Society Chapter Program Topics 2007 - 2008

• Ron Stevens, Partner at K&L Gates

• Ted Plemenos, Information Technology Business Analysis and Reporting Manager, ExxonMobil

• Jim Johnson, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of The Boeing Company

• Howard Boigon as Emcee
• Jill Sisson
• Marty Freidel
• Annita Menogan
• Chris Pedersen

• Brian M. Wong, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

• Paul Coggins, Principal Fish & Richardson P.C.

• Terry Connors, KPMG
• Richard Silfen, Duane Morris LLP

• Justin Klein, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP
• George Davis, Egon Zehnder

• Howard Dicker, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
• Ron Mueller, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

• Pat McGurn, Executive Vice President/Special Counsel of Institutional Shareholder Services

• Rick Grubaugh, DF King & Co.
• Alan Singer, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

• Russ Ryan, King & Spalding LLP
• Jay Dubow, Pepper Hamilton LLP

• Stewart Shepherd, a partner in the executive compensation and employee benefits practice group of Sidley Austin LLP

• Bret Wilson, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, H&R Bloch, Moderator
• Matt Curtis, Director, Ethics & Compliance, Sprint Nextel Corporation
• Jeannine Strandjord, retired Senior Vice President and Chief Integration Officer, Sprint Nextel Corporation; director at DST Systems, Inc., Euronet Worldwide, American Centuries Mutual Funds, JE Dunn Construction Group, Charming Shoppes, Inc. and Rockhurst University Board of Trustees
• William (Bill) Trubeck, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, H&R Block; director at Dynegy, Inc. and YRC Worldwide Inc.

• Katie Sevcik - Senior Vice President & Head of Operations
  Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
• Amy Culbert - Partner
  Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelley LLP
• Pat Pazderka - Senior Associate
  Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelley LLP
• Gary Purnhagen - Vice President, Strategic Planning
  Merrill Corporation

• Bonnie Roe, a partner with Davies Ward Phillips and Vineberg

• Morrow & Co., Inc.

• Scott Dudley, Assistant Vice President - Investor Relations, H&R Block, Inc., Moderator
• Carol DiRaimo, Vice President - Investor Relations, Applebee's International, Inc.
• Christopher Reitz, General Counsel, Aquila, Inc.
• John Granda, Partner, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP

• Executive Compensation Disclosures, featuring Mercer Consulting's Mark Borges and Gibson Dunn's Ron Mueller
  
  
• Latest Executive Compensation Trends, featuring Mercer Consulting's Kelly Crean, Heidrick & Struggles' Eric Joseph and ISS' Carol Bowie
  
  
• SEC Current Events, featuring Corp Fin Associate Director Paula Dubberly and former Chief Counsel Dave Lynn
  
  
• Shareholder Access and Other Voting Issues, featuring Carpenter's Union Ed Durkin and Covington & Burling's Keir Gumbs
  
  
• Congressional Current Events, featuring Dean Shahinian (Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs) and Kevin Edgar (Minority Senior Counsel, U.S. House Financial Services Committee)
  
  
• How to Implement E-Proxy, featuring Broadridge's Lyell Dampeer and Georgeson's John Siemann

• Richard S. Meller, Partner, Latham & Watkins
• Bruce Goldfarb, General Counsel, Georgeson Inc.

• Eric Blumrosen, Partner, Corporate and Securities, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
• Jennifer Flynn, Account Executive, Broadridge (formerly ADP-Investor Communication Services)
• Jordan Kovler, Vice President and Account Executive, D.F. King & Co., Inc.
• Rob Folinus, Mellon Investor Services LLC

• Richard H. Grubaugh, Senior Vice President, D.F. King & Co., Inc.
• Ted White, Strategic Advisor, Knight Vinke Asset Management
• Patrick Byrne, Chief Executive Officer, Overstock.com
• Moderated by Jay B. Gould, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

• Casey Shilts, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Hicks Holdings
• John Wesley, Chief Counsel - Corporate Transactions, Kimberly-Clark
• Chris Willis, Director of Legal Affairs, Interstate Batteries
• Bill Kleinman, Partner, Haynes and Boone, Moderator

• Glen Wittenberg, VP of Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions
• William Tolbert, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
• John Kelsh, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

• Maura Ann McBreen, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, LLP
• Chris Guldberg, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Lee McIntyre, Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie LLP.
• Jonathan Newton, Head of the Corporate Section of the Houston office of Baker & McKenzie LLP

• Mike Stanchfield - Partner, Faegre & Benson, LLP
• Tom Moore - Vice President, Chief Governance Officer, and Corporate Secretary, Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
• Trevor Gunderson - Assistant General Counsel, and Assistant Corporate Secretary, General Mills
• Lisa Lentini - Corporate Counsel, Best Buy

• Lou Rorimer, Partner, Jones Day
• Angie Karges, Executive Vice President and Senior Human Resources Director for Executive Compensation and Benefits, KeyCorp

• Linda Kelleher - Acting CEO, National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)
• Brian Tobin - Midwest Region Leader, Executive Compensation Practice, The Hay Group
• Maryann Waryjas - Partner, Corporate and Securities Practice, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

• Maryellen Anderson, Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Relations, Broadridge Financial Solutions (formerly ADP)
• Matthew Gardella, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
• Christopher G. Dowd, Senior Managing Director at Georgeson Inc.

