The Faculty: Carolyn Chin and Susan Stautberg


Speakers:



Carolyn Chin

Carolyn Chin is a senior executive with extensive management experience (specializing in strategy, marketing, technology, start-ups/turnarounds) in a broad range of industries. She is Chairman and CEO of Cebiz, a consulting and investment/management firm. Her prior work experience includes senior executive positions at IBM, Reuters, Citibank, AT&T, Macy's, and the US Departments of Heath, Education and Welfare and Housing and Urban Development.

Carolyn has served on over 30 corporate boards of directors, corporate advisory boards and non-profit boards. She served as Chairman of the Board of Commtouch (Nasdaq CTCH) of Mountain View, CA and Netanya, Israel, a leader in anti-SPAM solutions from 2001-2005. In 01-02, she served as Chairman and interim CEO for KindMark (a leader in e-philanthropy and automated giving technology and services). In 2003, she was elected to the Board of Directors of CH2M Hill, a $3 Billion+ engineering, environmental, and infrastructure services firm that has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the “top 100 companies to work for,” and one of the “most admired engineering firms." In 2004, she joined the boards of State Farm Insurance Bank and the North American subsidiary of Holcim (one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and building materials). In 2006, she joined the boards of Larasan Pharmaceuticals (targeted, time release painkillers) and Zogby International, the polling and research firm. She is a founding member of the South Florida Board for NACD (National Association for Corporate Directors).

Carolyn has also served on a number of corporate boards and advisory boards including: stockjungle.com (financial community and mutual funds); Emediat (provider of Linux rapid application design tools); CEO Global Resources (database and community software and services firm); Allegiance Bank; EJV Partners (broker-dealer consortium); RWDOG (Reuters Web Development Operations Group); CRS (Citicorp Retail Services); MediaPearls (streaming and multi-media) Advisory Board; Northwestern Mutual Life Internet Advisory Board; Global Asset Management Advisory Board; Avis Advisory Board; Swissotel Advisory Board; San Francisco Chronicle Advisory Board; and the Tiger 21 Advisory Board.

She also has extensive negotiations experience and served as a member of the US delegation, working with David Rockefeller, to the Dartmouth Conferences for bilateral discussions with the USSR. Also, she was a US delegate, with Ambassador Woodcock, to bilateral discussions with China on trade and Taiwan. In January 2005, she served on a delegation of Chinese-Americans to meet with the President of Taiwan and Hong Kong/Beijing leaders to promote better Taiwan- China and US-Greater China relations.

Ms. Chin is a Board Member and Vice Chair for Research for the Committee of 100 (prominent Chinese-Americans) and provided the leadership for two landmark research projects: “American Attitudes Towards Chinese and Asian Americans” and “American Attitudes Towards China.” She is also a board member for the White House Fellows Foundation, NYC Outward Bound and the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness.

Carolyn received her MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (receiving the highest honor for leadership) and was a White House Fellow (America's most prestigious leadership program). Her other honors include selection as one of Glamour%apos's Outstanding Young Working Women, Outstanding Woman of New Jersey, and Who's Who in America. She is a frequent speaker on subjects such as corporate governance, technology, future trends, US-China relations, medical trends/alternative health/transplants and workforce diversity and has appeared in numerous TV shows and press articles.


Susan Schiffer Stautberg

Susan Schiffer Stautberg is President of PartnerCom Corporation, which assembles and manages Advisory Boards globally for businesses, governments, and non-profits. PartnerCom also conducts executive searches for Corporate Directors and CEOs. Susan is an innovative, multi-dimensional leader as well as a visionary community and strategic alliance builder in the public, private, and social sectors.

In her capacity as Corporate and non-profit Director, Susan has served on or created the Advisory Boards for Ashbridge, Avis Rent-A-Car, Avon, Bank of America, Bayer Diabetes Care Division, CIGNA, Center for Women’s Business Research, Council on Competitiveness, Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, Envision, Flexjet, Goldman Sachs, Investment New Zealand, Key Bank, Link Staffing Services, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Northern Trust, Northwestern Mutual, Oppenheimer Funds, PNC Advisors, Singlepoint, STRATCO, Sun Trust/AMA, Primera, Primex, TIGER 21, and The United Nations Office for Project Services.

