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New York University 10 –15 September 2006 NEW YORK: CEO takes you inside.
Table of Contents Schedule ...... 5 Faculty ...... 19 Off-Sites ...... 57 Socials ...... 89 International Advisory Board ...... 95 University Committee ...... 96 First Timers ...... 109 Attendees ...... 145 Index By Area ...... 189 Index by Company ...... 207 Index by YPO Chapter ...... 233 Notes ...... 242
New York University 10 –15 September 2006 Schedule as of 22 August 2006
Please refer to your daily newsletter for the most current schedule. Except where noted, all departures leave promptly from the hotel’s 51st
Street entrance. Buses load 15 minutes prior to departure time. S CH E DUL Those events that are within walking distance will also have transportation for those with special needs.
FRIDAY, 8 September
9:00am-5:00pm Pre-University Activities 9:00am-5:00pm Golf 10:00am-12:30pm Personal Shopping Experience 10:00am-12noon New York Botanical Gardens - Chihuly Exhibit 1:00-3:30pm Personal Shopping Experience
SATURDAY, 9 September
10:00am-3:30pm Pre-University Activities 10:00am-12:30pm Personal Shopping Experience 10:00am-3:00pm Art Day at Chelsea and Williamsburg 1:00-3:30pm Personal Shopping Experience
1:00-4:00pm CEO Registration & Information Desk Reid Salon Foyer
SUNDAY, 10 September MONDAY, 11 September
All Day Arrivals 6:00-8:00am Off-Site S CH E DUL 6:00-8:00am Adam’s Apple Corps - 9:15am-4:00pm Pre-University Activities Morning Workouts in 9:00am-1:30pm Harlem Spiritual Central Park S CH E DUL Tour 2:00-4:00pm 9.11 Tour 6:30-8:30am breakfast Holmes I and II 12noon-4:00pm Hospitality Reception Reid Salon Foyer CEO Registration & Information Desk 7:15-8:30am First Timers Breakfast L’Orangerie Villard Mansion
4:00-5:00pm CEO Annual Membership Meeting 7:30-8:30am Breakfast Roundtables Villard Ballroom open to all members Holmes I and II Investing in Private Equity (at designated tables) Paul Sprague 5:30pm Depart for Social Condition of the High-End Real Estate 6:00-9:30pm opening Social Market: Discussion and Update Frederick P. Rose Hall, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg Jim Herbert Home of Jazz at Welcome Address Lincoln Center Musical Entertainment 8:00am-5:00pm CEO Information Desk (optional horse carriage ride to hotel) Reid Salon Foyer
9:30pm-12midnight Late Night Lounge 8:15am ballroom Open for Seating Executive Lounge, Entertainment 39th Floor 8:45-10:00am Keynote Address Villard Ballroom Ambassador John Bolton 8:46am - Moment of Silence
10:00-10:15am Coffee Break Reid and Spellman Foyers
10:15-11:15am Breakout Sessions 12:30-2:30pm Lunch Reid Salon High-Impact Entrepreneurship in a Holmes I and II
Flat World S CH E DUL Brook Byers and Tom Byers 12:45-5:30pm Off-Sites (* - includes lunch) 12:45-5:15pm Greenwich Village & The Villard Ballroom Violence and Religion White Horse Tavern* Panel: Sister Mary Boys, Imam Faisel Rauf, 1:15-3:45pm The House that Ruth Built - S CH E DUL and Rabbi David Rosen; Yves Paternot, Yankee Stadium Moderator 1:30-5:00pm The Cloisters - A Renaissance Fantasy Spellman Room Aging Well is the Best Revenge 1:45-5:30pm Swinging in the City - Dr. Louis Aledort, Dr. Patricia Bloom and Trapeze in the City Dr. David Mendelson 1:45-5:30pm Real Stars (and real reptiles)! The American 11:15-11:30am Coffee Break Museum of Natural Reid and Spellman Foyers History Reid Salon 2:00-5:00pm I’ll Take Manhattan 11:30am-12:30pm Breakout Sessions 2:00-5:00pm Home Art Visits Reid Salon Leading Through Challenging Times 2:00-5:30pm The Bling Thing - Andrea Jung Wholesale! 2:30-5:00pm Walk Central Park with the Villard Ballroom International Terrorism and the Security Central Park Conservancy Response 4:15-7:30pm TV As It Happens: The Pasquale D’Amuro Daily Show with Jon Stewart 5:30-8:30pm TV As It Happens: The Spellman Room High-Impact Philanthropy Colbert Report Panel: Connie Duckworth, Eugene Grin, Nancy Lublin and Jonathan Rose 6:00pm Depart for Cocktails (on foot; 5-minute walk) 12:30-2:00pm Power Lunches Wanamaker Room Making a Difference with Social 6:00-7:30pm Cocktail Reception Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy Versace (647 5th Avenue) Jonathan Rose 7:30pm Depart for Social Campbell Room The Science, Medicine and Politics of (depart from Versace) Stem Cells David Shaw and Gerry Fishbach 8:00pm-11:30pm A New York Party: 10:15-11:15am Breakout Sessions Angel Orensanz Behind the Velvet Rope Villard Ballroom Investment Management
Foundation Dancing, Entertainment David Swensen S CH E DUL
Spellman Room The Real Demographics of New York TUESDAY, 12 September City — Now Doug Schoen S CH E DUL 6:00-10:30am Off-Sites 6:00-8:00am Adam’s Apple Corps - Reid Salon Celebrity Obsession: The Inside Scoop Morning Workouts in Bonnie Fuller Central Park 7:15-9:00am Shoot The City with 11:15-11:30am Coffee Break Helen Nitkin Reid and Spellman Foyers 8:00-10:30am Breakfast at Bergdorf’s 11:30am-12:30pm Breakout Sessions 6:45-8:45am breakfast Spellman Room Challenges of Management Holmes I and II Jamie Dimon
7:45-8:45am Breakfast Roundtables Villard Ballroom Thoughts on New York City and the Holmes I and II Selling Your Business State of the World (at designated tables) Barnett Helzberg Reverend Dr. Calvin Butts
When Less is Better Than More and Reid Salon The Empire State Building at 75 Sooner is Better Than Later: A Personal John Tauranac Philosophy of Giving and Investing Joel Smilow 12:30-2:00pm Power Lunches Wanamaker Room How Politics in New York Really Work 8:00am-5:00pm CEO Information Desk — An Inside View Reid Salon Foyer Doug Schoen 9:00-10:00am Keynote Address Donald Trump Newsweek’s Offices Newsweek Uncovered 251 West 57th Street Rick Smith, CEO & Chairman, Newsweek 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break (depart from lobby; transportation Reid and Spellman Foyers provided)
10 11 12:30-2:30pm Lunch 10:00pm-12midnight Late Night Lounge Holmes I and II Executive Lounge, Entertainment
39th Floor S CH E DUL 1:15-6:30pm Off-Sites (*- includes tea) 1:15-4:45pm Gracie Mansion with Political Consultant Douglas Schoen* WEDNESDAY, 13 September S CH E DUL 1:30-5:00pm Home Art Visits 1:15-5:45pm Hudson River Park by 6:00-9:00am Off-Sites Bike 6:00-8:00am Adam’s Apple Corps - 1:45-4:15pm Go for the Gold: A Visit to Morning Workouts in the Federal Reserve Bank Central Park 1:45-5:15pm Harlem on Foot 7:15-9:00am Shoot The City with 2:00-5:00pm Inside Art - Visit with the Helen Nitkin Guggenheim Museum Director 6:45-8:45am breakfast 2:00-5:30pm The Bling Thing - Holmes I and II Wholesale! 2:30-4:00pm Flight of Fancy - New York 7:45-8:45am Breakfast Roundtables by Helicopter Holmes I and II Avian Flu and Pandemic Preparedness 4:15-7:30pm TV As It Happens - (at designated tables) Brook Byers The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Stock Market Rules of the Game 5:30-8:30pm TV As It Happens - Ed Hajim The Colbert Report History of the Plaza Hotel 5:55pm Depart for Cocktails Jennifer Strang (on foot; 5-minute walk) 8:00am-5:00pm CEO Information Desk 6:00-7:30pm Rooftop Garden Cocktail Party Reid Salon Foyer Tishman Speyer Corporate Welcome Address Offices, Rockefeller Center Jerry Speyer 9:00-10:00am Keynote Address 45 Rockefeller Plaza Villard Ballroom Eliot Spitzer
7:30pm Free Night 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break Evening on own to explore New York Reid and Spellman Foyers
12 13 10:15-11:15am Breakout Sessions 12:30-2:00pm Power Lunches Reid Salon Resilience 101™: How to Remain Wanamaker Room How to Eliminate Stress in Your Life
Balanced Under Any Circumstances Andrew Bernstein S CH E DUL Andrew Bernstein American Jewish A Global Jewish Perspective Villard Ballroom Before the Storm Committee Offices David Harris, Executive Director Peter Goldmark 165 East 56th Street (depart from lobby; 10-minute walk) S CH E DUL 7th Floor Spellman Room Genocide: A Personal Account Yvette Rugasaguhunga 12:30-2:30pm Lunch Holmes I and II 11:15-11:30am Coffee Break Reid and Spellman Foyers 12:45-5:30pm Off-Sites (* - includes lunch) 12:45-4:30pm “Inside the Boardroom” 11:30am-12:30pm Breakout Sessions at Steinway Piano* Reid Salon Attain, Sustain and Regain Market (A CEO Exclusive) Leadership 1:45-5:15pm SoHo Shopping 101: Benson Shapiro Ready, Set, Shop! 1:45-5:30pm Riker’s Island Prison Tour Villard Ballroom From the Front Lines: Lessons for with Warden Peter Curcio Creating Teamwork Under Fire 2:00-5:00pm A Visit with Robert A.M. Ann Curry Stern at His Studio 2:00-5:00pm Home Art Visits Spellman Room Full-Blown Glamour at Home 3:00-5:00pm Horseback Riding in Central Jamie Drake Park with Claremont Stables
11:30am-5:45pm Off-Site 6:45-8:00pm Depart for Dine Around — At Home (* - includes lunch) 11:00am-5:45pm Smash Broadway Musical Dinners (staggered departures; see your Hit “Wicked” * invitation for specific time.)
8:00-10:30pm Dine Arounds — At Home Dinners
10:00pm-12midnight Late Night Lounge Executive Lounge, Entertainment 39th Floor
14 15 THURSDAY, 14 September 10:15-11:15am Breakout Sessions Reid Salon Fatal Attraction: The Journey into
6:00-8:00am Off-Site Obsession S CH E DUL Glenn Close and Stanley Jaffe 6:00-8:00am Adam’s Apple Corps -
Morning Workouts in Villard Ballroom Central Park Ripped from the Headlines Mort Zuckerman S CH E DUL
6:45-8:45am breakfast Spellman Room Holmes I and II The Repositioning of a Brand Michael Gould
7:45-8:45am Breakfast Roundtables 11:15-11:30am Coffee Break Holmes I and II Reinventing Life: Finding Meaning in Reid and Spellman Foyers (at designated tables) the Second Act Walter Green 11:30am-12:30pm Keynote Address Villard Ballroom Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New The State of the Economy and Financial York City Markets
Jason Trennert 12:30-2:30pm Lunch Holmes I and II 8:00am-5:00pm CEO Information Desk Reid Salon Foyer 12:45-5:30pm Off-Sites (* - includes lunch) 12:45-3:45pm Wine Tasting Lunch with 9:00-10:00am Keynote address James Endicott* Villard Ballroom The Future of Media — A 10-Year 12:45-5:30pm Immigrant Dreams and Perspective Urban Reality - The Richard Parsons Lower East Side*
1:15-4:30pm Inside CNN (Group A) 10:00-10:15am Coffee Break 1:45-5:30pm Shopping in the Meat Reid and Spellman Foyers Packing District 2:00-4:00pm A Self-Portrait of the Artist: Jeffrey Koons at His Studio 2:00-5:00pm Home Art Visits 2:15-5:30pm Inside CNN (Group B) 2:30-5:30pm Paddling to Liberty
16 17 6:30pm Depart for Social Louis M. Aledort, MD (on foot; 10-minute walk) The Mary Weinfeld Professor of Clinical Research 6:30-11:00pm Closing Social Mount Sinai School of Medicine museum of Modern Art One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1006 Garden Museum Cocktail Party New York, NY 10029-6574 USA
Sculpture Garden and Galleries FACUL T Y S CH E DUL T : 212.241.7971 open for viewing [email protected] Dinner, Entertainment and Dancing
Dr. Louis Aledort is the Mary Weinfeld Professor of Clinical FRIDAY, 15 September Research in Hemophilia for the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has been a member of the school’s faculty since his licensure 8:00-10:00am breakfast as a physician in 1966. Holmes I and II Dr. Aledort is a specialist in hemophilia and has contributed to All Day Departures patient well-being through his research, advocacy and clinical care. In 1968, Dr. Aledort established Mount Sinai’s Hemophilia Clinic, which was soon recognized as an international hemophilia training center. He has trained multidisciplinary teams for hemophilia centers throughout the world.
