
Marcum California Construction Summit
Overview
The 2023 Marcum California Construction Summit is dedicated to updating construction contractors, finance and accounting professionals on the economic state of the construction industry. This complimentary event draws construction contractors and other service providers from across the region.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Anirban Basu, Chief Economist, Marcum LLP, ABC & CFMA
Agenda
Registration
Welcoming Remarks
Warren Hennagin, Partner & California Construction Industry Leader, Marcum LLP
From Design to Done: How the latest field technology will impact the back office and why that matters to you.
Construction Field Technology – What every CFO needs to know and why you need to know it. Join Trimble, Spot the Robot Dog, and Buildingpoint Midwest as we dive into the lifecycle of a construction project managed through technology. From design and preconstruction to reporting after the project is complete, technologies to capture, process, and envision data are advancing rapidly and affecting how the industry operates. Learn about the leading-edge technologies in the industry, what they are, and how they will impact you in the back office.
Presenters
Patrick Allen, VP, Sales, Trimble Viewpoint
Todd Ellsworth, Director of Professional Services, BuildingPoint Midwest
Nicholas DiBitteto, General Manager, BuildingPoint Midwest
Keynote Presentation: Show Me the Money (Supply)
Soft landing? Something harder? Whither inflation? This presentation will supply in-depth analysis of the major factors shaping economic outcomes, including central bank policymaking, worker attitudes, business confidence, and geopolitics. It will then turn toward a forecast for the year to come, highlighting the major risks that economic stakeholders will likely encounter.
Keynote Speaker
Anirban Basu, Chief Economist, Marcum LLP, ABC & CFMA
Networking Cocktail Reception
Speakers
Keynote Speaker

Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu is the Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with an office in Orlando, Florida. The firm provides strategic analytical services to energy suppliers, law firms, medical systems, government agencies, and real estate developers among others.
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu is the Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland with an office in Orlando, Florida. The firm provides strategic analytical services to energy suppliers, law firms, medical systems, government agencies, and real estate developers among others.
In 2014, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan appointed him Chair of the Maryland Economic Development Commission (2014-2021). He serves as Chairman of the Baltimore County Economic Advisory Committee. He is also the Chief Economist to Associated Builders and Contractors, the Chief Economist of the Maryland Bankers Association, and Chief Economic Advisor to the Construction Financial Management Association. He serves or has served similar functions for Visit Baltimore, Maryland Realtors, and Marcum, LLP.
He has lectured at Johns Hopkins University, most recently in Global Strategy, and has also taught international economics, urban economics, micro- and macroeconomics at Hopkins. His radio show can be heard weekdays on 88.1FM, WYPR, Baltimore.
In both 2007 and 2016, the Daily Record newspaper selected Mr. Basu as one of Maryland’s 50 most influential people. The Baltimore Business Journal named him one of the region’s 20 most powerful business leaders in 2010.
Dr. Basu has been on many boards over time, including First Mariner Bank, the Baltimore City Public School System, Port Discovery, the Baltimore School for the Arts, and Union Memorial Hospital. He is currently on the boards of the University of Maryland School of Law, St. Mary’s College, the University of Maryland Medical Center, the University System of Maryland Foundation, the Center for Emerging Media, the Lyric Opera House and the Archdiocese of Baltimore School System.
Dr. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Master’s in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the University of Maryland School of Law. His doctoral work was completed at UMBC with a concentration in health economics.
Speakers

Warren Hennagin
Warren Hennagin is the California Construction Industry leader and a partner in the Costa Mesa office of Marcum LLP. Mr. Hennagin has more than 30 years of experience with audit, accounting, tax planning, and business consulting. He was previously managing partner of a Southern California-based CPA firm where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the firm.
Warren Hennagin
Warren Hennagin is the California Construction Industry leader and a partner in the Costa Mesa office of Marcum LLP. Mr. Hennagin has more than 30 years of experience with audit, accounting, tax planning, and business consulting. He was previously managing partner of a Southern California-based CPA firm where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the firm.
Mr. Hennagin is highly experienced in the construction industry, but also provides computer and management consulting services, as well as quality and internal controls to manufacturing and service-focused businesses.
Mr. Hennagin frequently speaks on accounting matters related to the construction industry, including as a regular speaker at the annual AICPA National Construction and Real Estate Conference. He continues to be involved in national construction and building-related associations on both local and national levels. Mr. Hennagin has also authored many articles for construction-related publications.
Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Deltek
Deltek provides cutting-edge, integrated construction accounting software. Our powerful, user-friendly software not only improves the way contractors run their businesses, but it also allows them to meet the unique challenges of construction accounting. By providing you insight on the future financial state of your business, you can focus on optimizing profit margins on every job. Our construction software product and team provides you with:
- Job cost accounting with a construction-focus
- Flexible reporting (e.g. WIP) and business intelligence
- Field-to-office collaboration to gain true job visibility
- Industry expert training & support there every step of the way
- Project scheduling and document control to manage critical project processes
- Service dispatch boards for the office and mobile work orders for the field
Exodus HR Group
Exodus HR Group provides customized HR/Payroll/Benefit Administration/Safety programs for small to medium sized businesses, allowing our clients to focus on what they love doing most! Instead of spending hours sorting through time cards, HR issues, reconciling benefit payments, etc. you should focus on why you got into business in the first place. A unique offering Exodus HR provides in the Construction space is a robust safety program focusing on OSHA compliance, helping you keep your crews safe! This often results in reduced workers comp and liability costs, helping your bottom line. Exodus HR Group…your path to business freedom.
