Tina Teree Baker currently serves as President and CEO of Cadence Group, a Records and Information Management services firm, and has served as an Executive Officer of Cadence Group since its founding in 1988.  She provides the strategic vision at the company and leads the team of over 60 employees in creating efficient, compliant, and adaptable information management solutions for federal agencies and companies across a broad scope of industry and size.

Ms. Baker brings 20 years of experience leading teams in developing and executing world class information management engagements.  Known for her ability to streamline business processes, Ms. Baker offers expertise in optimizing content, people and technology.  Her firm focuses on helping organizations mitigate risk and non-compliance, while improving efficiency and reducing unnecessary costs associated with the management of information.

While the company enjoys an impressive track record of creating value for companies in every engagement, they are most excited about their latest innovation.  With one eye always focused on the future, Tina and her team developed a solution to address the pattern of electronic information hoarding that is choking the efficiency of their clients in every industry.  They created ePurge, the first solution that quickly and compliantly cleans up the stores of electronic information on company shared drives. 

This new solution offers a full complement of services enabled by their new tool that isolates and organizes the information that matters and cleans up inactive content through compliant and auditable destruction.  Years of experience has provided the foundation for this ground-breaking approach that starts with a cleanup strategy that immediately reduces risk and cost and culminates with an information landscape that is transparent and sustainable over time.

Ms. Baker is a National Partner for Women Impacting Political Policy (WIPP) and sits on the Executive Board of GlobalEXECWomen. She is an active member of the Association of Records Managers and Archivists, the AIIM Enterprise Content Management Association and regularly speaks on the topics of information management, compliance and governance.  Philanthropy projects include mentoring women business owners, sustainability projects, and Project Open Hands. She is a past recipient of the Enterprising Woman of the Year Award.  She holds a master certification in Electronic Records Management and graduated with honors from Georgia State University.

 

Charles A. Berardesco is senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer of Constellation Energy, a Fortune 200 diversified energy company. He has primary responsibility for the company’s legal strategies and policies, including corporate governance, legal compliance and ethics, corporate finance activities, mergers and acquisitions and litigation, as well as executive responsibility for corporate and information security.

Mr. Berardesco received his J.D., with high honors, in 1983 from George Washington University, where he was the managing editor of The George Washington Law Review, and his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1980 from Duke University. He is active in a number of charitable organizations, including having served as chairman of the board of the Woodbourne Center, president of the Presbyterian Home of Maryland, chair of the Church Council of Foundry United Methodist Church and a member of the board of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington. He is also a member of the Business Council of the Human Rights Campaign. In 2010, Mr. Berardesco was awarded the “Out & Proud” Corporate Counsel Award from the National LGBT Bar Association and was named one of the top 10 “GC’s to Watch” by Corporate Board.

 

Sam is the Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary and Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (NYSE: LH), one of the world's largest independent clinical laboratories. Sam leads the company’s Legal, Compliance, Risk Management, Internal Audit, Healthcare Privacy, Public Policy and Government Relations Departments. LabCorp is an S&P 500 Company and a pioneer in genomic testing and the commercialization of new diagnostic technologies. With more than 30,0000 employees worldwide, LabCorp tests more than 500,000 patient specimens every day in the areas of allergy, clinical trials, diagnostics, genetics, indemnity, forensics, infectious diseases, oncology and occupational testing. The company’s clients include physicians, government agencies, managed care organizations, hospitals, clinical labs, pharmaceutical companies and employers. Fortune Magazine recently recognized LabCorp as one of the most admired companies in the world.

Sam has more than twenty five years of legal experience in private practice and as a corporate legal executive. After leaving the global law firm Jones Day, Sam joined Baxter International (NYSE: BAX), serving in various positions, including as chief counsel for the North American Biotech Business Group managing all legal and regulatory issues relating to its diverse portfolio of blood therapeutics, plasma collection products and genetic research. Sam also managed legal and regulatory issues for the company’s Novocor Division (now World Heart Corporation, NASDAQ: WHRT), the developer of the first widely used LVAS—a heart assist system used as a temporary bridge for hospitalized patients awaiting heart transplants.

