OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & MEN ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR, BROADS CIRCLE FOUNDER, PRESENTS

3rd Annual

Please join us for our third annual Women on Corporate Boards event for an informative and inspiring discussion with women who are leading the way. Learn how they made their way to the boardroom and how to assess your own corporate board readiness.

Sponsored by

 Panelists: 

GABRIELLE E. GREENE
  Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners - General Partner

  Whole Foods - Director; Chairman, Audit Committee; Member, Compensation Committee

  Stage Stores - Director; Member, Audit Committee

  Johnson Products - Chairman of the Board 

JANET E. KERR
  Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & the Law - Founder and Executive Director

  La-Z-Boy, Inc. - Chairman, Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee

  TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. - Member, Audit and Nominating Committees;
  Member, TCW Funds

  Tilly’s - Chairman, Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee

EDITH R. PEREZ 

  Latham & Watkins LLP - Retired Partner

  Con-way Inc. - Member, Audit Committee/Governance and Nominating Committee

WENDY M. WEBB
  Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC - Managing Director

  Jack in the Box, Inc. - Director; Chairman, Nominating & Governance Committee;
  Member, Audit Committee

Moderator:

CARLA CHRISTOFFERSON
Managing Partner - O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Event Producers:

FAY FEENEY
CEO, Risk for Good; Broads Circle Advisory Board Member

KATHERINE J. BLAIR
Partner, K&L Gates LLP

Panelists:

GABRIELLE E. GREENE

General Partner, Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners

Director, Whole Foods - Chairman, Audit Committee and
Member, Compensation Committee

Director, Stage Stores - Member, Audit Committee

Chairman of the Board, Johnson Products

Gabrielle E. Greene has been a professional in the financial services industry for over 25 years.  Ms. Greene is a General Partner of Rustic Canyon/Fontis Partners, a private equity fund based in Pasadena, California.  Prior to joining RC/Fontis, she was Chief Financial Officer of Gluecode Software, a venture-backed open source software company, which was sold to IBM in May 2005.  Previously she was CFO of Crown Services, a California based consolidation of commercial contractors. 

Before joining Crown Services, Ms. Greene was a general partner of the Citigroup sponsored BE/Greenwich Street Equity Fund.  Prior to joining BE/Greenwich Street in 1998, Ms. Greene was a principal of HPB Associates, a New York based hedge fund, where she invested in both public and private companies, and also served as CFO of  one of the HPB portfolio companies.  From 1992 to 1994 Ms Greene was the founding managing director of the Commonwealth Enterprise Fund in Boston, a private equity fund formed by a consortium of New England Banks.  From 1987 to 1992 Ms. Greene was a principal at UNC Partners in Boston, where she was responsible for private equity investments in diverse industries.   Prior to completing her graduate school education, Ms. Greene worked for several years as an associate consultant at Bain & Company, a strategic management consulting firm based in Boston.

Ms. Greene received her B.A. from Princeton University in 1981, where she graduated from the Urban Studies program at the Woodrow Wilson School. In 1987, she received her MBA. from Harvard Business School and J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Ms. Greene is on the board of Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI), where she is chairman of the audit committee and serves on the compensation committee. She is also a director of Stage Stores (NYSE: SSI), where she serves on the audit committee.  Previously, Ms. Greene has served on the board of Bright Horizons (NASDAQ: BFAM), where she served on the audit committee until the company was acquired by Bain Capital. She has served on several non-profit boards, including the Boston Children’s Museum, and the Boston Partnership, where she chaired the audit committee.  Ms. Greene currently chairs the board of Johnson Products, and has served on numerous private company boards. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.  Ms. Greene resides in Pasadena, California and she is passionate about travel, hiking, reading and her two daughters.

JANET E. KERR
Founder and Executive Director of the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & the Law

Chairman, Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee, La-Z-Boy, Inc.

Member, Audit and Nominating Committees, TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc.; Member, TCW Funds

Chairman, Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee, Tilly’s

Janet E. Kerr is the Founder and Executive Director of the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & the Law. She is a Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law where she teaches Corporations, Securities Regulations, Entrepreneurship, and Advanced Securities Regulations. In addition to her current positions at Pepperdine University, Professor Kerr is a nationally recognized author, lecturer and consultant in the area of securities law compliance, banking law, corporate governance and general corporate law. She has served as a consultant in several high profile cases dealing with financial institution fraud.

At La-Z-Boy, Inc. [NYSE], she is currently on the board of directors and is Chair of the company’s Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee and is former Chair of the Risk Committee. At TCW Strategic Income Fund, Inc. (a NYSE listed closed end registered investment company), Professor Kerr serves on the board of directors, and is currently a member of both the Audit and the Nominating Committees. Additionally, she is a member of the board of directors of TCW Funds, a related entity. Professor Kerr also currently serves as Chair of the Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee of Tilly’s, a privately-held clothing retailer. For six years, she served on the board of directors and as Chair of the Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee of CKE (Carl Karcher Enterprises), a NYSE-traded company. She was a member of CKE’s Compensation Committee and Executive Committee.

