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Beyster Institute/NCEO
2008 Employee Ownership Conference
Chicago, IL • April 2-4, 2008
PROGRAM
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| E1 = ESOP Basics |
E2 = ESOPs: Beyond the Basics |
EQ = Equity Compensation |
| CC = Communications and Culture |
LD = Leadership and Entrepreneurship |
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Day One: Wednesday, April 2
| 8:30-10:30AM |
NCEO BOARD MEETING
Open to all NCEO members |
| 9:30AM-5:00PM |
REGISTRATION OPENS |
| 10:00-10:30AM |
MORNING BREAK AND EXHIBIT OPENS
Sponsored by Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC |
| 10:30-11:45AM |
KICKOFF SESSIONS |
Overview of the World of ESOPs & Equity Compensation
Ron Bernstein, Beyster Institute; Martin Staubus, Beyster Institute |
Employee Ownership Future Talk: Things to Anticipate, Things to Know & Things to Fear
Ken Serwinski, Prairie Capital Advisors, Kevin Long, Chang, Ruthenberg & Long, Victor Aspengren, Mid-States Steel Corporation |
ESOP and Equity Compensation Legal and Regulatory Update
Stephen Smith, Krieg DeVault LLP; (moderator); Gary Howell, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP; Clifford Canavera, Canavera Financial Group; Hillary Hughes, Columbia Financial Advisors |
Motivating & Involving Managers in an Employee-Owned Company
James Ahern,Comstock Valuation Advisors, Inc.; Steven Lifson, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP; Kevin Ruble, Marquette Rail, LLC |
Our Toughest Employee Ownership Challenges & How We Dealt With Them
Loren Rodgers, NCEO (moderator); Rich LaHaye, Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, Inc.; Kenneth Ritterspach, Stylmark; Joseph Cabral, Chatsworth Products (retired) |
| 11:45AM-12:30PM |
BOXED LUNCH |
| 12:15-1:30PM |
OPENING GENERAL SESSION: Welcome & Leader Dialogue
Moderator: Ray Smilor, Beyster Institute; Panelists: Cecil Ursprung, Reflexite; Frieda Takaki, Chart Rehabilitation; Martin Babinec, TriNet Leaders discuss their strategies for facing the challenges of managing a successful employee-owned company.
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| 1:45-2:15PM |
AFTERNOON BREAK Sponsored by PTCFO, Inc. |
| 2:15-3:30PM |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #1
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EQ: Equity Vehicles Other Than ESOPs
Pam Chernoff, NCEO; Wil Becker, Chartwell Financial Advisory; Michael Voves, Dorsey & Whitney LLP |
CC: Employee Ownership, Social Responsibility & Being a Great Place to Work
Ginny Vanderslice, Praxis Consulting Group;(moderator) Susan Schor, Eileen Fisher Inc. |
CC: Using Incentive Plans & Education to Build a Company of Owners
Brad Hams, Ownership Thinking, LLC |
E1: Determining the Feasibility of an ESOP
Kreg Jackson, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin (moderator); James Steiker, SES Advisors; Al Weiss, Forsythe Technologies |
E1: Basic Administration for an ESOP
Rebecca Hoffman, Principal Financial Group (moderator); Charles Bachman, Menke & Associates |
LD: Transitions: From Family Ownership to Employee Ownership
Jared Kaplan, McDermott Will & Emery LLP (moderator); Jack Veale, PTCFO, Inc.; Dan Marcue, Woodward Communications, Inc. |
E2: ESOPs in Mergers & Acquisitions
William Merten, McDermott Will & Emery; Robert Massengill, SES Advisors, Inc. (co-moderators) |
E2: ESOP Administration & Disclosure Responsibilities
Brad Henschen, Principal Financial Group (moderator) Barbara M.Clough, Blue Ridge ESOP Associates; Matthew D. Goedert, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner |
E1: The LaRue Decision: Good News, Bad News, No News, or Something in Between for Employee Ownership Companies
Martin Staubus, Beyster Institute; Anthony Mathews, Beyster Institute |
| 3:45-5:00PM |
CONCURRENT SESSION #2
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EQ: Best Practices in Equity Compensation
Robert Sloan, Global Shares (moderator); Martin Babinec,Trinet |
EQ: Stock Appreciation Rights, Phantom Stock & Warrants, Oh My!
