Risk & Crisis Management
Tom Ridge and Cokie Roberts Speak at Turnaround Management Association's Chicago Convention, Oct. 20-21
Auteur : PRNewswire
Du : 01/11/2005
Two prominent keynote speakers bookend
the turnaround management Association's Annual Convention, held at the Chicago
Hilton & Towers, October 18-21
Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge opens the educational portion of the convention at 8 a.m., Thursday,
Oct. 20, and Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News, is the closing
dinner speaker at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21.
In between are an unprecedented number of speakers and panels in 26
sessions to appeal to the "Wide, Wide World of Corporate Renewal." About 1,100
are expected to attend, including TMA members who comprise the diverse
constituency of professionals who make up a turnaround team, principals in
large and small companies, and attendees from chapters in North America to
Europe to Japan and South Africa.
Full convention content details can be accessed at
http://www.turnaround.org .
turnaround management Association ( http://www.turnaround.org ) is the
only international non-profit association dedicated to corporate renewal and
turnaround management. With international headquarters in Chicago, TMA's 7,000
members in 34 regional chapters comprise a professional community of
turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture
capitalists, accountants, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and
consultants. Members adhere to a Code of Ethics specifying high standards of
professionalism, integrity and competence. Its Certified Turnaround
Professional (CTP) program recognizes professional excellence and provides an
objective measure of expertise related to workouts, restructurings and corporate renewal.
-- 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 -- Panel on "Turnarounds in Public
Education." What led Vince Schoemehl, former mayor of St. Louis and
newly elected school board member, to hire a corporate turnaround
firm? Hear the answer from Schoemehl and the co-heads of Alvarez &
Marsal's Public Sector group about this unique and unprecedented
turnaround assignment.
-- 12:45 p.m. lunch speaker, Thursday, Oct. 20 -- Jim Craig, Gold
Medalist from the legendary 1980 U. S. Men's Ice Hockey Team
-- 8:15 a.m. general session, Friday, Oct. 21 "Evolution of the Large
Turnaround Firm"
Jack Butler, co-leader of the worldwide corporate restructuring
practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, moderates a
panel with top management from consulting firms, Huron, Alvarez &
Marsal, Deloitte, FTI and Mesirow Financial.
-- 12:45 p.m. lunch speakers, Friday, Oct. 21
Senior Automotive Analyst Jon Rogers, Citigroup Smith Barney
Morgan Stanley U.S. Airlines Sector Managing Director Douglas Runte
-- Concurrent sessions throughout the two days touching on the changes to
the Bankruptcy Code, troubled industries, investment banking, the
economy, outsourcing to China, aggressive new lenders in the
marketplace, and all the issues facing corporate renewal professionals
from small, mid-sized and large firms.
-- Awards to Turnaround of the Year and Transaction of the Year winners,
who will also present panel discussions, and presentations to three
Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award winners and two Carl Marks
Student Paper winners.
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the turnaround management Association's Annual Convention, held at the Chicago
Hilton & Towers, October 18-21
Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge opens the educational portion of the convention at 8 a.m., Thursday,
Oct. 20, and Cokie Roberts, political commentator for ABC News, is the closing
dinner speaker at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21.
In between are an unprecedented number of speakers and panels in 26
sessions to appeal to the "Wide, Wide World of Corporate Renewal." About 1,100
are expected to attend, including TMA members who comprise the diverse
constituency of professionals who make up a turnaround team, principals in
large and small companies, and attendees from chapters in North America to
Europe to Japan and South Africa.
Full convention content details can be accessed at
http://www.turnaround.org .
turnaround management Association ( http://www.turnaround.org ) is the
only international non-profit association dedicated to corporate renewal and
turnaround management. With international headquarters in Chicago, TMA's 7,000
members in 34 regional chapters comprise a professional community of
turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture
capitalists, accountants, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and
consultants. Members adhere to a Code of Ethics specifying high standards of
professionalism, integrity and competence. Its Certified Turnaround
Professional (CTP) program recognizes professional excellence and provides an
objective measure of expertise related to workouts, restructurings and corporate renewal.
-- 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 -- Panel on "Turnarounds in Public
Education." What led Vince Schoemehl, former mayor of St. Louis and
newly elected school board member, to hire a corporate turnaround
firm? Hear the answer from Schoemehl and the co-heads of Alvarez &
Marsal's Public Sector group about this unique and unprecedented
turnaround assignment.
-- 12:45 p.m. lunch speaker, Thursday, Oct. 20 -- Jim Craig, Gold
Medalist from the legendary 1980 U. S. Men's Ice Hockey Team
-- 8:15 a.m. general session, Friday, Oct. 21 "Evolution of the Large
Turnaround Firm"
Jack Butler, co-leader of the worldwide corporate restructuring
practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, moderates a
panel with top management from consulting firms, Huron, Alvarez &
Marsal, Deloitte, FTI and Mesirow Financial.
-- 12:45 p.m. lunch speakers, Friday, Oct. 21
Senior Automotive Analyst Jon Rogers, Citigroup Smith Barney
Morgan Stanley U.S. Airlines Sector Managing Director Douglas Runte
-- Concurrent sessions throughout the two days touching on the changes to
the Bankruptcy Code, troubled industries, investment banking, the
economy, outsourcing to China, aggressive new lenders in the
marketplace, and all the issues facing corporate renewal professionals
from small, mid-sized and large firms.
-- Awards to Turnaround of the Year and Transaction of the Year winners,
who will also present panel discussions, and presentations to three
Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award winners and two Carl Marks
Student Paper winners.
Related Articles
[15/05/2008] USB shuffles investment bank, beefs up risk management
[31/05/2007] Bally Total Fitness Reaches Agreement in Principle on Proposed Terms of a Consensual Restructuring With Holders of Senior Subordinated Notes
[08/05/2006] Changes at ISM, IGDA, THQ, ELSPA & More