About this Event
Charlotte Business Exchange (CBEX) Speaker Series
Since 2014 CBEX has presented insightful business topics and developed an impressive group of business leaders who are regular attendees.
We are excited to continue our 2025 theme "The Entrepreneurial Journey: Stories from Struggles to Success".
Thursday, November 13th - The Golden Rule Blueprint: Business, People, and Purpose - Featuring : Trent Haston - President and CEO of the Roby Family of Companies
Come join us for an exciting event where you'll hear about Trent Haston's entrepreneurial journey.
CBEX is delighted to have Trent Haston, Charlotte native, President and CEO of The Roby Family of Companies.
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, November 13th, 2025
Location: Suffolk Punch Brewing South Park 4400 Sharon Rd, Charlotte, NC · (704) 397-3904 (between Dick’s Sporting Goods and The Container Store – back side of Southpark Mall)
Time: Networking - 7:30 AM- 8:00 AM | Event - 8:00 AM- 9:00 AM
PANELIST:
TRENT HASTON - President and CEO of the Roby Family of Companies, Trent Haston leads one of Charlotte’s most respected and longest-standing residential and commercial contracting firms. Now celebrating 75 years in business, the Roby Family of Companies includes Andrew Roby, Roby Services, Roby Commercial, and Roby Realty — providing everything from custom home construction and full remodels to plumbing, HVAC, and real estate services.
Moderator:
BRANDY MILAZZO - Brandy Milazzo Founding Partner, Co-Owner, Managing Partner, and Corporate Law Co-Team Leader at Erlenbach & Milazzo Law, PLLC d/b/a Summit Law
Cost to Attend: $35.00
Includes Full Breakfast Menu: Smoke bacon, scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes, toast with butter and jelly, coffee and juice.
Join us for an engaging and informative session that will leave you motivated and inspired.
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HUGE SHOUT OUT TO OUR SPONSOR: Tangela Davis with Trinity Strategic Consulting
PANELIST: TRENT HASTON
TRENT HASTON - As President and CEO of the Roby Family of Companies, Trent Haston leads one of Charlotte’s most respected and longest-standing residential and commercial contracting firms. Now celebrating 75 years in business, the Roby Family of Companies includes Andrew Roby, Roby Services, Roby Commercial, and Roby Realty — providing everything from custom home construction and full remodels to plumbing, HVAC, and real estate services.
Trent represents the third generation of family leadership, continuing the legacy that began when Hungarian immigrant Andrew Robicsek founded the company in 1950 and later sold it to Glenn Haston, Trent’s grandfather. Together with his brother, Travis, Trent has grown the company with a focus on people — taking care of associates, clients, and the community.
Under Trent’s leadership, Roby’s annual Pitchin’ for Wishes Cornhole Tournament has become a major fundraiser for Make-A-Wish Central & Western NC and other local charities. He credits the company’s long-term success to building relationships that span generations, often serving the children and grandchildren of past clients.
“Our model for growth is built on trust, patience, and taking care of people,” Trent says. “If you focus on doing the right thing, success follows.” He applies that same philosophy to every part of his life and business — guided by the Golden Rule: treat others the way you want to be treated.
MODERATOR: BRANDY MILAZZO
Brandy Milazzo - Brandy is one of the firm’s co-founders and principal owners at Erlenbach & Milazzo Law, PLLC d/b/a Summit Law. During graduate school, she lived in Paris and worked for a technology company for approximately one year, hence her fluency in French. After spending 12 years in the big law firms as a corporate lawyer, she ventured out on August 1, 2013, with some other partners to open Ascension Law. Although, she is very proud of Ascension Law’s accomplishments over the last ten plus years, her business partner and best friend of four plus years, Erika Erlenbach, (who she met summiting Kilimanjaro for Rotary) recently decided to concentrate on what they love to do and do well – transactional law – mergers & acquisitions, finance, commercial real estate, supply chain, technology, and general corporate work – and to restructure so that they are more equal partners.
Ascension Law is winding down, and Summit Law has emerged and is growing with its new structure, sole focus on transactional law and new team. As the firm continues to grow, they are further committed to providing exceptional service within the highest standards that the firm’s clients have come to expect. Brandy absolutely loves what she does and deems the relationship with her clients to be one of the utmost priorities; hence many of her friends become her clients, and she considers most of her clients her friends. While her job is to represent her business clients, she believes that this does not always mean “winning” every negotiation or having the biggest mark-up. She understands that in a lot of transactions, the parties will end up on the same side at the end of the transaction or will be going separate ways in business. Brandy believes that the real “win” is when both sides feel great when they come together or go their separate ways.
During the last few years, Brandy has had the honor and privilege of being the recipient of numerous distinguished awards including the 2012 NC Bar and Girl Scouts Raising the Bar Award, the Girl Scouts Thanks Badge, being named one of the 50 Most Influential Women of 2013 by The Mecklenburg Times, a 2013 Distinguished Rotarian by the Rotary Club of Charlotte-Evening, a North Carolina Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine, recipient of the 2015 Charlotte Business Journal’s “40 Under 40”, 2015 and 2016 Top Super Lawyers & Best Lawyers in North Carolina, 2016 Business North Carolina Legal Elite, and 2016 SmartCEO BRAVA award recipient. Brandy has had the honor and privilege to serve on several boards and in leadership positions, including the Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Council, NCDT (now The Charlotte Ballet), Rotary, church, the Mecklenburg County Boy Scouts Council Executive Board and Freedom Communities Board. She currently serves on the Catapult Board. As for her academic background, she earned her J.D., cum laude, from the University of South Carolina, along with her M.I.B.S. from the Darla Moore School of Business. She also attended Campbell University, receiving a B.A., summa cum laude, with a pre-law/government major and French minor.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Suffolk Punch Brewing - SouthPark, 4400 Sharon Road, Charlotte, United States
USD 35.00
