Engagement & Communication
For Management, Boards and Institutional Shareholders
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
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 |
|---|---|
| 8:00-8:25 AM | Networking Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:25-8:30 | Welcome Remarks Christopher P. Skroupa, Founder & CEO, Skytop Strategies |
| 8:30-8:45 | Opening Presentation Board and Management Communication Presenter: Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| 8:45-9:25 | Transparency: How to Align Boards, Management and Institutional Shareholders Moderator: Seth Duppstadt, Senior Vice President, Proxy Insight Ltd. Panelists: Bob Bostrom, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Abercrombie & Fitch Donald Cassidy, EVP, Business Development and Corporate Strategy, Georgeson Leah Malone, Director, PwC |
| 9:25-10:05 | Putting an Activist on the Board: How to Manage a New Dynamic Moderator: Ethan A. Klingsberg, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Panelists: Stephen Brown, Senior Advisor, KPMG Board Leadership Center, KPMG James A. Mitarotonda, Chief Executive Officer, Barington Capital Group L.P. Jim Rossman, Managing Director, Head of Shareholder Advisory, Lazard Jim Snyder, Chief Legal Officer, Pet Retail Brands |
| 10:05-10:30 | Networking Break |
| Breakout Track A | |
| 10:30-11:10 | Breakout Session 1 Effectively Avoiding Groupthink: How to see the Signs of a Bubble, and How to Pop it Facilitator: Sandra L. Flow, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP |
| 11:15-11:55 | Breakout Session 2 Effectively Reporting to the Audit Committee: Assessing and Communicating Facilitator: Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Breakout Track B | |
| 10:30-11:10 | Breakout Session 1 The Yahoo Cyber Breach: A Case Analysis Facilitator: Pamela L. Marcogliese, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| 11:15-11:55 | Breakout Session 2 Crisis Management and Insider Leaks Co-Facilitators: Bob Bostrom, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Abercrombie & Fitch Paul Holmes, Chief Executive Officer, North America, Finsbury |
| 12:00-12:20 PM | Concurrent Breakout Session Findings Panel Moderator: Bradley Moody, Chief of Staff, Skytop Strategies Panelists: Bob Bostrom, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Abercrombie & Fitch Sandra Flow, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP Arthur Kohn, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Pamela L. Marcogliese, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| 12:20-1:20 | Networking Luncheon |
| 1:20-2:00 | Internal Corporate Governance Standards: How They Shape Engagement Outcomes Moderator: Jeffrey Neuman, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Honeywell International Inc. Panelists: Emily Kreps, Head of Investor Initiatives – North America, CDP Carol Schwartz, Corporate Secretary, American Express |
| 2:00-2:30 | Virtual Shareholder Meetings: Limiting Interaction, Maximizing Profit Interviewer: Mary A. Francis, Corporate Secretary & Chief Governance Officer, Chevron Corporation Interviewees: Brandon Rees, Deputy Director, Officer of Investment, AFL-CIO |
| 2:30-3:00 | Networking Break |
| Breakout Track A | |
| 3:00-3:40 | Breakout Session 1 Managing an Activist Investor Facilitator: Damien Park, Managing Director, Spotlight Advisors Gregory P. Taxin, Managing Director, Spotlight Advisors, LLC |
| 3:45-4:25 | Breakout Session 2 A Look Over our Shoulder: An Analysis of the Current Proxy System Facilitator: Bob Marese, Managing Director, MacKenzie Partners, Inc. |
| Breakout Track B | |
| 3:00-3:40 | Breakout Session 1 The Rise of the Super-Director: How Boards Depend on Management for Information Co-Facilitators: Kobi Kastiel, Research Director, Project on Controlling Shareholders, HLS Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School |
| 3:45-4:25 | Breakout Session 2 Insight Versus Oversight: Balancing the Board’s Strategic Oversight Against Management’s Operational Insight Facilitator: Rolin P. Bissell, Partner, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP |
| 4:30-4:50 | Concurrent Breakout Session Findings Panel Moderator: Joshua Black, Editor-in-Chief, Activist Insight Ltd Panelists: Rolin P. Bissell, Partner, Young Conaway & Taylor, LLP Kobi Kastiel, Research Director, Project on Controlling Shareholders, HLS Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School Bob Marese, Managing Director, MacKenzie Partners, Inc. Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School Damien Park, Managing Director, Spotlight Advisors |
| 4:50-5:20 | What Went Wrong with Wells Fargo’s Vote Moderator: James Smith, Senior Counsel, Corporate, Hilton Panelists: Charles Elson, Director, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance; Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and Professor of Finance, University of Delaware Brandon Rees, Deputy Director, Officer of Investment, AFL-CIO |
| 5:20 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:25 | Networking Reception |
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