Stuart Alderoty is Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC), one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In this role, he serves as the head of the legal function for HSBC - North America.

Prior to joining HSBC, Alderoty served as Chief Litigation Counsel/Managing Counsel with American Express. In that role, he managed a broad team that was responsible for American Express' litigation and legal issues related to privacy, insurance, consumer cards, and global advertising and brand management. Prior to joining American Express in 2002, Alderoty was a litigator in private practice for 17 years, the last 13 of which with the LeBoeuf law firm where he was a partner since 1996.

Alderoty serves on the Board of the Count Basie Theatre Foundation, a not-for-profit community arts center in Red Bank, New Jersey.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Rutgers Law School - Newark.

 

Charles Birenbaum is a labor and employment relations partner and managing partner of Winston & Strawn’s San Francisco office. He has experience in administrative, judicial, and arbitration litigation, collective bargaining, and NLRB practice, and advises employers on labor matters related to mergers, acquisitions, sales, reorganizations, consolidations, outsourcing, temporary employment, subcontracting, and project development.

Mr. Birenbaum represents management clients in federal and state litigation and administrative practice. His experience includes cutting-edge representation of power generators in employment law matters nationally; appellate and trial court precedents for employers in temporary, technical, and staffing services; and appellate, trial court, and legislative testimony for key precedents in the mining industry.

Mr. Birenbaum’s trial experience includes race harassment cases in U.S. district court, noncompetition matters in California Superior Court under Cal. B&P Code 17200 et seq., and unfair labor practice matters.

He has extensive NLRB experience throughout the United States, including representative cases for various bargaining units. He also has considerable experience in union “greenmail” activities before federal, state, and local government entities such as the California Energy Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as county and municipal councils, boards, and departments. In addition, Mr. Birenbaum has extensive experience handling labor disputes of all kinds, including strikes, jurisdictional disputes, and picketing.

Mr. Birenbaum has counseled and represented national construction and engineering firms and energy industry employers in collective bargaining and arbitration matters. For example, he recently negotiated contracts with the Machinists Union for two steel plant bargaining units; negotiated four project agreements for $1.2 billion in power plant construction; and negotiated a greenfield contract for a health care chair with San Francisco Union Local 399. He defeated the Teamsters in an NLRB election at a fiberglass manufacturing facility, and obtained victories in arbitration and unfair labor practice cases involving unlawful picketing, employee discharges from employment, and other issues.

Mr. Birenbaum’s industry-wide representation has included trade association litigation and appellate work, legislative testimony, and administrative record-making and advocacy for the following industries: energy, mining, temporary/technical/staff services, construction, and health care. He also is active in corporate planning and strategy for development, particularly for energy and health care employers.

 

Julie Blackman is a social psychologist who has worked as a trial strategy consultant for over 25 years. Dr. Blackman received her B.A. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Barnard College for 10 years. She began her work in courtrooms as an expert witness at trials of battered women who killed their abusers, and then broadened her practice to include a wide variety of cases. Currently, Dr. Blackman works primarily on white collar crime and patent matters. She has worked on a number of high-profile cases, and specializes in making complex positions more understandable and persuasive.

 

Lawrence J. Burian is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Madison Square Garden Company, where he oversees and directs all of the company’s legal affairs.  He is responsible for providing legal advice to the board of directors and executive management and for managing the company's legal department, including all corporate, commercial, transactional, litigation and day-to-day legal matters.  The Madison Square Garden Company is a fully-integrated sports, media and entertainment business.

Mr. Burian previously served, from 2005 through 2009, as Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Business Affairs at Cablevision Systems Corporation, a leading telecommunications, media and entertainment company.  He joined Cablevision in 2000 as Assistant General Counsel.  Throughout his tenure at Cablevision, Mr. Burian played an instrumental role in many of the company’s complex strategic transactions, including working towards achieving the successful separation of MSG from Cablevision, the acquisitions of Sundance Channel, Newsday Media Group and 4Connections and the sale of the Fox Sports New England and Fox Sports Bay Area regional sports networks.