He serves as vice chairman of the Department of Medicine and dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has been active in organizations that include the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis and the World Federation of Hemophilia.
Topic: Aging Well is the Best Revenge (Panel Discussion)
18 19 Andrew Bernstein Patricia Bloom, MD Resilience 101, Inc. Associate Clinical Professor of Geriatrics and Rockefeller Plaza Internal Medicine 1230 Avenue of the Americas, 7th floor Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY 10020 USA One Gustave L. Levy Place T : 888.846.7444 New York, NY 10029 USA
www.resilience101.com T : 212.241.1782 FACUL T Y [email protected] [email protected]
Andrew Bernstein is the founder of Resilience 101, a provocative FACUL T Y training program that teaches people a completely new way to Patricia A. Bloom, MD is an associate clinical professor of geriatrics understand and eliminate stress. After facing a series of unexpected and internal medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New life challenges at a young age, Bernstein spent his 20s and early 30s York. She is the immediate past vice chair for clinical affairs of the studying self-help on his own. A New Yorker trained in critical Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, and thinking at Johns Hopkins, he felt that traditional approaches to recently completed a year-long sabbatical, studying complementary self-help were either too “New Agey” or too clinical. He also therapies and healthy aging. She has been involved in geriatric discovered that our traditional understanding of stress was based on patient care, education and research for over 25 years. a fundamental misconception. Integrating his experiences with many different tools such as cognitive therapy and a technique called The She graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Work of Byron Katie, Bernstein created a new process that quickly 1975, then moved to the Bronx, New York, where she trained in helped even skeptical participants have profound breakthroughs. He internal medicine/social medicine with her husband, Dr. Harrison was featured in Oprah’s O magazine, then turned his sights on the Bloom, at Montefiore Medical Center. She joined the faculty of the corporate world. Department of Medicine at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978. In 1984, she was instrumental in helping to Bernstein has now taught the dynamics of real resilience at Merrill establish a new Division of Geriatric Medicine at Montefiore and Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Viacom, Genentech and other leading Albert Einstein, and developed the curriculum in geriatric medicine companies committed to employee well being and productivity. for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 1989, she joined He also shares his program pro bono at non-profits like Phoenix Dr. Harrison Bloom, the chief of Geriatric Medicine, at St. Luke’s/ House, the Hole in the Wall Gang camp and City Year. Bernstein Roosevelt, as director of education for the division. She became speaks not as a therapist or guru, but as someone who experienced chief of the division in 1996. She was associate chair of Medicine challenges in life and has created an intelligent and effective way to at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt from 1996 to 2000. In 2002, she joined the truly resolve them. He lives in New York City and is currently at faculty at Mt. Sinai as vice chair in the Department of Geriatrics. work on a book about the real nature of stress and resilience. Topic: Aging Well is the Best Revenge (Panel Discussion) Topic: Resilience 101™: How to Remain Balanced Under Any Circumstances
20 21 The Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg Ambassador John R. Bolton Mayor of New York US Permanent Representative to the UN City Hall US Mission to the United Nations New York, NY 10007 USA 140 East 45th Street T : 212.639.9675 New York, NY 10017 USA www.nyc.gov/mayor T : 212.415.4404 [email protected] FACUL T Y
John R. Bolton was appointed by US President George W. Bush as Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of New York City. Mayor United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations in FACUL T Y Bloomberg’s thirst for information and fascination with technology August 2005. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador Bolton served was evident at an early age, and led him to Johns Hopkins University, as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International where he parked cars and took out loans to finance his education. Security from May 2001 to May 2005. After his college graduation, he gained an MBA from Harvard and worked on Wall Street for Salomon Brothers. Prior to this, Ambassador Bolton was senior vice president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is a nonprofit public policy He quickly advanced through the ranks and became a partner center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of in 1972. He was fired in 1981 after another company acquired freedom through research education and open debate. Salomon. Mr. Bloomberg used his stake from the Salomon sale to start his own company, an endeavor that would revolutionize Ambassador Bolton has spent many years of his career in public the way that Wall Street does business. He created a financial service. Previous positions he has held are Assistant Secretary for information computer that would collect and analyze different International Organization Affairs at the Dept. of State, 1989-1993; combinations of past and present securities data and deliver it Assistant Attorney General, Dept. of Justice, 1985-1989; Assistant immediately to the user. Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1982-1983; General Counsel, US Agency In 1982, Bloomberg L.P. sold 20 subscriptions to its service; 20 years for International Development, 1981-1982. later, Bloomberg LP has over 165,000 subscribers worldwide. As the business proved its viability, the company branched out and in Ambassador Bolton is also an attorney. From 1974-1981, he was 1990 entered the media business, launching a news service, and an associate at the Washington office of Covington & Burling, where then radio, television, Internet and publishing operations. he returned as a member of the firm from 1983-1985, after public service at the US Agency for International Development. From 1993 As the company enjoyed tremendous growth, he dedicated more through 1999, he was a partner in the law firm of Lerner, Reed, of his time and energy to philanthropy and civic affairs. His desire to Bolton & McManus. He graduated with a BA, summa cum laude, improve education, advance medical research and increase access to from Yale University and received his JD from Yale Law School. the arts, has provided the motivation for much of his philanthropy. Topic: Keynote Address Topic: Welcome Address 22 23 Sister Mary C. Boys Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Professor of Practical Theology President Columbia University SUNY College at Old Westbury Union Theological Seminary PO Box 210 3041 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 USA Old Westbury, NY 11568-0210 USA T : 212.280.1367 T : 516.876.3160 [email protected] [email protected] FACUL T Y
Sister Mary Boys has been the skinner and McAlpin professor of
FACUL T Y Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, is president of SUNY College at Old Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City Westbury and pastor of the nationally renowned Abyssinian since 1994. Ms. Boys also serves as an adjunct faculty member of Baptist Church in the City of New York. As president of The the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Teachers College, College at Old Westbury, Dr. Butts works continuously to create Columbia University. Prior to her present appointment, she served an invigorating atmosphere dedicated to academic excellence and for 17 years on the faculty of Boston College. the development of leadership qualities in students. Through its broad multidisciplinary liberal arts programs, the College confers Ms. Boys received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia degrees in more than 40 majors leading to bachelor of arts, University in a joint program with Union Theological Seminary, and bachelor of science and bachelor of professional studies degrees. has done advanced study at the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem, Israel. She is also the recipient of honorary Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York is among the doctoral degrees from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of most historic Baptist churches in the USA. Under his leadership, Religion (2004) and the Catholic Theological Union (2006). Ms. Abyssinian Baptist Church is committed to playing an active role in Boys has been a Lilly Research Fellow and was a Henry Luce III the ongoing development of its New York City home. Fellow in Theology for 2005. In 2005 the International Council of Christians and Jews granted her the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Award. A native of New York City, Dr. Butts earned his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Boys is the author of four books: Biblical Interpretation in Religious He returned to New York and earned a master of divinity in Education (1980); Educating in Faith: Maps and Visions (1989); Jewish- church history from the Union Theological Seminary, and a doctor Christian Dialogue: One Woman’s Experience (1997); and Has God of ministry in church and public policy from Drew University. He Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding has taught urban affairs and served as an adjunct professor in the (2000). A fifth book, co-authored with Sara S. Lee, is forthcoming: African Studies Department at City College, New York. He has Christians and Jews in Dialogue: In the Presence of the Other. She has also taught black church history at Fordham University. been a member since 1965 of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic women. Topic: Thoughts on New York City and the State of the World
Topic: Violence and Religion (Panel Discussion)
24 25 Brook Byers Tom Byers Partner Deputy Chair, Dept. of Management Science Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Engineering, Stanford University 2750 Sand Hill Road 761 Forest Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA T : 650.233.3322 T : 650.725.8271 [email protected] [email protected] FACUL T Y
Brook Byers has been a venture capital investor since 1972 and Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University where he focuses on high-tech entrepreneurship education. He is founder and a
FACUL T Y has been closely involved with more than 40 new technology based ventures. He formed the first Life Sciences practice group faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the venture capital profession in 1984 and led Kleiner Perkins (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the Caufield & Byers (KPCB) to become a premier venture capital engineering school. Mr. Byers is also a faculty director of the firm in the medical, healthcare and biotechnology sectors. KPCB AEA/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program has invested in and helped build over 90 life sciences companies. for technology executives. He is co-author of the textbook, Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (McGraw-Hill, 2005). Mr. Byers was the founding president and chairman of four He holds a visiting professor appointment at the London Business biotechnology companies, all incubated in KPCB’s offices and School and University College London. Mr. Byers currently serves went on to become public companies with an aggregate market as a director on the boards of Reactivity and Flywheel Ventures. value over US$8 billion. He serves on the board of directors of In addition, he serves on advisory committees of the American CardioDX, Genomic Health Inc., Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Society for Engineering Education’s Entrepreneurship Division, Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. He was formerly a director of Idec Harvard Business School’s California Research Center and the Pharmaceuticals, Athena Neurosciences, Signal Pharmaceuticals, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) for Arris Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacopeia, Ligand Pharmaceuticals, inner-city youth. He has a range of business experience including Hybritech, Genprobe and Nanogen. Mr. Byers was president and executive vice president of Symantec Corporation and founder/ a director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and president of Slate Corporation. Mr. Byers started his professional is a contributing author to the book Guide to Venture Capital. He career at Accenture. is currently a board member of the University of California at San Francisco Medical Foundation, the California Healthcare Institute, For his efforts at Stanford, Mr. Byers holds an endowed chair the New Schools Foundation, Stanford’s Bio-X Advisory Council, known as the McCoy University Fellow in Undergraduate the Stanford Eye Council and TechNet. He is co-chair of the Education. He was given the 2005 Gores Award and the 2002 current five year, US$1.4 billion, UCSF Capital Campaign. Mr. Tau Beta Pi Awar for excellence in teaching. Mr. Byers holds a BS Byers graduated in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech and in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also received an MBA from Stanford. earned a PhD in Business Administration at UC Berkeley.
