Three SEC Chairmen and Activist Investor CalPERS Among Directorship Honorees

Business Wire, Dec 5, 2007

BOSTON -- CalPERS CEO Fred Buenrostro, selected as the most influential player in the first corporate governance ranking by Directorship magazine will address the 8th annual Directorship Institute on December 11 in New York. Buenrostro will speak at a dinner that opens a two-conference conference and honors recipients named to the Directorship 100, the magazine's inaugural ranking of the most influential players in corporate governance. Richard Breeden, Harvey Pitt, and Bill Donaldson, all former SEC chiefs, will also be honored.

Honorees attending include: Gavin Anderson, chairman, Governance Metrics International; Dennis R. Beresford, professor of accounting, University of Georgia; Laura A. Berry, executive director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; Carolyn Brancato, director, Governance Center and Directors Institute, The Conference Board; Richard C. Breeden, former SEC chairman and chairman, Richard Breeden & Co.; Catherine L. Bromilow, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Fred R. Buenrostro, CEO, CalPERS; Roel Campos, former SEC commissioner; John C. Coffee, professor, Columbia University Law School; Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large, Fortune magazine; Kenneth Daly, president and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors; Julie Daum, practice leader, Spencer Stuart; Stephen Davis, president, Global Proxy Watch; William Donaldson, former SEC chairman, chairman, Donaldson Enterprises; Theodore L. Dysart, managing partner of the Americas, Heidrick & Struggles; Greg Farrell, reporter, USA Today; Richard Ferlauto, director, pension and benefit policy and corporate governance, AFSCME; Peggy Foran, SVP, associate general counsel, and corporate secretary, Pfizer; Cono R. Fusco, retired managing partner, Grant Thornton; Martin Lipton, founding partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Jay Lorsch, professor, Harvard Business School, director, Computer Associates; Mindy Lubber, president, Ceres; Joann Lublin, columnist, The Wall Street Journal; Patrick S. McGurn, special counsel, ISS Governance Services, RiskMetrics Group; James Melican, chairman, Proxy Governance; Pearl Meyer, co-founder and senior managing director, Steven Hall & Partners; Ann C. Mule, chief governance officer, associate general counsel and corporate secretary, Sunoco; David Nadler, vice chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies; Harvey Pitt, former SEC chairman and CEO, Kalorama Partners; Damon Silvers, associate general counsel, AFL-CIO; Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor, Yale School of Management; A. Gilchrist Sparks, partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell; Myron Steele, chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court; David Swinford, president and CEO, Pearl Meyer & Partners; Carol J. Ward, vice president and corporate secretary, Kraft Foods; Ralph V. Whitworth, founder and principal, Relational Investors, director, Sovereign Bancorp.

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