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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?
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How risk governance is critical to corporate success
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The role of the Board for risk oversight and the role of corporate management for risk management
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The part of the Board that should be responsible
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How management can have an excellent system to manage, monitor and mitigate the exposures to specified risks
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Balancing various risks vs. the expected returns for those risks
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Responding to a significant corporate crisis
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Structuring corporate incentives to support risk management
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Address emerging risks that go beyond the current risk management processes
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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
Categories: Oregon
Tags: Board of Director Education, BOD Education, cascade microtech, don grant, kmpg, Radisys
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Kari Naone.
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