Topic: High-Impact Entrepreneurship in a Flat World Topic: High-Impact Entrepreneurship in a Flat World
26 27 Glenn Close Ann Curry Trillium Productions, Inc. Anchor, NBC News “Today”; Co-Anchor PO Box 1560 “Dateline NBC” New Canaan, Connecticut 06840 USA NBC Universal T : 203.966.5540 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 USA T : 212.664.2555 FACUL T Y [email protected] Glenn Close is one of Hollywood and Broadway’s most respected Ann Curry was named co-anchor for Dateline NBC in May 2005
FACUL T Y and honored actresses. She made her film debut in 1982 in “The World According To Garp” receiving an Academy Award and news anchor for NBC News’ Today in March 1997. nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She went on to garner four additional Oscar nominations for performances in such films Ms. Curry reported live from ground zero in the first two weeks as “The Big Chill,” “The Natural,” “Dangerous Liaisons” and one after 9-11. When the United States bombed Al Qaeda targets of the greatest thrillers of all time, “Fatal Attraction.” Last year in Afghanistan in November 2001, she reported extensively she was seen in three films, all of which premiered at the January from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, and landed 2005 Sundance Film Festival: “Heights from Merchant Ivory;” the first exclusive interview with military commander General “Chumscrubbers;” and “Nine Lives,” an ensemble piece from Tommy Franks. She reported from Baghdad in the weeks leading writer/director Rodrigo Garcia. up to the war in Iraq, and then from the USS Constellation as the war began, interviewing fighter pilots who flew the first wave of Ms. Close is the recipient of three Tony Awards for her bombing runs over Iraq. She also filed reports from inside Iraq, performances on Broadway in “The Real Thing,” “Death and the from Qatar, and Kuwait during the first weeks of the war. Maiden” and the musical “Sunset Boulevard.” She has also been honored with an Emmy Award for her role in the television film Ms. Curry has distinguished herself in humanitarian reporting. “Serving in Silence” and a Golden Globe for her performance in She was the first network news anchor to report from inside the the Showtime Film “The Lion in Winter.” tsunami zone in southeast Asia, filing live and taped reports from Sri Lanka for Dateline, Today and NBC Nightly News. She was Ms. Close received a Crystal Award for Women in Film in 2001 also the first network news anchor to report on the humanitarian for her distinguished acting career. In 2003, she received an IFP refugee crisis caused by the genocide in Kosovo, filing live and Gotham Award for her significant contributions to the New York taped reports from Albania and Macedonia. independent filmmaking community. Ms. Close is a trustee of The Sundance Institute and a member of the board of trustees of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Topic: From the Front Lines: Lessons for Creating Teamwork Under Fire Topic: Fatal Attraction: The Journey into Obsession
28 29 Pasquale J. D’Amuro Jamie Dimon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer and President Giuliani Security and Safety LLC JPMorgan Chase & Co. 5 Times Sq., 24th Floor 270 Park Avenue, 8th Floor New York, NY 10036 USA New York, NY 10017 USA T : 212.931.7309 T : 212.270.1113. [email protected] [email protected] FACUL T Y
Mr. Pasquale D’Amuro is chairman and chief executive officer of Jamie Dimon became chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase Giuliani Security & Safety LLC. Before joining Giuliani Security & Co. in January 2006. In addition, Mr. Dimon is president of the FACUL T Y & Safety, Mr. D’Amuro served as the assistant director in charge company, a title he assumed upon the company’s merger with Bank of the New York FBI Office, where he had begun his FBI career One Corporation in July 2004. As chairman and chief executive in 1979. Mr. D’Amuro has worked on a wide array of criminal officer of Bank One, Mr. Dimon engineered a dramatic turnaround investigations. In addition, much of Mr. D’Amuro’s 26-year career at the company — taking the bank from a half-billion-dollar loss in was devoted to counterterrorism, in which he is an internationally 2000 to record earnings of US$3.5 billion in 2003. recognized expert. Mr. Dimon began his professional career at American Express After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Mr. D’Amuro Company. He then became a key member of the team that was appointed inspector in charge of the FBI’s investigation of launched and defined the strategy for Commercial Credit those attacks. Subsequently, Mr. D’Amuro served as assistant Company, serving as chief financial officer, executive vice president director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and president. In 1987, it acquired and changed its name to and, later, executive assistant director for Counterterrorism and Primerica Corporation, which in 1993 acquired The Travelers Counterintelligence. In these capacities, he was instrumental in the Corporation and was renamed Travelers Group. creation and management of the FBI’s Terrorism Threat Integration Center and Terrorism Watch List. During his career at the FBI, Mr. At Travelers, Mr. Dimon was president and chief operating officer D’Amuro contributed to or led several high-profile investigations, for seven years. He was named chairman and chief executive including the investigations of the 1998 bombings of the American officer of its Smith Barney Inc. subsidiary in January 1996. In embassies in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole in November 1997, with the merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Yemen, as well as the latter stages of the investigations of the 1993 Brothers, he became co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of World Trade Center bombing, the Manila Air plot and the crash of the combined firm. In 1998, he was named president of Citigroup TWA Flight 800. Mr. D’Amuro graduated from Niagara University Inc. In addition, he served as chairman and co-chief executive with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. In 1983, Mr. officer of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc. A summa cum laude D’Amuro attended the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. graduate of Tufts University, Mr. Dimon holds an MBA degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. Topic: International Terrorism and the Security Response Topic: Challenges of Management
30 31 Jamie Drake Connie K. Duckworth Drake Design Associates President 315 East 62nd Street, 5th floor Arzu, Inc. New York, NY 10021 USA 77 Stone Gate Lane T : 212.754.3099 Lake Forest, IL 60045 USA [email protected] [email protected]
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It is important, as Jean Cocteau once said, not to confuse Connie K. Duckworth serves pro bono as president and chairman FACUL T Y seriousness with gravity. Jamie Drake, the New York-based of the board of Arzu, Inc., and is an active member of the U.S.- designer, doesn’t. The man behind some of the country’s most Afghan Women’s Council, a public/private partnership established dynamic, distinctive and livable interiors knows how to create by Presidents Bush and Karzai in 2002; a member of the Council delightful environments and craft décor that is as right for a on Foreign Relations initiative on women and foreign policy, and particular place as it is for the person or family occupying it. an advisory director of the Business Council for Peace. Equally comfortable in traditional and contemporary styles, he has a natural gift for making modern interiors inviting, and enlivening Ms. Duckworth is a retired partner and managing director of traditional spaces with a fresh mix of contemporary elements. Goldman, Sachs, & Co., where she was named the first woman Drake’s device of choice is color — used boldly, fearlessly, and sales and trading partner in the firm’s history during her 20-year with great flair. Says, Drake, “there is little that doesn’t inspire me.” career. Her book, a primer on how to start a business entitled The Old Girls Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses Drake’s notable residential interiors include a Los Angeles in a Man’s World (Basic Books 2003), was published in September showplace for Madonna, a Martha’s Vineyard vacation retreat, 2003. and a stunning Manhattan apartment for Phyllis and Victor Grann. Drake has also completed multiple projects for New York City Ms. Duckworth sits on the board of trustees of Northwestern Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a client for almost 20 years — Mutual, the boards of directors of Smurfit Stone Container including the recent renovation and restoration of Gracie Mansion, Corporation, Nuveen Investments, Inc., and DNP Select Income the longtime ceremonial residence of the Mayor of New York Fund, the board of overseers of the Wharton School and is vice and the redesign of various rooms at City Hall. Drake designed chairman of the board of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. rooms for The Hampton Design Show House at Villa Maria and She is a past chair of the Committee of 200, the organization of the French Design Show House, among others. His work has leading women entrepreneurs and corporate business executives been widely published in leading journals, including Architectural in the USA. She holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the Digest, Elle Decor, and House Beautiful. Drake has also appeared on University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Texas. Bloomberg TV, CNN’s “Style with Elsa Klensch” and HGTV. Topic: High-Impact Philanthropy (Panel Discussion) Topic: Full-Blown Glamour at Home
32 33 Bonnie Fuller Rudolph W. Giuliani EVP, Chief Editorial Director Giuliani Partners LLC American Media, Inc. 5 Times Square One Park Avenue New York, NY 10036 USA New York, NY 10016 USA T : 212.931.7300 T : 212.843.8022 [email protected]
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Bonnie Fuller was named executive vice president, chief editorial Rudolph W. Giuliani is chairman and chief executive officer of Giuliani FACUL T Y director of American Media, Inc. in July 2003. Some of the AMI Partners LLC, which he founded in January 2002. Mr. Giuliani served titles she oversees include: the new Star magazine, Shape, Men’s two terms as the 107th Mayor of New York. First elected in 1993 Fitness, Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy. She also is in charge of he was re-elected in 1997 by a wide margin. As mayor, Mr. Giuliani the new AMI Latino Magazine Group, which includes Men’s Fitness returned accountability to city government and improved the quality En Español. of life for all New Yorkers. Under Mr. Giuliani’s leadership, New York City became the best-known example of the resurgence of urban Prior to AMI, Fuller was the editor-in-chief of Us Weekly, where America. she restructured, redesigned and repackaged the then Us magazine. Under Fuller’s charge, she increased newsstand sales Prior to this, Mr. Giuliani served in a variety of law enforcement and over 100 percent. Fuller was editor-in-chief of Glamour for three legal positions, including US Attorney for the Southern District of years and raised the circulation rate base from 2 million to 2.1 New York and associate attorney general, the third highest position million, the highest ever. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan in the Department of Justice. In this capacity, Mr. Giuliani supervised from 1996 to 1998, where she revamped the title, following on all of the US Attorney Offices, federal law enforcement agencies, the heels of its legendary editor, Helen Gurley Brown. She grew Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the US newsstand sales 18 percent from 1.6 to 1.9 million in the first year, Marshals Service. From 1970 to 1981, Mr. Giuliani served as associate and grew the rate base from 2.25 to 2.4 million. deputy attorney general, chief of staff to the deputy attorney general, executive US attorney and chief of the narcotics unit of the Office of She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire from 1993 to 1996, where the US Attorney. He also practiced law in private practice. In March she conceived and launched the title in the USA for the American 2005, Mr. Giuliani became a name partner in the law firm of Bracewell market. Under her leadership, the magazine went from a rate and Giuliani. base of 250,000 to 500,000. In 1989, Fuller was named editor- in-chief of YM changing the name from Young Miss to Young & Mr. Giuliani, a native of Brooklyn, New York attended Bishop Loughlin Modern. Circulation of the magazine soared from 700,000 to 1.75 Memorial High School, Manhattan College and New York University million. Law School, graduating cum laude.
Topic: Celebrity Obsession: The Inside Scoop Topic: Keynote Address
34 35 Peter Goldmark Michael A. Gould Director of the Climate and Air Program Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Environmental Defense Bloomingdale’s 257 Park Avenue South, 17th Floor 1000 Third Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 USA New York, NY 10022 USA T : 212.505.2100 T : 212.705.3536
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Peter Goldmark currently serves as the director of the Climate Michael Gould received his bachelor of art’s degree from Columbia FACUL T Y and Air Program at Environmental Defense. University and a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Business. It was a summer internship program during his MBA Most recently the chairman and chief executive officer of the studies that afforded Mr. Gould his first retail experience. A brief International Herald Tribune, Peter Goldmark has had exceptional summer stint at Abraham and Straus in New York was enough to careers in the public and private sectors, including serving as inspire him to seek a retail career. In 1968, Mr. Gould entered the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Executive Training Squad of Abraham and Straus. Starting as an Jersey. Mr. Goldmark also served as budget director for the assistant buyer in decorative home furnishings, he soon became the State of New York during the city’s financial crisis and was an company’s youngest merchandise vice president. architect of its rescue. He served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation and encouraged its involvement in environmental In 1978, Mr. Gould left Abraham and Straus when he was named issues, particularly energy. senior vice president of Robinson’s Department Stores. Within two years Mr. Gould was appointed to executive vice president, In addition, Mr. Goldmark is a member of the Council on Foreign merchandising and sales promotion. In 1981, he was promoted Relations; a trustee of the Whitehead Institute, and a board to Robinson’s chairman and chief executive officer, later becoming member of the Lend Lease Corporation. He received his BA from a member of the board of directors for Associated Dry Goods. Harvard University. In 1986, he was tapped as president and chief operating officer of Giorgio, Beverly Hills and when the company was purchased by Avon Products in 1987, he was named president and chief Topic: Before the Storm executive officer. In November 1991, Mr. Gould became chairman and chief executive officer of Bloomingdale’s. Mr. Gould serves on a number of boards, including the board of trustees of Hebrew College in Boston, the board of trustees of Lenox Hill Hospital, the board of overseers of Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the board of Golub Corporation.