Prior to joining Cablevision, Mr. Burian was associated with the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell specializing in mergers and acquisitions, and served in both their New York and London offices.  In 1995, he served as a law clerk for then Deputy President (and later President) Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem.  Mr. Burian holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from the Yale Law School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University in New York.

Mr. Burian is active in various charitable institutions.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Garden of Dreams Foundation (an organization dedicated to making dreams come true for children facing obstacles), a founding member of the Young Leadership Associates of the American Society for Yad Vashem (the Holocaust remembrance museum in Jerusalem, Israel), a Member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee and a Development Committee member of the SAR Academy in Riverdale, NY.

Mr. Burian is married to Adina Schainker Burian and they have four children:  Jonah, Ethan, Adam and Erin.  They live in New Rochelle, NY.

 

Elisa Cooper is Director of Product Marketing for MarkMonitor. With 15 years of experience, she is an expert in the field of online brand protection and domain name management. Elisa has worked closely with many Fortune 1000 companies in assisting with domain and brand protection policy development. She has spoken and written extensively on these topics with articles appearing in Managing IP, eCommerce Law and Policy, eCommerce Law and Strategy and CircleID and is an active member of ICANN’s Business Constituency, the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition and the Online Trust Alliance. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies at San Jose State University in the field of Communications.

 

As a part of the Protect subject matter expert team for Autonomy, Eric Crespolini brings over a decade of experience building and leading teams of industry leaders in delivering e-discovery expertise to leading enterprises.

Prior to joining Autonomy, Mr. Crespolini was a member of the senior management team within the consulting group of Clearwell Systems. He specializes in electronic discovery, computer forensics, and litigation management best practices. In addition Mr. Crespolini has over a decade of experience in information technology management and consulting, including implementing enterprise-wide financial and project control systems as well as data warehousing, electronic collection, disaster planning, and operational process development. His responsibilities with Xerox included overall supervision and management of multiple client management teams and involved interfacing directly with clients to assist in managing their litigation and investigatory matters.

Mr. Crespolini has led complex collections, document reviews, and productions for matters involving fraud, financial restatements, regulatory issues, theft of intellectual property, products liability, unauthorized use of corporate resources, contract disputes, and regulatory inquiries. He has also planned and led the acquisition, forensic analysis and processing of computer, e-mail and network data related to a governmental criminal investigation of an international insurance carrier.

Mr. Crespolini’s operations experience includes service center management within the financial services industry, as well as developing processes to improve the speed and efficiency of technological helpdesk operations. This experience extends to developing new technologies to complement the efficiency of human operations as well as efforts to improve cross discipline training among staff.

Mr. Crespolini’s technology experience includes systems architecture, database design, application development, financial systems management, operations management, and performance analysis. He has extensive experience designing data warehouses, data analysis applications and business metrics to improve business process performance. He has extensive experience integrating and migrating legacy systems to enterprise wide business environments.

He also has significant experience in business process re-engineering and performance based monitoring and reporting. He has been responsible for developing policies and procedures that streamline procurement, timekeeping, resource scheduling, project management, budgetary planning, and financial reporting. He also has significant experiences developing, testing and activating multi-level business continuity plans. He has been responsible for application development and operational process improvements and has been instrumental in aligning IT infrastructures with corporate business goals.

 

Barbara D’Amico is the former General Counsel of Chase Financial Services, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and the founder of Esquire Crossroads, a legal management consulting firm dedicated to supporting excellence in legal management, business development, and personal and professional development for lawyers. She writes and speaks on a wide range of personal and professional development topics of critical interest to lawyers and their organizations.

Barbara brings over 30 years of experience in the legal profession and in Corporate America (including both major law firm and major law department experience) to her practice.  At J.P. Morgan, she served as chief counsel to three successive Vice-Chairmen and as a member of their Executive Management Committees. She was also responsible at various times for legal services to Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Private Equity, and Private Banking.

Barbara is a member of the American Bar Association, the ABA’s Law Practice Management Section, the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association’s Law Practice Management Section, and the Legal Marketing Association. She is certified as a professional coach by The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is a member of the International Coach Federation. Barbara is a graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C. and The New York University School of Law where she served as Articles Editor of the Law Review.