Sam was part of the senior management team for the $5 billion dollar spin-off of Allegiance Corporation (NYSE:AEH) from Baxter in 1996 and its subsequent merger with Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) in 1999. As the Assistant General Counsel for Cardinal, he worked extensively with foreign governments in Asia and Europe on medical device, tax and technology regulation. Sam has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures on medical device regulation and occupational safety and health measures. Sam led the medical device industry to develop an international consensus position on the labeling and manufacturing of thousands of medical devices in Europe, the United States and Asia.

Prior to joining LabCorp, Sam was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Stepan Company (NYSE:SCL) a global consumer products and specialty chemicals company. Sam managed the legal, regulatory affairs and risk management departments for Stepan. He led an industry and agricultural coalition securing tax incentives and establishing regulatory standards for renewable fuels and bio-additives for petrochemicals at the state and federal level. As the supplier of the insulating foam involved in the Shuttle Columbia accident, Sam coordinated Stepan’s investigation into that tragedy. Sam was the lead negotiator for a settlement of chemical and radioactive decontamination programs with state and federal agencies in New Jersey stemming from the early years of the government’s atomic weapons program.

Sam is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and the Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. and serves on the Board of Directors for Easter Seals/UCP of North Carolina and Virginia. Sam is frequent speaker on healthcare reform, leadership and the legal profession and has served as a guest lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, Baylor School of Medicine, and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health, Division of Management, Policy and Community Health.

 

Mike is joining us as General Counsel and will play an active role in business development.  Prior to joining us he spent 20 years with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, DC, the last 11 as a partner with the firm.  In that role he counseled public and private companies on a broad range of legal matters, including the resolution of commercial disputes, the negotiation of corporate transactions, and various compliance issues.  

Mike was also a founding member and a Co-Chair of the firm’s Electronic Data Discovery Initiative and Information Law Practice Group. 

Mike is a graduate of Cornell University and University of Michigan Law School.  He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children.

 

Greg Gallopoulos is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for General Dynamics.

Before joining General Dynamics in 2008, Mr. Gallopoulos served as national managing partner of Jenner & Block LLP in Chicago from 2005 until 2008. Prior to that he served as a member of the Firm’s Litigation Department.

Gallopoulos received his juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and received his A.B. degree from the University of Michigan.

He is a member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association.

He is the director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a trustee of WETA, Inc. and a trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society.

 

Since January 2011, Robert A. Geckle Jr. has served as Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of Airbus Americas, Inc., where he oversees the Airbus Americas’ legal, export control and strategy teams and is in charge of all legal and compliance issues affecting the Airbus Americas group of companies. Rob came to Airbus following three years with EADS North America where he served as the Associate General Counsel and, more recently, three years at EADS NV in Paris where his responsibilities included global mergers and acquisitions within EADS and its four operating divisions: Eurocopter, Airbus, Cassidian defense and Astrium. Prior to joining the EADS Group, he was a Washington D.C.-based attorney with Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), where he focused on cross-border transactions, most notably for large aerospace and defense companies.

Rob, a Connecticut native, is married and has a 17 month old son. Rob received his B.A. from Middlebury College and JD from Boston College Law School.

 

Michelle Gluck is a native of St. Louis, Missouri.  She earned a B.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1983.

Ms. Gluck joined the Federal Reserve Bank’s Legal department as a senior vice president and general counsel in 2009.  Ms. Gluck is a member of the senior management committee and also oversees the Bank’s Corporate Communications, Government Affairs, and Civic Engagement departments, as well as the Corporate Secretary’s office.  Prior to joining the Fed, she was executive vice president and chief legal officer at LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.

Ms. Gluck started her career in Richmond, Virginia with Hunton & Williams, followed by experience as vice president and general counsel at Best Products, and vice president and associate general counsel at the Sports Authority and Kmart.

Ms. Gluck currently serves on the boards of Comfort Zone Camp, the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, and the Greater Richmond Chamber Foundation.  She is a past chair of the Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity and the Corporate Counsel Section of the Richmond Bar Association.  Ms. Gluck is a member of the Virginia and Michigan State Bars and the American Bar Association.

 

Jon Graham joined Danaher Corporation in 2006 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.  Danaher is a Fortune 200, NYSE-listed, science and technology company that designs, manufactures, and markets innovative products and services for professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers.  Mr. Graham has responsibility for legal, compliance, risk, environmental, safety, and RA/QA matters.  He was recently named one of the most influential in-house counsels in Washington, DC, by The National Law Journal / Legal Times.

