of Ever Better Eating, Inc., will discuss how every founder and CEO must plan an exit strategy as part of an overall effective business strategy.

Sterl has been in the restaurant and food industry since he was 15. At 17 he was a manager of the Weathervane Restaurant in Sanford, Maine, and by 20, he had purchased his first restaurant. In 1991, Sterl joined N.H.-based Foodee's Franchising, becoming president three years later before he was 30. In 1996, he formed Ever Better Eating, which produces Rustic Crust, and in 2010, he acquired the worldwide licensing rights to American Flatbred.

Initiated in 1997, the UNH CEO Forum is an outreach program of the UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and the UNH Graduate School serving CEOs, presidents, and senior managers of companies in northern New England. The forum provides its members with opportunities to meet and exchange ideas with their peers in business and industry in an informal setting. The UNH CEO Forum is sponsored by the law firm of Pierce Atwood, Optima Bank and Trust, Sprague Operating Resources, Crystalvision, and Berry Dunn. For more information about the CEO Forum, visit http://www.unh-ceoforum.org/.

Please register by March 14. To register or become a member of the UNH CEO Forum, call Barbara Draper at 603-862-1107, or e-mail her at barbara.draper@unh.edu The event is free to members and $49 for first-time attendees.

The UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics offers a full complement of high-quality programs in business, economics, accounting, finance, information systems management, entrepreneurship, marketing, and hospitality management. Programs are offered at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive development levels. The school is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for business schools worldwide.

The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

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