Topic: The Repositioning of a Brand
36 37 Eugene Grin Stanley R. Jaffe Laurus Capital Management Owner 825 Third Avenue 14th Floor Jaffilms, LLC New York, NY 10022 USA 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1604 T : 212.541.5800 x210 New York, NY 10151 USA [email protected] T: 212.262.4700
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Eugene Grin, through the Grin Family Foundation, operates a fast Stanley R. Jaffe is the owner of Jaffilms, LLC, a motion picture FACUL T Y growing, self-directed not-for-profit organization to provide direct production company. Jaffilms has a number of films in development. support to people who fall outside of the assistance umbrella of Among Jaffilms’ recent releases are Madeline, based on the famed conventional charitable programs. Eugene’s background would Ludwig Bemelmans character and I Dreamed of Africa starring Kim easily have qualified him to receive charitable support and not to Basinger. be providing it. Born in Kiev to World War II survivors, he grew up on the street with no money, limited education and virtually Mr. Jaffe launched his filmmaking career in 1968, producing Goodbye, no chance to escape a dark life of poverty, alcoholism and an early Columbus for Paramount Pictures. Soon after, at the age of 29, Jaffe mortality. was named president of Paramount Pictures and Television, the youngest studio chief in the history of the motion picture industry. In a series of remarkable events, as a young man he was suddenly He returned to independent production in 1971 and produced able to come to the United States. After sweeping floors in several films including Bad Company, Bad News Bears, Taps and Kramer a fast food outlet and selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door, vs. Kramer, winner of five Academy Awards including the Best Picture he continued to find ways to advance himself. He is today Oscar. In 1982, Jaffe founded Jaffe/Lansing Productions in partnership the founder and fund manager of the US$1 billion-plus Laurus with Sherry Lansing. Together they produced for Paramount Pictures: Family of Funds (www.laurusfunds.com), one of the world’s Racing with the Moon, Firstborn, Fatal Attraction, The Accused, Black Rain top performing hedge funds. And having achieved his current and School Ties. position, his passion for the rest of his life is to develop effective strategies to provide opportunity to young children who would From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Jaffe was president and chief operating officer otherwise be trapped without the chance to have a better life. of Paramount Communications, overseeing the operations of all of the entertainment corporation’s divisions including Paramount Pictures, Mr. Grin, together with paid Grin Foundation staffers, is planting Paramount Television, Simon & Schuster Publishing, Paramount the seeds for what he plans to develop as a linked global Technology Group, Paramount Parks, Madison Square Garden, The community of full-time development and enrichment programs New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. Upon the sale of for children of extreme poverty. Paramount Communications, Mr. Jaffe resumed independent film production with the formation of his present company, Jaffilms. Topic: High-Impact Philanthropy (Panel Discussion) Topic: Fatal Attraction: The Journey into Obsession 38 39 Andrea Jung Nancy Lublin Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Avon Products, Inc. Do Something 1345 Avenue of the Americas 32 East 31st Street, Suite 602 New York, NY 10102 USA New York, NY 10016 USA T : 212.282.5315 T : 212.254.2390 x224
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Andrea Jung currently serves as chairman and chief executive Nancy Lublin is chief executive officer of Do Something, a non- FACUL T Y officer of Avon Products. Ms. Jung was appointed chief executive profit organization that provides inspiration and opportunities officer in 1999 and elected chairman in 2001. She has been a for young people to improve their communities. Lublin founded member of the board of directors since January 1998. Prior Dress for Success in 1996 with a US$5,000 inheritance from her to her current role, Ms. Jung was president and chief operating great-grandfather. Lublin was a law student and new to New officer. Ms. Jung joined the company in January 1994 as president, York City, so she turned to some experts for help; she founded Product Marketing Group, Avon U.S. Before joining Avon, Ms. the organization with three nuns from Spanish Harlem who Jung was executive vice president at Neiman Marcus as well as each ran public service programs. Together, they built Dress senior vice president, general merchandising manager, at I. Magnin. for Success New York into a vibrant organization that assisted women from all over greater New York City. Ms. Jung became the first woman elected chair of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association in March 2001, a role she held When women from other cities contacted Ms. Lublin about until early 2005. She currently serves on the board of directors of bringing Dress for Success to women in their community, she the General Electric Company and is a member of the New York trademarked the name Dress for Success, built equity in the Presbyterian Hospital board of trustees and the Catalyst board of brand, and then licensed it to these new affiliates. By fall of 1998, directors. there were nearly 20 Dress for Success programs and Ms. Lublin left law school to be the full-time executive director of Dress for In 2005, Ms. Jung was ranked #5 on Fortune magazine’s “50 Most Success Worldwide. A year later, there were nearly 50 Dress for Powerful Women in Business” list and has been on that list since Success affiliates in three countries. After six years, she left Dress its inception. Also in 2005, The Wall Street Journal ranked Ms. Jung for Success for her current position at Do Something. #3 on its “50 Women to Watch in Business” list. In late 2004, she was named one of “10 Prominent People to Watch in 2005” Ms. Lublin received her BA from Brown University and an M.Litt. by Newsweek magazine. Ms. Jung is a magna cum laude graduate from Oxford University where she was a Marshall Scholar. She of Princeton University and is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin). also earned a law degree at NYU. She is a board member of the Non Profit Coordinating Committee and America’s Charities. Topic: Leading Through Challenging Times Topic: High-Impact Philanthropy (Panel Discussion)
40 41 David Mendelson, MD Richard Parsons Associate Professor of Radiology Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mount Sinai School of Medicine Time Warner Inc. One Gustave L. Levy Place One Time Warner Center Box 1234 New York, NY 10019-8016 USA New York, NY 10029 USA [email protected]
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Richard D. Parsons is chairman of the board and chief executive FACUL T Y David Mendelson, MD is associate professor of radiology at officer of Time Warner Inc., whose businesses include filmed the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and director of Radiology entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable Information Systems. systems and publishing. He became chief executive officer in May 2002 and chairman of the board in May 2003. Since becoming His academic interest is in the fields of chest radiology, cross- chief executive officer, Mr. Parsons has led Time Warner’s sectional body imaging and radiology informatics. Recently he turnaround and set the company on a solid path toward achieving has participated in research evaluating the role of low dose CT sustainable growth. Mr. Parsons joined Time Warner as its president screening in the detection of lung cancer, as well as investigating in February 1995, and has been a member of the company’s board the radiological manifestations of disease in individuals exposed of directors since January 1991. to toxins at the World Trade Center, Ground Zero, on and after 9/11. Before joining Time Warner, Mr. Parsons was chairman and chief executive officer of Dime Bancorp, Inc.. Previously, he was the He has been actively involved in the evaluation and introduction managing partner of the law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & of new technologies in both radiology and healthcare in general. Tyler. Prior to that, he held various positions in state and federal government, as counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and as a senior White House aide under US President Gerald Ford. Mr. Parsons received Topic: Aging Well is the Best Revenge (Panel Discussion) his undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii and his legal training at Union University’s Albany Law School. Mr. Parsons’ civic and non-profit commitments include co-chairman of the Mayor’s Commission on Economic Opportunity in New York; chairman emeritus of the Partnership for New York City; chairman of the Apollo Theatre Foundation and service on the boards of Howard University, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Natural History. He also serves on the boards of Citigroup and Estee Lauder.
Topic: The Future of Media — A 10-Year Perspective
42 43 Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Jonathan F.P. Rose Founder and Chief Executive Officer President American Society for Muslim Advancement Jonathan Rose Companies LLC 175 East 96th Street, Suite 21T 33 Katonah Avenue New York, NY 10128 USA Katonah , NY 10536 USA T : 917.492.8690 T : 914.232.1396
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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is the founder and chief executive officer Jonathan Rose is president of Jonathan Rose Companies. The firm FACUL T Y of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and Imam of comprises four studios: planning; project management; development; Masjid Al-Farah, a mosque in New York City, 12 blocks from and acquisitions. Together, these studios carry out the firm’s mission Ground Zero. He has dedicated his life to building bridges of repairing communities by collaborating with cities and nonprofits between Muslims and the West and is a leader in the effort to to plan, develop or acquire environmentally responsible projects build religious pluralism and integrate Islam into modern society. by creating vibrant, diverse cultural centers with a balance of jobs, Imam Feisal is also the architect of the Cordoba Initiative, an inter- housing, open land and mass transit. religious blueprint for improving relations between the Muslim world and the West and United States. As a tireless advocate Mr. Rose is an innovator in bringing together solutions to planning, for an ecumenical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he has community development, finance, culture and land preservation. impressed his vision on US lawmakers and administration officials, In 1980, he developed the first live/work community with Internet most recently as member of the National Inter-religious Initiative access in every home. In 1984, he planned the US’s first post- for Peace in Washington, DC. war green mixed income, mixed use large-scale transit-oriented development. In 2005, he established the first environmentally Imam Feisal is a member of the World Economic Forum Council and socially responsible national real estate acquisition fund. Since of 100 Leaders (Islamic West dialogue) and the board of trustees then, his projects have consistently modeled new solutions for of the Islamic Center of New York. His published writings include development, environmental and community problems. Mr. Rose is a the books: Islam: A Search for Meaning and Islam: A Sacred Law leading thinker in the Smart Growth and green building movements. (what every Muslim should know about the Shariah). His latest book, What’s Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the Mr. Rose’s not-for-profit cultural activities include serving as chairman West was rated by Christian Science Monitor amongst its top of the executive committee of Jazz at Lincoln Center and as chair four books on religion. Imam Feisal was born in Kuwait into an of its Building Committee. With his wife, Diana Calthorpe Rose, Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship. He was educated Mr. Rose is the co-founder of the Garrison Institute. Mr. Rose was in England and Malaysia and has a degree in physics from the founder of Gramavision Records. Mr. Rose graduated from Columbia University. Yale University with a BA in psychology and received a master’s in regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Topic: Violence and Religion (Panel Discussion) Topic: High-Impact Philanthropy (Panel Discussion) 44 45 Rabbi David Rosen Yvette Rugasaguhunga The American Jewish Committee 2900 Purchase Street, #352 Beit Moses, 11 Mesilat Yesharim Street Purchase, NY 10577 USA PO Box 37068 267.258.7240 Jerusalem 91370 Israel [email protected] T : 972.2.625.5281
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Rabbi David Rosen is the president of IJCIC, the International Jewish Yvette Rugasaguhunga was born in 1980 in Kigali, Rwanda. The FACUL T Y Committee that represents World Jewry in its relations with other eighth child, her birth was welcomed by her very large and caring world religions. He is director of the Department for Interreligious Roman Catholic family. On her first day of elementary school, Affairs and director of the Heilbrunn Institute for International Yvette was asked her ethnic group. When she said she did not Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee. know, this became her first homework assignment. The following day she reported that she was a Tutsi. It was not until later that Rabbi Rosen is an international president of the World Conference she understood the true meaning of her ethnicity. of Religion for Peace (WCRP), honorary president of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) and serves as Yvette graduated from elementary school and in 1993 was the a member of the executive committee of the World Congress first in her family to be admitted to a public high school. By then, of Imams and Rabbis. Rabbi Rosen is a charter member of the the open discrimination against Tutsi was rampant, and many Tutsi International Advisory Committee of the Council for a Parliament were being killed or incarcerated without justice. of the World’s Religions (CPWR); and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s C-100, a council of 100 leaders formed for In 1994, Tutsi lived amidst genocide in a hundred days of horror the purpose of improving relations and cooperation between the beyond bearing murder, abduction and rape. More than one Muslim and Western worlds. He was one of the initiators of The million Tutsi were murdered in 100 days and survivors lived in Alexandria Summit, the first Middle East Interfaith Summit with fear, hopelessness and despair. After Yvette almost witnessed the participation of the leaders of the three monotheistic faiths of the brutal death of her father, she watched in vain as her older the Holy Land, and he was a member of the Permanent Bilateral brother, Rambert was slaughtered. His valiant fight for survival Commission of the State of Israel and the Holy See that negotiated gave her the strength to fight for her own life. She ultimately the normalization of relations between the two. In November graduated from high school and went on to college. In 2004, she 2005, Rabbi Rosen was named a papal Knight Commander of the left Rwanda for the USA. After realizing there are many who still order of St Gregory the Great for his outstanding contributions to deny that genocide occurred in Rwanda, she has dedicated her life promoting Catholic-Jewish reconciliation. to speaking out. Yvette now lives in New York and is a junior at Manhattanville College. Topic: Violence and Religion (Panel Discussion) Topic: Genocide: A Personal Account
46 47 Douglas Schoen Benson P. Shapiro Chairman Emeritus Harvard University Graduate School of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Inc. Business Administration 245 W. 92nd Street George F. Baker Foundation New York, New York 10128 USA Soldiers Field T : 212.534.4000 x204 Boston, MA 02163 USA
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Douglas Schoen is a founding partner and a principal strategist Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy FACUL T Y at Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Inc. For more than two and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product years, Dr. Schoen has created winning messages and provided line planning and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm strategic advice to numerous political clients in the USA and to P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard heads of state in countries around the world, including Greece, Business School where he taught full-time from 1970 to 1997. Turkey, Israel, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda Since 1997, Professor Shapiro has concentrated his professional and Yugoslavia. time on consulting, speeches, boards of directors and writing. He continues to teach at Harvard, and in the recent past has taught in He was US President Clinton’s research and strategic consultant several executive programs including the CEO Harvard Presidents’ during the 1996 reelection, and has been widely credited with Seminar and the Young Presidents’ Program, and has chaired the creating and effectively communicating the message that turned Sustainable Marketing Leadership for Mid-Sized Businesses. around the President’s political fortunes between 1994 and 1996. He was named “Pollster of the Year” in 1996 by the American During his 27 years on the full-time Harvard faculty, he taught a Association of Political Consultants for his work in the Clinton wide variety of MBA courses including industrial marketing, sales campaign. Political clients include: Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus; management, creative marketing strategy, integrated product Indiana Governor Evan Bayh; Kentucky Governor Paul Patton; line management, and participated in many executive programs. Nevada Governor Bob Miller; Louisiana Senator John Breaux; Professor Shapiro is the author, co-author or editor of 14 books, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; West Virginia and 19 Harvard Business Review articles including Leveraging to Senator John D. Rockefeller; and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Beat the Odds: The New Marketing Mind-Set, What the Hell is ‘Market Oriented?,’ Manage Customers for Profits, Not Just Sales Dr. Schoen has published a book on British politics, Enoch Powell and Staple Yourself to an Order. Two of his most recent books, and the Powellites, as well as Pat: A Biography of Daniel Patrick both co-edited, are Seeking Customers and Keeping Customers Moynihan. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and a from the HBS Press. Professor Shapiro holds a BSE in chemical graduate of Harvard Law School, Dr. Schoen has his doctorate in engineering from the University of Michigan as well as an MBA philosophy from Oxford University in England. (with distinction) and DBA degrees from Harvard.
