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 Sarah E. Alexander |
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 Jean Case |
 Steve Case |
 James J. Cramer |
 Scott R. Cutler |
 John R. Ettelson
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 Jean-Claude Gruffat |
 Simon Hobbs |
 Richard Jeanneret
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 Christopher K. Johnson
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 William E. Kovacic
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 Anne T. Madden
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 Ken Mehlman
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 Heidi Moore
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 Duncan Niederauer
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 Barbara G. Novick |
 Stephen A. Orlins |
 Paul G. Parker |
 Matthew Porzio |
 Steven Rattner
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 Gregory F. Rayburn
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 Hilton Romanski
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 James D. Rosener
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 Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
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 Aileen P. Stockburger |
 Leo E. Strine, Jr.
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 Raymond Svider |
 Lynn Tilton |
 Robert Uhlaner
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 Jamie M. Weinstein
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 James Woolery
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Sarah E. Alexander Ms. Alexander is the founding President and CEO of EMPEA,
a global organization that promotes private equity and venture capital investment in emerging markets. A frequent contributor to industry research,
she is also a public commentator on industry trends.
Previously, she was a private equity investor in Asia with Emerging Markets Partnership (now EMP Global). She has also worked at the World Bank,
the U.S. State Department and in the U.S. Congress.
Ms. Alexander received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a Masters of Public Administration from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and a B.A. in History, summa cum laude, from Emory University.
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Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is CNBC's Chief
International Correspondent. When not covering her beat, Caruso-Cabrera will appear throughout CNBC's Business Day programming anchoring and reporting for the network.
In 2011, Caruso-Cabrera covered the European financial crisis. Reporting live from Athens, Rome and Frankfort she warned viewers and users
early on about the rising risk of default and the consequences for the global economy.
Previously, Caruso-Cabrera was co-anchor of "Power Lunch" (M-F, 1-2PM ET) with Sue Herera and Tyler Mathisen. Chief International Correspondent CNBC  Caruso-Cabrera has reported one-hour documentaries for the network including, "Liquid Assets: The Big Business of Water and "The Race to Rebuild: America's Infrastructure." Caruso-Cabrera reported for NBC News from Baghdad, covering the elections and its impact on Iraq's post-war economy and has also traveled to Cuba, Brazil and Venezuela to report on and produce groundbreaking stories about the economies of those countries. Caruso-Cabrera joined CNBC in 1998 from WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, Fl., where she spent four years as a general assignment reporter. Prior to joining WTSP-TV, she was a special projects producer for Univision, where she won an Emmy Award for a five-part series on children with AIDS, as well as an Emmy nomination for a report on sexual abuse by clergymen. At Univision, she gained extensive experience covering Latin America. She began her career in 1991 as a stringer for The New York Times, reporting on education issues. Caruso-Cabrera wrote her first book, "You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government," in 2010 published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Previously, Caruso-Cabrera wrote a personal finance column for Shape en Espanol focusing on issues of particular importance to Latinas and was a monthly contributor to People en Espanol. Caruso-Cabrera has also been awarded Broadcaster of the Year from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was named one of the " 100 Most Influential Hispanics" in the country by Hispanic Business Magazine. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Wellesley College. Follow Michelle Caruso-Cabrera on Twitter @Mcaruso_Cabrera. Return to top | |||
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Jean Case Jean Case is an actively engaged philanthropist and a pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. Her career in the private sector spanned nearly two decades before she and her husband, Steve Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. The Case Foundation is recognized for its innovative efforts to increase giving and catalyze civic and business participation, as well as promote innovation, collaboration and leadership in the nonprofit sector.CEO The Case Foundation  Jean serves on the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees, as well as on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), SnagFilms, BrainScope Company, Inc. and Miraval Resort and Spa. She also serves on the advisory board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the National Conference on Citizenship, and the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund, and is a member of the steering committee of Partners for a New Beginning. Jean and Steve joined The Giving Pledge, started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to fund worthy charitable causes, and in the same year were named to Barron's "25 Best Givers" list. In 2011, Jean was named theWashington Business Journal's Corporate Philanthropist of the Year, and Jean and Steve were honored by NCoC as Citizens of the Year.Return to top | |||
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Steve Case Steve Case is one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. Steve co-founded America Online in 1985, and under his leadership, AOL became the world's largest and most valuable Internet company and helped drive the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. CEO Revolution LLC Chairman, The Case Foundation  In 2005, Steve founded Revolution LLC, which is focused on investing in and building disruptive, innovative, consumer-facing companies including LivingSocial, Zipcar and Exclusive Resorts. Steve co-leads Revolution Growth, a private equity fund focused on building significant, game-changing companies. Steve also chairs the Startup America Partnership and is a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, two efforts focused on celebrating and accelerating entrepreneurship. In addition, Steve chairs the Case Foundation, a private family foundation, which he founded in 1997 with his wife Jean.Return to top | |||
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James J. Cramer Mr. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was President of The Harvard Crimson.