 

Brandon Daniels is the Executive Vice President & CTO of Clutch Group.  Prior to Clutch Group, Mr. Daniels was the VP and Global Head of Litigation & Investigations at CPA Global, a legal services outsourcing firm.  In his role at CPA Global he led the growth of the legal services business unit defining, building, and delivering innovative and award winning solutions and services for Fortune 1000 corporations.  With over 300 attorneys across the US and teams in Europe and Asia he worked with clients to coordinate regulatory matters and disputes globally.  In both in-house and consulting roles he has extensive experience conducting and managing large litigation and investigation matters, including multi-million and billion dollar investigatory matters responding to the SEC, FTC and DOJ.

Mr. Daniels also has an extensive background in the management and application of legal technology.  Over the last decade, working for firms such as Lexis Nexis Applied Discovery, he has focused on applying technology to legal services in order to create efficiency, increase quality, and reduce risk for corporations.  He has managed the development or acquisition and implementation of knowledge management, performance tracking, data room, and litigation support software systems.

Mr. Daniels is frequently asked to speak and lecture at conferences and universities on trends in the legal market, risk and compliance needs for corporations, and the growing role of technology in the goal to mitigate risk and drive performance.

Key Matters & Clients

For one of the worlds largest investment banks Mr. Daniels was the architect and lead client engagement manager for the creation of one of the largest LPO engagements in the market.  Also, he managed the first litigation and investigation matters directly with the senior in-house litigators and regulatory counsel to get the engagement off the ground.  At the outset of the engagement, he worked with a steering committee within the bank to setup all aspects of their first LPO initiative.  In this engagement his group managed discovery within over 115 employment, SEC, FINRA, and commercial litigation and investigation matters each year.  With the bank he co-designed:

• data transfer, processing, hosting, deactivation and destruction procedures,
• a process for the lawyers to seamlessly engage, manage, and work with the LPO resources,
• technology that allows the client to complete a process of data analysis for early case assessment purposes,
• training programs on LPO and legal technology for the in-house lawyers, paralegals, and outside counsel,
• escalation processes for issues and a framework to resolve those issues, and
• a group dedicated to the organization to assist with the on-going implementation of the banks further legal services initiatives.

For other large investment banks Mr. Daniels  has co-led consulting exercises to redesign many of their compliance and legal processes to reduce cost and increase their responsiveness to the business.  He has  identified issues and managed teams designed to:

• Build a knowledge management system for legal advice documentation across the business;
• Create a FCPA compliance program and set up repeatable audit processes;
•  Create systems that would allow the lawyers to offload some of the more mundane compliance tasks (such as filing of interlocking positions, OBI clearance, etc.);
• Create a team that would draft and/or file and track some of their standard agreements (ISDAs, NDAs, CSCs, etc.) in lower cost jurisdictions;
• And, create a team respond to FINRA/SEC routine requests in cost-efficient manner.

For one of the world's largest bioscience companies Mr. Daniels:

• Managed due diligence and discovery within 15 Qui-Tam, AKS, and Off-Label investigations;
• Managed a complex product liability class action lawsuit with thousands of plaintiffs, multiple jurisdictions, over 25 million documents, and four different outside law firms;
• Created and assisted in managing the collection, review, and production process for a large pharmaceutical patent litigation;
• And, coordinated the forensic retrieval and production of large scale electronic discovery within a human tissue MDL litigation.

Additional Activities:

• Memorialized testimony, on behalf of a client, for the Department of Commerce in a criminal investigation.
• Lead strategist and due diligence lead on a potential 60 million dollar acquisition.

 

Ms. Dehne is Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), an S&P 500, competitive power generator headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Dehne is responsible for corporate governance; corporate transactions, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings; as well as securities and stock exchange matters. Ms. Dehne is the primary executive liaison to the Board of Directors and each of its six standing committees.