Before joining Danaher, Mr. Graham was the Vice President, Litigation & Legal Policy for the General Electric Company.  In that role he had charge of GE’s legal disputes, litigation, investigations, compliance, and related legal policies.  Prior to GE, Mr. Graham was a partner at Williams & Connolly LLP, in Washington, D.C.where he had a wide-ranging civil and criminal trial and litigation practice.

Mr. Graham is an honors graduate of Pitzer College and of the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Law Review.  After graduation, he clerked for Judge Joseph Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco.

Mr. Graham is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) and of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C.  He previously served for 14 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Pitzer College in Claremont, California.   

 

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.

 

Terry Linnert is Executive Vice President, Administration and General Counsel for Goodrich Corporation.  He is responsible for the company's legal, internal auditing, administrative, EH&S, and state and federal government relations organizations.  Mr. Linnert joined the Company in 1997 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.  In 1999 he was elected to the additional positions of Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Administration and Secretary.  He was elected Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, General Counsel in 2002 and to his current role in February 2005.

Prior to joining Goodrich, Mr. Linnert was Senior Vice President of Corporate Administration, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Centerior Energy Corporation.

Terry is a director of the Rolls-Royce/Goodrich UK joint venture formed December 31, 2008.  He is also a director of the National Association of Manufacturers and is active in a number of community and professional activities and organizations, including the Charlotte Arts & Science Council and Presbyterian Hospital Foundation.

Terry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and a juris doctor degree from the Cleveland-Marshall School of Law at Cleveland State University.  He also has completed the Public Utility Executive Program at the University of Michigan and the Ohio Electric Utility Institute's Leadership Academy.

 

Scott McCoy is Siemens Government Technology’s Vice President, General Counsel and leads the Legal, Contracts, Facilities and Industrial Security teams, including providing wide-ranging legal support to the company, its management, and other Siemens affiliates.  Additionally, serving as the Compliance Officer for the company, Mr. McCoy is in charge of compliance training and the oversight of company ethics and compliance programs.  As Secretary of the Board of Directors, he also serves as a legal advisor to the Board and its committees.

Prior to joining Siemens Government Technologies, Mr. McCoy served as Associate General Counsel for Thales, a multinational defense, aerospace and technology company, overseeing legal affairs for several domestic and foreign operating affiliates and advising U.S. and European management on a wide range of matters including commercial and government contracts, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, intellectual property/licensing and litigation. Prior to his tenure at Thales, he served as Counsel at Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Mr. McCoy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington & Lee University, a Certificate of Political Studies from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center. He maintains bar memberships in Virginia and Texas, as well as before the U.S. Court of International Trade.

 

Thomas Meyding is a highly recommended corporate lawyer at CMS. He is a partner at the Stuttgart office of CMS Hasche Sigle and Head of the CMS-wide Corporate Practice Area Group. Thomas' main area of expertise lies in international and domestic M&A transactions, joint ventures and restructurings. The legal directory JUVE says about Thomas "We consider him to be one of the leading M&A lawyers in Germany" with "Very strong in negotiating tactically and structuring transactions." Clients are also impressed with his excellent advice: "It is always a pleasure to work with him, highly competent and excellent value for money".

Thomas advises on the full range of issues in these areas, including drafting, negotiating and monitoring agreements for his clients, e.g. Honeywell, Johnson & Johnson, Merck KGaA, Porsche, Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group and LBBW.

 

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.

 

Frederic R. Miller is a senior Partner in the Washington Metro offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC).   He is the Global Co-Leader of PwC's anti-bribery and anti-corruption practice and is a specialist in proactive anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance and investigations.  He has served as partner-in-charge and conducted some of PwC's largest and most complex international and domestic forensic accounting investigations.  He is deeply experienced in FCPA and other anti-bribery regulatory enforcement matters including leading compliance, remediation and FCPA training engagements, as well as FCPA investigations in both acquisition and non-acquisition situations.  He has consulted with numerous companies to develop and/or enhance their anti-corruption compliance programs, training, compliance monitoring and due diligence procedures.  He regularly represents clients and law firms in these and other financial investigation matters before the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other foreign regulatory bodies.

