Agenda for 2024 Director's Academy

Time

 

Speakers

8:00 – 8:30am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

  

8:30 – 8:35am

Welcome & PCCE Rule

Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE

8:35 – 8:45am 

Dean’s Welcome

Troy McKenzie, Dean and Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU Law

8:50 – 9:55am

Plenary Panel: Effective Management of the CEO: Experienced Directors Discuss CEO Succession Planning and Executive Talent Development 

Moderator:

Ed Rock, Professor, NYU Law; Co-Director, Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance 

Panelists:

  • David Katz, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz
  • Jane Sherburne, Principal, Sherburne PLLC; Director, Perella Weinberg Partners; HSBC North America Holdings; Teledyne Technologies, Inc. 
  • Alisa Norris, Lead independent Vitamix; Standard Motors
  • Lynn LaPierre, Global Biopharma Practice Leader, Spencer Stuart
 

9:55 – 10:20am

Networking Coffee Break

  

10:20 – 11:30am

Plenary Panel: Board Governance of Business Risk in an Interconnected and Evolving World 

Moderator:

Lisa Shalett , Director, MPowerPartners; Pennymac

Panelists:

  • Isaac (Ike) Harris, Director, Lumentum; ZT Systems 
  • Stephen Cutler, Of Counsel, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP; Director, Lending Club Corporation; former Vice Chair and General Counsel, JPMorgan Chase  
  • Darren McDew, Retired General, U.S. Air Force; Director, USAA, Parsons Corporation, Abbott Laboratories; former Director, Rolls-Royce of North America
  • Virginia Gambale, Board Chair, Nutanix; Board Director, Jamf, Virtu Financial, Evertec, 10x Banking, Consumer Edge

 

11:35am – 12:15pm

Fireside Chat on DEI Topic

Moderator:

Jane Sadowsky, Senior Advisor – Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Moelis and Company; Director, Allied Gold Inc, Nexa Resources, Scientific Games; Faculty Member, NACD 

Speakers:

  • Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law 
 

12:25 – 1:40pm

Networking Lunch & Keynote

Moderator:

Robert Jackson, Professor, NYU School of Law

Speaker:

Erik Gerding, Director of Corporate Finance, SEC

1:50 – 2:40pm

Breakout Sessions

 
 

Accounting for Directors
  • Wendy Fletcher, Partner, Deloitte 

 

Compensation
  • Rady Johnson, CCO, Pfizer
  • Linda Addison, Lead Independent Director and former Chair of the Compensation Committee, Global Life; Director, Lexitas
 

Strategies for Effective Board and Committee Meetings
  • Sheila Bangalore, Director, StoneAge Waterblast Tools, Games Global 
  • Nithya Das, Director, Outbrain; Chief Legal and Chief Administrative Officer, Diligent
 

2:40 – 3:05pm

Networking Coffee Break

  

3:05 – 3:45pm

Keynote & Fireside Chat: New and Persistent Cyber Threats Overlooked by Boards and Management: Lessons for Boards

Moderator:

Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE

Speaker:

  • Eun Young Choi, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Ilona Cohen, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Policy Officer, and Corporate Secretary, HackerOne 
 

3:50 – 4:55pm

Plenary Panel: Board Governance of Cybersecurity

Moderator: 

Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE 

Panelists:

  • Larry Quinlan, UBS Americas, ServiceNow Inc, JLL, Booking Holdings, Delinea; retired CIO, Deloitte
  • Douglas Bloom, Managing Director, Co-Head of Cybersecurity and Privacy Law, Morgan Stanley
  • Urs Foley, Director, Provident Financial Services & Bank, Greenlight Capital Re, NACD CT; Retired Chief Information Officer and Head of Corporate Business Operations XL Group
  • Judy Titera, Director, MS Transverse, Nemours Children’s Health System; former Chief Privacy Officer, USAA
 

4:55 – 5:30pm

Reception

  

5:40 – 7:00pm

Networking Dinner & Keynote 

Moderator: Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE

Speaker:

Marshall Miller, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, DOJ
     

 

DAY TWO

 

Time

Activity & Title

Confirmed Speakers

8:30 – 8:55am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

  

8:55 – 9:00am

Welcome & PCCE Rule

Joseph Facciponti, Executive Director, PCCE

9:00 – 10:10am 

Plenary Panel: AI: Opportunities and Risks

Moderator:

Avi Gesser, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton  

Panelists:

  • Cheemin Bo-Linn, Director, Flux Power; Data I/O; KORE Wireless; Blackline Safety 
  • Samantha Kappagoda, Independent Director, Credit Suisse Funds; Chief Data Scientist, Numerati Partners; Visiting Scholar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU
  • Christina Montgomery, Chief Privacy and Trust Officer, IBM 
  • Sabastian Niles, General Counsel, Salesforce
 

10:10 – 10:30am

Networking Coffee Break

  

10:30 – 11:20am

Presentation & FSC: Director Liability for Legal Risk: Emerging Issues for Boards

Preliminary Presentation:

Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE

Fireside Chat Moderator: 

Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE

Fireside Chat Speaker:

Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Chancery Court

11:20am – 12:10pm

Plenary Panel: Governance of Legal Risk

Moderator:

Jennifer Arlen, Faculty Director, PCCE

Panelists:

  • Dan Kahn, Partner, David Polk 
  • Bonnie Jonas, Co-Founder, Pallas Global Group; Director, Churchill Capital Corp VI; Churchill Capital Corp VII; Partner, Jonas & Moller LLP 
  • David Greenberg, CEO, Acqua Recovery; Director and Chair, Governance and Risk Assessment Committees, International Seaways 
  • Stuart Levey, CLO, Oracle
 

12:20 – 1:40pm

Networking Lunch & Keynote

Moderator:

Speaker:

Dan Houston, CEO, Principal Financial 

1:50 – 2:40pm

Breakout Sessions

  

Antitrust
  • Daniel Francis, Professor, NYU Law
  • Kathy O'Neill, Partner, Cooley LLP
  • Ian Conner, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
 

Climate Change including SEC Reporting Rules
  • Tensie Whelan, Professor, NYU Stern; Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business; former Director, Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd
  • Nik Mittal, Ellen Jewett, Director, JetBlue 
 

Board Succession Planning, Board Culture and Director Performance
  • Ellen Jewett, Director, Booz Allen Hamilton, JetBlue Airways
  • Julie Daum, Consultant, Head of North American Board Practice, Spencer Stuart 
 

2:40 – 3:00pm

Networking Coffee Break

  

3:00 – 4:05pm

Panel: Crisis Management

Moderator:

Nancy Kestenbaum, Partner, Covington & Burling 

Panelists:

  • Doug Lankler, General Counsel, Pfizer
  • Elane Stock, Director, Reckitt; former Director, Equifax
  • Jamie Gorelick, Director, Amazon; Verisign
  • John Savarese, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
 

4:10 – 5:00pm

Keynote & FSC 

Moderator:

Speaker: Alicia Syrett, Founder and CEO, Pantegrion Capital; Founder, Madame Chair
 

5:00 – 6:00pm

Networking Reception