NRG’s Corporate Secretary Team with Ms. Dehne at the helm was awarded Corporate Governance Team of the Year (small-mid cap) by Corporate Secretary Magazine in November 2009 based on an outstanding governance program that underpinned the successful defense of the unsolicited exchange offer and proxy contest for control of NRG by Exelon Corporation while advancing overall governance practices.

In 2009, Ms. Dehne also served as project and legal lead on the acquisition, financing and integration of Reliant Energy, a retail electricity provider in Houston, Texas, including the intellectual property, marketing and branding of “Reliant Energy” and naming rights of Reliant Stadium. She also led a cross-functional team that negotiated and structured the approximately $1.7 billion Merrill Lynch Credit Sleeve to support the retail business.

Prior to joining NRG, Ms. Dehne was a member of Saul Ewing’s Business Department in the firm’s Philadelphia and Princeton offices where she represented public and private companies in a variety of industries, including biotechnology, telecommunications and emerging businesses in a range of complex securities and commercial transactions.

In 2011, Ms. Dehne was recognized as one of New Jersey’s Best Fifty Women in Business by NJBiz.  Ms. Dehne is a Member of the Board of Trustees of HomeFront of New Jersey and the United Way of Greater Mercer County. She received her J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Lafayette College.

 

Joseph V. DeMarco is a partner at DeVore & DeMarco LLP where he specializes in counseling clients on complex issues involving information privacy and security, theft of intellectual property, computer intrusions, on-line fraud, Internet gambling, and the lawful use of new technology. His years of experience in private practice and in government handling the most difficult cybercrime investigations handled by the United States Attorney's Office have made him one of the nation's leading experts on Internet crime and the law relating to emerging technologies.

From 1997 to 2007, Mr. DeMarco was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he founded and headed the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIPs) Program, a group of five prosecutors dedicated to investigating and prosecuting violations of federal cybercrime laws and intellectual property offenses. Under his leadership, CHIPs prosecutions grew from a trickle in 1997 to a top priority of the United States Attorney's Office, encompassing all forms of criminal activity affecting e-commerce and critical infrastructures including computer hacking crimes; transmission of Internet worms and viruses; electronic theft of trade secrets; illegal use of “spyware”; web-based frauds; Internet gambling; and criminal copyright and trademark infringement offenses. As a recognized expert in the field, Mr. DeMarco was frequently asked to counsel prosecutors and law enforcement agents regarding novel investigative and surveillance techniques and methodologies, and regularly provided advice to the United States Attorney concerning the Office's most sensitive computer-related investigations. In 2001, Mr. DeMarco also served as a visiting Trial Attorney at the Department of Justice Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section in Washington, D.C., where he focused on technology-related policy matters such as Internet privacy, identity theft, on-line gaming, and the electronic theft of intellectual property.

Since 2002, Mr. DeMarco has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches the upper-class Internet and Computer Crimes seminar. He has spoken throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Asia and the Middle East on cybercrime, ecommerce, and copyright and trademark infringement. He has also lectured at Harvard Law School and has taught on the subject of cybercrime at the New York State Judicial Institute, the Practicing Law Institute, the National Advocacy Center and at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

Prior to joining the United States Attorney's Office, Mr. DeMarco was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where he concentrated on intellectual property, antitrust, and securities law issues for various high-technology clients.

From 1992-1993, Mr. DeMarco served as law clerk to the Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney, United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. DeMarco holds a J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law. At NYU he was a member of the NYU Law Review. He received his B.S.F.S. summa cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

 

Michael J. (“Mike”) Denton is Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which he joined in 2001.  Prior to joining Curtiss-Wright, Mike worked for Honeywell International Inc., joining that company in 1993 when it was known as AlliedSignal Inc.  During his service at Honeywell, he held a series of progressively responsible positions, including General Counsel to Honeywell Aerospace, a $10B manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and services.

Mike graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree magna cum laude in Governmental Philosophy.  He attended the University of Michigan Law School, where he received his Juris Doctor degree cum laude.  Following law school graduation, Mike joined the U. S. Department of Justice in its Civil Division as part of the Attorney General’s Honor Law Graduate program.  He later worked in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C. and served as corporate counsel for Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the General Electric Company.