Steven Etkin, Sadis & Goldberg LLC; Thomas Mug, Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C. |
CC: Making the ESOP Appeal to Younger Workers
Cindy Prodoehl, Principal Financial Group (moderator); Bonnie Pickens, Pool Covers, Inc. |
CC: Techniques for Building Financial Literacy
Rich Armstrong, The Great Game of Business (moderator); Ron Maurer, Zingerman's Training Inc. |
LD: Employee Ownership as the Cornerstone of a Leadership Culture
Edmund Freeman, Praxis Consulting Group (moderator); Whitney Walpole, Culture Counts; Carolyn Stanworth, BL Companies Inc. |
E1: ESOP Plan Design
David Solomon, Pedersen & Houpt; Joseph Marx, Principal Financial Group; Lynn Dubois, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP |
E1: Valuation of Stock for Sale to an ESOP
Steve Nelson, Chartwell Capital Solutions (moderator); John E. Johnson CFA |
E2: Trends in Seller-Financed ESOP Transactions
Leslie Lauer, UBS Financial (moderator); Lawrence Goldberg, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
E2: Innovative Designs & Solutions for 1042 Transactions
Michael Holzman, Morgan Lewis Bockius (moderator); James Griffin, Wells Fargo; Keith Apton, Morgan Stanley |
| 5:15-7:15PM |
OPENING RECEPTION
Sponsored by over 50 companies and firms. Special thanks to entertainment sponsor Duff & Phelps and beverage sponsor McDermott, Will & Emery |
Day Two: Thursday, April 3
| 7:45AM-5:00PM |
REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITS OPEN |
| 7:45-8:45AM |
BUFFET CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST |
| 8:45-10:00AM |
GENERAL SESSION : Innovations in Employee Ownership Awards: Announcement and Presentations
Moderator: Loren Rodgers, NCEO
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| 10:15-11:30AM |
CONCURRENT SESSION #3 |
EQ: Top Ten Critical Administrative Procedures for Private Company Stock
Emily Cervino, CEP Institute, Santa Clara University; Barbara Baksa, NASPP; Michelle Murcia, Batelle |
CC: Internal & External Branding for an ESOP Company
Betsy McCloskey, Mission Creative (co-moderator); Sid Scott, Woodward Communications (co-moderator); Patricia Mosher, HNTB Corporation |
CC: Effective ESOP Committees
Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates (moderator); Tony Lessmeister, Forsythe Technology, Inc.; Don Taylor, Calibre |
LD: Integrating New Managers into the Employee Ownership Environment
Jack O'Riley, The Coaching House, Inc.; Marty Sylvain, W.L. Gore & Associates |
E1: Corporate Governance in an ESOP Company
Vaughn Gordy, GreatBanc Trust Co. (moderator); David R. Johanson, Johanson Berenson LLP; Deborah G. Olson, Attorney at Law |
E1: Business Succession & Estate Planning for an ESOP
Howard Rubin, Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb P.A. (moderator); Christopher Staloch, Chartwell Financial Advisory, LLC |
E2: Workshop for Internal ESOP Trustees
Robert Gross, Prairie Capital Advisors, Inc. (moderator); Victor Alam, Menke & Associates |
E2: Executive Compensation & ESOPs
Michael Ricaurte, Principal Financial Group (moderator); David Williams, Schiff Hardin |
E2: Successful Capital Planning for New and Existing ESOPs
Mary Josephs, LaSalle Bank/Bank of America (Moderator); Elizabeth Perdue, Morgan Lewis & Bockius; Richard May, American Working Capital (a Yucaipa Co.) |
| 11:45AM-1:15PM |
LUNCHEON WITH CHOICE OF ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Sponsored by Principal Financial Group |
| 1:15-2:30PM |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #4 |
EQ: Plan Litigation & Latest Trends in Equity Compensation
Alisa Baker, Levine & Baker, LLP (co-moderator); Daniel Janich, Janich Law Group (co-moderator) |
CC: Finding Ways to Keep Employees Involved as Owners
Corey Rosen, NCEO |
CC: Organizational Conflict: An Opportunity to Foster Creativity & Culture of Ownership
Michael Shay, Praxis Consulting Group; Michael Elsas, Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) |
LD/CC: What Makes a Winning Workplace?