Susan co-founded Women Corporate Directors, with over 500 members on over 675 Corporate Boards. WCD has chapters in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/ Fort Worth, Delhi, London, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mumbai, New York, Seattle, Southern California, South Florida, and Washington DC. Chapters in Arizona, Beijing, Hong Kong, Lima, San Francisco/Silicon Valley and Sao Paolo are in formation. Chapters in Cleveland, Doha, Israel, New Zealand, Paris, Scandinavia, and Toronto are currently under discussion.

WCD is the only community of Women Corporate Directors who meet for regional dinners, at International Institutes with Global Guests, and are connected by email for updates, to distribute board opportunities, speaking opportunities, and to conduct surveys. Susan also co-founded On Board Bootcamp, which provides an insider’s guide on how to be selected to be a Corporate, Private Company or Advisory Board Director. In addition, Susan founded The Belizean Grove and TARA, constellations of diverse, influential women from five continents, who meet at preeminent retreats to share knowledge and connections.

Susan has received numerous awards and honors, including The Director’s Choice Award, was a 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow and was named one of Women’s E News’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. Presidential Commissions, Boards, and Foundations Susan has served on include: The Commission on Presidential Scholars, U.S. Japan Fellowship, The Institute for Educational Affairs, The Defense Advisory Council on Women in the Armed Services and the White House Fellows Foundation and Association. Susan chaired both The Elms Centennial and 60th Anniversary Committees for The Preservation Society of Newport County and is the Secretary of the board of The Preservation Society. Susan is a member of the International Women’s Forum, C200, WPO, the Executive Committee of the Women’s Middle East Summit, the Encore Leadership Network, and The Economic Club.

As a Westinghouse/Group W TV correspondent covering the White House and Capitol Hill, Susan was the first woman and one of the youngest to head a Washington TV bureau. Susan then became the first TV journalist to be chosen as a White House Fellow where she worked for both Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary of State Kissinger. Her considerable consumer products experience includes positions as the Directors of Communications for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and for McNeil Consumer Products. After moving to New York, Susan became Director of Communications for Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche).

Deciding to become an entrepreneur, Susan founded MasterMedia Ltd., the only company to combine publishing with a speaker’s bureau. The quality publishing house produced more than 125 books, including best sellers and Book-of-the Month, Doubleday, Literary Guild, and Reader’s Digest selections. The Speakers Bureau worked with some of the foremost businesses and universities in the world.

Susan holds a BA from Wheaton College, a Master’s in Public and International Affairs from George Washington University and completed an Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School. As an adjunct professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at GW, she taught a graduate course, for 3 years, on “Global Visions, Strategies, and Tactics for International Organizations”. An effective public speaker, Susan has addressed groups around the world, including leading business schools and national and international conferences. Her writing includes five books; she has written or been featured in numerous articles including International Herald Tribune, Business Week, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Directorship, The Corporate Board, Directors and Boards, NACD Director’s Monthly, The Conference Board Alert, The Financial Times, USA Today, and others. Her on-air interview experience includes Oprah, The Today Show, CBS Evening News, CNN, Sally Jesse Raphael, and many others.

In recognition of her long-time passion for mentoring and opening doors for women, Susan’s friends established the Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Foundation, to “identify high potential women and facilitate their ability to make a difference in their communities, their chosen fields, and the world at large.”


Sample Guest Speakers

Kim Bishop is a Vice Chairman of Boardroom Consultants/Slayton and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. She has more than 20 years of recognized success in executive search and leadership development, the financial sector, academia and community service.

Before joining Boardroom Consultants/Slayton, she was a Senior Partner/Managing Director at Korn/Ferry International, specializing in the recruitment, assessment and leadership development of senior-level executives and board directors for public and private organizations. Her ability to build relationships with business leaders and deliver results for clients has made her one of the most highly regarded leaders in the search industry today.

Earlier in her career, Kim established an equally impressive track record as a senior business executive in financial services, technology, and banking. She was Executive Vice President at First Data Corporation, where she rose from an entry-level position to become the youngest person to serve on the company’s leadership team, overseeing its $2 billion card division and 8,000 employees.

A sought-after speaker, Kim has appeared before prominent groups both nationally and internationally. She has been a featured guest on CNN, WABC Eyewitness News and CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. She has also been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Money magazine, Crain’s New York Business, American Banker, Cards & Payments, Shattered, and Pink magazine. She is a member of Newsweek’s Women and Leadership Advisory Committee.