Mike resides in Morristown, New Jersey with his wife, Mary Ann (Bruce) Denton.

 

Ayala Deutsch is Senior Vice President & Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at NBA Properties, Inc. in New York, where she oversees the acquisition, protection and enforcement throughout the world of intellectual property rights belonging to the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the National Basketball Association Development League (NBA D-League) and USA Basketball. Her specialties include trademark law, copyright law and internet law.  Ms. Deutsch received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1989.  Ms. Deutsch joined NBA Properties in January 1998 and was named to oversee the intellectual property department in September 2000.  Prior to joining the NBA, Ms. Deutsch was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation and arbitration.  Ms. Deutsch formerly was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Trademark Association and currently chairs the International Amicus Committee.  Ms. Deutsch also co-chairs the New York State Bar Association Committee on Sports Law and Deutsch is an Adjunct Professor of sports law at Cardozo School of Law.  Previously, Ms. Deutsch served as a member of the Trademark Public Advisory Committee of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

 

Frederick Felman's career in marketing technology and related services spans 25 years. At MarkMonitor, he is responsible for defining and promoting the company's brand protection product offerings as well as leading Business Development. He and his team created the Brandjacking Index®, an often-cited measure of the trends in online abuse targeting the world's largest brands. As part of the MarkMonitor commitment to securing brands online, Fred also leads advocacy initiatives for brandholders' rights issues that intersect Internet governance. Before joining MarkMonitor Fred and hismarketing team at Zone Labs were early pioneers in creating the “freemium” model of software distribution in 1999.  Ultimately Zone Labs created a community of over 100 million users of their ZoneAlarm product that was acquired by CheckPoint. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

 

Amy Fliegelman Olli is executive vice president and general counsel at CA Technologies.  She is responsible for the company’s Law Department, including all legal activities relating to software licensing, intellectual property, litigation and acquisitions.  Amy also leads CA Technologies business practices and compliance, Corporate Secretary, internal audit and global security functions.

Prior to joining the organization in 2006, Amy spent nearly 20 years in various legal positions at IBM.  In her last post, she was vice president and general counsel, Americas, and co-global coordinator, sales and distribution overseeing a team of more than 200 lawyers at IBM on a global basis.

Since 2008, Amy has served as a member of the Board of Governors for Touro Law Center, a division of Touro College in New York. In 2010, Amy received the Legends in the Law Award by the Burton Foundation for her exceptional accomplishments as a legal adviser to top technology companies. Amy was also featured as one of Diversity Journal’s 2011 Women Worth Watching.

Amy received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Oswego and a J.D. from Western New England School of Law.

 

Regina Greco is Associate General Counsel at Verizon Business in Rye Brook, New York. 

Regina joined Verizon in January 2006 after Verizon acquired telecommunications provider MCI at which Regina began her career in 1994.  

During Regina’s tenure at MCI and Verizon, she held increasing positions of responsibility.  Regina has been awarded the MCI Masters Award, All-Star Award For Stellar Performance, Outstanding Achievement Award, Sales Partner award and multiple Ovation Awards.  Currently, Regina and her team handle contract negotiation for a subset of Verizon’s multi-million dollar sales accounts based in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Canada as well as Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier sales support for the U.S. 

In addition, Regina is responsible for coordinating legal process transformation and operational improvements across the Verizon Business legal organization.  In this role, Regina identifies and implements methods to improve and streamline legal support processes.  Regina also played a key legal role in Verizon’s spin-off of its wireline assets in 14 states to Frontier in a deal valued at $8.6 billion.  Regina continues to play a key legal role in Verizon’s Project 360, a corporate initiative to transform the global enterprise operating model and improve the customer experience. 

Regina received a B.A. in Political Science from Manhattanville College and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law.

 

 

Peter Huber is managing partner and head of the international transactions team at CMS RRH and responsible for the firm’s CEE/SEE practice with more than 20 years of professional experience – including more than 20 years of professional experience – including more than four years with major investment banks in London, Frankfurt and Vienna. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions (including privatisations and public takeovers) and banking and finance.