Oracle NetSuite
For more than 20 years, Oracle NetSuite has helped organizations grow, scale and adapt to change. NetSuite provides a suite of cloud-based applications, which includes financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR, professional services automation and omnichannel commerce, used by more than 33,000 customers in 217 countries.
Viewpoint
Trimble Viewpoint construction software solutions, part of Trimble Connected Construction, allow contractors to better manage their projects, processes and people, using the data gathered to lower risk and improve margins. With more than 40 percent of the ENR 400 on our platforms, Trimble Viewpoint innovations are transforming the construction industry by connecting operations across financial and HR systems, project management tools and mobile field solutions.
Video Sponsor
Suited
We exist to grow our client’s companies through annual strategy & planning, scheduled execution, and a laser focus on what you need vs. a diluted mix of activities that just take time and money.
With a strong web design and development core, proven results in organic search (SEO), a nationwide network of video production capability, and a whole host of revenue-driving capabilities, Suited truly has you covered.
It’s time to save you time and get you back to work closing deals and growing your business.
You can finally stop chasing multiple service providers or expecting that in-house hire to deliver everything, and get back to running your business while one team delivers results.
Cocktail Sponsor
Contractors & Developers Bonding
Contractors & Developers Bonding is a surety bond only brokerage company specializing in providing bonds to contractors in the public & private sectors. Our specialization in surety puts us ahead of our competitors and we currently enjoy being the largest independently owned, surety only brokerage company in the western states. We offer over 90 years of combined surety bond underwriting and brokerage expertise. Our management team has many years of experience as underwriters with small and very large contractors providing a thorough knowledge of all surety related products and credibility among underwriters. We have surety markets to handle the smallest of bonds to the largest of any bond required.
Supporting Sponsors
American Business Bank
Inspired by the philosophy that a Bank could be more than the sum of its siloed parts, our founders set out to build a new kind of Bank; one that worked as a singular entity, acting as a complete banker on behalf of its clients — in 1998 American Business Bank was born. Unlike their mega-corporate counterparts, our founders recognized that middle market companies were in need of bankers that could do more for their business, so ABB took action, fostering long-lasting relationships with businesses across the southland. Today, that genuine interest and passion remains the driving force of our success, and it’s how we continue to build a legacy that quietly influences the way premier Southern California businesses operate and grow for years to come.
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Rudd & Romo
Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo is a full-service law firm with over 200 attorneys in nine offices throughout California. We represent both private and public sector clients, with emphasis in the areas of employment, labor, construction, education, real estate, water, general business and business litigation, corporate and taxation. Through decades of dedicated commitment to high quality legal work and providing consistently practical management solutions to our clients, AALRR has earned a reputation as one of California’s leading law firms.
Pacific Western Bank
We are not like other banks. At Pacific Western Bank, relationship banking is not the exception, but the rule. For more than two decades, we have helped growing minded and established companies succeed by listening, asking thoughtful questions, and responding with tailored solutions. The Bank provides community banking products including lending and comprehensive deposit and treasury management services to small and medium-sized businesses through our California-based branch offices and Denver, Colorado branch office. The Bank offers national lending products including asset-based, equipment, and real estate loans and treasury management services to established middle-market businesses on a national basis. The Bank also offers venture banking products including a comprehensive suite of financial services focused on entrepreneurial and venture-backed businesses and their venture capital and private equity investors, with offices located in key innovation hubs across the United States.
Supporting Oranization
ABC Southern California
Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. is the voice of the merit shop in the construction industry. We accept the responsibility for making that voice heard. We believe the merit shop movement is a movement for the betterment of the individual… the construction industry… and the nation. Their focus is to ensure free and fair marketplaces, improve the industry through education and training, raise the professional level of contractors through continued education, implement safety programs that benefit the entire industry and preserve the free enterprise system.
Sponsorships
To secure your sponsorship or inquire about other sponsorship opportunities, please contact:
Jennifer Dluzak, Regional Marketing Manager, Marcum LLP
[email protected] or 949.236.5674
Keynote Speaker Sponsor $8,000
(1 Available)
- Introduction of Keynote speaker
- Exhibit table at event
- Receipt of attendee list post-conference
- Company logo displayed on all event materials
- Company name or logo prominently displayed on all promotional elements (website, invitation, event tables)
- Full page advertisement in conference book
Gold Sponsor $6,000
- Exhibit table at event
- Receipt of attendee list post-conference
- Company logo displayed on all event materials
- Company name or logo prominently displayed on all promotional elements (website, invitation, event tables)
- Full page advertisement in conference book
Silver Sponsor $5,000
- Exhibit table at event
- Company logo displayed on all event materials
- Company name or logo prominently displayed on all promotional elements (website, invitation, press release)
- Half page advertisement in conference book
Bronze Sponsor $3,000
- Company logo displayed on all event materials
- Company name or logo prominently displayed on all promotional elements (website, invitation, press release)
- Half page advertisement in conference book
Pen Sponsor $3,000
(SOLD)
- Company logo on pen at each seat in main session
- Recognition as a “Supporting Sponsor” on conference website and on-site program guide
Cocktail Sponsor $3,000
(SOLD)
- Company logo displayed at all bars
- Signature drink of choice named after your company
- Recognition as a “Supporting Sponsor” on conference website and on-site program guide
Reception Sponsor $2,500
(SOLD)
- Company logo displayed at the Cocktail Reception
- Recognition as a “Supporting Sponsor” on conference website and on-site program guide
Snack Sponsor $2,000
- Company logo displayed near coffee and snack stations before and during the event
- Recognition as a “Supporting Sponsor” on conference website and on-site program guide
Premium Wine Raffle Sponsor $1,000
(1 Available)
- Recognition on promotional materials