Kim currently serves on numerous boards engaged in community, philanthropic and professional development. She is a director of FDNY Foundation, ACCION USA, The Bottomless Closet, and The Committee of 200 (C200). She has been recognized by the Girl Scouts and the New York Woman’s Agenda for her contributions to women and children.

Kim has received her Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communications and Master of Arts in Leadership from Bellevue University.


Theodore L. Dysart is Managing Partner of the Americas for the Global Board of Directors Practice with Heidrick & Struggles, Inc., and is based in the Chicago, IL office. In this role he has responsibility for leading and growing the firm's board practice in North and South America. In addition, he is responsible for senior level executive search assignments and is a functional specialist at Heidrick working exclusively on Board engagements. Over the past 3 years, he has placed more than 50 executives on the boards of Fortune 500, Mid-cap, and private companies. Hunt-Scanlon's publication, Executive Search Review , named him one of six “executive recruiters to watch” in 2004.

Serving as a board- and CEO-level advisor, he helps clients to identify and attract the proper mix of leadership required for building and managing effective businesses. His consultative-drive approach focuses on working with boards to look at long-term development plans for both management and board success planning.

Over his career, he has worked with a wide variety of clients such as ArvinMeritor, Inc., Church & Dwight Corporation, Exxon, GTECH Holdings Corporation, Health Net, Inc., JLG Industries, Inc., Kennametal, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Pepsi Bottling Group, Peregrine Systems Corp., RJ Reynolds Tobacco and Terex Corporation recruiting directors and senior executives. He is a regular commentator on the subject of corporate governance and his comments have appeared in The New York Times, The USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CNNfn as well as other local and regional papers.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Mr. Dysart was a Vice President with The Directorship Search Group, a consulting firm that specialized in corporate governance consulting and board of directors searches. Earlier, he worked for WIN Enterprise, Inc., a member of the WIN Group. The WIN Group was ranked as Inc. Magazine's 14th fastest growing private company in 1993.

A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Dysart was a member of the first class to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems. Mr. Dysart serves on the board of directors of the Greenwich Council of the Boy Scouts of America.


Bonnie W. Gwin is a Partner with Heidrick & Struggles, focused on Board of Director and CEO searches across a wide range of industries. Previously, Bonnie served as President, Americas and corporate officer responsible for all of Heidrick & Struggles’ operations in North and Latin America. She has served in many other leadership roles for the firm including Global Managing Partner, Technology Practice and Managing Partner, North America Quality Council.

Bonnie has been widely quoted regarding leadership effectiveness at the CEO and board level, diversity and corporate social responsibility. She has written for Directors & Boards magazine, appeared on CNN and been quoted in Fortune magazine and Crain’s. Bonnie has hosted multiple forums with senior women around the world to discuss diversity in the boardroom.

Bonnie’s clients include some of the most respected names in business including MasterCard Incorporated; Merck & Co., Inc.; Macy’s, Inc.; Cardinal Health, Inc.; PPG Industries, Inc.; The Timken Company; Churchill Downs, Inc.; Diebold Incorporated; The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; and many others.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Bonnie spent almost 13 years with the IBM Corporation. She most recently served as Business Unit Executive, Travel & Transportation Industry and Senior Location Executive. Throughout her career, Bonnie held a variety of sales, marketing and management roles of increasing responsibility.

In conjunction with her career accomplishments, Bonnie has been active in a number of organizations including serving on the National First Ladies Library Site Committee. She is currently a national board member and Chair of the Governance Committee for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.

Bonnie holds a combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She was a National Merit Scholar and also a Fellow, Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired (DACOR).


Peter Lupo, Managing Director and head of the Pearl Meyer & Partners’ New York office, joined the company in 2006 with more than 20 years of experience with executive compensation and benefits programs in a wide range of industries. He has worked extensively with benchmarking of total compensation programs; annual and long-term incentive compensation design; sales compensation; and total reward studies.

Before joining PM&P, Mr. Lupo held the national compensation practice leader role with Aon Consulting’s National Compensation Practice. He also has served as a Principal and Senior Executive Compensation Consultant with Mercer Human Resources Consulting and as a Benefits Consultant at Towers Perrin. A graduate of Stony Brook University, Mr. Lupo holds an MBA from Long Island University.