He worked as a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from sports to homicide before moving to New York to help start American Lawyer magazine. After a three year stint,
Mr. Cramer returned to Cambridge and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law in 1984. Instead of practicing law, however, he joined Goldman Sachs where he worked in sales and trading. In 1987 he left Goldman to start his own hedge fund.
While he worked at his fund, Mr. Cramer helped start Smart Money for Dow Jones, and in 1996, founded TheStreet.com (now TheStreet, Inc.). Host,"Mad Money w/Jim Cramer" & Co-Anchor,"Squawk on the Street" CNBC; Founder, The Street, Inc.  Mr. Cramer retired from his fund at the end of 2000, having produced a return of 24% after all fees, to embrace media full-time, including radio and television. He is host of CNBC's Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer and co-host of Squawk on The Street. He serves on TheStreet, Inc. board of directors, is a columnist and contributor for TheStreet's RealMoney and ActionAlerts PLUS -- the companion subscription service to Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust which has given away more than $1.5 million since inception -- and he participates in various video segments for TheStreet TV. Mr. Cramer is the author of "Confessions of a Street Addict," "You Got Screwed," "Jim Cramer's Real Money," Jim Cramer's Mad Money," "Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life," and "Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even." Return to top | |||
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Scott R. Cutler
Scott Cutler is Executive Vice President and Head of Global Listings at NYSE Euronext where he is responsible for managing the Exchange's relationship with over 2,100
companies listed at the NYSE from Canada, Latin America, United States and Asia, as well as over 2,000 companies listed at Euronext in the European domestic markets.
In addition, Mr. Cutler is responsible for the Exchange's relationship with the Investment Banking, Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Legal communities to attract
new listings and also oversees the Capital Markets business including, Initial Public Offerings for operating companies, Structured Products, Closed-End Funds,
and REITs listing on the NYSE or NYSE Amex. He also oversees strategic development and M&A for the global listings business.Executive Vice President, Head of Global Listings NYSE Euronext  Mr. Cutler leads the corporate governance efforts at NYSE Euronext and has served on the NYSE Corporate Governance Commission and also the Proxy Fee Advisory Committee. He was named as one of the top 100 most influential people in U.S. corporate governance in 2010. He frequently testifies in Congress on capital raising activities and was involved in the JOBS Act legislation that was passed by the Obama Administation in April 2012. He serves on the Management Committee of NYSE Euronext. Mr. Cutler also serves as a board member for the Mental Health Association of New York City, British American Business, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and The Receivables Exchange. Mr. Cutler graduated with a B.S. degree in Economics from Brigham Young University and earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Return to top | |||
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John R. Ettelson John R. Ettelson is the president and chief executive officer of William Blair & Company.
He joined the firm in 1984 as an associate in the Corporate Finance Department. John became a principal in 1989, was head of Mergers and Acquisitions from 1999-2000, and served as chief financial officer from 2001-2002 and president and
chief operating officer from 2002-2003. John has been the lead banker on many deals, including J.M. Smucker's acquisition of Jif and Crisco from Procter & Gamble, which was recognized as Investment Dealers' Digest's "2001 Breakthrough Deal of the Year." John received his Sc.B. from Brown University in 1980 and his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1984. John serves on the boards of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, The Economic Club of Chicago, The Executives' Club of Chicago, Francis W. Parker School, and the Lincoln Park Zoo.
He is chairman of the investment committee at the Francis W. Parker School and is a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago and serves on the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two daughters.
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Jean-Claude Gruffat Jean-Claude Gruffat has been European Chairman, Global Subsidiaries Group, Global Banking, for Citigroup since April 2011.Prior to this New York based assignment, he was since September 1998 Citi Country Officer for France.European Chairman, Global Subsidiaries Group Citi Corporate and Investment Banking  During his posting in Paris, he ran for over 10 years the Global Relationship Banking teams for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. He also served for a few years as a director of Citibank International plc, headquartered in London. From 1973 to 1994, he had several international assignments in Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Macau, and China, then North America for Banque Indosuez, controlled by the Compagnie de Suez. Between 1994 and 1996, he was Executive Vice President and Management Board member of Banque Indosuez, running global investment banking, equities, emerging markets and the Americas out of Paris. After acquisition of Banque Indosuez by Credit Agricole, early 1996, Jean-Claude was appointed Chairman Asia Pacific of Credit Agricole Indosuez, based in Singapore. He has been a Governor of the American Hospital of Paris and member of its finance committee since 2008. For 3 consecutive years, 2008 till 2011, he was President of the American Chamber of Commerce in France. Return to top | |||
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Simon Hobbs
Simon Hobbs joined CNBC in 1998 and is currently an anchor based at the network's Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. He currently co-anchors the 10 a.m.
