Author and senior managing director James Quella will speak

Friday Oct. 31 at 12:30 p.m. at Claremont McKenna College's Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.

Quella is the senior managing director and senior operating director of the The Blackstone Group and co-author of "Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business" from 1999.

The Ath is located at 385 E. 8th St. and the event is free. Claremont McKenna is located at 400 N. Claremont Boulevard.

Information: (909) 621-8099.