Topic: The Real Demographics of New York City - Now Topic: Attain, Sustain and Regain Market Leadership
48 49 Eliot Spitzer David Swensen New York State Attorney General Yale University 120 Broadway, 25th Floor Investment Office New York, NY 10271 USA 230 Prospect Street T : 212.416.8055 New Haven, CTt 06511-2107 USA [email protected] T : 203.432.0119
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Eliot Spitzer took the office of New York State Attorney General David Swensen has been Yale’s chief investment officer since FACUL T Y in 1999 and through a series of innovative actions has redefined 1985 and has been responsible for more than US$10 billion in the role of Attorney General. He investigated conflicts of interest endowment assets. Mr. Swensen spent six years on Wall Street by investment banks, illegal trading practices by mutual funds and and three years at Lehman Brothers as senior vice president, bid rigging in the insurance industry. He has recovered billions responsible for the firm’s swap activities. His work focuses on of dollars for small investors and other consumers in these cases developing financial technologies. and was the catalyst for industry-wide reforms. Attorney General Spitzer has acted to stop fraud in the marketplace, to level the He serves as trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, playing field for honest businesses and to help restore confidence treasurer of the Johns Hopkins committee of trustees, and non- in the markets. As a result of these and other actions, he was executive director of Schroders Plc. He has advised for several named “Crusader of the Year” by Time magazine and the “Sheriff organizations and institutions, including the New York Stock of Wall Street” by “60 Minutes.” The title that most accurately Exchange. He is author of Pioneering Portfolio Management: An reflects his role is “the People’s Lawyer.” The cases that mean the Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investments and A Model most to him are his pioneering labor rights cases to ensure the for the Valuation of Corporate Bonds. minimum wage and decent workings conditions for immigrants and other low-wage workers in service industries. Topic: Investment Management He began his career as a clerk to US District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet and later served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. He also spent time in private practice with Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison; Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom; and Constantine & Partners. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Topic: Keynote Address
50 51 John Tauranac Donald J. Trump 900 West End Avenue, #8B Chairman and President New York, NY 10025 USA The Trump Organization T : 212.222.7731 725 Fifth Avenue [email protected] New York, NY 10022 USA FACUL T Y
John Tauranac writes on New York history and architecture, he Donald J. Trump is the definition of the American success story FACUL T Y teaches the subject, and he designs maps. Mr. Tauranac’s first with interests in real estate, gaming, sports and entertainment. maps were New York Magazine’s “Undercover Maps,” which He is currently the Emmy-nominated star and co-producer of the showed how to navigate passageways through and under buildings reality television series, “The Apprentice.” He also co-owns with in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. Maintaining his mole’s eye NBC the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Pageants. perspective, he was the chief designer of the official New York City Subway Map in 1979, and he has gone on to design dozens In 2004, his radio program broke all syndication records. In of other transit and street maps. Ever the tinkerer, he has just New York City, Trump owns such famous addresses as the Fifth come out with a new New York City subway system published Avenue skyscraper, Trump Tower, Trump International Hotel under the Tauranac imprint. Articles under his byline have & Tower, Trump World Tower, 40 Wall Street and Trump appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel & Park Avenue. He also develops properties nationwide, owns Leisure, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. His books four award-winning golf courses. His first project in Dubai was include The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark, announced in 2005, The Palm Trump International Hotel & Elegant New York, The View From the 86th Floor and New York From Tower. the Air. Mr. Trump has also authored seven books, all of which have A graduate of Columbia University and New York University, Mr. become bestsellers, and has launched Trump World Magazine, Tauranac teaches New York history and architecture at NYU’s Trump University Online, GoTrump.com, an online travel agency, School of Continuing & Professional Studies, which presented and a licensing program which includes a line of menswear. him with an award for teaching excellence in 2006. Other kudos include a commendation for design excellence from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Topic: Keynote Address Transportation, and he was named a Centennial Historian of the City of New York by the Mayor’s Office for his work in history.
Topic: The Empire State Building at 75
52 53 Stephen R. Veach, MD Mortimer B. Zuckerman Clinical Director Chairman and Editor-in-Chief International Oncology Programs U.S. News & World Report Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 599 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1800 New York, NY 10022 USA T : 212.326.4012.
Dr. Veach is currently the clinical director of the [email protected] FACUL T Y International Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His medical training was at the University of Illinois in Chicago and his post doctoral training Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S. FACUL T Y in internal medicine and hematology/oncology was carried out at the News & World Report and is the publisher of the New York Daily National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as News. director of the Medical Oncology Department at the National Naval Medical Center and was head of the Clinical Investigation Department He is also the founder and chairman of Boston Properties, Inc. until 1988. He was on the faculty of the Uniformed Service University Mr. Zuckerman is a graduate of McGill University, McGill Law of the Health Sciences as an assistant professor. In California, his School, The Wharton Graduate School of Business and the duties included chief of Internal Medicine and director of the hospital. Harvard Law School. In 1991, he became clinical projects director for US Bioscience, an oncology directed pharmaceutical company, and was on the adjunct He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York University, faculties of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, as well the the Aspen Institute, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund, Inc., and University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Oncology. In 1993, the Center for Communications. He is also a member of the he moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he J.P. Morgan National Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign continues to serve on the Second Opinion Service in the Department Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies and of Medicine and Thoracic Oncology. He has continued that position the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He is a former while moving to his current position at the International Center at associate professor of City & Regional Planning at the Harvard Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in June of 1998. Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale and a past president of the board of trustees of Dr. Veach currently serves as a professor on the faculty of Cornell the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. University Medical School and teaches in the medical school and is involved in graduate medical educational training. Dr. Veach is a knowledgeable and personable speaker for Healthnet events and as a Topic: Ripped from the Headlines physician for Healthnet patients who go to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Thanks to HealthNet, Dr. Veach will be serving as the onsite resident doctor for the New York University.
54 55 Off-Site Schedule
Please note that off-sites with late return times will impact your ability to participate in the start of our evening socials. A map of each evening’s S CH E DUL social location will be left with the hotel concierge and at the CEO Information Desk for your convenience.
Monday, 11 September Adam’s Apple Corps - Morning Workouts in Central Park ...... 6:00- 8:00am
Greenwich Village & The White Horse Tavern ...... 12:45-5:15pm O FF- SITES The House that Ruth Built - Yankee Stadium ...... 1:15-3:45pm The Cloisters - A Renaissance Fantasy ...... 1:30-5:00pm Real Stars (and real reptiles)! The American Museum of Natural History ...... 1:45-5:30pm Swinging in the City - Trapeze in the City ...... 1:45-5:30pm Home Art Visits ...... 2:00-5:00pm I’ll Take Manhattan ...... 2:00-5:00pm The Bling Thing - Wholesale! ...... 2:00-5:30pm Walk Central Park with the Central Park Conservancy ...... 2:30-5:00pm TV As It Happens: The Daily Show with John Stewart ...... 4:15-7:30pm TV As It Happens: The Colbert Report ...... 5:30-8:30pm
Tuesday, 12 September Adam’s Apple Corps - Morning Workouts in Central Park ...... 6:00- 8:00am Shoot The City with Helen Nitkin ...... 7:15-9:00am Breakfast at Bergdorf’s...... 8:00-10:30am Gracie Mansion with Douglas Schoen...... 1:15-4:45pm Hudson River Park by Bike ...... 1:15-5:45pm Home Art Visits ...... 1:30-5:00pm Go for the Gold: A Visit to the Federal Reserve Bank ...... 1:45-4:15pm Harlem on Foot ...... 1:45-5:15pm Inside Art - Visit with Guggenheim Museum Director ...... 2:00-5:00pm The Bling Thing - Wholesale! ...... 2:00-5:30pm Flight of Fancy - New York by Helicopter ...... 2:30-4:00pm TV As It Happens: The Daily Show with John Stewart ...... 4:15-7:30pm TV As It Happens: The Colbert Report ...... 5:30-8:30pm 57 Wednesday, 13 September OFF-SITE: Adam’s Apple Corps - Morning Workouts in Central Park Adam’s Apple Corps - Morning Workouts S CH E DUL Monday, 11 September in Central Park ...... 6:00-8:00am Shoot the City with Helen Nitkin ...... 7:15-9:00am 6:00-8:00am Smash Broadway Musical Hit “Wicked”...... 11:00-5:45pm “Inside the Boardroom” at Steinway Piano Get ready, get set, go exercise with Adam Waxman, founder of (A CEO Exclusive) ...... 12:45-4:30pm Fitness One Training! Bring tennis shoes, workout clothes and SoHo Shopping 101: Ready, Set, Shop! ...... 1:45-5:15pm energy for a daily morning workout with one of New York’s top Riker’s Island Prison Tour with Warden Peter Curcio ...... 1:45-5:30pm trainers. Sessions will be specifically designed for people at every
A Visit with Robert A.M. Stern at His Studio 2:00-5:00pm level, so just bring your enthusiasm. O FF- SITES Home Art Visits ...... 2:00-5:00pm Horseback Riding in Central Park Adam has been a professional personal trainer for more than with Claremont Stables ...... 3:00-5:00pm 15 years, specializing in programs that combine lactic acid core,
O FF- SITES interval, boxing, endurance, strength and power techniques that leave clients with an overall body workout developing muscle Thursday, 14 September tone, cardiac capacity and balance stability, while reducing body fat. His private clients have included supermodels Carolyn Adam’s Apple Corps - Morning Workouts Murphy, Leticia Casta and Kylie Bax, Revlon Cover Girl Lana in Central Park ...... 6:00-8:00am Ogilvie, Magician David Blaine and political activist Waris Dirie. Wine Tasting Lunch with James Endicott ...... 12:45-3:45pm He has been a consultant to several top modeling agencies, Immigrant Dreams and Urban Reality - working with them to train Kate Moss, Elle McPherson and Naomi The Lower East Side ...... 12:45-5:30pm Campbell. The success of his work has been proven repeatedly, Inside CNN (Group A) ...... 1:15-4:30pm including having four of his clients in the swimsuit Shopping in the Meat Packing District ...... 1:45-5:30pm Sports Illustrated A Self-Portrait of the Artist: Jeffrey Koons editions. at His Studio ...... 2:00-4:00pm Home Art Visits ...... 2:00-5:00pm Each morning takes you to a landmark setting in Central Park, Inside CNN (Group B) ...... 2:15-5:30pm where movies have been filmed. Today, our workout is at Paddling to Liberty ...... 2:30-5:30pm Central Park Reservoir used in movies such as Marathon Man and The Devil’s Advocate.