hour of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" (M-F, 9am - 12pm ET) with CNBC's Carl Quintanilla and Melissa Lee live from the New York Stock Exchange.Anchor CNBC  Prior to 2009 Hobbs was based at CNBC in London where he most recently anchored "European Closing Bell" and "Europe Tonight." Hobbs also globe-trotted to host "The Leaders," a series of in-depth one-to-one interviews with the world's business and political elite. In 2006 Hobbs was named "Television Personality of the Year" by the Association of International Broadcasters and has hosted high-level, international meetings for the European Union, the United Nations, the World Bank and environmental NGOs. Hobbs cut his teeth as a journalist with a decade in radio producing some of the biggest names in UK broadcasting. His work for news organizations includes the BBC, Reuters and Sky News. Hobbs holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in economics from University College London. Return to top | |||
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Richard M. Jeanneret
Richard M. Jeanneret is Americas Vice Chair of Transaction Advisory Services and a member of the Americas Executive Board at Ernst & Young. Americas Vice Chair, Transaction Advisory Services Ernst & Young LLP  Rich has 28 years of transaction experience, helping private and public companies achieve long-term competitive advantage by managing all aspects of their capital strategy: preserving, optimizing, raising and investing capital. He has been involved in mergers and acquisitions with corporations and financial buyers, spin-offs from public companies, and initial public offerings and securities offerings. Rich has led specialty teams in complex turnaround and bankruptcy-related engagements. Previously, he was Mid-Atlantic Managing Partner of Assurance and Advisory Business Services. Rich is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the National Board of Directors of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and a member of the Economic Clubs of New York and Washington.Return to top |
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Christopher K. Johnson Christopher K. Johnson is a senior adviser and holds the Freeman Chair in
China Studies at CSIS. An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, Mr. Johnson spent nearly two decades serving in the United States Government's intelligence and
foreign affairs communities. He frequently advises several major multinational corporations on their business strategy in China and greater East Asia, and his insights on
the Chinese leadership and on Beijing's foreign, security, and economic policies are regularly sought by senior White House, Cabinet, Congressional, U.S. military,
and foreign government officials.Senior Adviser & Freeman Chair in China Studies CSIS  Mr. Johnson worked as a senior China analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he chronicled China's dynamic political and economic transformation, the development of its robust military modernization program, and Beijing's resurgence as a regional and global power. He served abroad in field sites in China and Southeast Asia and speaks Mandarin Chinese. Mr. Johnson was an intelligence liaison to two Secretaries of State and their deputies on worldwide security issues and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State's Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the Secretary and her senior staff. He graduated summa cum laude with bachelor's degrees in history and political science from the University of California, San Diego (1994) and received his M.A. in Security Policy Studies from the George Washington University (1996). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Return to top | |||
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William E. Kovacic
An internationally recognized expert on competition law, William Kovacic served on the Federal Trade Commission from January 2006 to October 2011, including a stint as
chairman from 2008 to 2009. He also was the FTC's general counsel from 2001 through 2004.Professor, George Washington Law School Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission  After stepping down from the FTC, Kovacic rejoined the faculty at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he serves as a professor and as director of the Competition Law Center. A 1978 graduate of the Columbia University Law School, Kovacic has had a front row seat to nearly every step in the development of modern U.S. antitrust policy. As a research assistant with the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, he worked extensively on the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976, which established the premerger notification process requiring that companies inform antitrust regulators of their plans to merge. After graduating from Columbia, Kovacic went to work for the planning office of the FTC's Bureau of Competition and was assigned to one of the first major merger reviews carried out under the Hart-Scott-Rodino process: Mobil Oil Co.'s failed hostile takeover of Marathon Oil Co. Kovacic left the commission staff in 1983 for a three-year stint in private practice in Bryan Cave LLP's Washington office, where he specialized in antitrust and government contracts law. He then served on the faculty of the George Mason University School of Law from 1986 until 1999, when he was named the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School. Kovacic returned to the FTC in 2001 to become general counsel. He then went back to GWU until President George W. Bush appointed him FTC commissioner in 2006. Kovacic also has helped other governments set up antitrust regimes, including Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe and has been long active in the International Competition Network's efforts to establish global standards of competition policy. Return to top | |||
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Anne T. Madden
Anne T. Madden joined AlliedSignal in June 1996 as the General Counsel, Fluorine Products. In December 1996, she became the Vice President and General Counsel of Specialty
Chemicals. In July 2000, she became Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, responsible for all of the legal affairs of the Specialty Materials businesses of the combined
AlliedSignal/Honeywell International (now called Honeywell). In January 2002, Anne became Vice President, Corporate Development and Global Head M&A for Honeywell,
leading Honeywell's acquisition and divestiture activities on a global basis. Anne was the recipient of Honeywell's Premier Achievement Award for Individual Performance
in 1997, was the recipient of Honeywell's Senior Leadership Award for 2005, was recognized as a 'Woman Worth Watching' by Profiles in Diversity Magazine in 2011,
received NJ Biz 'Best Fifty Women in Business'
award in 2012, and was named by Treasury and Risk Magazine as one of the Top Females in Finance in 2012.
