Charles Elson

Dr. Charles Elson, Chair in Corporate Governance and Director, J.L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governanace, University of Delaware Will Speak to the Wharton Club of Philadelphia

Dr. Elson is an expert on the subject of Corporate Governance.  He will speak on General Corporate Governance, what went wrong, and post-crisis issues.  He will discuss how he sees the corporate recovery by companies caught up in the tangle and give his perspective on the future.

Agenda for the Evening:

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

6:00-6:30 pm   Registration, Refreshments, and Mingling

6:30-7:30 pm Dr. Elson's comments and Q&A

7:30-8:15 pm  Mingling and Refreshments

Location:  Pyramid Club | 1735 Market Street | Philadelphia | Directions

Registration Fees:

Early Bird pricing has been extended until Friday, November 6, 2009.

AFTER 11/06/09

Members and Members' guests - $38.00 per person
Non-Members - $50.00 per person

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About our Speaker:

Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and the Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is also "Of Counsel" to the law firm of Holland & Knight. He formerly served as a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida from 1990 until 2001. His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School, and has served as a law clerk to Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Elbert P. Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Eleventh Circuits. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, the Cornell Law School, and the University of Maryland School of Law, and is a Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Elson has written extensively on the subject of boards of directors. He is a frequent contributor on corporate governance issues to various scholarly and popular publications. He served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Commissions on Director Compensation, Director Professionalism, CEO Succession, Audit Committees, Strategic Planning and Director Evaluation, was a member of its Best Practices Council on Coping With Fraud and Other Illegal Activity, and presently serves on that organization’s Advisory Council. He is Vice Chairman of the ABA Business Law Section’s Committee on Corporate Governance and was a member of its Committee on Corporate Laws. Additionally, Professor Elson served as an adviser and consultant to Towers Perrin, the international human resource management consultants, a director of Circon Corporation, a medical products maker and Sunbeam Corporation, the consumer products manufacturer, Nuevo Energy Company, an independent oil and natural gas producer, the Investor Responsibility Research Center, a non-profit corporate governance research organization, Alderwoods Group, an international death care services provider, AutoZone, Inc., the national automobile parts retailer, and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of HealthSouth Corporation, a healthcare services provider.

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