Mr. Miller has also conducted numerous international, non-FCPA investigations, including such matters as Royal Ahold NV, the Volcker Commission Investigations of Swiss Banks regarding Dormant Bank Accounts of Victims of Nazi Persecution, and The International Commission of Holocaust Era Insurance Claims.

Mr. Miller has also served as the leader in many high-profile domestic forensic accounting investigations, including Special Counsel, and other corruption cases.  His role in one such high-profile case was featured in the book, Blind Trust:  The True Story of Enid Greene & Joe Waldholtz.  He is the co-author of a chapter on global investigations in the PwC textbook, A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation.

Mr. Miller has over 30 years of public accounting experience and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the District of Columbia and Virginia. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).  He is a member of the AICPA and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  He is a regular speaker on anti-corruption investigations and compliance topics and has been a featured speaker at national and international conferences.

Mr. Miller is a Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, graduate of Rutgers College and holds an MBA from the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

 

Alberto J. Mora joined Mars, Incorporated in 2008 as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel.   He serves as a senior legal advisor to the Board of Directors, the President, and the other members of the senior management team and has oversight and management responsibility for all Mars legal strategies, issues, matters, services and resources.

Prior to joining Mars, Mora served as Vice President and General Counsel, International, for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s international legal affairs.   In his role with Wal-Mart, Mora helped plan and execute the company's international expansion and initiated the redesign of the company's international anti-corruption effort.   Prior to his tenure with Wal-Mart, Mora served as General Counsel for the Department of the Navy.  As the chief legal officer of the Navy and Marine Corps,  he had management responsibility for more than 800 attorneys and personnel across 146 offices throughout the United States and overseas.  In this role, he also supervised the Navy’s Judge Advocate General Corps and the Marine Corps Staff Judge Advocates and served  as the Reporting Senior of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Department’s  Chief Ethics Officer and, on occasion, Acting Secretary of the Navy.  Earlier in his career, Mora also served in the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer and in the George H.W. Bush administration as General Counsel of the United States Information Agency.

Mora holds a Bachelor’s degree and Honorary Doctorate from Swarthmore College and a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law.  A member of the Council of Foreign Relations, he sits on the Board of Directors of Human Rights First and Freedom House.  In 2006, Mora was awarded the John F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation’s Profile in Courage Award in recognition of his service to the Navy. 

Mars, Incorporated is a private, family-owned company founded in 1911 and employing more than 65,000 associates at over 230 sites, including 135 factories, in 68 countries worldwide.  Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA, Mars, Incorporated is one of the world’s largest food companies, generating global revenues of more than $30 billion annually and operating in six business segments:  Chocolate, Petcare, Wrigley Gum and Confections, Food, Drinks, and Symbioscience.

 

Over 15 years of service to CACI International Inc, including the position of

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
from September, 2006 - Present. 

Served as General Counsel and Secretary of The Orkand Corporation
from June, 2001 – August, 2004.

Boston College Law School, graduated with JD in 2003
Union College, Schenectady, NY, graduated with BA in 1978

 

Kevin Nugent has over 20 years of progressive operations and sales management experience in the management services and eDiscovery services industries.  Early in his career, Kevin received Certifications in Project Management and Communications Training with Integrated Control Systems Inc..  He managed and supported various projects throughout the US for Fortune 500 clients, providing detailed analysis of current operations, project design for improvement and cost reduction.  He then transitioned into the Management Services industry with Xerox Business Services (XBS); installing an enterprise wide Management Reporting System in 32 XBS Service Centers throughout the US.  Building on his success at XBS, his career progressed with Pitney Bowes Management Services, Balmar Management Services and IKON Management Services.  At IKON, Kevin consulted with clients providing them with detailed Document Lifecycle Strategy Assessments (DLSA) as part of a fully integrated solution.  Kevin transitioned into the eDiscovery Services industry with CLS, a Falls Church, VA based international eDiscovery service provider.  As their Vice President of Business Development & Operations, he gained an in depth understanding of the full spectrum of eDiscovery from Forensic Collection through eDiscovery Processing and Secured Web Hosting Applications.  In 2008, Kevin joined Encore Discovery Solutions, which was later acquired by Epiq Systems in 2011.  As Vice President of Global Legal Solutions, Kevin consults with Fortune 1000 Corporations, AMLAW 200 Law Firms and Government Agencies and Contractors to develop integrated eDiscovery and Attorney Document Review solutions. 