Professor Kerr is also a recognized entrepreneur having founded several technology companies over the last ten years. One of her companies, X-Laboratories, was jointly owned with HRL (Hughes Research Laboratories) and was one of the first companies created to assist in the commercialization of technologies in research institutions. 

Professor Kerr has also served as an advisor on corporate issues and entrepreneurial strategies to such countries as the People’s Republic of China, France, and Thailand. Additionally, she has represented the U.S. Department of Commerce as a speaker at several international events.

EDITH R. PEREZ
Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Con-way Inc. - Member, Audit Committee/Governance and Nominating Committee

In September 2010, Edith Perez was appointed to the Board of Directors of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW), a $5 billion global freight and logistics company. She serves on Con-way Board’s Audit Committee and Governance and Nominating Committee.

In January 2011, Edith retired from Latham & Watkins LLP, a premier international business law firm with approximately 2000 attorneys in more than 30 offices around the world, where she served as lead counsel on commercial real estate, finance, corporate, and international transactions. Over the course of 26 years at Latham, she led hundreds of complex transactions for many of the firm’s Fortune 500 clients.

Prior to Edith’s tenure at Latham, she was a visiting attorney in Brazil and Mexico where she handled international transactions, including joint ventures involving technology and intellectual property. In addition, over the course of her career, Edith served on a number of corporate, governmental, and nonprofit boards, including:  President of the Los Angeles Police Commission (post the Rodney King incident) with a $2 billion budget and staff of 80 employees dedicated solely to the Police Commission, governing the LAPD’s 15,000 sworn and civilian employees, their unions, and unique police facilities and equipment. As Police Commission President, Edith also was the media spokesperson for the Commission and the principal contact with the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, and other federal, state, and local agencies. 

Edith received her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and her B.A. from the University of California at Davis.

WENDY M. WEBB
Managing Director, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC

Director, Jack in the Box, Inc. - Chairman, Nominating & Governance Committee and Member, Audit Committee

Wendy Webb serves on the Board of Directors of $3 billion publicly-traded and San Diego-based Jack in the Box, Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), where she is Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee and a ‘financial expert’ member of the Audit Committee. 

A 20-year senior executive at The Walt Disney Company and a member of the leadership team at Ticketmaster Entertainment until its acquisition by Live Nation, Wendy is currently Managing Director at Tennenbaum Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in Los Angeles. At Tennenbaum Capital, Wendy leads Investor Relations and the firm’s Fundraising efforts with existing investors, as well as Strategic Communications/PR. She is deeply engaged as a leader of the firm’s pending TCP Capital Corp. (BDC) initial public offering. 

At Disney, Wendy led strategic communications and investor interaction through some of the most interesting and eventful periods in that company’s history, including the multi-billion dollar acquisitions of CapCities/ABC and of Pixar, global theme park expansions in Paris and Hong Kong, as well as major changes in corporate governance and CEO succession. Additionally, as Executive Director and CEO of The Walt Disney Company Foundation, she modernized Disney’s philanthropic and corporate responsibility programs. At Ticketmaster Entertainment, she brought deep public company experience and communications expertise to their spin-out from IAC/Interactive Corp.  Wendy has a strong background in finance, beginning her career as an investment banker with PaineWebber and Lehman Brothers in New York and London.

Wendy is an honors graduate from Smith College, where she captained the Varsity Tennis team, and she received her MBA from Harvard University.  She served on the Smith College Board of Trustees, and currently sits on Smith’s President’s Council. She recently attended the Stanford Directors’ College.

Moderator:

CARLA CHRISTOFFERSON
Managing Partner
O’Melveny & Myers, LLP

Carla Christofferson is Managing Partner of O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office and a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice. She has been recognized as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” and one of the Daily Journal's top 75 women litigators in California.

Carla focuses on commercial civil litigation, including litigation involving natural resources, unfair trade practices, and contract disputes.  Carla is also a member of the Firm’s Policy Committee.

Yale University, J.D., 1992:  Notes Editor, Yale Law Journal
University of North Dakota, B.A., 1989: summa cum laude

Event Producer:
FAY FEENEY
CEO, Risk for Good
Broads Circle Advisory Board Member

Fay works with smart executives and their corporate boards to benefit from emerging trends like enterprise risk management, corporate social responsibility, going green and the impact of social media. Managing and governing in the post financial crisis requires an understanding of aligning these important trends to business strategy.

She is a sought after advisor focused on coaching business leaders to profit from the triple bottom line of people, profit & the planet. Having an ability to understand business risks allows business leaders to improve their performance and profitability. Smart executives understand that profiting while managing intangibles will be the challenge for the 21st century.

She has recently attended the UCLA Anderson School Directors Education and Certification Program in preparation for corporate board service. Fay is on the National Advisory Board for Boardroom Bound, an organization dedicated to promoting diversity candidates for corporate board appointments.

She recently completed a term as chair for Housing & Real Estate for the Alcott Center for Mental Health Services. Fay was the Chief Executive Officer appointee of the Los Angeles County Risk Management Advisory Committee. The County has seen a 35% decrease on 3.7b in insurance costs in the past 3 years.  Ms. Feeney graduated in 2007 from the UCLA/NAWBO LA PEAK Leadership Academy.