Special Note: Adam is a licensed medical massage therapist. He incorporates deep tissue myofascial trigger point release work to decrease recoup oratory time while increasing range of motion and improving blood circulation with these techniques. Contact Adam directly at [email protected] for private massage therapy sessions during the University, schedule permitting. 58 59 Walking Level: Heavy tavern. We’ll then set off on foot to experience the heart of this Attire: Tennis shoes and workout clothes extraordinary neighborhood S CH E DUL Exertion Level: Moderate Meal/Refreshment: Included OFF-SITE: Greenwich Village and The White Horse Tavern Monday, 11 September 12:45-5:15pm OFF-SITE: The House that Ruth Built - Yankee Stadium
Monday, 11 September O FF- SITES Lunch in the back room of a notorious speakeasy and take a walking tour of the Village. Greenwich Village is not only a 1:15-3:45pm physical place, but a full strength slice of a New York state of mind. To see it on foot is to experience its scale and texture. Home to the world’s greatest baseball team (frequently), Yankee O FF- SITES The setting for “Rent” is a close neighbor to the backdrop of Stadium is a place of lore and legend. Stand on the field where “Barefoot in the Park.” The Sullivan Street Theatre, home to “The baseball immortals Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Fantasticks,” the world’s longest-running musical, is but one of Mickey Mantle played and you’ll channel the energies of current many off-Broadway playhouses in the neighborhood, including The stars like Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi and Bernie Williams. Sit in Public Theatre, which first showcased “A Chorus Line” and “Hair.” the dugout where so many Yankee managers (sometimes the Just around the corner is the site of the Fillmore East, the ’60s same guy hired, fired and rehired!) set the team lineup. And visit hippie hangout for the music of peace and love. And together the most legendary area in professional sports, the Stadium’s with these artistic settings were some very tough places, including Monument Park, deep in left-center field, where retired numbers, the Five Points section, as told in the story of “Gangs of New plaques and monuments attest to the champions who have driven York” and the area on the waterfront, home of the notorious the Bronx Bombers to their record 26 championships. You’ll be “Westies Gang.” Hosting us for the start of our Village experience steeped in the mystique and aura of this superlative team and the is Jimmy Munson, proprietor of the legendary 125 year-old White men in pinstripes who regularly wrote and rewrote the record Horse Tavern, famous first for its roots as the Westies clubhouse books on sports excellence. We’ll ride the subway there (if you and later for hard-drinking literati and culture icons it attracted, haven’t been on a New York City subway recently, be prepared including Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Anais Nin to be pleasantly surprised) and see what goes on behind the and most famously Dylan Thomas, who died at the bar there scenes at the place where the fictional George Constanza from after 18 shots of straight whiskey. John Belushi of “Saturday Night “Seinfeld” worked, and where the very real George Steinbrenner Live” fame spent so much time at The White Horse that on the (from Tampa) still works to make the Yankees New York’s night he died, his “Blues Brothers” partner Dan Akyroyd walked favorite team. in, shut the doors and bought drinks for the entire bar. Jimmy will share burgers, beer and stories with us from the history of the Walking Level: Moderate Availability: Scheduled
60 61 At the Rose Center for Earth and Space, an ultra modern glass OFF-SITE: The Cloisters - A Renaissance Fantasy cube that looks as much science fiction as science fact, we’ll Monday, 11 September
experience a thrilling journey from the outer reaches of the S CH E DUL 1:30-5:00pm universe to the inner workings of the Earth, including a history of the universe from the Big Bang to now, narrated by Jodi Spend an enchanting afternoon at The Cloisters, the Metropolitan Foster. From there, we’ll see the Tom Hanks-narrated “Space Museum of Art’s jewel of medieval and renaissance art set in a Show,” which uses the world’s largest and most powerful virtual brilliant period garden in Fort Tryon Park at the northern tip of reality simulator (matched only by NASA and the largest military Manhattan. We’ve been invited to a private tour of the Cloisters research facilities), to travel to intergalactic space and then free-fall as the personal guest of its chief curator, the prominent art back to Earth, headlong through a black hole. From there we’ll scholar Peter Barnet. This world-renowned collection is devoted
visit a live lizard exhibition that’s the subject of ongoing museum O FF- SITES to European art and architecture including sculpture, tapestries, research and meet with Director Futter to learn more about her illuminated manuscripts, the crafts of goldsmiths and silversmiths, work running the Natural History Museum. stained glass and enamels. Visiting the Cloisters is one of the absolutely great New York experiences — it’s in the city, but O FF- SITES Walking Level: Minimal occupies a space that existed centuries earlier. During our CEOers-only visit we’ll have the Museum to ourselves, much as a medieval cloister felt to its occupants in the Middle Ages. When OFF-SITE: Swinging in the City - New Yorkers are asked what makes our town so special, the list Trapeze in the City of answers is long, but the Cloisters is regularly on it. Monday, 11 September Extertion Level: Moderate 1:45-5:30pm
Join us on a flight through the air with great ease. Trapeze School OFF-SITE: Real Stars (and real reptiles)! New York, set in Chelsea on the banks of the Hudson River, is The American Museum of Natural History your opportunity first to see how aerial gymnasts perform, then Monday, 11 September to do it yourself — all while taking in stunning river views down 1:45-5:30pm to Wall Street and up to the George Washington Bridge. TSNY became known globally after the HBO television “Sex in the City” episode titled “The Catch,” when Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica There is no human enterprise that can shock and enlighten us Parker) overcame her fear of flying, climbed the TSNY ladder, — and change our sense of self and the universe — like scientific grabbed the bar and took off. This sensational activity and its discovery. The American Museum of Natural History is not just spectacular setting have caused TSNY to be named by Travel & a premier institution for the display of the results of this quest, Leisure magazine as one of the “50 Great American Adventures.” but at its core is an incubator for its genesis. As the guests of TSNY has been visited by scores of other celebrities and news Museum Director Ellen Futter, our visit to the Museum will reporters from around the world, including Al Roker (“The Today provide an intimate introduction to this legendary facility.
62 63 Show”), Kelly Ripa (“Live with Regis and Kelly”) and Tony Danza (“The Tony Danza Show”), each of whom has had her or his turn OFF-SITE: I’ll Take Manhattan Monday, 11 September
on the trapeze. Now it’s your turn. S CH E DUL 2:00-5:00pm Pricing: US$200 Walking Level: Minimal The finest properties money can buy! New York is a real Attire: Comfortable clothes that fit snugly. Socks, estate crazed town, and Sharon Baum, director of the Exclusive pants and long sleeves are recommended. Properties Division of The Corcoran Group, is the city’s leading broker for the most exclusive residential properties in the city. Sharon was in the first class of women at the Harvard Business
School and after a career at Lehman Brothers, left to sell high-end O FF- SITES OFF-SITE: Home Art Visits homes. She’s sold over US$1 billion of properties and has twice Monday, 11 September won the influential New York Real Estate Board’s Deal of the 2:00-5:00pm Year award. Sharon has been recognized by New York Magazine
O FF- SITES as one of the city’s most influential power brokers. She’ll give us New York has long been the art capital of the world. Have you her expert views on New York real estate and take us on-site to ever wondered where all that art goes? Come visit some great view some of the city’s most expensive properties and meet the personal collections in some of New York’s finest “castles in the developers creating them. sky.” What do Bill Mack, chairman of the Guggenheim or Leonard Lauder, chairman of the Whitney, have on view in their homes? Exertion: Minimal Tom Lee may have a different aesthetic from Laurie Tisch: but be assured they’re both worth seeing. We have gained access to 12 of New York’s finest private art collections. Join one of our four tours scheduled throughout the week in which you’ll see three of OFF-SITE: The Bling Thing - Wholesale! these personal expressions of taste in their own natural setting. Monday, 11 September 2:00-5:30pm Exertion Level: Minimum For people familiar with buying diamonds at Harry Winston, the Diamond District on 47th Street can be a daunting experience. The quality and selection is outstanding and knowledgeable buyers purchase jewels there for significantly less than retail. At the same time, it’s an aggressive place where sellers can take great advantage of the unwary. Leading us through this jungle will be Frank Pollak. Frank’s family had been among the most respected dealers on 47th Street for generations, until Frank moved the
64 65 business off the street, working today only with private clients The more than 26,000 trees and 275 species of birds, the ball and by referral. He’ll take us through the booths of this storied fields and ponds, the zoo and the bridle paths are visited by 25
marketplace, and tell the story of the global diamond industry. million people each year, for sports, concerts and quiet walks. S CH E DUL How has the end of the Soviet Union affected the market for Come see this wonderful treasure in the company of its keeper, diamonds? What about the Indian diamond market? Is there a member of the Central Park Conservancy team. You’ll learn a role for branding or will diamonds always be a commodity? about the challenge of maintaining the balance between active When is it better to buy retail? What about the growth of on-line recreation and quiet contemplation, and about the care of the diamond sellers? How do you know if you’re getting value? Ask foliage and the wildlife. It’s Central Park like you’ve never seen Frank. it, a behind-the-scenes tour of the management of a place that’s always in full view.
Exertion: Moderate O FF- SITES Attire: Walking Shoes Approximate walking time is one and one-half hours.
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O FF- SITES Attire: Walking shoes OFF-SITE: Walk Central Park with the Central Park Conservancy Monday, 11 September OFF-SITE: Adam’s Apple Corps - 2:30-5:00pm Morning Workouts in Central Park Tuesday, 12 September How did 843 acres of swampy, muddy terrain become 6:00-8:00am transformed into one of the world’s premier public spaces? More than 150 years ago, when the visionary landscape architects See full description on page 59. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were entrusted with the mission of showcasing the power of nature to lift man’s spirit Workout at Sheep Meadow as seen in movies such as It Could above the drudgery of city life, did they recognize that their work Happen to You, The Fisher King, Manchurian Candidate and Wall would become a place that would routinely attract over 250,000 Street, where the famous Douglas/Sheen fight scene took place. people on a nice spring weekend? And when the Park became a tired and run-down dust bowl, who would have predicted that Walking Level: Heavy a special public/private partnership between the City and some Attire: Tennis shoes and workout clothes individuals under the not-for-profit banner of the Central Park Conservancy would not only bring the Park back, but transform it into an even better place?
66 67 OFF-SITE: TV As It Happens: The Daily Show OFF-SITE: TV As It Happens: The Colbert Report with Jon Stewart Monday, 11 September S CH E DUL Tuesday, 12 September 5:30-8:30pm (please note late return time) 4:15-7:30pm (please note late return time) We were lucky enough to obtain tickets to view Comedy We’ve asked our friends at Time Warner for the opportunity to Central’s The Colbert Report, which made its debut in October share with you the chance to go to a taping of the Emmy and 2005. The Colbert Report, a spin-off of The Daily Show and an Peabody Award-winning Jon Stewart Daily Show. The Daily Show American satirical television program, is hosted by Stephen takes a focused look at news, trends, pop culture, current events, Colbert.
politics, sports and entertainment with a point of view that is O FF- SITES particularly attractive to New Yorkers and those who share our Comedy Central describes it as, “What The Daily Show with Jon values. Instead of network news rating driven programs or the Stewart is to evening news, The Colbert Report is to personality- spinmeisters and shills of cable news, experience the energy of driven pundit shows. Colbert brings his sarcastic charm to a half-
O FF- SITES a comedy show unabashedly lacking in objectivity, journalistic hour report, tackling the important issues of the day and telling integrity or extreme claims to complete accuracy! Jon Stewart his guests why their opinions are just plain wrong.” Join us for an brought down the house as the host of this year’s Oscar’s and we event that promises to be engaging and offer a humorous spin have secured tickets for a taping of his nightly news-comedy show. on the men and women who speculate about current events and politics. Exertion: Minimal Exertion: Minimal
68 69 be available for one-on-one appointments. Whether you’re OFF-SITE: Shoot The City with Helen Nitkin looking for chinchilla capes, cufflinks or crystal — the finest quality Tuesday, 12 September
fashion and the highest quality service will be found at Bergdorf S CH E DUL 7:15-9:00am Goodman.