Kevin received his BS in Public Administration from Eastern Michigan University with Minors in Inter-Governmental Relations & Public Development.  He has spoken at several conferences and presented numerous Webinars regarding eDiscovery and consults with clients on the critical need for pre-litigation preparation and data minimization to defensibly reduce costs.

 

Steve Patterson is a corporate partner in the Washington office of Hunton & Williams LLP and is co-head of the firm’s Corporate Finance and M&A practice group.  He has represented boards of directors of public companies in a wide variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, senior management separations, shareholder activism and strategic defenses.  He has extensive experience focusing on public and private securities offerings, securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions transactions, and corporate governance matters for domestic and international clients.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Arkansas and his law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, after which he served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  He is a member of the American Bar Association, Business Section, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Georgetown Corporate Counsel Institute.  Steve has served as a presenter at several conferences, most recently for the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association (WMACCA) Corporate Governance Conference on corporate governance for boards of directors.

 

David Peitsch is General Counsel of Keller Group plc North America in Odenton, Maryland.  Keller Group is the parent company of many foundation and ground modification contractors operating in the North America, including Hayward Baker Inc., Case Foundation Company, Case Atlantic Company, Suncoast Post-Tension L.P., McKinney Drilling Company, Large & Sons, Inc, Seaboard Foundations, Inc., Anderson Drilling Inc., HJ Foundation Company, and Craig Olden Inc.  Mr. Peitsch holds three degrees from the University of Maryland including a Juris Doctorate, a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelors in Civil Engineering.  He joined Keller in 1999 as General Counsel after serving four years as General Counsel with Frehner Construction Company Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Prior to his work at Frehner Mr. Peitsch was employed as an attorney in private practice.  He also worked as a structural engineer for 7 years at Rummel, Klepper and Kahl in Baltimore, Maryland.  At Keller, he manages the legal and risk management departments including the insurance program, represents the company in mediations and arbitrations, manages outside counsel on various litigation matters, provides advice and counseling on all legal issues, processes construction claims, pursues accounts receivable, negotiates labor contracts and disputes, drafts a wide variety of contracts and leases, handles all corporate, ethics and compliance issues, and supervises handling of workers compensation and insurance claims.  Mr. Peitsch has also handled the acquisition of twelve companies during his time at Keller.  He is licensed to practice law in Maryland, District of Columbia, Nevada and Colorado, and is licensed to practice engineering in Maryland and Nevada.

 

Bill Plybon is responsible for corporate governance, disclosure, securities compliance, mergers & acquisitions, and litigation.  He was a part of the core management team that negotiated and led CCE’s 2010 sale of North American territories to The Coca-Cola Company.  He is a member of CCE’s disclosure and compliance committees, and helped lead the development of CCE’s compliance function.  He joined CCE in 2004 as its Director of Litigation.

Before joining CCE, Bill was a partner in the Trial and Appellate Practice Group at Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta.  While at A&B, Bill was a leader of the investigation of Enron Corporation (2002-03).

He holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Kansas (1982) and a JD from Emory University (1986).

 

Rachel F. Robbins is Vice President and General Counsel of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) and a member of the Management Team.  She is responsible for the foundation of IFC’s positions on legal issues and oversees IFC’s provision of legal services to internal and external clients.

Ms Robbins joined IFC in 2008.  She comes to IFC with three decades of experience in legal and financial services.  She has extensive experience in corporate governance and in managing global teams through periods of change. 

Prior to joining IFC, Ms. Robbins was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the New York Stock Exchange and its parent, NYSE Euronext.  She spent most of her legal career at JP Morgan & Co., where she concluded her 20 years of service as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.  She also served as General Counsel for Citigroup International and was a founding partner in an international management consulting company focused on the legal industry.  She started her legal career at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

Ms. Robbins holds a JD from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature from Wellesley College.  She is married and has two sons and a daughter-in-law.

 

Peter B. Saba is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of USEC Inc. In this position he serves as USEC’s principal legal and corporate governance officer.

