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The Summit Conference attracts speakers and presenters of the highest caliber. In 2009, Robert Gay of Huntsman Gay Global Capital, a billion dollar investment fund, spoke to Summit attendees. Mr. Gay’s bio is listed below:

Bio
Mr. Gay is a Managing Director, Cofounder, and the Chief Executive Officer of Huntsman Gay Global Capital. He is also a member of Huntsman Gay’s Policy and Investment Committee. Mr. Gay has been involved in the private equity business since 1986. From 1989 – 2004, he served as a Managing Director of Bain Capital. He was one of the firm’s senior partners and served as a member of its Management and Business Policy committees.

He also led many of the firm’s investments and oversaw Bain Capital Europe where he opened the firm’s London and Munich offices. Mr. Gay resigned as a full-time partner from Bain Capital when his church asked him to take a volunteer assignment as its Mission President for the countries of Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia from July 2004 to July 2007.

Mr. Gay has actively been involved in humanitarian work all his business life. In 2001 he co-founded Unitus, a global micro-credit company, which is currently helping lift 9 million people across the world out of poverty. Unitus has been recognized world wide and for the last three years has received the prestigious Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist award naming it one of the top 45 social capital companies in the USA. Mr. Gay has also funded KOMART, a micro-credit organization serving West Africa. He is currently a Board member of three global charities: Right to Play, Forever Young, and Realizing the Dream.

Mr. Gay started in private equity when he joined GE Capital from McKinsey & Co. where he was an Engagement Manager. At GE he was Executive Vice President of the GECC Capital Markets group. He also formed and organized Sorenson Capital, a middlemarket private equity firm, and was a member of its Advisory Board. Mr. Gay graduated in 1982 with a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University where he also taught economics for two years. Mr. Gay graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an AB from the University of Utah.

Every year the Summit Conference hosts panels that discuss pressing issues that Directors and Officers are facing. This particular panel discussed D&O Liability – Litigation, Insurance and Indemnification. The distinguished group of panelists included the following individuals:

Moderator – Spence Hoole, Partner, Diversified Insurance Group
Panelist – Karen Mulroe, General Counsel, WellCare
Panelist – Dave Steuber, Partner, Howrey LLP
Panelist – Susan Miner, Director, Corporate & Executive Protection, Woodruff-Sawyer & Company

The discussion centered around the WellCare meltdown and the resulting suits and problems stemming from the governance problems and subsequent bankruptcy.

Bio
Richard Levick, Esq. President & CEO of Levick Strategic Communications, represents companies and countries on the highest stakes global crises and litigation. His firm has directed media strategies on Guantanamo Bay; the Catholic Church; the Wall Street crisis; most of the front-page product recalls; and the largest regulatory, corruption and merger matters in the world. He and his firm have been honored with multiple professional awards, including Crisis, Litigation, Investor Relations, and Food Crisis Communications Agency of the Year. He has been named to multiple professional Halls of Fame for life time achievement. He is the co-author of several books including Stop the Presses: The Crisis & Litigation PR Desk Reference, and is a regular commentator on television, in print, and on the most widely read business blogs including TheStreet.com and Forbes.com.

Bio
Doyle L. Arnold is vice chairman and chief financial officer of the company. He was named as CFO of Zions Bancorporation in November 2001.

Arnold was formerly group executive vice president for Corporate Strategy and Development at Bank of America Corporation in San Francisco. He has served in a variety of executive management positions at BankAmerica, and prior to that at Wells Fargo & Company. Arnold also served as Senior Deputy Comptroller of the Currency and executive assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration. He has served as chief financial and administrative officer of Bankserv, Inc., a leading electronic payments company. Arnold is a graduate of Rice University, and has an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Bio
Dr. King currently serves on the boards of Exxon Mobil Corporation and Lenox Group Inc. She is a former member of the boards of directors of Wells Fargo and Company, Minnesota Mutual Insurance Companies and the H. B. Fuller Company. She has served on numerous board committees, including executive compensation, audit, governance and nominating, finance, and public issues and contributions committees. On the Exxon Mobil board she currently chairs the Public Issues and Contributions Committee. She is co-chair of the NACD 2009 Risk Governance Commission. She is recipient of the NACD 2004 Director of the Year Award. She is a current board member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a Trustee Emeritus of the University of Chicago. She is past board member of the Council on Foundations and the National Commission on National and Community Service

She has held careers in chemical research, academic administration, and philanthropy. She is former president and board chair of the General Mills Foundation and vice president of General Mills, Inc. Prior to joining General Mills, she was president of Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities and as professor of chemistry and associate dean at York College of the City University of New York. Prior to these positions, she was a research chemist at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC.

Dr. King is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University with a Bachelor of Science
degree in chemistry and mathematics. She holds master’s and doctorate degrees
in chemistry from the University of Chicago and the MBA from Columbia
University. She has received numerous civic and professional awards,
including fourteen honorary doctorate degrees.