The M.B.A. Leadership Perspectives Dinner during Business Week 2013 is designed to bring together current graduate students, faculty, alumni, and local industry representatives to explore current topics in business leadership.

William Hallinan ’66 will serve as the keynote speaker for the dinner March 28.

Hallinan is a co-owner, president and chief operating officer of Cryogenic Industries, a privately owned, multinational group of affiliated industrial and service entities comprising approximately 25 companies doing business throughout the world and having either or both manufacturing and service facilities in 12 countries.

The affiliated group, generally referred to as Cryogenic Industries, is a premier provider of process equipment and services to the industrial gas and hydrocarbon industries, selling, fabricating, and servicing cryogenic equipment and collateral products such as air separation plants, gas liquefaction units, heat transfer equipment, radical inflow turbines, and a variety of cryogenic pumps.

Prior to joining Cryogenic Industries, Hallinan was chief executive officer of a public corporate finance company which was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2001. For approximately 30 years prior, Hallinan was a corporate attorney representing large public corporations in securities, financial merger, and acquisition transactions.

After graduating Illinois State, Hallinan attended John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where he practiced corporate law for about five years before relocating to Phoenix.

Hallinan resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, and maintains offices in Scottsdale and Murrieta, California, where Cryogenic ndustries is headquartered.

This event will be held March 28 at 4:15 p.m. in the Old Main Room. Pre-registration required for this free event.