• Holly Gregory, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
• Linda Rappaport, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
• John England, Managing Principal, Towers Perrin

• Peter Gleason, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Research for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)

Executive Compensation:

• What should the Board be doing now?
• Are you prepared for future stockholder campaigns?
• Avoiding Withhold Votes on Compensation Committee Members and Opposition to Equity Compensation Plans
• Are you positioned to have successful annual meetings in the future?

• Jack Dolmat-Connell is President of Dolmatt-Connell & Partners, Inc., a leading Executive Compensation Firm.
• Bill Ultan is Senior Managing Director of Morrow & Co., LLC, a firm leading the way in Strategic Governance Advisory.

• John Siemann, a Managing Director and Partner at Laurel Hill Advisory Group

• Jonathan Katz, SEC Advisory Committee on Reforming Corporate Disclosure

• Tim Hearn - Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
• Amy Schneider - Associate, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
• Patricia A. Beithon - General Counsel and Secretary, Apogee Enterprises, Inc.
• Dannette Smith - Deputy General Counsel, United Health Group
• Betsy Hinck - Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, Moderator

• XBRL-Moving Closer To SEC Adoption
• The New SEC Notice and Access Rule - An Alternative for the Distribution of Proxy Materials

• Carol Bowie, RiskMetrics Group's ISS Governance Institute
• Stephen Brown, Director, Corporate Governance and Senior Counsel, TIAA-CREF
• Carol Schwartz, Senior Assistant Secretary, American Express Company
• Bill Ultan, Senior Managing Director, Morrow & Co., LLC

• Scott Spector, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP, and chair of the executive compensation and employee benefits group
• Mark Borges, Principal, Compensia, providing assistance and advice to consultants and clients regarding legislative, regulatory and judicial developments that affect corporate benefits, compensation and other human resource consulting programs

• Bob McCormick, Chief Policy Officer at Glass Lewis
• Paul Schulman, Executive Managing Director at The Altman Group
• Chris Hummel, Vice President at Broadridge Financial Solutions
• Andy Wilcox of Shareholder Service Solutions will be the moderator

• Janet L. Kelly, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at ConocoPhillips
• Charlotte M. Rasche, Partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP
• William S. Anderson, Partner at Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP

• Robert Kimball, Vinson & Elkins

• Broc Romanek, Editor, TheCorporateCounsel.net

• Betsy Murphy, Office of Rulemaking, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• James F. Duffy, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NYSE Regulation, Inc.
• Neila Radin, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Moderator

• Anne Kelly Ceres, Director of Governance Programs

• Dan Karson, Executive Managing Director, Kroll

• Claudia Holcombe, Director Industry & Client Initiatives, Computershare
• Melissa Mong, Of Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP

• Sandra Leung, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
• David Nadler, Vice Chairman, Marsh and McLennan Companies, Inc.
• Paul Washington, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, Time Warner Inc.
• Moderator: Shelley Dropkin, General Counsel, Corporate Governance, Citigroup Inc.

• Peter Friz, Head of Custodian Services, RiskMetrics Group
• Cynthia Richson, President, Richson Consulting Group

• Urton Anderson, CIA, CCSA, CGAP, CFSA, CCEP, Clark W. Thompson, Jr., Professor in Accounting Education and Chair of the Department of Accounting at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin

• John Granda, Partner, Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP
• Larry Joye, Partner, Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP
• Claudia Toussaint, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Embarq Corporation
• Christopher Reitz, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Aquila, Inc.
• Bret Wilson, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, H&R Block, Inc.

• Abe Friedman is the Director of Corporate Governance and Proxy Voting and leads Barclays Global Investors's proxy voting operations for the Americas. BGI is the world's largest asset manager with approximately $2 trillion in assets under management.
• Cary Klafter is Vice President, Legal and Corporate Secretary at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara. Mr. Klafter is Director of the Corporate Legal Group, which is responsible for the company's corporate level legal activities and also serves as co-chair of the company's Ethics and Compliance Oversight Committee.
• Robert McCormick is Chief Policy Officer for Glass Lewis. Bob manages the analysis and drafting of 14,000 Proxy Paper research reports on shareholder meetings of public companies in 65 countries.
• Patrick McGurn provides special counsel to RiskMetrics Group ISS Governance Services unit. Considered by industry constituents to be one of the leading experts on corporate governance issues, he is active on the nationwide speaking circuit and plays an integral role in policy development.
• Marie Oh Huber is Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Agilent Technologies. She serves on the Executive Steering Committee and as a member of the board of directors of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals at the national level.
• Moderator, Richard Koppes is currently Of Counsel to the international law firm of Jones Day and serves as Co-Director of the Executive Education Programs at Stanford Law School.

• Chuck Callan, Senior Vice President - Regulatory Affairs, Broadridge Financial Solutions
• Anne O. Faulk, Swingvote Inc., Chairman and CEO
• Linda Kelleher, Executive Vice President, NIRI
• Robert W. Reeder, III, Partner, Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
• Eric M. Sherbet, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Foster Wheeler, Moderator

• Karl Barnickol, Partner, Husch Blackwell Sanders, St. Louis, former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Solutia, Inc., and former national Chairman of the Society
• Craig Kamins, Senior Consultant with the Gallup Organization