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Colm Kelleher Children and Youth Advocates for Children of Ne w Yo r k PROTECTING EVERY CHILD’S RIGHT TO LEARN PROTEGIENDO EL DERECHO DE CADA NIÑO A APRENDER ﺔﯾﺎﻣﺣ ﻲﻓ لﻔط لﻛ قﺣ مﻠﻌﺗﻟا 모든 어린이의 학 ПРАВО КАЖДОГО 습 권리 보호 РЕБЕНКА НА ПОЛУЧЕНИЕ ОБЩЕГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ PWOTEJE DWA CHAK TIMOUN YO 保护每个孩子 APRANN 的学习权 েত ক স ােনর অিধকার রা িশখেত PROTÉGER LE DROIT DE CHAQUE ENFANT À APPRENDRE SPRING BENEFIT MAY 24, 2017 Advocates for Children of Ne w Yo r k SPRING BENEFIT WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017 6:00 pm Cocktail Reception 7:15 pm Presentations Welcome Cynthia McFadden hank you to the staff Senior Legal and Investigative Correspondent, NBC News of Advocates for Remarks Children of New York, Kim Sweet T Executive Director, Advocates for Children of New York for your unwavering dedication to securing a quality public Awards Presentation THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD education for New York City’s Colm Kelleher children and youth. President, Morgan Stanley PRESENTED BY Eugene A. Ludwig —AFC’s Board of Directors Founder and CEO, Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company THE EDUCATION CHAMPION AWARD Julian L. Centeno High School Student and AFC Client PRESENTED BY Cynthia McFadden Closing Remarks Eric F. Grossman Board President, Advocates for Children of New York Abja Midha Director, AFC’s Immigrant Students’ Rights Project THANK YOU FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT SPRING BENEFIT LEADERSHIP hank you so much for joining us for Advocates CO-CHAIRS for Children of New York’s 2017 Spring Benefit. Welcome! James J. Benjamin, Jr. David Meister T Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher There has been a lot of discussion recently about the & Feld LLP & Flom LLP qualities of a good leader. Expertise, empathy, passion, resolve, and vision are some key elements that most of us Matt Berke Susan L. Merrill want in those we trust to lead us. Since 1971, AFC has Morgan Stanley Sidley Austin LLP embodied all of these qualities, a leader in the fight to ensure William D. Briendel Jonathan D. Polkes that all children in NYC have access to a quality education Eric F. Grossman Greenberg Traurig, LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP that meets their learning needs, regardless of their disability, President, Board of Directors, poverty, race, or other factors beyond their control. Advocates for Children Bradley J. Butwin Thomas J. Reid As we gather to celebrate our many successes of 2017, of New York O’Melveny & Myers LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP the fight to protect every student’s right to learn is as fierce as ever. The students AFC serves are at increased Eric F. Grossman Dan Ryan risk of being marginalized and forgotten. Thanks to the Morgan Stanley PwC generosity and faith of our donors and funders, however, Kimberley D. Harris Daniel F. Schubert AFC will be strong and ready to fight with and for the NBCUniversal Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale thousands of students and families who will turn to us and Dorr LLP in the coming year for the expert assistance and guidance Brad S. Karp they need to secure the quality education they deserve. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Daniel Slifkin Thank you to our generous Sponsors, who have donated & Garrison LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP an astounding $2 million to support our work in the com- Eugene A. Ludwig Jonathan K. Youngwood ing year! Gratitude also goes to my Co-Chairs for working Promontory Financial Group, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP so hard towards this evening’s success. Congratulations to an IBM Company our award recipients, Colm Kelleher and Julian Centeno; we are thrilled to honor you both this evening. Kevin H. Marino Special recognition and enormous thanks to AFC’s Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. amazing staff who never stop fighting for NYC’s underserved students. Kudos as well to our Executive Director, Kim Sweet, who continues to lead AFC so brilliantly. Finally, I am so appreciative of each of AFC’s pro bono partners, our Flagship firms, and my colleagues on the Board and Junior Board of AFC for their dedication and service. Thank you, everyone, for supporting our work. Enjoy! 2 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 3 THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS VALEDICTORIAN JUNIOR Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP King & Spalding LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Clifford Chance US LLP KPMG LLP Morgan Stanley DLA Piper LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Shearman & Sterling LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP HONOR ROLL Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP SOPHOMORE The Ludwig Family Foundation PwC Anji & Mohit Assomull NBCUniversal Sidley Austin LLP Anna & Dean Backer Shelley O’Connor Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP William D. Briendel Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Conduent Franck Petitgas Cornerstone Research Betsey & Ted Pick GRADUATE Covington & Burling LLP Staci Pollack & Matt Berke Dechert LLP QuisLex, Inc. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Jackie Donnelly & David Russell Reed Smith LLP Ella & Colm Kelleher DTI | Epiq Corinne & Rob Rooney Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. Mark Eichorn Samantha & Andy Saperstein O’Melveny & Myers LLP Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Scopia Capital Management LP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Lauren & Eric Grossman Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Jenner & Block LLP Thomson Reuters Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Jones Day Venable LLP Cecilia & Sam Kellie-Smith White & Case LLP Lakshmi & Gokul Laroia Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP SENIOR Leader & Berkon LLP Thomas Wipf & Family Allen & Overy LLP Lodge Hill Capital, LLC Clare Woodman & Colin Potter Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Christy & John Mack Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Integreon Latham & Watkins LLP FRESHMAN Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Axiom The Mintz Group Linklaters LLP Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Susan E. Brune & Chip Loewenson Virginia Moseley & Thomas Nides Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Lisa & Jon Pruzan Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company Elevate Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Skyer & Associates, LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as of May 12, 2017 4 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 5 PRESENTER THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD ene Ludwig is a business leader and expert on olm Kelleher is President of Morgan Stanley, banking regulation, risk management, and fiscal overseeing both the Institutional Securities Gpolicy who founded Promontory Financial Cbusiness and Wealth Management. Prior to his Group in 2001. current role, he served as President of Morgan Stanley As a former federal regulator and banker, Mr. Ludwig is Institutional Securities and Chief Executive Officer of thoroughly attuned to the issues involved in revamping the Morgan Stanley International. Between October 2007 regulatory framework to withstand future shocks. Under and December 2009, Mr. Kelleher was Chief Financial his leadership, Promontory has become synonymous with Officer and Co-Head of Corporate Strategy, helping the excellence in compliance and risk management, and is Eugene A. Ludwig firm’s capital and liquidity during a period of great market Colm Kelleher renowned for its ability to help financial companies resolve Founder and CEO, dislocation. During his more than 25 years with Morgan President, Morgan Stanley Promontory Financial their most pressing challenges. Promontory was acquired by Group, an IBM Company Stanley, Mr. Kelleher has worked in the United States, IBM in 2016, combining Promontory’s domain expertise Europe and Asia Pacific and has extensive capital markets with IBM’s advanced technology. and securities markets experience. Before founding Promontory, Mr. Ludwig was vice Mr. Kelleher serves on the Chairman’s Council of chairman and senior control officer of Bankers Trust New Student Sponsor Partners, which has provided scholarships York Corp. He was instrumental in steering the firm and mentoring to hundreds of low-income New York City through its landmark merger with Deutsche Bank. students striving to secure a quality As U.S. comptroller of the currency from 1993 to 1998, education. Additionally, Mr. Kelleher “THERE MIGHT NOT BE ANY Gene served as the Clinton administration’s point person led Morgan Stanley’s partnership with GREATER ADVANTAGE IN LIFE on the policy response to the credit crunch of the early The Great Ormond Street Hospital WE CAN GIVE A CHILD THAN A 1990s. Under his purview, lending to low and moderate for Children in London, to build The QUALITY EDUCATION. I AM SO HONORED TO BE RECOGNIZED income Americans increased tenfold, as did national bank Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, a BY AFC AND TO SUPPORT THEIR investments in community development corporations. state-of-the-art medical facility (2012), FIGHT TO ENSURE THAT EVERY Before becoming comptroller, Mr. Ludwig was a partner and The Morgan Stanley House, to CHILD HAS ACCESS TO THAT in the law firm of Covington & Burling, specializing in provide accommodations for the parents QUALITY EDUCATION AND THE PROMISE OF A BRIGHT FUTURE.” banking law. of hospitalized children (2015). Mr. Ludwig was raised in York, Pennsylvania. He Colm Kelleher graduated with an graduated magna cum laude from Haverford College and M.A. degree in History from Oxford University where he is received a scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College. He is also a Fellow of a Master of Arts degree as a Keasbey Fellow. He holds a Juris the Institute of Chartered Accountants, serves on the Board Doctor from Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale of Americans for Oxford, and is a member of Oxford Vice- Law Journal and chairman of Yale Legislative Services. Chancellor’s Circle, TheCity UK Advisory Council and the Mr. Ludwig was the 2014 recipient of Advocates for British Museum Advisory Board.
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