NEW YORK, May 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Deal and BoardEx, business units
of TheStreet (NASDAQ: TST), will host their
2nd annual Corporate Governance
conference June 5th at the JW Marriott Essex House in
New York to help corporate
decision makers and their key advisers master the latest and most
critical challenges in managing their companies to maximize
shareholder value.
The conference will include a highly anticipated Cybersecurity
panel, in the wake of the "WannaCry" attacks, moderated by
James J. Cramer, Founder
of TheStreet, Inc.; best-selling author; Host, "Mad Money
with Jim Cramer" and Co-Anchor of "Squawk on The
Street," CNBC. This panel will discuss what leaders need to
know in order to protect themselves from becoming vulnerable to
arguably the most perilous risk facing companies today. Discussion
will center around how to reduce and manage the threat of
cybersecurity attacks, and how to respond to an incident while
minimizing the resulting legal, regulatory and business
fallout.
Cramer will also conduct keynote interviews with Ed Garden, Chief Investment Officer &
Founding Partner of Trian Fund Management, L.P., Randall J. Hogan, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Pentair, and Chief Justice Leo
E. Strine, Jr., of the Delaware Supreme Court.
"Serving on a board is harder than ever these days. From
cybersecurity to federal regulations, pitfalls abound and lawsuits
are lurking around every corner," said Chief Executive Officer
David Callaway. "Our conference aims
to help board members, C-suite executives and others navigate these
troubled waters."
Other speakers include:
- Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock
III, Delaware Court of
Chancery
- Udi Mokady, Chairman & CEO, CyberArk
- Gary Steele, Chief Executive
Officer, Proofpoint, Inc.
- Arthur Winkleblack, Member of
the Boards of Church & Dwight Co., Performance Food Group
Company and The Wendy's Company; Retired EVP & CFO of HJ
Heinz
- Glenn Booraem, Investment
Stewardship Officer, Vanguard Group, Inc.
- Michael Garland, Assistant
Comptroller - Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment,
Office of New York City Comptroller
- Fritz van Paasschen, Former CEO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide, Inc.
For a full list of speakers, the conference agenda and to
purchase tickets, please visit The Deal's Corporate
Governance Conference site.
The event is produced by The Deal and BoardEx, and presented in
collaboration with Paul Weiss, Morgan Stanley, PWC,
Kekst and Seal.
For press tickets contact Jon Kostakopoulos at 212.321.5561
or jon.kostakopoulos at thestreet.com.
About The Deal
The Deal (www.thedeal.com)
provides actionable, intraday coverage of mergers, acquisitions and
all other changes in corporate control to institutional investors,
private equity, hedge funds and the firms that serve them. The Deal
is a business unit of TheStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ:
TST, www.t.st), a leading financial news and information
provider. Other business units include TheStreet
(www.thestreet.com), which is celebrating its
20th year of producing unbiased business news and
market analysis; BoardEx (www.boardex.com), the leading
relationship mapping service of corporate directors and officers;
and RateWatch (www.rate-watch.com) which supplies rate and fee data
from banks and credit unions across the U.S.
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