KATHERINE J. BLAIR
Partner, K&L Gates LLP
Broads Circle Premium Member
 
Ms. Blair is a transactional partner practicing in the areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, and general commercial matters. She serves as the managing partner of the Los Angeles Corporate Practice. She has advised both sellers and buyers on a variety of complex transactions, including stock and asset sales, mergers, management and leveraged buy outs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and reorganizations. She represents companies in the structure, negotiation, diligence, and completion of transactions ranging from several million dollars to more than $500 million. She has worked in a diverse range of industries, such as mortgage banking, consumer and retail goods, internet and telecommunications, foreign manufacturing, biotechnology, and travel.
 
Ms. Blair also has extensive experience representing companies and underwriters in various corporate finance and capital market transactions, including IPOs, secondary and follow-on offerings, registered direct and at-the-market offerings, reverse mergers, PIPEs, offshore transactions, trust preferred, debt and preferred stock offerings, tenders offers, going private transactions, and venture capital financings.
 
She advises companies on state and federal regulatory and governance and compliance matters related to the SEC, FINRA, NYSE, NYSE Amex, Nasdaq, state regulators, and other authorities. Ms. Blair also acts as consistent corporate counsel for companies advising them on general corporate matters, including Board and management counseling, disclosure matters and controls, equity compensation, and other business matters.
 
Ms. Blair received her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law (cum laude; American Jurisprudence Award – Remedies; Moot Court Board; Trial Advocacy Tournament Chair; Dean's Merit Scholarship) and her B.A. from University of California, San Diego.

Host:

DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR
Founder, Broads Circle
Financial Advisor

Darya founded Broads Circle in 2008 with the goal of creating an exclusive network of senior businesswomen in the Los Angeles area. Broads Circle focuses on MONEY and POWER for women. A "Broad" in our circle is a dynamic, smart, successful woman responsible for driving revenue and growing capital. Our events provide a venue for making high quality revenue connections and are focused on taking women to the next and highest level in business to assume leadership positions. We draw from a wide range of industries, and in fact make a point of holding events which highlight women who lead in all the industries that are well represented in Los Angeles.

With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Darya's forte is strategic wealth management for families and foundations. She is a CPA and Personal Financial Specialist (PFS), and obtained her MBA from Fordham University. Darya has taught as an adjunct professor of Finance at New York University and has authored many financial planning articles.  Darya is married with three children, lives in Pacific Palisades, CA, and currently serves on the Boards of the Westside YMCA Los Angeles and Mann Healthcare Partners. Darya is also the 2012 president of the Los Angeles Philanthropic Advisors Network (LA PAN).

AGENDA

Private Premium Members Dinner to follow cocktail event (by invitation only).

REGISTRATION

Guaranteed seating is limited to guests who confirm registration by purchasing an event ticket.

• Event Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
• Event Location: Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza
• Event Fee: $60 per person during Early Bird Registration by Feb 20;
  regular registration is $75 per person; late registration within 48 hrs of event is $95.
  
  There will be no at-the-door tickets issued for this event. If you plan to attend, you MUST register by purchasing a ticket above.

Please print out your confirmation of registration and bring it with you to the event. If you do not have your confirmation, or are not on the list of registered attendees, you must pay at the door.

Questions or problems with registration?  Contact kim@broadscircle.com for assistance.

There will be no refunds issued for this event.

MEMBERSHIP: BOTTOM LINE BROADS

Membership in Broads Circle is by application and approval ONLY. If you are interested in becoming a member, please submit your request including your full contact information to:kim@broadscircle.com.

Broads Circle Advisory Board 

DARYA ALLEN-ATTAR, Financial Advisor, Founder and Chairman

CHERYL A. CALHOUN
Managing Director, CBIZ Accounting, Tax & Advisory Services, LLC

JOY CHUDACOFF, Founder, Smart Women Smart Solutions
Coaching and Consulting Services for Women

FAY FEENEY, CSP, ARM
CEO, Risk for Good

CAROL GEFFNER, PhD
CEO, ArpegioHealth, LLC

DANA HOLLINGER, J.D.
The Dana Hollinger Group

JOCELYN TETEL
Vice President Advancement, Skirball Cultural Center

TRACY OLMSTEAD WILLIAMS, President & CEO
Olmstead Williams Communications, Inc.

LINDA WHALEN
Associate Director, External Communications & Marketing, Ernst & Young LLP

About Levine Leichtman Capital Partners

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is a Los Angeles, California-based investment firm that manages approximately $5.0 billion of institutional investment capital through private equity partnerships, distressed debt and leveraged loan funds. LLCP is currently making new investments through Levine Leichtman Capital Partners IV, L.P., Levine Leichtman Capital Partners SBIC Fund, L.P, and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Deep Value Fund, L.P. Prior investments by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners include CiCi’s Pizza, Hackney Ladish, Jon Douglas Real Estate Group, Overhill Farms and Quizno’s.  For more information about Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, please visit www.llcp.com.