Mr. Saba has extensive legal experience in both the private and government sectors. Previously, he was of counsel in the global projects group at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. There he advised clients on the implementation of new federal government insurance and loan guarantee programs for the development of advanced nuclear power plants.

Mr. Saba also served as chief operating officer and as senior vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. His experience also included service as principal deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Domestic and International Energy Policy.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Harvard Law School.

USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU), a global energy company, is a leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

 

Mark A. Shelnitz is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of W. R. Grace & Co., a multinational specialty chemicals and materials company with revenues of more than $3 billion. As general counsel, Mark manages all legal matters affecting the company worldwide, including the management of an 18-lawyer legal department. As corporate secretary, he is responsible for corporate governance and matters relating to the activities of the board of directors. Mark also serves as Grace’s Chief Ethics Officer.

Mark joined Grace's legal team in 1983 and most recently served as associate general counsel of the company. He currently focuses most of his efforts on Grace's chapter 11 proceeding and pending litigation. During his career, he has handled numerous acquisitions and divestments, securities law compliance, and general corporate and commercial law matters.

Mark earned a B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law.

 

Jonathan L. Sulds is co-chair of the firm's Labor & Employment and Global Human Capital Solutions practices. He has been representing leading employers since 1974 in virtually every aspect of their engagement, protection, management and reward of workforce resources. He is experienced in the areas of collective bargaining and traditional labor relations, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation, wage and hour matters, discrimination complaints, restrictive covenant, duty of loyalty and trade secret litigation. He also handles Dodd Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and whistleblower matters, global and domestic executive employment arrangements and corporate campaigns, as well as the labor and employment aspects of corporate transactions and class and collective actions that arise in these contexts.

Since the 1970's, Jon has been involved in a variety of key matters. His recent representations include negotiating the project labor agreement for the new stadium for one of America's most famous sports franchises. He has been lead counsel for a leading national package deliverer in two nationwide wage and hour class and collective actions seeking to challenge the exempt status of nearly every managerial position at the company. Jon represented the administrative committee of a retirement savings plan for a major energy company in the voting of company shares held in plan participants' accounts in a contested proxy contest, then represented that same committee in a parallel ERISA-based "stock drop case." In addition, Jon gained dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the dominant player in a niche of the financing industry against a start-up that had hired the plaintiff's founder and CEO, its CFO and a majority of the plaintiff's sale force. Jon also advised one of America's iconic brands on the strategy it used to end an Internet and regulatory agency-based corporate campaign that had sought to sully his client's reputation in order to pressure it into giving in to undisclosed parties' own institutional objectives.

Currently, among other matters, Jon is representing the nation's leading telecommunications company in several "Blackberry" wage and hour cases. He also represents the largest American specialty sports retailer in a nationwide collective action and leads a 40-lawyer team spanning ten GT offices advising a major media company on personnel transactions. Jon is the principal collective bargaining spokesperson for a leading magazine publisher faced with the print-to-Internet phenomenon. He is advising on structuring the collective bargaining and multiemployer pension plan strategy for a company with multiple collective bargaining agreements throughout the Country.

Jon is a frequent lecturer and writer. His breadth of experience is reflected in the treatise that he authors, New York Employment Law (Matthew Bender/LexisNexis, 2d Ed, updated annually).

 

Raquel Tamez is Deputy General Counsel of CSC, Inc., a Fortune 150, information technology,  business process, and outsourcing services provider with 96,000 employees worldwide and $16 billion in annual revenue.  In this role, she is responsible for the management of all litigation matters. Raquel also serves as the e-Discovery Counsel for the company managing all phases of the process including Preservation Orders, document review and production, and vendor relationships. Raquel is a frequent presenter on litigation management and e-discovery topics. Prior to joining CSC, Ms. Tamez was in private practice at a law firm in Dallas Texas, where she represented CSC as a client. 

Ms. Tamez has substantial experience advising senior executives and managers in large corporations on complex litigation matters.  After starting her legal career as Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor Solicitor’s Office, she joined Mary Kay, Inc., an international cosmetics company.  As in-house counsel there, she handled all international employment matters for 35 subsidiaries as well as domestic-manufacturing labor and employment issues.  She then served as Vice President and Corporate Counsel for Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a global BPO and IT outsourcing company based in Texas, where she managed all aspects of employment-related litigation and oversaw the development and implementation of the company’s worldwide compliance training program.