Anne is a member of the Steering Committee for Honeywell's Women's Council.VP, Corporate Development & Global Head of M&A Honeywell  Prior to joining Honeywell, Anne was in private practice at the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling, focusing on M&A and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Anne was an auditor in the Financial Services Group of KPMG Peat Marwick in New York. Anne received an AB in English and American Literature from Brown University, an MS in Accounting from the NYU Stern School of Business, an MBA in Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business and a JD from the Fordham University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review. Return to top | |||
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Ken Mehlman
Ken Mehlman joined KKR in 2008 and is Global Head of Public Affairs. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Mehlman was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld with a bi-partisan practice in legislative and regulatory counseling.
He previously served in high-level positions on Capitol Hill and at the White House, including serving as Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Campaign Manager of President Bush's successful re-election campaign.
Mr. Mehlman graduated with a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Mehlman is a trustee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Franklin & Marshall College,
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Enterprise Institute's National Council,
serves on the Robin Hood Veterans Advisory Board and is a member of the boards of directors at the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the IDEAL School of Manhattan,
and a member on the Senior Advisory Committee of the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
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Heidi Moore
Heidi N. Moore is the finance and economics editor for the Guardian US. She was previously the New York bureau chief and Wall Street correspondent for Marketplace,
where she reported and wrote about the culture of banks, companies, financing and markets. Prior to joining Marketplace, Moore was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal,
where she was the lead writer for the paper's award-winning Deal Journal online and daily newspaper column during the height (and depths) of the world financial crisis.
Before that, she was U.S. Bureau Chief for London-based, Dow Jones-owned weekly newspaper and daily website, Financial News. For six years, she was a senior writer
covering Wall Street banks and power brokers for The Deal magazine. Moore's articles on Wall Street banks
and finance have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Financial Times and Slate.
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Duncan Niederauer Mr. Niederauer has served as chief executive officer and
a director of NYSE Euronext since December 2007 and has served as a member of the Company's management committee since April 2007. Prior to his current position,
Mr. Niederauer was President and co-Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext with responsibility for U.S. cash equities.CEO NYSE Euronext  Before joining NYSE Euronext in April 2007, Mr. Niederauer was Managing Director and co-Head of the Equities Division Execution Services franchise at Goldman, Sachs & Co. His career at Goldman Sachs spanned 22 years. Mr. Niederauer has served on the board of Archipelago Holdings, LLC and Colgate University, and now serves on the board of Operation Hope, and the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. His current memberships include the G100, the British-American Business Council International Advisory Committee, the Partnership for New York City, the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Committee, the Museum of American Finance, and Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil. He earned an MBA from Emory University and a BA from Colgate University. Return to top |
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Barbara G. Novick Barbara G. Novick, Vice Chairman, is a member of BlackRock's Global Executive and Global Operating Committees and Chairs the Government Relations Steering Committee. From the inception of the firm in 1988 to 2008, Ms. Novick headed the Global Client Group and oversaw global business development, marketing and client service across equity, fixed income, liquidity, alternative investment and real estate products for institutional and individual investors and their intermediaries worldwide.