Melissa Means is Managing Director in the Boston office, where her areas of expertise include total compensation strategy, executive compensation, employee compensation, short- and long-term incentive compensation strategy and design, market practices benchmarking, and performance management systems. Mrs. Means specializes in working with small to large companies in the Life Sciences industry, including biotechnology/biopharmaceutical, instruments and pharmaceutical firms.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer & Partners, Mrs. Means was the Director of Compensation and Benefits at a software firm, with responsibility for compensation and benefit program design and implementation, and held executive compensation consulting positions at Mercer and Towers Perrin.

Mrs. Means holds a BBA. from Miami University of Ohio. She is a Certified Compensation Professional and Certified Equity Professional and a member of WorldatWork, NASPP and SHRM.


Janice Reals Ellig is Co-CEO of Chadick Ellig. With over 20 years of experience as a senior-level corporate executive, Janice has worked extensively with CEOs and Boards of Directors on organizational development, executive compensation, succession planning and branding initiatives. Her broad industry experience includes insurance, healthcare, banking, and private wealth asset management.

Prior to joining the firm, Janice was SVP with Ambac Financial Group, a diversified financial services company, responsible for Marketing, Human Resources and Administration. As a member of Ambac’s Executive Committee, she helped take the company public after a spin-off from Citibank in 1991. Earlier in her career, Janice held positions at Citigroup, where she had worldwide Human Resource responsibility for the Global Insurance Division, prior for Citigroup’s Card Products Group, and at Pfizer in their Consumer Products Division.

Janice has co-authored two books: Driving The Career Highway, 20 Road Signs You Can’t Afford To Miss (Thomas Nelson, 2007) offers a virtual road map that illustrates the 20 most compelling problems that can cause people to detour, stall, get lost or crash on their career path; and What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (McGraw-Hill, 2001), acknowledged by Business Week as “the best of its genre.” In 2007 she was named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s eNews, is a recipient of the Channel 21 Award In Excellence for her contribution to “Excellence in the Economic Development for Women” and the 2008 Eleanor Raynolds AESC Award for volunteerism.

Chair of the YMCA Board of Greater NY and Executive Committee and Board Director of the University of Iowa Foundation, Janice also serves on the Advisory Board for the School of Management at Simmons College, the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, the Women’s Forum and The Economic Club of NY. Janice holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Rider College and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa. A native New Yorker, Janice resides in New York City with her husband, Bruce Ellig.


Victoria Reese is the Practice Managing Partner of Heidrick & Struggle’s Legal, Risk and Compliance Practice, based in the Park Avenue Office of Heidrick & Struggles. She has recently completed searches for general counsels, compliance officers, corporate secretaries, governance officers, other high-level internal legal officers and related infrastructure positions. Client companies include Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Wachovia Corporation, and Barclays Global Investors, among others. In addition to large financial institutions and corporations, Victoria has worked extensively with Hedge Funds and other Investment Management Companies. She has also completed lateral partner and infrastructure assignments for Simpson Thacher, Baker Hostetler, Clifford Chance, Goodwin Procter, and Covington & Burling. Victoria is a regularly sought speaker in the legal and search industry and has published articles on leadership trends, marketing in professional services firms and the attraction and retaining of top talent.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Victoria worked for a boutique financial services recruitment firm. At her former firm she recruited senior management in both operational as well as marketing roles.

Victoria earned a B.A. degree in Art History from Vassar College. She is a member of the Board of Directors at The Play Company in New York, a not-for-profit theater.


George B. Weathersby, PhD, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Genesys, brings more than twenty years of experience at the President/Chief Executive Officer level. George was President and CEO of the American Management Association, which is the world's largest, not-for-profit professional development company; Oxford Management Corporation, where he managed a $50 million pool of private capital; the Ontario Corporation, an aerospace manufacturing and service company, and the Curtis Publishing Company.

George has also been an active member of the academic world for many years. He held faculty and administrative appointments at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and he served six years as Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education. He received a PhD in Decision and Control Theory from Harvard University, and a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

George's leadership was recognized by his selection as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, as well as a Kent Fellow and University of California Regents Scholar.

George is a published author of six books, more than fifty articles, and has extensive experience on the Boards of Directors of several major companies including Ideal Basic Cement, Holcim (US), USA Group (financial services), ffi, Inc. (manufacturing), Electronic Retailing Systems International (retail technologies), and IMED (biotech).