He is the author of numerous publications in the field of corporate law and takeover law including the leading commentary on the Austrian Takeover Code. Peter Huber advises a wide range of international clients.

 

Since January 2008, Todd Kahn has been the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Coach, Inc.  From July to September 2007, Todd served as President & Chief Operating Officer of Calypso Christian Celle. From January 2004 until July 2007, Todd was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sean John, a private lifestyle apparel company. From August 2001 until December 2003, Todd was President and Chief Operating Officer of Accessory Network, a private accessory company.  Prior to joining Accessory Network, Todd was President and Chief Operating Officer of InternetCash Corporation, an Internet payment technology company. Prior to joining InternetCash Corporation, Todd was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Salant Corporation, a public apparel company, which he joined in 1993 as Vice President and General Counsel. From 1988 until 1993, Todd was a corporate attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson in New York.  Todd received a B.S. magna cum laude from Touro College in 1985 and a J.D. cum laude from Boston University Law School in 1988. Todd serves on the Board of Directors of the Coach Foundation, the Fashion Institute of Technology Educational Foundation, and Fashion Delivers.

 

Julie Kinch is the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of Heineken USA Inc., the nation's largest beer importing company.  She is responsible for overseeing and directing all of the company's legal affairs. She is also a member of the Heineken USA Management Committee.

Before joining Heineken USA , Ms. Kinch was Vice President and General Counsel of Remy Cointreau USA (formerly known as Remy Amerique) where she managed all aspects of the company's legal work for its North American, South American and Caribbean businesses.

Prior to that, Ms. Kinch was with the law firm of White & Case, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Kinch is a graduate of Georgetown University and Boston College Law School.  She also serves on the Board of Directors for Legal Information for Families Today (LIFT).

 

Gene Landoe recently retired as president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Corporate Legal Services (CLS). Landoe had executive oversight of CLS's day-to-day operations, which included running its five business units. Under Landoe's direction, CLS built on its renowned service foundation to transform into a legal technology solution and service leader. Landoe led CLS through a reorganization in early 2006 to further focus the company's business on customer workflows. In his seven years as president and CEO, Landoe has overseen CLS's evolution and growth into an end-to-end provider of legal workflow solutions spanning corporate compliance, corporate governance, lien management, litigation management and trademark and brand life cycle practice areas.

In his 37-year career with Wolters Kluwer companies, Landoe held many senior-level positions. His most recent prior to assuming the helm of CLS in 2001 was as president and CEO of CCH Tax Compliance, Torrance, Calif., the market-leading provider of tax and accounting software. Landoe holds a bachelor's degree from Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, Calif.; an MBA from Chapman University, Orange, Calif.; and a doctorate from Golden Gate University, San Francisco.

 

 

Robin Meister manages a team of skilled legal and compliance professionals that comprises the BNPP IP NA Legal, Compliance, and Oversight of Operational Permanent Control Risk Group (the “LCOR Group”). The BNPP IP NA LCOR Group is responsible for general risk surveillance for BNPP IP NA, including the overall administration of compliance policies and procedures.  The LCOR Group services each of the BNPP IP companies located in North America.  
 
In accordance with the matrix reporting mandate for BNPP IP globally, as Head of the LCOR Group for BNPP IP NA; Ms. Meister reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer of BNPP IP NA and functionally to the respective global heads of Legal, Compliance and Oversight of Operational Risk for BNPP IP in Europe.

Prior to her appointment as Head of Legal, Compliance and 2OPC for BNPP IP NA, Ms. Meister served as Chief Legal and Risk Officer for the Fischer Francis Trees & Watts group of companies (together “FFTW”); heading the firm’s Risk Oversight group comprised of Legal and Compliance professionals. Ms. Meister joined FFTW in 1998 as General Counsel. 