In her current role as a Senior Advisor to the Office of Chairman, Ms. Novick provides advice on strategic projects and she heads the firm's efforts globally on Government Relations and Public Policy. Vice Chairman and Chair, Goverment Relations Steering Committee BlackRock  Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Ms. Novick was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation. Ms. Novick joined First Boston in 1985 where she became head of the Portfolio Products Team. From 1982 to 1985, Ms. Novick was with Morgan Stanley. Ms. Novick has authored numerous articles, including a series of BlackRock Special Reports and public policy ViewPoints and First Boston's "Mortgage-Related Securities Guide", and she recently joined the Reuters Editorial Advisory Board. Ms. Novick has served on the boards of Robert Toigo Foundation (2007-2010) and Westchester Day School (2000-2005) and served as both Treasurer and Trustee of Westchester Jewish Center (1994-2012). She currently serves as a Director or Trustee of Cornell University, UJA-Federation, City Harvest, and the HCM Foundation and coaches in the Westchester Youth Soccer League. Ms. Novick earned a BA degree, cum laude, in economics from Cornell University in 1981. Return to top | |||
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Stephen A. Orlins Steve Orlins has been President of the National Committee since
2005. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Carlyle Asia and the chairman of the board of Taiwan Broadband Communications, one of Taiwan's largest cable
television and high speed internet providers. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Orlins was a senior advisor to AEA Investors Inc., a New York based leveraged buyout firm,
with responsibility for AEA's business activities throughout Asia.President National Committee on United States-China Relations  From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Orlins was with the investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director from 1985 to 1991. From 1987 to 1990, he served as President of Lehman Brothers Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he supervised over 150 professionals with offices in Hong Kong, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Manila and Singapore. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Orlins practiced law with Coudert Brothers and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing. From 1976 to 1979, Mr. Orlins served in the Office of the Legal Advisor of the United States Department of State, first in the Office of the Assistant Legal Advisor for Political-Military Affairs and then for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. While in that office, he was a member of the legal team that helped establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Mr. Orlins is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1992, Mr. Orlins was the Democratic nominee for the United States Congress in New York's Third Congressional District. Return to top | |||
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Paul G. Parker
Mr. Parker has 27 years experience in M&A banking and has been ranked for several years as one of the Top Ten M&A bankers by MergerMarket.
He has executed over $700 billion in completed advisory assignments during his career and has advised on many of the highest-profile M&A assignments,
including: the $43 billion sale of MCI to Worldcom; the $70 billion formation of Cingular Wireless and Cingular's subsequent $47 billion acquisition of AT&T
Wireless; the $25 billion recombination of Sprint's FON and PCS tracking stocks, $47 billion merger of Sprint and Nextel, subsequent $14
billion Spin-off of Embarq, the $13 billion combination of the Sprint and Clearwire WiMax businesses and subsequent $1.9 billion investment;
the defense of Yahoo! against Microsoft's $49 billion unsolicited offer; the Special Committee of Cablevision regarding the $22 billion offer by
its controlling shareholder;
and Vodafone, Verizon Wireless's 45% shareholder, in Verizon Wireless's $28 billion acquisition of Alltel.
Mr. Parker also advised on EnB-W's sale to the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg for € 10.4 billion; Gilead Sciences' $11 billion acquisition of Pharmasset;
Hewlett-Packard's £ 7.1 billion acquisition of Autonomy Corporation PLC; Cox Enterprises' $8.4 billion purchase of the outstanding 38% public stake of Cox
Communications;
Northeastern Utilities' $6.9 billion merger with NStar; the successful defense of Tenet Healthcare against Community Health Systems' $7 billion unsolicited offer; the sale of Vivendi's $5.8 billion 20% stake in GE's NBC Universal;
the $3 billion acquisition of Warner Music Group by the consortium of Edgar Bronfman, Thomas H. Lee, Bain & Co. and Providence; Mediacom Communication's
Special Committee representation and $3.6 billion buy-in; the $2 billion acquisition of Sarent by Cisco; EMC's $1 billion acquisition of Data Domain;
Ralcorp's $1.9 billion tax free spin-off of Post Holdings;
Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisitions of Dalian Daxue Brewery in China and the brands and selected brewery assets of Henan Weixue Beer Group in China;
and Delta Air Lines
minority strategic investment in Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes. In addition, Mr. Parker recently advised ThermoFisher on several assignments,
including the $2.1 billion acquisition of Dionex Corporation,
the sale of Lancaster Laboratories to Eurofins Scientific and the € 2.5 billion acquisition of Phadia AB. Head, Global Corporate Finance and M&A; Executive Committee, Investment Division Barclays  Prior to joining Barclays in 2008 following its acquisition of Lehman Brothers' North American operating businesses, Mr. Parker served as Chairman and Head of Global Mergers & Acquisitions at Lehman Brothers. Other positions Mr. Parker held at Lehman Brothers included his role as Head of Lehman's U.S. M&A Group for four years and Head of the Global Communications and Media M&A Group for nine years prior to that. Before joining Lehman Brothers in 1995, Mr. Parker practiced M&A for 10 years at other financial institutions. Mr. Parker is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies in 1985. He also earned an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1990. Return to top |
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Matthew Porzio
Matthew Porzio, Vice President of M&A Solutions, joined IntraLinks in August of 2003. He is responsible for overseeing the Strategic Transactions vertical and driving the development and marketing of IntraLinks' products including virtual dealroom/dataroom solutions for the mergers and acquisitions and restructuring communities.
