Saratoga Forum

Todd Kletter

Managing Partner, WP Strategic Holdings

Todd is a consummate business professional and hands-on executive recognized for providing dynamic leadership, skilled negotiating, and exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit through creation of new income streams, expense and margin management, and maximization of asset and cash flow. He is adept at assessing existing business processes and systems, translating business needs into discernable functional system requirements and implementing strategies that consistently generate revenue growth and profitability. With an MBA from Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, Todd has close to 20 years of experience leading top wholesale suppliers and manufacturers across niche industries, and a breadth of knowledge in key areas including revenue management, capital expenditure ROI, venture funding and budget planning and forecasting.

Hugh Johnson

Chairman, Hugh Johnson Advisors, LLC.

Hugh serves as the Chairman of Hugh Johnson Advisors, LLC. In this position, he manages $1.2 billion in equity, fixed income, and cash investments for individual and institutional clients and serves as a consultant to $1.2 billion in institutional assets. In order to manage these assets effectively, Hugh formulates a broader outlook for the stock and bond markets by combining his knowledge of financial markets and economic history with an understanding of how market cycles work.

Hugh Jonshon

Chairman @ Hugh Johnson Advisors

HUGH A. JOHNSON serves as the Chairman Emeritus of Graypoint LLC and Chairman of Hugh Johnson Advisors. He also serves as Chief Economist of both. In this position, he assists in the management of $2.1 billion in equity, fixed income, and cash investments for individual and institutional clients and assists as a consultant to $1.3 billion in institutional assets. In order to manage these assets effectively, Hugh formulates a broader outlook for the stock and bond
markets by combining his knowledge of financial markets and economic history with an understanding of how market cycles work

Todd Kletter

Managing Partner, WP Strategic Holdings

Todd is a consummate business professional and hands-on executive recognized for providing dynamic leadership, skilled negotiating, and exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit through creation of new income streams, expense and margin management, and maximization of asset and cash flow. He is adept at assessing existing business processes and systems, translating business needs into discernable functional system requirements and implementing strategies that consistently generate revenue growth and profitability. With an MBA from Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management, Todd has close to 20 years of experience leading top wholesale suppliers and manufacturers across niche industries, and a breadth of knowledge in key areas including revenue management, capital expenditure ROI, venture funding and budget planning and forecasting.

Noa Simons

President & CEO @ Upstate Capital

I lead the Upstate Capital Association of NY, a membership-based organization committed to building the upstate ecosystem through events like the Saratoga Forum, the Buffalo PE Summit and the Invest NY Series.

Bailey Burke

Events Director