Helen Nitkin, an accomplished photographer trained at New Walking Level: Minimal York’s prestigious International Center for Photography, will join Attire: Walking shoes us to guide us through the art of cityscape photography. Come with Helen, bring your camera and go shooting in the morning light before breakfast. Planned destinations are sidestreets of OFF-SITE: Gracie Mansion with Political Consultant
historic townhouses and the memorable Central Park. New York Douglas Schoen O FF- SITES is the site of countless photo ops and iconic stills that are well Tuesday, 12 September known throughout the world. Creating your own icons with the 1:15-4:45pm guidance of an experienced photographer is a chance to expand
O FF- SITES your visual boundaries and to express your vision in an entirely Learn how Mayor Michael Bloomberg got to the Mayor’s house different way. Bring your camera, questions and curiosity, and and see where he doesn’t live! display your photographic skill set with this talented creative artist. Gracie Mansion has been the official residence of the Mayor Walking Level: Moderate of the City of New York since the time of our beloved Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia during World War II. This late 18th century wood residence and the surrounding 11-acre Carl Schurz Park OFF-SITE: Breakfast at Bergdorf’s commands a promontory overlooking the open mouth of the Tuesday, 12 September wild current of the East River. Gracie Mansion was built for the 8:00-10:30am prosperous shipping merchant Archibald Gracie. Since the 1940s, nine successive mayors and the first families of New York have Set your alarm clock early today — New York’s most elegant taken residence here — until our current first citizen, Mayor shopping emporium has invited us over for an exclusive CEO Michael Bloomberg. visit before the store opens for the day as the special guests of Bergdorf’s own chief executive officer, Jim Gold. We’ll see the newly renovated Mansion, including a viewing of the private bedrooms and family space never before open for public First we’ll have a private breakfast at Goodman’s Café, the store’s viewing. After the tour, we’ll meet at the Mansion with prominent elegant patisserie overlooking Central Park, where Jim will join us political pollster and consultant Douglas Schoen, co-founder to share stories about the unique formula of Manhattan glamour of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, now a part of British and personal service that is the fabulously successful business advertising giant WPP Group. Doug now serves as chairman of Bergdorf’s. After breakfast, their legendary team of personal of PS&B and is also on-air as a political analyst for Fox News. shopping consultants to some of the worlds’ best dressed will 70 71 He’ll talk candidly about his work electing Michael Bloomberg, a The park is a place of open sky, green shorelines and even blue Republican Jewish billionaire from Boston who defeated a locally water – the law establishing the park also designated the Hudson
born Hispanic Democrat in a city whose voters are more than River as an estuarine sanctuary. You’ll be able to experience the S CH E DUL 50-percent minority and more than 75-percent Democratic. To park’s signature attractions, the 13 rebuilt piers that stretch out do this, the Bloomberg campaign paid Doug and his firm upwards as much as 1,000 feet into the river, a legacy from the days when of US$10 million to develop an intensive post-9/11 psychological transatlantic steamships traveled to the New York harbor. The portrait of city voters based not on political party lines or such piers are islands of repose in the midst of our tumultuous city, and traditional hot buttons as race, culture or ideology, but on a allow visitors to leave the urban pace behind and be surrounded unified paradigm of shared everyday interests and concerns. This by the river. Since work on the park began, it has given New profile is perhaps the most insightful portrait of the driving issues Yorkers the chance to be closer to the water that surrounds us, a
and values of the city’s community that has ever been done. physical reminder that we are island people. O FF- SITES
Exertion Level: Minimal Approximate biking time is 3.5 hours. Meal/Refreshment: Included
O FF- SITES Walking Level: Minimal Attire: Comfortable clothes and athletic shoes OFF-SITE: Hudson River Park by Bike Tuesday, 12 September 1:15-5:45pm OFF-SITE: Home Art Visits Tuesday, 12 September The brand new Hudson River Park is a spectacular case of New 1:30-5:00pm York again reinventing itself, making a bold US$330 million bet over the past six years to reclaim five miles of gritty and decaying See description on page 64. urban blight as a glorious waterside park. The park stretches from artsy Chelsea through the now chic Meatpacking District, beside the charming West Village and past Tribeca all the way down to OFF-SITE: Go for the Gold: A Visit to the Federal the tip of Wall Street. A wide, straight and flat bike path runs the Reserve Bank length of the park, giving bicycle riders of all levels an easy ride Tuesday, 12 September and a terrific way to experience the entirety of this great treasure. 1:45-4:15pm The desire to be near this park has a significant impact on the attraction of downtown living, opening up areas for development that previously sat forgotten. Die Hard with a Vengeance. When Bruce Willis went to ground in this action-packed blockbuster, it was to protect the 7,000 tons of gold stored five stories underground at New York Federal Reserve Bank. Come see what the shooting was for in a behind-
72 73 the-scenes tour of the central bank. Among other activities, the Fed is charged with setting monetary policy, supporting financial OFF-SITE: Inside Art - Visit with Guggenheim Museum Director
stability at home and abroad, maintaining the electronic funds S CH E DUL transfer system through which US$3.9 trillion passes every day Tuesday, 12 September and supervising the depositary functions of banks throughout the 2:00-5:00pm nation and the New York Bank. In addition to meeting with Fed representatives and seeing all of that gold, the visit will include a This is an opportunity to see the Guggenheim as you would never tour of the Fed’s exhibition of the world’s most valuable coins otherwise be able to, and to meet and speak with one of the and currency, spanning 3,000 years in the history of money. A foremost figures in the contemporary art world. Lisa Dennison, valuable visit for anyone who likes money. Director of the Guggenheim Museum, will host a private tour of
the museum, followed by a candid discussion about the challenges O FF- SITES Exertion: Minimal of running this renowned institution. The Guggenheim has taken on the challenge of redefining the museum in the 21st century, and it has become the first international museum, with outposts
O FF- SITES around the world, including Berlin, Las Vegas, Venice, and Bilbao, OFF-SITE: Harlem on Foot Spain. Tuesday, 12 September 1:45-5:15pm Exertion Level: Moderate
The streets of Harlem — dangerous? Not at all. Interesting? Absolutely. This vibrant and sophisticated community is now being OFF-SITE: The Bling Thing - Wholesale! rediscovered even by lifetime New Yorkers who had previously Tuesday, 12 September thought the area off-limits. They are now rushing to be a part of 2:00-5:30am its reemergence. Its multi-cultural history, the fabric of its current community and the activities in which its people engage will be See description on page 65. shared by Neil Shoemaker, a lifelong resident who shows us Harlem not as a stage set, but as his home.
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74 75 OFF-SITE: Flight of Fancy - New York by Helicopter OFF-SITE: TV As It Happens: The Colbert Report Tuesday, 12 September Tuesday, 12 September 2:30-4:00pm 5:30-8:30pm (please note late return time) S CH E DUL
From the foot of Manhattan island at the Battery to the northern See description on page 69. tip of Washington Heights, beside the Palisades along the Hudson River and past the reemerging centers across the shores of the East River, take it all in as you soar over the city by helicopter. OFF-SITE: Adam’s Apple Corps - See what King Kong saw from atop the Empire State Building Morning Workouts in Central Park
and experience the Art Deco glamour of the top of the Chrysler Wednesday, 13 September O FF- SITES Building as viewed straight on. Our common front yard, Central 6:00-8:00am Park, looks very different at altitude, as does the United Nations and the suspension arches of the Brooklyn and George Washing- See full description on page 59. O FF- SITES ton Bridges. The entire route of the New York City Marathon will be spread out at your feet. So here’s the chance to get high in a chopper and see it all in one sitting. Workout at Central Park’s famed Fountain, featured in the movies Ransom and One Fine Day. Exertion: Minimal Walking Level: Heavy Price: US$250 Attire: Tennis shoes and workout clothes
OFF-SITE: TV As It Happens: The Daily Show OFF-SITE: Shoot the City with Helen Nitkin with Jon Stewart Wednesday, 13 September Tuesday, 12 September 7:15-9:00am 4.15-7:30pm (please note late return time)
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76 77 these legendary instruments. After Ben has spoken during this OFF-SITE: Smash Broadway Musical Hit “Wicked” morning’s education session on the topic of “Attain, Sustain and with Producer Jon Platt
Market Leadership,” describing how market leaders continue to S CH E DUL Wednesday, 13 September maintain their leadership positions over extended periods, he’ll 11:00am-5:45pm accompany the group to Steinway. Following the tour we’ll be in the Steinway boardroom with Ben and Bruce talking about how Broadway’s biggest blockbuster musical hit, “Wicked,” is a back- Steinway has led its market for over a century. It’s like taking story to the beloved treasure “The Wizard of Oz,” as told through the case study experience out of the classroom and into the the eyes of the supposed wicked witch. It looks at an American company. For those of you who like to blend hands-on business classic in a completely new light with a powerfully strong story access with “serious” Harvard-style learning, this is an exceptional
told with a terrific score and great staging. The show has been opportunity. O FF- SITES sold out at virtually every performance since its opening three years ago and holds the record for the highest weekly box office Walking Level: Minimal gross of any show in Broadway history. O FF- SITES
Pricing: US$225 OFF-SITE: SoHo Shopping 101: Ready, Set, Shop! Exertion Level: Minimal Wednesday, 13 September Meal/Refreshment: Included 1:45-5:15pm
New York is the shopping capital of the world. But where to begin? How are you certain not to miss a trend? We’ve started OFF-SITE: “Inside the Boardroom” at Steinway our buying binge in superhip SoHo and combed the area for Piano (A CEO Exclusive) fashion, beauty products and home design — all outlined in a Wednesday, 13 September fact-filled brochure written by New York City based CEOers. 12:45-4:30pm Highlighted shops include the classic couture of Chanel, the whimsical bags of Anya Hindmarch and Fragments, a jewelry This exclusive off-site blends a unique inside look at Steinway boutique set up like a department store. There are over 205 Piano with the expertise of Harvard Business School resource, boutiques in SoHo and we’ve picked out some of the best. Professor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. We will transport you to SoHo so you can shop to your hearts content! Since 1853, Steinway has been the world’s premier piano manufacturer. As the guests of its chief executive officer, Bruce Walking Level: Moderate A. Stevens, we’ll see firsthand the careful blend of highly skilled Attire: Walking shoes craftsmanship and virtuoso artistry that combine to create
78 79 OFF-SITE: Riker’s Island Prison Tour with Warden OFF-SITE: A Visit with Robert A.M. Stern Peter Curcio at His Studio S CH E DUL Wednesday, 13 September Wednesday, 13 September 1:45-5:30pm 2:00-5:00pm
A complex and fascinating place, Riker’s Island is the world’s One of the world’s leading architects, Robert A.M. Stern is both largest penal colony. Its on-site social systems include its schools, an active practitioner as well as a prominent scholar in his field. a hospital, even its own power plant. It is located in close view of He divides his time between his position as dean of the Yale Manhattan, yet most New Yorkers wouldn’t be able to find it on a School of Architecture and his 170-person architecture firm. He
map. This is a place that regularly performs a chilling slight of hand is also a director of the Disney Company and a prolific writer on O FF- SITES to make people disappear — it keeps in those who want to get architectural topics. His vast body of work throughout the globe out, and keeps out those who want to get in. With CEO, this is spans an array from iconic post-modern shingle style mansions your chance to cross Riker’s Island Bridge, enter the jails and safely to the development of the new town of Celebration, Florida. O FF- SITES get out. You’ll see a place that was only a few years ago one of The Robert A.M. Stern portfolio includes hotels, resorts, offices, the most violent places on the planet, and has now transformed libraries, museums and master plans — plus a line of furniture, into one of the safest. A visit to Riker’s Island will challenge your carpeting and lighting. On this exclusive visit to his studio, Mr. assumptions about our culture and cause you to revisit views Stern will be on hand to speak with us about his work, and as we that until now you’ve taken for granted. As guests of Warden walk through the space we’ll be treated to a display of a number Peter Curcio, you’ll see prisoners and be exposed to how the of the models from his prior works as well as flat-screen CAD prison functions, and meet with the Warden and prison guards presentations of projects that he and his partners are currently to learn about the jail from various points of view. We guarantee designing. an experience that will stimulate you in ways that you can only appreciate after seeing it firsthand. Exertion Level: Minimal
Exertion Level: Minimal OFF-SITE: Home Arts Visits Wednesday, 13 September 2:00-5:00pm
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80 81 OFF-SITE: Horseback Riding in Central Park with OFF-SITE: Adam’s Apple Corps - Claremont Stables Morning Workouts in Central Park S CH E DUL Wednesday, 13 September Thursday, 14 September 3:00-5:00pm 6:00-8:00am
Clarement Stables, since 1892 New York’s premier riding See full description on page 59. academy, offers experienced riders, with at least intermediate level English riding ability, the chance to traverse the quiet and Workout at Wollman Rink, used for movie scenes in Love Story well-maintained bridle paths of Central Park, surrounded by grass and Serendipity.
and trees, but just a glance from the towering skyline of iconic O FF- SITES skyscrapers. Walking Level: Heavy Attire: Tennis shoes and workout clothes The Clarement Stables are a special attraction themselves. Built
O FF- SITES in 1892 and a National Historical Site, they’re in an unusual multi-story barn that houses its horses in individual stalls in the basement and on the second floor. Ramps lead to these spaces, OFF-SITE: Wine Tasting Lunch with James Endicott so that riders can access their horse easily. The stables are a Thursday, 14 September block and a half away from the Park, so getting there starts by 12:45-3:45pm riding your horse with commuter traffic on Manhattan streets. Don’t worry, the horses are used to it and the chance to ride in this setting is something you could easily get used to as well. Wine connoisseurs, food lovers and film buffs will appreciate this opportunity to share an intimate lunch in a private dining room Riding time is one hour. of Robert DeNiro’s storied Tribeca Grill. Still pictures from his movies grace the walls and as his personal office is just upstairs; it’s Pricing: US$200 even common to see him and his film business colleagues at this Walking Level: Minimal chic spot. Attire: Jeans and boots Lunch will be hosted by wine sommelier, James Endicott. James is currently the wine director at Compass restaurant which has won accolades from Wine Spectator “Best of Award of Excellence” as one of the premier wine lists in New York City in 2004, 2005 and 2006. James leads weekly tastings and has extensive experience in wine dinners and wine seminars. He has been a sommelier at some of the city’s top restaurants to include, Tribeca Grill and ‘Cesca.