VP, M&A IntraLinks  Before joining IntraLinks, he was a senior associate at Metzler, a German advisory firm, where he focused on cross-border M&A transactions. Prior to Metzler, Mr. Porzio served as an analyst and associate in Equity Capital Markets and Business Services Investment Banking groups at First Union Securities (later Wachovia). Mr. Porzio holds a Bachelor's degree from Colgate University. Mr. Porzio is widely recognized as a leading authority on virtual datarooms and M&A technology. He has been quoted in several national and international publications related to the investment banking, legal, and corporate M&A markets including the Boston Globe's Business Section, Investment Dealers Digest, The Deal, and American Lawyer. Mr. Porzio has spoken on numerous industry panels and is a member of the selection committee for the M&A International Media Awards. Return to top | |||
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Steven Rattner Steven Rattner is Chairman of Willett Advisors LLC, the
investment arm for New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's personal and philanthropic assets. In addition, he is a Contributing Writer for the Op-Ed page of The New York
Times, the author of a monthly column for the Financial Times and the Economic Analyst for MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Previously, Mr. Rattner served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and led the Obama Administration's successful effort to restructure the automobile industry,
which he chronicled in his book, Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry.Chairman, Willet Advisors Former Counselor and Lead Auto Advisor U.S. Secretary of the Treasury  Until February 2009, Mr. Rattner was Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm that under his leadership, had more than $6 billion of assets under management. Before forming Quadrangle in 2000, Mr. Rattner was with Lazard Freres & Co., where he served as Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Rattner joined Lazard Freres in 1989 as a General Partner from Morgan Stanley, where he was a Managing Director. Before beginning his investment banking career in 1982 with Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rattner was employed by The New York Times for nearly nine years, principally as an economic correspondent in New York, Washington and London. Mr. Rattner has served as a board member or trustee of a number of public and philanthropic organizations including the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Chairman), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brown University (Fellow), Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City (Chairman), Brookings Institution and the New America Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Rattner graduated in 1974 from Brown University with honors in economics and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. Mr. Rattner, 59 years old, is married to Maureen White, who is a State Department official, and they have four children.Return to top | |||
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Gregory F. Rayburn Greg Rayburn is one of America's most experienced turnaround
executives, having led numerous high-profile corporations through cultural, strategic and competitive challenges to maximize stakeholder value.
In his nearly 30 years as a professional, Mr. Rayburn has earned a reputation for providing high-impact leadership under adverse circumstances.
Currently serving as Chairman and CEO of Hostess Brands, maker of iconic brands such as Twinkies and Wonder bread, Mr. Rayburn held CEO positions at Muzak Holdings, LLC,
Syntax-Brillian Corp., International Outsourcing Services, and Sunterra Corporation.
Chairman and CEO Hostess Brands  Notably, Mr. Rayburn served as CRO of WorldCom, during the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time. At the request of the Governor of New York, he served as CEO of the New York City Off Track Betting Corp. As CEO of Magna Entertainment Corporation, he led the successful restructuring of North America's largest owner of thoroughbred horse tracks and casinos. Mr. Rayburn is qualified as an expert witness in federal and state courts on issues such as business viability, strategic plan assessment, fraud, damages and bankruptcy. He holds a M.A. in accounting and a B.S. in business and marketing from the University of Alabama. Return to top | |||
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Hilton Romanski Hilton leads Corporate Business Development at Cisco.
In this role, he is responsible for driving Cisco's M&A strategy and managing its $2Bn+ private investment portfolio. Hilton has extensive experience investing in and acquiring private and public companies around the world across all stages of maturity.
VP & Head, Corporate Development Cisco Systems  Over the past decade, Hilton has helped build the team of M&A and investment professionals that he now leads. He has been responsible for over 30 of Cisco's most significant and successful acquisitions, including Starent Networks, Airespace, and Tidal Software. Most recently, Hilton led Cisco's $5 billion acquisition of NDS, one of the largest private technology acquisitions in history. Hilton has been at the forefront of Cisco's entry into multiple new markets, including mobility, security, and software-enabled solutions. In addition to leading growth in key technology sectors, Hilton led Cisco's M&A and investment entry into the emerging markets in the 2000s through forming and expanding teams and activities across key geographies, including China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe. Hilton has also served as an executive in Cisco's operating business. From 2010 to 2012, Hilton was chief strategist for Cisco's Service Provider Business--an over $14 billion annual revenue segment for Cisco. In this role, Hilton was responsible for setting the long-range strategy for new SP-oriented products, services and business models, including areas such as Small Radio and Network Monetization. Hilton returned to Corporate Business Development in 2011, playing both corporate and segment roles, until focusing full time on Corporate Business Development in 2012. Prior to joining Cisco, Hilton was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. He worked in the firm's Technology, Media and Telecom group, based in San Francisco. He previously worked in J.P. Morgan's New York office where he was an M&A specialist. Hilton earned his MBA from Stanford University and his BA from Columbia University. Return to top | |||
