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Kevin Bloomfield is Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Belden Inc. (a global manufacturer of signal transmission products). Prior to Belden, he was Senior Counsel for Cooper Industries, Inc. (a manufacturer of electrical products). He has a B.A. in Economics and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati, and an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University.

 

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Nathan Fagre is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc., a global consumer products company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. Prior to joining Spectrum Brands in January 2011, Mr. Fagre served as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of ValueVision Media, Inc. (operator of the ShopNBC television home shopping network), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Prior to joining ValueVision in 2000, Mr. Fagre was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the oil and gas exploration and production division of Occidental Petroleum Corporation in Los Angeles, CA. Previously, he practiced corporate and securities law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Sullivan & Cromwell. He received his undergraduate and law degrees at Harvard University and a master’s degree in international relations at Oxford University.

Mr. Fagre is a director of the National Security Advisory Board at the William Mitchell School of Law in Minnesota. Previously, he served on the board of directors of Polo.com (a joint venture between Polo Ralph Lauren Co., NBC and ValueVision), and was the chairman of the board of directors of the Electronic Retailing Association, a global trade association of 350 businesses engaged in the e-commerce, TV home shopping and direct-to-consumer retailing industries.

Mr. Fagre is married to Constance H. Fagre and has four sons. He lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.

 

Carrie J. Hightman is executive vice president and chief legal officer of NiSource Inc. Her responsibilities include all legal functions, as well as compliance, environmental, health and safety.  She serves as a member of the company's senior management team.

Prior to joining NiSource, Hightman served as President of AT&T Illinois (formerly SBC). In that position, she was responsible for all regulatory, legislative, governmental and external affairs activities, as well as community and industry relations, throughout Illinois. During her tenure at AT&T, Hightman led the company through a series of important public policy initiatives that helped AT&T evolve from a traditional telephone company into a provider of diversified communications and entertainment services.

Prior to joining AT&T, Hightman practiced telecommunications and energy law for more than 17 years. She was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin, where she led its Energy, Telecommunications and Public Utilities practice group. Hightman is Vice Chair of the Telecommunications Committee of the Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law Section of the American Bar Association and past Chair of the Public Utility Law Section of the Chicago Bar Association.

Hightman began her career in the public sector in 1983, serving as Staff Counsel at the Florida Public Service Commission. In 1986, she served as associate counsel at the Florida Office of Public Counsel, handling a variety of public utility cases on behalf of consumers.

Hightman earned her B.A. from the University of Illinois and her juris doctor from Florida State University. Hightman serves as Chairwoman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois State Universities Retirement System Board. She also serves on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Urban League and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation.

Hightman is based at NiSource's headquarters in Merrillville, Indiana.

 

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Scott Offer leads the global Law Department of Motorola Mobility.

His team plays a key role – handling all legal matters for Motorola Mobility. This includes setting overall legal strategy; partnering with business leads; negotiating all strategic deals with customers, suppliers and partners; managing the global Motorola Mobility patent, trademark and litigation portfolio; and maintaining legal compliance.

His team is leading the current multi-jurisdictional patent litigations with both Apple and Microsoft.

In August 2011, he worked with the CEO to negotiate the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google Inc. His team (working with Google) has cleared regulatory approvals for the transaction in all jurisdictions except China. He served as a key leader and contributor in the planning and structuring of Motorola’s businesses into two independent, publicly traded companies for separation and listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in January 2011. This included creating a new Law and Intellectual Property Department for Motorola Mobility.

Offer also led the formation of the combined Intellectual Property (IP) business and Legal teams, which consistently generate significant licensing revenues. The organization delivers a significant impact to both cash flow and operating earnings for Motorola Mobility. Offer played a lead role in the 2010 RIM patent cross-license and litigation settlement.

Since joining Motorola in 1990, he has served in leadership roles in the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region and the U.S. Offer received his LLB law degree from The London School of Economics & Political Science. Prior to joining Motorola, he worked for the law firm Boodle Hatfield, and Royal Dutch Shell plc.

 

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