82 83 their own children to have kids who are now moving back to Our chef’s tasting lunch will feature paired wines in three flights, freshly renovated Lower East Side tenements to live luxuriously each of two wines from the “same grape — different taste.” For
in the very places that once housed their ancestors in squalor. A S CH E DUL gourmet food and vintage wine in a classic New York eatery, this neighborhood still true to its ethnic roots even while caught in will be a memorable afternoon. the crossfire of tradition and gentrification, we’ll celebrate this rich gumbo of diverse ethnic cultures with stops for traditional ethnic Exertion Level: Minimal street food, like egg rolls in Chinatown, canole next door in Little Italy and kosher knishes on Delancy Street. OFF-SITE: Immigrant Dreams and Urban Reality The Lower East Side Walking Level: Moderate Thursday, 14 September O FF- SITES 12:45-5:30pm OFF-SITE: Inside CNN ` Thursday, 14 September
O FF- SITES The center of the melting pot for US immigrants from the 1:15-4:30pm (Group A) mid-1850s through the early 20th century was in the closely 2:15-5:30pm (Group B) packed streets of the lower east side. In 1900, this was reported to be the most densely populated area on the planet. There CNN, New York is a showcase for this global network’s news were more Germans, Irish and Italians in these few blocks than reporting to more than one billion people around the world. anywhere other than their own countries. They, together with Located in the base of CNN’s parent company headquarters, a large immigrant community of Eastern European Jews and the magnificent Time Warner Center, the CNN studios are Chinese, lived crammed into small tenement buildings, packed 10 home both to a display of the history of journalism as well as or more to a room, often without running water. In the heart of its future. The exclusive CEO tour will take us into the studios this district we’ll visit the Tenement Museum, a period tenement and the newsrooms, including the set and the control room of building from the late 1800s, filled with artifacts from the daily the daily morning news program “American Morning.” We will life of the immigrants of this period and designated as a National learn about the news gathering process and the process by which Historic Site. an event becomes a story. We will be joined both by one of the CNN on-camera anchors, who will talk about their work in After seeing what tenement life looked like historically, we’ll news and answer your questions about what goes on when the take a walking tour of the area to experience its dynamism first cameras are off, as well as by one of CNN’s top executives, who hand. Not a period piece or a stage set, the lower east side is will discuss with us the world behind the camera. This will be an currently a hot bed of new, and frequently very expensive, real intimate look at perhaps the most significant news broadcasting estate development activity. It’s a great irony of Manhattan real organization in the world. estate that impoverished immigrants endured the hardships and deprivations of the tenements so that their children could have Exertion Level: Minimal a better life in the green, leafy suburbs outside the city and raise
84 85 OFF-SITE: Shopping in the Meat Packing District OFF-SITE: A Self-Portrait of the Artist: Thursday, 14 September Jeffrey Koons at His Studio S CH E DUL 1:45-5:30pm Thursday, 14 September 2:00-4:00pm Where do you go to shop? Between the Hudson River and the Jeff Koons is a staple of the New York artist scene. His pieces charming West Village is the industrial grit of the Meatpacking have been exhibited throughout the world, including prominent District, an area that is still home to New York’s wholesale meat local displays at the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art and purveyors. But in between the sides of beef are the haunts of the Whitney Museum. He’s also known for his public sculptures, stylish urbanites from around the world, the area’s renowned such as Puppy, shown at Rockefeller Center in the Summer of cutting edge shops, restaurants and hipster hangouts. Local 2000, Balloon Flower, installed in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin as O FF- SITES CEOers are preparing a special Baedaker for this event, your own part of Daimler Chrysler’s permanent collection, and Split-Rocker, travel guide to the Meatpacking District. Some of the featured a piece on display at the Papal Palace in Avignon, France. His shopping venues are Stella McCartney’s eponymous boutique, controversial art has been turning heads for over two decades, famous for beautifully tailored suits; The Jean Shop – the name O FF- SITES all the while causing collectors to open their checkbooks and says it all; Ten Thousand Things, known as Julia Roberts’ beloved currently pay well in excess of US$5 million for major works. This jewelry shop, and the fashionista’s temple of style, Jeffery New is a special opportunity to be Jeff’s guest at his studio, where he’ll York, a mini-department store of carefully edited fashion must- show the pieces on which he’s working and share thoughts about haves. the process of creating these artistic statements and about his life as an artist. After an adventurous afternoon of shopping, we’ll gather at the very special Flower Bar in Banchette & Bianca Flowers, perhaps the only club within a flower shop. We’ll learn why it is rated Walking Level: Minimal the city’s top florist when the gracious and charming Banchette treats us to a presentation on her floral design, which will be accompanied by champagne and time left over to show off our latest purchases. OFF-SITE: Home Art Visits Thursday, 14 September Walking Level: Moderate 2:00-5:00pm Attire: Walking shoes See description on page 64.
86 87 OFF-SITE: Paddling to Liberty Opening Social Thursday, 14 September Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of 2:30-5:30pm Jazz at Lincoln Center Sunday, 10 September See Manhattan by kayak. It can be easy to forget that Manhattan 6:00-9:30pm is an island, unless you’ve seen it from a seat in a kayak. It’s a dramatic experience to see Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and the tip of the island at water level, as so many immigrants have Your New York City experience begins first seen the United States. We’ll paddle with the currents at the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra’s and using two person boats it’s not a difficult trip. A singular new home in the Time Warner Center, opportunity to see New York as you’ve never seen it before. It’s with its glass façade revealing a spectacular view of the City good exercise, good fun and a great experience. and Central Park. It is the first performance facility ever specifically designed for the acoustics of jazz. Our evening O FF- SITES Approximate kayaking time is two hours. begins with a private cocktail reception and a welcome SO C I AL S address by the Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, the Mayor Pricing: US$100 of New York City. Dinner and a special guest artist will Walking Level: Minimal showcase what New York has to offer. Return to the hotel Attire: Shorts and t-shirt, sunblock via a classic horse carriage ride — one of the most romantic and relaxing time-honored traditions of New York — or take a leisurely stroll back to the hotel just a short distance away. Buses also provided.
Location: Time Warner Center Broadway & 60th Street The Allen Room
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What to Wear: Evening Attire Ladies: Cocktail dress or suit Gentlemen: Coat and tie (suit)
88 89 Cocktails at Versace Angel Orensanz Foundation Monday, 11 September A New York Party: 6:00pm-7:30pm Behind the Velvet Rope Monday, 11 September 8:00pm-11:30pm
The clothing empire founded by Gianni Versace in 1978 is still alive and well in Inspired by the Spanish-born New York NYC. The brand — adopted by fashion-forward icons like resident sculptor Angel Orensanz, the Madonna and J.Lo. — has continued to thrive under the aegis namesake foundation has become a strong anchor of the of sister Donatella. Co-sponsored by GQ, our cocktail party visual and performing arts in New York. The uniqueness in Versace’s intimate flagship store showcases the extravagant of the Foundation’s building is indicative of tonight’s social. Come behind velvet ropes and feel the venue’s vibe and luxury of the Versace brand on three levels of the boutique. SO C I AL S Watch for models wearing Versace’s latest designs. The new energy as surprises unfold before you. Haute Couture accessories for women and the exclusive An unassuming façade hides the magic within the space. SO C I AL S men’s Made To Measure line are sure to appeal to the most discriminating taste. The venue combines intimate seating areas with a dance floor and a cast of colorful guests. When the dance floor Departures for the social will leave directly from Versace. fills you’ll know Tom Finn is in the house. Celebrated as the “best known of all DJ’s,” Finn has spun for Princess Diana, the Location: Versace Clintons and many other celebrities — and tonight he will 647 5th Avenue spin for you.
What to Wear: Dressy Casual Location: Angel Orensanz Foundation Ladies: Downtown Chic 172 Norfolk Street Gentlemen: Downtown Hip Seating: Open
What to Wear: Dressy Casual Ladies: Downtown Chic Gentlemen: Downtown Hip
90 91 Free Night Cocktails Free Night Garden Cocktail Party at Tuesday, 12 September Rockefeller Center Beginning at 7:30pm Tuesday, 12 September 6:00-7:30pm A Free Night is always a wonderful opportunity to explore a city. Take Our host, Jerry Speyer, president and chief advantage of your free time tonight to executive officer of Tishman Speyer, is one explore New York on your own or of the preeminent owners of real estate in with friends. If you haven’t already made plans, visit the CEO the world. Rockefeller Center is one of his properties. He is Information Desk or see the hotel concierge. hosting CEO on his private rooftop garden for a party at his headquarters overlooking 5th Avenue and the breathtaking city skyline. Jerry Speyer is also vice chairman of the MoMA Dine Arounds - SO C I AL S and inside you can view the Company’s private art collection. At Home Dinners Enjoy a unique experience; a marvelous beginning to your Wednesday, 13 September Free Night. You will be asked to rsvp for this special event Departures begin at 6:45pm SO C I AL S when you arrive at the University. This evening shows you a more intimate Location: Tishman Speyer - Rockefeller Center side of the city and brings you to homes 45 Rockefeller Plaza hosted by fellow members and their friends. Dine Arounds (between 50th and 51st Streets, and will provide you the ideal ambiance to get to know your between 5th & 6th Avenues) fellow members in an intimate setting.
What to Wear: Dressy Casual You will receive an invitation the morning of the Dine Ladies: Dress, skirt, pants suit Arounds that will specify your individual departure time. Gentlemen: Coat and tie Location: Private residences in New York City
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What to Wear: Evening Attire Ladies: Cocktail dress or suit Gentlemen: Coat and tie
92 93 Closing Social at MoMA: International Advisory Board Cocktails, Dinner and Entertainment Canada Thursday, 14 September Iqbal & Yasmin Kassam 6:30-11:00pm John & Judi Risley Arni Thorsteinson & Susan Glass New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is the site of our final evening Germany together. Known as a “modernist’s dream Pim & Rietje van Agtmael world,” the museum places you amongst the world’s Michael & Ursula Hanning masterpieces in its newly renovated galleries. Our cocktail Bernd & Julia Michael reception begins in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Feel free to stroll in the garden and wander through Lebanon the galleries that have been reserved for your private viewing Faysal & May El-Khalil for the entire evening. In them you will find the works of premodern Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Switzerland SO C I AL S Matisse and Pablo Picasso and the modern works of Alberto Max & Eldean Hatlapa C OMMITTEE Giacometti and Andy Warhol. Yves & Monica Paternot
Location: MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) United Kingdom 11 West 53rd Street, between 5th & Danny & Talia Bejarano 6th Avenues John Porter
What to Wear: Formal Ladies: Gown or cocktail dress Senior Advisors Gentlemen: Tuxedo Fred & Helaine Gould Leonard & Evelyn Lauder Chuck & Toni Peebler
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