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James D. Rosener James D. Rosener is a partner in the Commercial Department of
Pepper Hamilton LLP. Mr. Rosener heads the firm's International Practice Group, is managing partner of the New York office and has served as a member of the firm's
Executive Committee. His practice is devoted primarily to international transactions, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing.Partner Pepper Hamilton Mr. Rosener has represented domestic and foreign private equity funds in transactions in over 70 countries throughout the world, including platform and follow-on acquisitions, distressed buyouts, including in bankruptcy, corporate carve-outs and restructurings. He also has represented U.S.-based companies in transactions throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia (particularly, India and China), as well as several European, Indian, South American and Japanese companies in merger and acquisitions, financing and licensing transactions involving the United States. In addition, he also has represented management-led groups in the acquisition of businesses from divesting corporations. Within the corporate financing practice area, Mr. Rosener has represented domestic and foreign issuers, in public offerings (both U.S. and foreign listings), venture and mezzanine capital raising, and traditional bank financing transactions. In addition, he has represented a number of issuers and bondholder groups in debt restructuring, recapitalization and work-out plans. Mr. Rosener regularly acts as international legal counsel to issuers and underwriters on off-shore public offerings in India, the U.K. and Europe. Return to top | |||
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Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University's School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice as well as the Founder, President and CEO of The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute -- the world's first 'CEO College.' Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs Yale School of Management  Prior to this, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. Recently, Sonnenfeld was named by BusinessWeek as one of the world's "ten most influential business school professors" and one of the "100 most influential figures in governance" by Directorship. Awarded many scholarly honors for the impact of his numerous research articles on leadership and governance matters, Sonnenfeld is the first scholar to ring the 'Opening Bell' of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. Return to top | |||
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Aileen P. Stockburger
Aileen Stockburger is currently Vice President, Worldwide Business Development, Global Orthopaedics Group, responsible for Worldwide Business Development for the DePuy Synthes franchise, which includes our Orthopaedics and Neuro businesses. She also leads our strategic planning process.
Worldwide Vice President, Business Development Johnson & Johnson  Aileen has been with Johnson & Johnson for over 20 years and has been with several Johnson & Johnson companies, including McNeil Consumer Products, Johnson & Johnson Corporate, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Johnson & Johnson Professional Products, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Worldwide and DePuy. She has completed numerous M&A transactions across the corporation, including BD leadership roles in Synthes, Micrus, Pfizer Consumer HealthCare, Aveeno, BabyCenter, OraPharma, DePuy, DePuy Mitek, Kodak Clinical Diagnostics and Neutrogena. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Aileen was at Coopers and Lybrand, where she earned her CPA certification. She received her BS and MBA from the Wharton School. Return to top | |||
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Leo E. Strine, Jr. On June 22, 2011, Leo E. Strine, Jr., became Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Chancellor Delaware Court of Chancery  Before becoming Chancellor, Chancellor Strine had served since November 9, 1998 as a Vice Chancellor of the Court. Since he joined the Court, Chancellor Strine has written numerous opinions, particularly in the area of corporation law. Chancellor Strine speaks frequently on the subject of corporation law, at diverse forums such as the New York University Center for Law and Business; the University of Pennsylvania's Corporate Law Conference; the Tulane Corporate Law Institute; Director's Colleges at Stanford Law School, Duke University, and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business; and the San Diego Securities Law Institute sponsored by Northwestern University School of Law. He has also authored many articles on business law topics in publications including The Business Lawyer, University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Delaware Journal of Corporation Law, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, University of Southern California Law Review, Stanford Law Review and University of Toronto Law Journal. On several occasions, Chancellor Strine's articles have been selected as among the Best Corporate and Securities Articles of the year, based on the choices of academic teachers. Return to top | |||
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Raymond Svider
Raymond Svider is the Co-Chairman and a Managing Partner of BC Partners, as well as the head of the New York office since his relocation in 2008. He joined the firm in 1992 and spent eight years in the Paris office before moving to London in 2000 to lead its investments in the technology and telecoms industries.
