Director-Executive Summit 2024: November 14–15

Program

November 14, 2024

Time Session Information
5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

COCKTAILS AND DINNER

Tejas Room, AT&T Center

KEYNOTE: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Susan Blount (Welcome), Chair, University of Texas Law School Foundation; Independent Outside Director of Cavco Industries (NASDAQ: CVCO) and CS Disco (NYSE: LAW)
Sy Lorne (Introduction), Senior Advisor, Former Chief Legal Officer, Millennium Management LLC; Former General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Jay Clayton, Former Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Independent Chair, Apollo Global Management

November 15, 2024

Time Session Information
7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

BREAKFAST

McCombs Rowling Hall Special Events Room (5.210)

KEYNOTE: DELAWARE COURTS
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Susan Morse (Welcome), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law
Eliot Cotton (Introduction), Director, University of Texas School of Law and Business Program

Lande Spottswood (Moderator), Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware
Chief Justice Myron Steele, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware; Senior counsel, Potter Anderson & Corroon’s Corporate Litigation Group

9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (1)

McCombs Rowling Hall

Texas Business Courts
RRH 5.408

Sandra L. Phillips (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary, Toyota Motor North America
Byron Egan, Partner, Jackson Walker LLP
Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht, 27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas

ESG – Walking the Purple Line
RRH 5.420

Sarah Fortt (Moderator), Partner, Global Co-Chair of ESG practice, Latham & Watkins
Bill Boor, President and CEO, Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVCO)
Jeffrey Hales, Bake Chair in Global Sustainability Leadership, Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, Executive Director of the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute, McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
Niloufar Molavi, Global Oil & Gas Leader, US ESG Tax Leader, PwC

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (2)

McCombs Rowling Hall

Cybersecurity Governance: Being Smart and Getting it Right
RRH 5.408

Erez Liebermann (Moderator), Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, Data Strategy & Security Group
Nick Beizer, General Counsel and Privacy Officer, GoDaddy
Scott Hill, Chair of the board, CS Disco (NYSE: LAW); Chair of the Audit Committee, Cardlytics (NDAQ: CDLX)
Kristen McCooey, Chief Information Security Officer, Edward Jones

SEC Update
RRH 5.420

Karen Seymour (Moderator), Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Commissioner Hester Peirce, Member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
James Spindler, Mark L. Hart, Jr. Endowed Chair in Corporate and Securities Law, Professor, University of Texas School of Law and McCombs School of Business
Seth T. Taube, Senior Counsel, Baker Botts LLP

11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH

McCombs Rowling Hall Special Events Room (5.210)

KEYNOTE: THE VIEW FROM DC

Ethan Burris (Welcome), King Ranch Chair Professorship of Management, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Center for Leadership and Ethics, McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin

Lillian F. Mills (Moderator), Dean of McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
Ambassador Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative in Obama Administration; Mayor of Dallas from 1995 to 2001; Senior Counsel, Gibson Dunn

DOMESTIC ECONOMY CHAT

Lillian F. Mills (Moderator), Dean of McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
Pia Orrenius, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Clemens Sialm, Department Chair of Finance, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business

1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (3)

McCombs Rowling Hall

Institutional Investor Engagement on Corporate Governance 
RRH 5.408

Holly J. Gregory (Moderator), Partner and Co-lead, Sidley Austin LLP, Global Corporate Governance Practice
Margaret (Peggy) M. Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc.
Henry T. C. Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance, University of Texas School of Law
Matthew Vahidi, Managing Director, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

Navigating Crisis and Issues Management in a Chaotic 'Digital' World
RRH 5.420

Jeff Hunt (Moderator), Founding Partner, Legend Labs
William Cunningham, James L. Bayless Chair for Free Enterprise, McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
John Montford, President and CEO, JTM Consulting, LLC; Former Member, Texas Senate
Yvonne Puig, Chief Integration Partner for Life Sciences and Healthcare, Norton Rose Fulbright

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

CLOSING

McCombs Rowling Hall Special Events Room (5.210)

KEYNOTE: A NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION

Bobby Chesney (Moderator), Dean of University of Texas School of Law
Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000–2007, Deputy Chief of Staff from 2004–2007