Corporate Governance – Understanding the Board-Management Relationship

COURSE DETAILS

Join our speakers from H.S. Grace & Company (HSG) for a program that will focus on corporate governance and ethics. The discussion will include:

• a discussion of economic fundamentals and specific legal issues
• an analysis of corporate management, the legal liability of directors and officers,
• an examination of how the corporate board has evolved and changed,
• board management relationships, importance of internal reporting, intellectual capital, board selection,
• related ethical issues,
• … and more!

Our panelists will share their wisdom and experience by providing a unique and focused perspective to help you evaluate and understand the actions of directors and officers and their implications for corporate executives, legal counsel, business managers, stockholders, and consumers.  They will also provide essential guidance to develop a comprehensive, strategic view of organizational responsibility and ethics implications.

FACULTY

Faculty: H. Stephen Grace, Jr., Ph.D., founder and President, H.S. Grace & Company, Inc. and Former Chair of the Financial Executives International; Alvin Fenichel, MBA and CPA, Member of Board of Advisors of Grace & Co. and retired Chief Accounting Officer of Equitable Life Insurance and previously a Financial Officer with CBS Inc.; Frank Gatti, MBA, CPA and NACD Leadership Fellow, Member of Board of Advisors of Grace & Co., Previously on Board of Blackboard, Inc. and other companies, Retired as CFO of ETS and previously a Financial Officer of The NY Times; Steve Grace,  COO of H.S. Grace and formally AVP JP Morgan Chase; Joseph P. Monteleone, Esq., Principal of Catamount Services LLP and member of the Board of Advisors of H.S. Grace & Co., Richard Schrader, MBA, MA and PE, Member of the Board of Advisors of Grace & Co., Former Chairman and CFO of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., Former Chair of the Financial Executives International, Director of Ethics Compliance Initiative and Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers; Johnnie Williams, Ph.D., Member of the Board of Advisors of Grace & Co., Graduate Management Professor, Jesse H. Jones School of Business, Texas Southern University and formerly Director of Asset-based Transactions of Enron Energy Services.

About H.S. Grace & Company (HSG): HSG is a consulting and expert witness firm that has been retained as a testifying expert in more than 150 complex business cases, most of which have involved issues of corporate governance/business conduct. Additionally, the HSG team has authored over 70 articles in peer-reviewed business and professional journals.

About the Panelists: Recently four members of the Grace & Co. Board of Advisors authored a book,  Corporate Governance: Understanding the Board-Management Relationship, published by the ABA, which provides a candid analysis of corporate management, the legal liability of directors and officers and how the corporate board has evolved and changed. Three of the authors are panelists at this program and many of the critical issues discussed will also be covered during this presentation.