Schedule Day 1 - Wednesday, June 22, 2011printer friendly version

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Time & LocationEvent
5:00 PM - 8:00 PMColonial Ballroom Registration Desk Opens
6:00 PM - 8:00 PMColonial Ballroom and Italian RoomWelcome Cocktail Reception for Early Arrivers at the Westin St. Frances

Schedule Day 2 - Thursday, June 23, 2011printer friendly version

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Time & LocationEvent
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGlobal Alumni Networking Seminar
California 

Register for this Seminar

Matthew Greene, WG'89

CEO, Kota Global Securities, New York

8:00 AM - 9:00 AMColonial RoomContinental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMGrand BallroomOpening Plenary
 

Welcome from the Chairmen

S.A. Ibrahim, WG'78

Chief Executive Officer, Radian Group Inc, Philadelphia

 David Pottruck C'70, WG'72

Co- Chairman, HighTower Advisors, San Francisco

 

Keynote Address

Jacob Wallenberg W'80, WG'81

Chairman, Investor AB, Stockholm

10:30 AM - 11:00 AMColonial Ballroom and Italian RoomCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PMConcurrent Panel Discussions
Grand Ballroom 

Panel #1

The Global Private Equity Industry
 

Moderator:

N. Bulent Gultekin

Associate Professor of Finance

 

Panelists:

Frederick M. Goltz, C'93, W'93

Partner, KKR & Co., Menlo Park

 Josh Harris W'86

Founding Senior Partner, Apollo Management LP, New York

 Octavio Lopes WG'96

Partner, GP Investments, São Paulo

 Chang Sun, G'89, WG'89

Managing Partner, Warburg Pincus, Hong Kong

California  

Panel #2

Will CIVETS Replace BRIC?
 

Moderator:

Philip M. Nichols

Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

 

Panelists:

Ari Ariwibowo ENG'95 W'95 WG'01

GP, Fairways Indonesia Fund I, Jakarta

 Ha Kieu WG'00

Vice President, Real Estate, Big C Vietnam, Hanoi

 Alonso Martinez, G'82, WG'82

Research & Teacher, The Wharton School and Columbia Business School, New York

 Malcolmn Pryor WG'72

Executive Chairman, Inflection Capital Partners, LLC., Johannesburg

 Irem Sozugecer, W’96

Founder and Managing Partner, Deep Capital Partners, Istanbul

Elizabethan 

Panel #3

Building Customer Analytics into Corporate Strategy
 

Moderator:

Peter Fader

Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor; Professor of Marketing; Co-Director, Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative

 

Panelists:

Gary Class

Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo

 Jeb Dasteel

Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Oracle Corporation, Redwood City

 Bill Schlough, WG'98

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, San Francisco Giants, San Francisco

 Andrew Trader W'91, WG'99

Entrepreneur in Residence, Maveron LLC, San Francisco

1:00 PM - 2:30 PMGrand BallroomLunch
 

Raffle Announcement

 

Keynote Address

Craig Venter

Founder, Chairman, and President, J. Craig Venter Institute,

3:00 PM - 4:30 PMConcurrent Panel Discussions
California 

Panel #4

Innovation, Imagination and Creativity Sponsored by the Wharton School U.S.- Japan Management Studies Center
 

Moderator:

Raffi Amit

Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management

 

Panelists:

Jack Abraham, W'08

Director, eBay Marketplaces, San Francisco

 Alla Jezmir

Board Director and Director of Capital Raising and Corporate Development, EGG-energy, Business Development, AES, Washington, DC

 Krish Krishnan, WG'96

President and Chief Executive Officer, Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals Inc., Radford

 Inder Sidhu, WG'91

Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose

Elizabethan 

Panel #5

How to Play the Global Retailing Game
 

Moderator:

Eric Bradlow, W'88 HOM'00

The K.P. Chao Professor; Professor of Marketing, Statistics, and Education; Co-Director, Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative; Vice- Dean, Wharton Doctoral Programs

 

Panelists:

Stacey Rauch, W' 80, WG' 81

Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, Inc., New York

 Mark Schwartz, W’79

Chief Executive Officer, Palladin Capital Group, INC, Boston

Grand Ballroom 

Panel # 6

New Directions for Social Media
 

Moderator:

David J. Reibstein

William Stewart Woodside Professor; Professor of Marketing

 

Panelists:

Ethan Beard, W94

Global Director of Partnerships, Facebook, Palo Alto

 Shannon Berning

Executive Editor, Wharton Digital Press, Philadelphia

 Mitch Kapor

Entrepreneur, Startup Investor, and Philanthropist, Lotus Development Corporation, San Francisco

