Engagement & Communication
For Management, Boards and Institutional Shareholders
JUNE 13, 2018
CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON
1 LIBERTY PLAZA
NEW YORK, NY
AGENDA
The Skytop Strategies team is dedicated to crafting thought provoking
agendas that are diverse, not only in areas of thought and experience,
but in the broad range of attending speakers.
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 8:20-8:45 AM | Networking Breakfast & Registration |
| 8:45-8:50 | Opening Remarks Christopher P. Skroupa, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Skytop Strategies |
| 8:50-9:20 | 2018 Proxy Season Recap Interviewer: Seth Duppstadt, Senior Vice President, Proxy Insight Limited Interviewee: |
| 9:20-9:50 | Panel Discussion Setting the Corporate Agenda: What Recent Engagement and the Fink Letter Say About Activism and Passive Investing in Our Disruptive Times Moderator: Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane, Executive Director, Thirty Percent Coalition Panelists: Stephen Brown, Senior Advisor, KPMG Barbara J. Hart, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. Alfredo Porretti, Vice President, Shareholder Activism & Corporate Defense, Morgan Stanley |
| 9:50-10:10 | Networking Break |
| 10:10-11:10 | Front Running, Pushing Back Against, Living With and Surviving Activism Moderator: David Whissel, Senior Vice President, Director of Corporate Governance, MacKenzie Partners, Inc. Panelists: Lawrence S. Elbaum, Partner, Commercial & Business Litigation, Vinson and Elkins Zachary George, Portfolio Manager, FrontFour Capital Group Steve Pully, Senior Advisor, Speyside Partners; and Corporate Board Member Eric Rosenfeld, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Crescendo Partners |
| 11:10-11:50 | Company Transformation: How to Effectuate Real Change and Unlock Company Value Discussants: Joseph Berardino, Managing Director, Corporate Transformation Services, Alvarez & Marsal Pamit Surana, Managing Director, Corporate Transformation Services, Alvarez & Marsal |
| 11:50-12:30 | Panel Discussion Social Trends Impacting Corporate Values: Board Diversity, Advisory Committees and Related Topics Moderator: Jacqueline Katzel, Assistant General Counsel, Assistant Corporate Secretary, Honeywell Panelists: Michelle Applebaum, Independent Board Director, Northwest Pipe, Advisory Board, Republic Partners Barbara Berlin, Director, Governance Insights Center, PwC Ross Campbell, Director of Responsible Investing, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC George Hornig, Managing Partner, George Hornig LLC |
| 12:30-1:30 | Networking Luncheon |
| 1:30-2:10 | Panel Discussion ESG Activism: Confrontational, Collaborative and Shareholder-Focused Engagement Moderator: Kern McPherson, Senior Director of North American Research, Glass Lewis Panelists: Jared L. Landaw, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Barington Capital Group, L.P. Sara Law, Vice President, Global Initiatives, CDP Irina Petrova, Corporate Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) (Unconfirmed) Megan Vesely, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Sigma Analysis & Management Ltd. |
| 2:10-2:40 | Mind the Gap: What Boards Need to Know About Cyber Breach Discussants: David Pogemiller, Strategic Partnerships, Forcepoint Doug Weiner, Cyber Security Counsel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
| 2:40-2:50 | Topic Introduction The Ethical Shareholder Initiative: Creating a Longer-term Corporate Focus Presenter: Tamara C. Belinfanti, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Center for Business and Financial Law, New York Law School, Co- Founder, Ethical Shareholder Initiative |
| 2:50-3:20 |
Discussants: Brian P. Campbell, Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs & General Counsel, DHI Group, Inc. Alexandra Higgins, Managing Director, Okapi Partners LLC Walter Siegel, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Henry Schein, Inc. |
| 3:20-3:40 | Networking Break |
| 3:40-4:20 | Panel Discussion Rule 14a-8 Update: What SLB-14I Means for the Shareholder Proposal Exclusion Process Moderator: Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Panelists: Sanford Lewis, Director, The Shareholder Rights Group Robert Lister, Chief Legal Officer, Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. Mary Louise Weber, Associate General Counsel, Verizon |
| 4:20-5:00 | Panel Discussion Virtual Shareholder Meetings: What Works, What Doesn’t Work and Trend Highlights Moderator: Lex Suvanto, Global Managing Director, Financial Communications & Capital Markets, Edelman Panelists: Steven Fink, Managing Partner, MessageBank |
| 5:00-5:20 | Closing Presentation The Evolution of Engagement: The Potential of Mediation as a Model Presenter: Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton |
| 5:20 | Networking Reception |
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