DukeNY Business Series: A Conversation with Carlo Bertucci A.B.’02, Vice President Corporate Development, Amazon, and Kurt Simon A.B.’87, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs

DukeNY invites Duke alumni and parents to the latest installment of its signature Business Breakfast Series.

Please join us for a conversation with Carlo Bertucci A.B.'02, Vice President Corporate Development at Amazon, moderated by Kurt Simon A.B.'87, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs.

The discussion will explore the evolving M&A landscape and how companies use acquisitions, investments, and partnerships to advance long-term strategy, with a focus on Amazon’s transactions across consumer, health care, media and other international businesses.

A continental breakfast will be served. This event is limited to one person per registration and is available for Duke alumni and parents only.

Special thanks to Jonathan Karen A.B.'98, P'29 and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP for generously providing space for this event.

Carlo Bertucci joined Amazon in 2011 and is currently Vice President of Corporate Development, leading acquisitions, investments and strategic growth initiatives across the company. He has twenty-five years of transaction experience across mergers & acquisitions, minority investing, leveraged and structured finance. Carlo focuses primarily on Amazon's Consumer, Media & Sports, Healthcare & Advertising businesses and has led many of Amazon's largest transactions, including Kiva Systems, Whole Foods Market, MGM Studios, Pill Pack, & One Medical. He is currently leading Amazon's structured Al financing initiatives.

Carlo earned a BA from Duke University in 2002 and an MBA from The MIT Sloan School of Management in 2008.

Kurt Simon is vice chairman of Investment Banking and co- chairman of the global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group. He also serves as a member of the Investment Banking Senior Leadership Council.

Kurt joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2018.

Prior to joining the firm, Kurt worked at JP Morgan for 16 years, most recently as global chairman of Mergers & Acquisitions. Before that, he was head of the TMT investment banking practice.

Kurt serves on the board of The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, in New York City, the national board of The Posse Foundation, and is a member of the Belmont Hill School Corporation Board of Directors.

Kurt earned a BA from Duke University in 1987 and an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991.

$20 per person includes breakfast.

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Registrants will be given an opportunity to submit questions for the speakers during registration.