Co-Chairman and Managing Partner BC Partners  Over the years, Raymond has participated or led a variety of investments including Tubesca, Nutreco, UTL, Neopost, Polyconcept, Neuf Telecom, Unity Media/ Tele Columbus, Intelsat and more recently Office Depot, ATI, Multiplan, Suddenlink and Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Intelsat, and also serves on the boards of Office Depot and Multiplan. Prior to joining BC Partners, Raymond worked in investment banking at Wasserstein Perella in New York and Paris, and at the Boston Consulting Group in Chicago. Raymond holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago and a Master of Science in Engineering from both Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in France. He speaks French and English. Return to top | |||
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Lynn Tilton
Lynn Tilton's life journey has evolved from her birthplace - Bronx, NY- through the ivory towers of Yale and Columbia Universities to the male-dominated world of
Wall Street. Today, as the founder and CEO of Patriarch Partners, she focuses not only on her more than 75 portfolio companies, but also on "the Main Streets" of once
thriving towns across America, that struggle for survival in the new economy that has turned its back on the American worker. Under Ms. Tilton's leadership, Patriarch's
mission to rebuild America one company at a time and one job at a time has been made possible through tireless work ethic, innovative spirit and an unwavering quest for
truth and light where others see hopelessness.Chief Executive Officer Patriarch Partners LLC Ms. Tilton's dedication to the achievement of excellence was fostered at an early age. As a teen, she was a nationally ranked tennis player, practicing nightly to improve her game from 12:00am to 2:00am when court time was free-of-charge. Ms. Tilton later went on to play tennis at Yale University, where she earned a B.A. with honors in American Studies. It was during her junior year at Yale that she married her high school sweetheart, and lost the father who had been a great inspiration and motivational force in her life. Adulthood came without much warning. As graduation approached, Ms. Tilton sought the advice of friends as to which career path to pursue, and soon began interviewing at investment banking firms Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, among others. She was the only candidate in her graduating class at Yale to be accepted into Morgan Stanley's analyst program - an event that would serve as the launching pad to her career in finance. Ms. Tilton left Morgan Stanley in 1983, managing restaurants that she owned while attending Columbia Business School. Upon graduation, she took a position with Goldman Sachs' corporate finance group, focusing on IPOs, and later with Merrill Lynch, at their merchant bank, with a focus on leveraged buyouts. At 25, Ms. Tilton was the single mother of 2-year old Carly Jade, working 100 hours each week. After nine years at various investment banking firms, Ms. Tilton developed a clear understanding of the need to and the how to restructure leveraged buyouts gone bad, and became fascinated with the investment side of the business. This led her to a position at Kidder Peabody, working on distressed debt research and sales, and proprietary investments in distressed assets. In 1993, with the intent to spend more time with her daughter living in Florida, she began working from that state while commuting every other week to NY for Amroc Investments, the first firm to specialize in the trading of bank loans and trade claims. Five years later, at the urging of several of her accounts, Ms. Tilton left her partnership interests and founded her own bank loan research and broker dealer firm, Papillion Partners, which would later be the basis for what is now Patriarch Partners. Using her own funds, Ms. Tilton founded Patriarch Partners in 2000 on the investment principle that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. Led by Ms. Tilton's strength and innovative vision, Patriarch Partners rescues, restructures and breathes new life into companies left for dead and piled upon the heap of creative destruction - a business practice for which few others possess the courage and dedication required to succeed. Over the last 10 years, Ms. Tilton and Patriarch Partners have committed to debt and equity investments and provided operational and strategic expertise to more than 150 companies, and have saved 250,000 American jobs that would have otherwise been lost through liquidations. It is Ms. Tilton's belief that our country's most valuable asset is human capital -and that job creation is the essential element to a true and sustainable economic recovery and prosperity. Her commitment to saving and creating jobs motivates her tireless daily leadership of the more than 70 companies that currently comprise the Patriarch portfolio. Return to top | |||
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Robert Uhlaner
Robert Uhlaner is a Director in McKinsey's San Francisco Office and core member of the global Corporate Finance practice, including leading the Transactions Service Line for the Americas. Robert has led numerous corporate strategy, M&A, alliance, and post-merger management engagements with a focus in the high-tech, EPNG,
and industrial sectors. Senior Partner McKinsey & Company  Robert has a Doctorate in Economics with fields in Finance and Econometrics, a Masters in Finance from the Haas Business School, and a Bachelors in Mathematics and Economics, all from the University of California at Berkeley. Return to top | |||
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Jamie M. Weinstein
Jamie M. Weinstein joined KKR in 2005 and is the co-head of special situations investing, which includes the Firm's global activities in public and
private distressed and structured principal investments. He is also a member of the KAM Portfolio Management Committee. Previously, he was a portfolio
manager with responsibility across KAM's credit strategies. He also has extensive experience as a research analyst managing the financial services, healthcare and
commercial real estate sectors. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Weinstein was with Tishman Speyer Properties as Director of Acquisitions for Northern California and The
Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant. He received a B.S.E. degree cum laude in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and
a M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Weinstein serves as a Trustee of the Contemporary Jewish
Museum in San Francisco and is actively involved in the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco on its Endowment Investment Committee and Capital Planning
Committee.
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James Woolery
Jim Woolery is Co-Head of JPMorgan's Mergers & Acquisitions group in North America. Mr. Woolery has been involved with some of the most important M&A transactions
in recent history, including a range of friendly, hostile, activist-defense, and corporate governance reviews taken up by public company boards. From 1994 to 2010,
Mr. Woolery was a Senior Partner and Chairman of Business Development at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Mr. Woolery has been nationally recognized as one of the country's
leading M&A advisors, including by CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News.
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