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Is Your Company’s Risk Governance Up to Standard?

Board of Directors Education Series Event
Good Governance Matters

Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Register Here

Risk governance has become a key area of focus since the financial industry melt-down of the past few years. Furthermore, risk governance has now expanded beyond a focus on financial risk into other areas such as strategic risk, operational risk, technology obsolescence risk, compliance risk, & key employee retention risk. Attend this event and learn how your company’s risk governance activities benchmark against other companies?

What will be discussed?

How risk governance is critical to corporate success

The role of the Board for risk oversight and the role of corporate management for risk management

The part of the Board that should be responsible

How management can have an excellent system to manage, monitor and mitigate the exposures to specified risks

Balancing various risks vs. the expected returns for those risks

Responding to a significant corporate crisis

Structuring corporate incentives to support risk management

Address emerging risks that go beyond the current risk management processes

Best practices for risk governance

Moderator:

Don Grant, Former President/COO of Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc; former Chair of Board for Saturday Academy, a Portland area education non-profit.

Panelists:

Steve Campo, Senior Vice President, USI Southwest
Paul Carlson, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Cascade Microtech
Scott Gibson, Chair of the Board, Radisys Corporation
George Graves, Risk Partner for KPMG

Handout:

NACD Blue Ribbon Commission Report outline

Who is Eligible to Attend?

Directors, CEOs, in-house counsel, corporate secretaries and CFOs of both publicly traded and privately-held companies.
Corporate Board members and executives (as listed above) from both TechAmerica and nonmember companies are invited.

Event Details:
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Networking and Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Program and Q&A
Location: The Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205
This is a RiskMetrics approved and accredited progam

Thank you, The Brentwood Group, KPMG LLP, and Stoel Rives LLP for sponsoring this series.

2010 Board of Directors Series of Event Dates:
April 15, 2010 – Strategic Planning
September 16, 2010 – Mergers and Acquisitions
Novmeber 11, 2010 – Executive Compensation Topic

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