Before joining FFTW, Ms. Meister worked in private practice representing various financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, NatWest Bank and American Express. She began her legal career as an Associate General Counsel, spending approximately ten years in the General Counsel's Office of Lehman Brothers and its predecessor organizations. Ms. Meister is a graduate of the University at Albany (BS finance, BA economics).  She received her juris doctor from the New York Law School and is a member of the Bars of New York and New Jersey.  Ms. Meister is a member of and active participant of several law networks and is a regular speaker on issues impacting asset management and U.S. regulation.

 

Brian A. Miller is a member of the Executive Office of The AES Corporation (“AES”). He serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Co-Head of Business Development. He also leads and is responsible for the AES’ Government Relations department and Environmental policy efforts. The AES Ethics and Compliance department also reports to Mr. Miller.

In his Business development role, he is responsible for the Company’s development efforts in North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa. 

Mr. Miller is a member of the Boards of Directors of (1) AES Solar Energy, Ltd., a joint venture between AES and Riverstone Holdings LLC, which is responsible for AES’ development and operations of Solar power businesses; (2) AES-Entek, the company’s joint venture established in 2010 with Koc Holdings for the purpose of business development and operation of businesses in Turkey and the surrounding countries; and (3) AgCert International Limited and AgCert Canada Holding Limited, which are Dublin based entities responsible for AES’ development of emission credits and other greenhouse gas related services. 

Mr. Miller joined AES in 2001 and has served in various positions, including Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary, General Counsel for North America, and Assistant General Counsel. The Internal Audit department and the Independent Review Team also previously reported to him.  

Prior to joining AES, Mr. Miller was counsel in the New York office of the law firm Chadbourne & Parke, LLP.

Mr. Miller holds a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a B.A. from Boston College in History and Economics.

 

David I. Mossé is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc.  Before joining Dick’s, David served as Senior Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Investment Team Member of Trian Fund Management, LP, an investment firm based in New York, and prior to that as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of Triarc Companies, Inc., the franchisor of the Wendy's and Arby's restaurant systems.  Mr. Mossé began his career as a Corporate Associate for the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and later practiced as a Senior Attorney at Venture Law Group in Palo Alto, CA.  Mr. Mossé earned his Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and his Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law.  Mr. Mossé is married with three young boys and serves as a Director of The Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation.

 

Mr. Pickering joined WABCO in September 2010 from Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Washington, U.S.A., where he served as Associate General Counsel for the company’s Worldwide Licensing and Pricing Division.  While there, he was responsible for legal support for Microsoft’s global commercial sales, as well as Microsoft Financing and the company’s emerging market initiatives.

Prior to his 8 years of service at Microsoft, Mr. Pickering was General Counsel and Head of Regulatory Affairs at Bulldog Communications, a U.K. telecoms service provider. Before that, he was European Legal Director at Ebone in Brussels, formerly GTS and Hermes Europe Railtel, a European fibre-optic network provider. Mr. Pickering has also gained diverse legal experience working with leading international law firms while based in Brussels and London. He began his career at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition. Mr. Pickering has law degrees from the University of London, and is qualified as a U.K. Solicitor.

 

D. Mark Poag, Datacert's General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Marketing, joined the company in 2001 following its acquisition of DigiContract, which he co-founded in 1999 and at which he served as president and CEO. In this capacity, he was entrusted with high-level responsibilities, including raising equity funding, recruiting employees, and directing business development efforts. Prior to joining DigiContract, Poag practiced corporate law at Bracewell & Patterson, LLP. Poag now leverages his legal and business expertise to provide Datacert strategic guidance about the legal technology industry.

Poag is an active member of many esteemed professional organizations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel, American Bar Association, and the State Bar of Texas. He has been selected by his peers as a Texas Rising Star and, in 2006, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Houston Business Journal recognized his achievements in the field of corporate law by honoring him as Outstanding Solo Corporate Counsel.

At Datacert, Poag evaluates and executes strategic alliances and M&A opportunities. In addition, Poag delivers thought leadership for Datacert in the areas of legal spend, intellectual property, and matter management and oversees the product strategy. Poag's responsibilities also include oversight of transactional work, litigation, and regulatory activity for Datacert and its subsidiaries. Specifically, Poag establishes and maintains intellectual property protection policies and procedures, is responsible for all contracts with customers, vendors, partners and employees, structures company policy regarding pertinent legal issues (e.g. privacy, intellectual property, etc.) and the maintenance of all corporate records.

