Minot State University and the Minot State University’s Severson Entrepreneurship Academy are hosting a special edition of The Entrepreneurial Perspective series on Tuesday, March 25.

The university will celebrate the grand opening of the Severson Entrepreneurial Academy renovation in Old Main with a presentation, a panel discussion with special guests Clint Severson and Conni Ahart, and an open house at the renovated Severson Entrepreneurship Center.

The day will kick off with the next installment of the Entrepreneurial Perspective series, featuring Murad Al-Katib, president and chief executive officer at AGT Food and Ingredients, on the topic of “From a Small Town to the World, An Entrepreneur’s Journey and the Adventures of Feeding the World.” The free lunch presentation is from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the MSU Student Center Conference Center.

A strategic business and financial thinker in an international agri-food commodity trading business, Al-Katib founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian startup into a global, billion-dollar value-added pulses, staple foods and ingredients company. In 2017, Al-Katib was named the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year and PROFITGuide Magazine’s 30 Most Fabulous Entrepreneurs of the Past 30 Years.