Mary Clarke, Winning Workplaces; Diane Stoneman, Winning Workplaces; ESOP Committee Members from Phelps County Bank: Amy Giddens-Lyons, Tonia Mendenhall, Hilary Smith, Kristi Yates |
E1: Basic S Corporation ESOPs
Susan Lenczewski, Gray Plant Mooty & Mooty & Bennett, P.A. (moderator); David Horvath, Crowe Chizek & Company, LLC; Stephanie Silverman, ESCA/Venn Strategies, LLC |
E1: Financing an ESOP
Scott D. Miller, Enterprise Services, Inc. (moderator); Neil Brozen, EVP Retirement Services BNC Bank |
E2: Facing New Challenges as Your ESOP Matures
David Ackerman, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (moderator); Kim Blaugher, Principal Financial Group; Nancy K. Dittmer, RSM McGladrey Retirement Resources |
E2: Planning for & Funding the Repurchase Obligation
Judith Kornfeld, ESOP Economics, Inc, (moderator); Michael A. Coffey, Corporate Capital Resources; Merri Ash, First Bankers Trust Services |
E2: Minimizing Risk - Audits, Valuation & Avoiding Litigation
Jude Anne Carluccio, Parsinen Kaplan, Rosberg & Gotlieb P.A. (moderator); Gregory K. Brown, Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP; Theodore Becker, Morgan Lewis Bockius |
| 2:30-3:00PM |
AFTERNOON REFRESHMENT BREAK
Sponsored by Menke & Associates |
| 3:00-4:15PM |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #5 |
EQ: Restricted Stock Award/Unit Administration
Christine Zwerling, NCEO (moderator); Rick Zatz, Stock Plan Solutions/Green Zapato LLC |
EQ: 409A Deferred Compensation Legislation: Application to Equity Plans
John Heber, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP (moderator); Thomas Miller, Quist Valuation; Laura Reis, Stock & Option Solutions, Inc. |
CC: Effective Decision Making for ESOP Companies: Getting the Right People in the Right Roles
Cathy Ivancic, Workplace Development Inc. (moderator); Ben Wells, Dinsmore & Shohl |
CC: Meet the Innovations in Employee Ownership Award Winners
Loren Rodgers, NCEO (moderator); Two to three Innovation Award Winners TBA |
LD: Creating & Maintaining an Effective Board of Directors in an ESOP Company
Karen Ng, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP (moderator); Stephen Magowan, Steiker Fischer Edwards & Greenapple; Randolph Rowland, Teamswork LLC |
E1: Cash Management Issues in an Employee-Owned Company
Paige Ryan, ESOP Services, Inc. (moderator); Cecilia Loftus, ESOP Economics, Inc.; Dan Gallagher, Lane Enterprises, Inc. |
E2: Using an ESOP to Go from Public to Private
Marilyn Marchetti, GreatBanc Trust Co. (co-moderator); John Miscione, Duff & Phelps, LLC (co-moderator) |
E2: Advanced S Corporation Issues for ESOPs
Pete Shuler, Crowe Chizek and Company LLC (moderator); Mark I. Bogart, Vedder Price; Marc Schechter, Butterfield Schechter, LLP |
E2: Four Emerging Issues in ESOPs
John Kober, Morgan Lewis Bockius (moderator); Louis H. Diamond, Paley Rothman; Ken Winslow, Benefit Capital SouthWest, Inc.; Robert F. Schatz, Schatz Law Offices; Maureen Flood, Deloitte Tax LLP |
| 4:20-5:40PM |
ONE-ON-ONE EXPERT MINI-CONSULTATIONS
Sign up in advance for a 20-minute session |
| 5:30-7:00PM |
OFF-SITE RECEPTION at the ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Sponsored by LaSalle Bank/Bank of America |
Day Three: Friday, April 4
| 7:30-11:00AM |
REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITS OPEN |
| 7:30-8:45AM |
CONTINENTAL BUFFET BREAKFAST |
| 8:45-10:15AM |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Sponsored by Chang Ruthenberg & Long PC
Dean M. Schroeder, scholar, consultant, and co-author of Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations |
| 10:30-11:45AM |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS #6 |
EQ: FAS 123R for Non-Public Companies
Brock Benson, iComp LLC; Dan Stokely, Victory Pharma, Inc. |
EQ/CC: Communicating Equity Compensation Without Confusion
Karen Needham, UBS Finanical (moderator); Jule Torre, Applied Materials |
CC: Case Study: Communicating in ESOP Companies
Renee Rettler, Principal Financial Group; Kathy Clark, FBG Service |
LD/CC: Managing from the Bottom Up: Creating Lean Cultures
Michael Quarrey, Web Industries (moderator); bumm Brown, Web Industries; Todd Pihl, Web Industries; David Hunt, Web Industries |
E1: Accounting for ESOPs
Rebecca Miller, RSM McGladrey, Inc. |
E2: A Roadmap to ESOP Distributions
Andrew Ward, Stout Risius Ross (moderator); Allison Wilkerson, Morgan Lewis Bockius; Lance Studdard, Reliance Trust Company |
E2 Advanced Corporate Governance in an ESOP Company
Steve Martin, Reliance Trust Company (moderator); Steven Greenapple, Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C. |
| 11:45AM |
CONFERENCE ADJOURNS |
Agenda subject to change. For updates and additional speaker names, return to this site periodically.
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