Ms. Tamez is an active member of several professional organizations, including DC’s Hispanic Bar Association.  She speaks fluent Spanish and has received national recognition as a recipient of the Hispanic Corporate Achiever Award bestowed by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility.  Currently, Ms. Tamez is a Fellow in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Talent Development Program, an organization of corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners.

Ms. Tamez dedicates significant time to pro bono matters.  She has volunteered at Dallas’ Dispute Mediation Services and the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and has served as a board member for several non-profit organizations, including the Greater Dallas Council for Drug and Alcohol Abuse, the Family Gateway, which provides services to homeless families, and AIDS Arms, Inc.  She is a regular participant in the Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline Program, a national partnership between the Association of Corporate Counsel and Street Law, which pairs corporate legal departments with diverse high schools in an effort to encourage students to consider careers in the legal profession. 

Ms. Tamez received her Juris Doctorate from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas and her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas at Austin.

 

P. Kelly Tompkins is Executive Vice President – Legal, Government Affairs and Sustainability & Chief Legal Officer at Cliffs Natural Resources Inc., an international mining and natural resources company with operations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Brazil. He has executive responsibility for global legal, labor, environmental, government and public affairs. Mr. Tompkins is also responsible for maintaining Cliffs' ongoing relationships with all U.S. and international government and regulatory bodies and the execution and reporting of the Company's increasingly critical sustainable development practices.

Mr. Tompkins joined Cliffs in May 2010, having previously been executive vice president and chief financial officer for RPM International Inc., a NYSE-listed, global specialty chemical company. Prior to becoming RPM’s chief financial officer, Mr. Tompkins served as RPM’s senior vice president and general counsel. Before joining RPM in 1996, he held various legal and management positions with Reliance Electric Company and Exxon Corporation where he was an attorney in the litigation department.

Mr. Tompkins received his B.A. degree from Mercyhurst College and his J.D. degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1981. He serves on a number of boards, including Chair of the Advisory Council for the Baldwin-Wallace Center for Innovation & Growth. Mr. Tompkins is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Magnificat High School, the largest all-girl Catholic high school in Ohio. Mr. Tompkins also is a director of the Great Lakes Science Center and a trustee of the Playhouse Square Foundation. In 2005-2006, Mr. Tompkins served as the 95th president of the Cleveland Bar Association. From 2001-2006, he was the Chairman of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Visiting Committee and currently serves on the National Advisory Council and co-chairs the law school’s annual campaign.

Kelly lives in Westlake with his wife, Cathy. Their three daughters, Lauren, Kim and Britt, reside and work in Cleveland.

 

Charles Volkert is executive director for Robert Half Legal and co-managing director of Robert Half Legal eDiscovery Services. Robert Half Legal is the premier provider of highly skilled legal professionals for law firms and corporate legal departments. The company also offers legal project management and e-discovery services for a wide range of initiatives, including litigation support, mergers and acquisitions matters and document review. Robert Half Legal is the legal staffing division of Robert Half International, a global leader in professional services since 1948.

Mr. Volkert began his staffing industry career when he joined Robert Half in 1999 and has served as vice president of national accounts for the company. He has been instrumental in the expansion of Robert Half Legal, which has locations in major North American and international markets, and the company’s e-discovery services offering.

Mr. Volkert advises clients on the strategic use of project teams for e-discovery and document review,  temporary legal support and full-time staff to cost-effectively manage business fluctuations and workload increases. He also specializes in legal search.

Prior to his employment with Robert Half Legal, Mr. Volkert worked as a litigator with McGrane & Nosich in Coral Gables, Florida where he focused on complex litigation, insurance defense, medical malpractice and product liability. Prior McGrane & Nosich, he was an associate at Ford & Sinclair in Miami, Florida.

A noted author and speaker, Mr. Volkert helped develop the company’s alliance partnerships with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists, Association of Corporate Counsel, Association of Legal Administrators and Minority Corporate Counsel Association. He is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law where he received a juris doctor and holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Furman University. Mr. Volkert is a member of the Florida Bar, the Dade County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

 

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.