Building Balance in the Boardroom. Risk, reward, and responsibility NACD 2008

Presenters and Panelists

Keith L. Alm
Former President and CEO, Hallmark, Inc. and Director, Follett, Inc.

David Bell
Director of Warnaco, Primedia and Point Blank Solutions, Inc., and serves as an Advisor to Google.

Dennis Beresford
Director, Fannie Mae and Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Ethan Berman
CEO, RiskMetrics Group

F. Allen Bettis
Principal, The Legacy Associates, LLC

Sanjai Bhagat
Director, Integra Ventures; Professor of Finance at the Univ. of CO at Boulder

William G. Bowen
President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; author, The Board Book: An Insider's Guide for Directors and Trustees

Charles A, Bowsher
Director, DeVry, Inc. and SI International, Inc.

Pastora San Juan Cafferty
Director, Harris Bankcorp, Integrys Energy Group, Inc. and Waste Management Inc. 

Patrick Canavan
Former Director & Senior Vice President, Motorola Inc. - Global Compliance

John J. Castellani
President, Business Roundtable

Solange Charas
Chair of the Compensation Committee, Able Energy

John Chiang
California State Controller and Trustee, CalPERS and CalSTRS

Peter Clapman
Partner, Governance for Owners LLP

Reatha Clark King
Director, Exxon Mobil Corporation and Lenox Group, Inc.

Sanford Cloud, Jr.
Director, The Phoenix Companies, Inc. and Ironwood Mezzanine Fund, L.P.

Linda C. Crompton
President & CEO, BoardSource

Gerry Czarnecki
Director, Del Global and State Farm

Peter Derby
Managing Partner, The Concinnity Group, LLC

Ted L. Dysart
Managing Partner, Americas Global Board of Directors Practice and Partner-in-Charge, Heidrick & Struggles

Larry R. Ellis
President & CEO, Point Blank Solutions, Inc. and Director, SRA International

Charles Elson
Edgar S. Woodard, Jr. Chair & Director, Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and Director, AutoZone

Admiral William J. Fallon
Retired Four Star Admiral, United States Navy

John Farrell
National Lead Partner, KPMG, LLP

Peggy Foran
SVP, Associate General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Pfizer Inc.

Barbara Franklin
Director, The Dow Chemical Company, GenVec, Inc., MedImmune, Inc., and Washington Mutual Investors Fund, Inc.

Ken Freeman
Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; and Founding and Former Chairman & CEO, Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

Peter Gleason
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, National Association of Corporate Directors

Holly H. Gregory
Partner, Corporate Governance Group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

James T. Hale
Director Tennant Company, Fmr General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Target Corporation

Kevin Hall
Partner KPMG, LLP

Michael J, Halloran
Immediate Past Counselor to the Chairman, SEC and former General Counsel, BankAmerica Corporation

Elizabeth Harrington
President & CEO, E. Harrington Global; Director, CME Group

Brian Heckler
Partner, KPMG Audit Committee Institute

Stephen J. Hemsley
President & CEO, UnitedHealth Group

Fredda Herz Brown
Principal, Relative Solutions

Dennis F. Hightower
Director, Accenture Ltd and Brown Capital Management

Bonnie Hill
Director, The Home Depot, and The Hershey Company

Neal Hochberg
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Lynn Thompson Hoffman
Lead Director, Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. and former Director of First Mutual Bank

Michele Hooper
Director, AstraZeneca PLC and UnitedHealth Group

Suzanne Hopgood
Director, NACD Board Advisory Services; Director PointBlank Solutions, Inc. and Acadia Realty Trust

Robert A. Howell
Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and partner of The Howell Group, LLC

Priya Cherian Huskins
Partner and SVP, Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.

Teresa Iannaconi
Partner, KPMG's Dept. Of Professional Practice (DPP) Knowledge Sharing, Fmr Head of DPP's SEC and Practice Advisory Group

Sally Jewell
President and CEO, REI

Dennis Johnson
Managing Director of Shamrock Activist Value Fund

Ira T. Kay
Global Director of Compensation Consulting, Watson Wyatt

Roger Kenny
Executive Director, Boardroom Consultants

Willis T. King, Jr.
Chairman of ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation

Michael Klausner
Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Jannice Koors
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer & Partners

Richard H. Koppes
Director, Apria Healthcare Group, Inc. and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International

Jack Krol
Director, Tyco International Ltd. and MeadWestvaco

Randall W. Larrimore
Director, Campbell Soup Company and Olin Corporation

Larry A. Leva
Vice-Chairman Professional Practice & Global Head of Risk Management, KPMG

Susan Mangiero
President & CEO, Pension Governance LLC

David B.H. Martin
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Patrick S. McGurn
EVP & Special Counsel, RiskMetrics Group

John J. McMackin, Jr.
Principal, Williams & Jensen

James P. Melican
Chairman, PROXY Governance, Inc.

Wayne Miller
CEO, Denali Fiduciary Management

Ira Millstein
Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Senior Associate Dean, Corporate Governance, Yale School of Government

Nell Minow
Founder & Editor, The Corporate Library

Jack Moore
Former Director, Benjamin Moore Paints

Paul Munter
Partner in the Department of Professional Practice, KPMG

Jennifer O'Neill
Senior Vice President, D&O Product Manager, AIGExecutive Liability SM

Ed Pendergast
Director, PLC Medical Systems, Inc.

David C. Phillips
Director, Midmark Corporation and Chair & Co-Founder, Cincinnati Works, Inc.

John Pouschine
Former SVP and Director of Electra Private Equity, and Chairman, A World of Tile and Doe & Ingalls Management

Gregory Pratt
Vice Chairman, OAO Technology Solutions, Inc.

Phil Rhodes
Vice President, Executive Liability, Central Region, AIG

Barbara Spector
Editor-in-Chief, Family Business Magazine

Myron T. Steele
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware

Fred G. Steingraber
Former Chairman and CEO, A.T. Kearny, Inc and Director, Maytag, Inc.

Bill Stone
Founder, Chairman & CEO, SS&C; Former Director, KPMG LLP

Al Stroucken
Chairman & CEO, Owens-Illinois, Inc.

David N. Swinford
President & CEO, Pearl Meyer & Partners

Lizanne Thomas
Director, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.; Partner-in-Charge, Atlanta Office, Jones Day

Pamela S. Tikellis
Partner, Chimicles & Tikellis LLP

Matt Turner
Managing Director, Pearl Meyer & Partners - Chicago

Timothy Vaill
Chairman and CEO, Boston Private Financial Holdings

E. Norman Veasey
Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal, & Manges and Fmr. Chief Justice , Delaware Supreme Court

William J. White
Professor, Northwestern University, Director, Intermatic Incorporated and Fmr. Chairman, President & CEO, Bell & Howell Company

Karen Hastie Williams
Director, The Chubb Group and Continental Airlines, Inc.

Ann Yerger
Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors

Ronald Zall
Of Counsel, Berenbaum, Weinshienk & Eason, P.C.