Poag earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and graduated cum laude from Tulane University School of Law with a juris doctorate. He graduated magna cum laude from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University where he received his MBA.

 

John Riedel is the Global Practice Head for Contract Solutions at CPA Global. He coordinates client transitions from current legal resources to on-shore and/or off-shore legal teams and supervises the delivery and assures the quality of legal support to corporations. 

Prior to joining CPA Global, John was In-House Counsel at Sprint Nextel Corporation, an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and an Associate at the law firms of Swidler & Berlin and Rosenman & Colin.  John received his J.D. in 1997 from The George Washington University Law School.

 

Margaret ("Marnie") Seif is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Analog Devices, Inc. Analog Devices is headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Exchange.

In her position as General Counsel, Ms. Seif is responsible for all aspects of the company's legal work, including corporate and securities matters, governance matters, intellectual property management, and litigation.

Prior to joining Analog Devices, Ms. Seif was Vice President and General Counsel of RSA Security, a leading provider of network security and data encryption products headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange.

In addition to her practice, Ms. Seif has participated in many continuing education programs for PLI, MCLE and others. She has authored articles on the topics of controlling outside counsel expense, management of litigation, and in-house counsel's role in the management of an SEC investigation.

Ms. Seif is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School.

 

Jane Sherburne became Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Bank of New York Mellon in May 2010 after practicing law as the principal in her own firm.  Until January 2009, she served as Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Wachovia Corporation, assisting the company in confronting the challenges of the financial crisis.

Prior to joining Wachovia in June 2008, Ms. Sherburne served in various capacities at Citigroup, her last post being General Counsel of Citi’s Global Consumer Group, with responsibility for a global legal department with over 800 employees world-wide.  Before joining Citigroup in 2001, Ms. Sherburne had been a partner at the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in litigation, crisis management and congressional investigations.  She interrupted her practice at Wilmer from 1994 to 1997 to serve as Special Counsel to President Clinton with responsibility for managing investigations into ethics matters by Congress and the Independent Counsel. 

Ms. Sherburne is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Georgetown University Law Center.   In June 2006 she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the 10-member Advisory Council of the non-partisan Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS).  She serves on the Boards of the National Women’s Law Center,  The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, New York Legal Aid Society and is a member of the New York City Bar Executive Committee.

 

Christopher Wall is the senior international trade partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where his practice focuses on technology transfer regulation, foreign investment, international trade, and compliance. 

Mr. Wall advises and represents clients on export controls (commercial and defense); economic sanctions and embargoes; national security reviews; anti-boycott issues; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (counseling and investigations); import relief proceedings; Court of International Trade appeals; complex Customs matters; bilateral investment treaties; NAFTA and WTO dispute resolution; and other trade policy and legislative matters.   He has been ranked by Chambers (Tier 1 National) and Chambers Global (Band 1) in two International Trade practice areas: Export Controls and Economic Sanctions, and CFIUS.

Mr. Wall served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration during 2008 – 2009.  He works with the Departments of Commerce, State, Defense, Treasury and Homeland Security, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Mr. Wall is a member of the American Bar Association and has held a number of positions, including Chair of the Special Advisory Committee on International Activities, Vice Chair of the Section of International Law and Practice, and Co-Chair of the International Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation.  He has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Central and East European Law Initiative and has organized and given presentations at numerous ABA meetings.  He chaired the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C. for five years.  He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce USA, Inc. and has chaired the Trade and Investment Advisory Committee of the British American Business Council. 

Mr. Wall currently serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Council for International Business.  He is a frequent lecturer at both domestic and international conferences.  He serves as parish counsel to St. John's Church, Lafayette Square.  Mr. Wall a member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Export Controls of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Wall received undergraduate degrees from Yale University and Oxford University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School.  He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and New York, as well as the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.