WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Opening Cocktail Reception
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner and Keynote Speaker
Robert Jackson, Jr., Commissioner, US Securities & Exchange Commission
THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020
8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration & Networking
8:30 – 9:30 am
Breakfast & Keynote Speaker
David Greenberg, Chair, Governance and Risk Assessment Committee, Audit Committee Member, International Seaways; Managing Director, Cortina Partners LLC; Special Advisor, LRN
9:30 – 9:45am
Break
9:45 – 10:45 am
Panel: Human Capital Managment
Michael J. Berthelot (Moderator) – Lead Independent Director, Fresh Del Monte Produce Company; Managing Principal, Corporate Governance Advisors Inc.
Meredith Miller – Chief Corporate Governance Officer, UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust
Michelle Sterling – Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Qualcomm, Inc.; Director, Digital Turbine
David Swinford – President & CEO, Pearl Meyer
10:45 – 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Keynote
Alice Fournier, Senior Vice President, Global Geometry
Panel: Raising the Digital IQ of the Board
Sally Sherry – Founder, Media Strategy Experts; former Anchor & Reporter for ABC, NBC & CBS
Dave Henderson – Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Millennium Health
Steve Brass – President & Chief Operating Officer, WD-40 Company
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Lunch and Keynote Speaker (book signing of The Infinite Game to follow)
Simon Sinek, Optimist and Best Selling Author
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Break & Book Signing (The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek)
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Panel: Geopolitical Risks
Rick Bennett (Moderator) – President & CEO, ValueEdge Advisors: fmr CEO and Chairman, GMI Ratings
Holly Gregory – Partner & Co-Head of Global Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Group, Sidley Austin LLP
David Pendarvis – Global General Counsel, CAO, and Secretary, ResMed, Inc.
Mark Rosenberg, PhD – CEO & Co-Founder, Geoquant Inc.
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Break
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Panel: Investor Q&A / Shareholder Perspective
Peggy Foran (Moderator) – Chief Governance Officer, SVP & Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial Inc.
Glenn Booraem – Investment Stewardship Officer, Vanguard
Michael Garland – Assistant Comptroller for Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment at New York City Office of the Comptroller
4:15 – 4:30 pm
Break
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Panel: Telling Your ESG Story
Frank Partnoy (Moderator) – Adrian A. Kragan Professor of Law, UC Berkeley & Affiliate Faculty, Berkeley Haas School of Business
Mary Hartman Morris – Investment Officer, California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)
Katie Schmitz Eulitt – Director, Investor Outreach, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Margaret (Peggy) Smyth – Director, Etsy; Chief Financial Officer, National Grid
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020
8:00 – 9:00 am
Breakfast & Networking
9:00 – 10:00 am
Keynote
Mark C. Thompson, New York Times Best Selling Author; Executive Leadership, Business Strategy and Innovation Expert; Leadership Coach
10:00 – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 – 11:15 am
Panel: Building the Board for the Future
Sharad Jain (Moderator) – Partner, Governance Insights Center, PwC
Laurel McCarthy – Senior Associate, Spencer Stuart
Christa Steele – Director, OFG Bancorp (NYSE: OFG), Recology, Tanimura & Antle
11:15 – 11:30 am
Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Closing Keynote
Diana B. Henriques, Award-Winning Financial Journalist and Best-Selling Author, The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust (made into an HBO film starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer)
Corporate Directors Forum is a San Diego-based, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1991. Its purpose is to help directors, and those who support them, build more effective boards through continuous learning and peer-networking. We believe that boards of directors are strategic assets of corporations, education makes better directors, better directors make boards more effective, and more effective boards make better corporations.