 Travis Katz, WG'01

Founder and CEO, Gogobot.com, Menlo Park

 Bryan Srabian

Director of Social Media, San Francisco Giants, San Francisco

6:30 PM - 7:30 PMColonial Ballroom and Italian RoomWelcome Cocktails
7:30 PM - 10:30 PMGrand BallroomWelcome Dinner
 

Keynote Address

Levin Zhu

President and CEO of China International Capital Corporation Limited, Chairman of Management Committee of CICC, Beijing

Schedule Day 3 - Friday, June 24, 2011printer friendly version

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Time & LocationEvent
8:00 AM - 9:00 AMColonial RoomContinental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMGrand BallroomPlenary Session
 

State of the School Address

Thomas S. Robertson

Dean, The Wharton School; Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise; Professor of Marketing

 

Keynote Address

Jeremy J. Siegel

The Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance

10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PMConcurrent Panel Discussions
Grand Ballroom 

Panel #7

Creative Solutions to Investing Challenges
 

Moderator:

David Pottruck C'70, WG'72

Co- Chairman, HighTower Advisors, San Francisco

 

Panelists:

Robert Doll, WG'80

Chief Equity Strategist for Fundamental Equities, BlackRock, New York

 Robert M. Levy, CFA, WG'74

Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Harris Associates L.P, Chicago

 Durreen Shahnaz, WG’95

Founder and Chairman, Impact Investment Exchange Asia, Singapore

 Phillip Y. Wu, WG’95

Founder & Chairman, Applied Strategy Group, Shanghai

Elizabethan 

Panel #8

Half the Sky
 

Moderator:

Olivia S. Mitchell

Professor and Chair, Department of Insurance/Risk Management; Executive Director of the Pension Research Council

 

Panelists:

Janet F. Clark WG'82

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Marathon Oil Corporation, Houston

 Connie K. Duckworth WG'79

Founder and CEO, ARZU, Inc., Lake Forest

 Anne Hardy

VP Technology and Strategy, SAP, Palo Alto

 Rosanna Ramos Velita G'92, WG'92

Presidente del Directorio / Chairman of the Board, Caja Rural Los Andes, Puno, Perú

California  

Panel #9

Can Venture Capital Really Influence Environmental Sustainability?
 

Moderator:

Eric Orts

Guardsmark Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics and Management, Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership

 

Panelists:

Andrew Chung, WG'06

Principal, Lightspeed, Menlo Park

 Jon Krahulik

Global Head of Clean Technology Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Palo Alto

 Robert MacDonald

Managing Partner, Craton Equity Partners

 Cynthia Ringo

Managing Partner, DBL Investors

 Ashmeet Sidana, WG03

Partner, Foundation Capital, Menlo Park

1:00 PM - 2:30 PMLunch
Grand Ballroom 

Keynote Address

Carlos Pires Oliveira Dias

Chairman of the Board, Drogasil, Board Member, Camargo Correa Group, São Paulo

3:00 PM - 4:30 PMMaster Classes Taught by Wharton Faculty
Elizabethan C 

Master Class #1

STRATEGY FROM THE OUTSIDE IN: PROFITING from CUSTOMER VALUEGeorge Day

Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor, Professor of Marketing and co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation

Elizabethan A 

Master Class #2

Corporate Diplomacy: From First Contact to RelationshipWitold Henisz

Deloitte & Touche Associate Professor of Management in Honor of Russell E. Palmer, former Managing Partner

Wharton San Francisco Campus
Shuttles will leave from Post St. Entrance
 

Master Class #3

De -Risking the Important Marketing Decisions for EntrepreneursLeonard Lodish

Samuel R. Harrell Professor; Professor of Marketing;Vice Dean, Program for Social Impact; Leader and Co-founder, Global Consulting Practicum

California West 

Master Class #4

Universal Health Care: Chasing the Dream ... in the U.S. and around the WorldArnold J. Rosoff

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; Professor of Health Care Management; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Olympic 

Master Class #5

Growth interactive Marketing and business strategies in the age of the empowered consumersJerry Wind

Lauder Professor, Director, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, Academic Director, The Wharton Fellows Program

Elizabethan B 

Master Class #6

The Changing Landscape in Emerging Market PE: The Case of Mainland ChinaRaffi Amit

Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Management

6:30 PM - 7:00 PMDeparture for Dinner
7:00 PM - 11:00 PMFarewell Celebration at San Francisco City Hall
 

Raffle Drawing

 

Announcement of the date and location of the next Wharton Global Alumni Forums

 Thomas S. Robertson

Dean, The Wharton School; Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise; Professor of Marketing

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