BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fa379eb0f43426c2db371df4623c2cba290 CATEGORIES:The Leadership Foundry SUMMARY:Get on Board with The Leadership Foundry! - PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSED - WALKINS WELCOME LOCATION:Pepco Edison Place Gallery\, 702 8th Street NW\, Washington, DC 20068\, USA DESCRIPTION:
The Leadership Foundry and WIT are passionate about increasing the numbe
r of women on corporate boards in our region. We invite you to Keep the Con
versation Going. Come and hear our distinguished panel discuss: finding the
ir first board position; their experiences serving on the board; the challe
nges they faced and how they overcame them; the benefits to companies with
women serving and why boards need diversity to succeed. Confirmed panelists
are Laura Olle, Susan Swain and Wendelin White. The panel will be moderate
d by Jennifer Nycz-Connor of the Washington Business Journal.
Th
ere will be networking before and after the address. The registration fee i
ncludes wine, beer, beverages and hors d’oeuvres. The location is Met
ro accessible.
Registration Fees
$75 WIT Members
$90 Non-Member
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Laura N. Olle currently serves as the Chair of the Consumer Experience and Compliance
Committee and Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance and Audit C
ommittees for the Board of Directors of the Encore Capital Group, Inc., an
international specialty finance company that provides debt recovery solutio
ns for consumers and property owners across a broad range of assets. She al
so serves on the board of Morgan Stanley Private Bank.
Laura sta
rted her career as a management consultant for Arthur Young and Company. Sh
e then held key senior roles in information technology for a number of majo
r companies, including the Senior Vice President, Information Systems and S
ervices, at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). In 1999,
Laura joined Capital One Financial Corporation in McLean, VA, as a Senior V
ice President and Co-Chief Information Officer. In 2002, she was named Exec
utive Vice President and Chief Enterprise Risk Officer at Capital One, a ne
w position that centralized the executive management oversight of the compa
ny’s enterprise risk management activities. She was responsible for i
ndependently monitoring, analyzing and reporting on key corporate risk area
s to include strategic, operations, legal and compliance, and managing regu
latory relationships. In 2007, she left Capital One and now serves as an in
dependent consultant.
Laura graduated from the State University
of New York with an Honors Degree in Psychology and received her MBA from t
he University of Nebraska. She is a certified public accountant and complet
ed the Stanford Executive Program in 1998. Laura lives in Washington, D.C.<
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Susan M. Swain serves on the board of dir
ectors at Discovery, Inc. She is a member of the Nominating and Corporate G
overnance Committee and the Audit Committee.
In March 2012, Ms.
Swain was named co-CEO and President of C-SPAN, a multichannel national dis
tributor (TV, radio, internet) of public affairs content. She had served as
President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of C-SPAN since December 2006. Sh
e has been with C-SPAN since 1982.
Ms. Swain also serves as a di
rector of the C-SPAN Education Foundation and as a member of the Executive
Committee of the National Press Foundation. She served as a director of The
Talbots, Inc. from 2001 until The Talbots ceased to be a public company in
2012. She was Chairperson of The Talbots’ Corporate Governance and N
ominating Committee and was a member of its Audit Committee. She was appoin
ted as its Lead Independent Director in May 2010.
Ms. Swain hold
s a bachelor’s degree in communications from University of Scranton (
PA). She served as a trustee of the University for six years and in 1999, t
he school awarded her an honorary doctorate.
Wendelin
(Wendy) White sits on the board of Chevy Chase Trust Company, a p
rivate investment advisory firm with over $30B under management. She serve
d on the board of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, a public REIT (a
nd the oldest public REIT in the country), for over 8 years until August 20
16 and chaired the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of that bo
ard for 5 years.
Ms. White is a Director at the law firm Goulst
on & Storrs PC, and Chair of the Real Estate Transactions group in the
firm's Washington DC office. When she joined Goulston in August 2016, she r
eunited with a zoning and land use group and former colleagues from Pillsbu
ry Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where she practiced law for over 30 years. She is
a Past President of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) DC, and is devoted
to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and the Girl Scout Cou
ncil of the Nation’s Capital, on whose boards she serves. She also s
its on the board of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Sh
e and her husband, Paul Feinberg, live in Chevy Chase, MD, and have two 27-
year old daughters, one in graduate school in NH and the other working in t
he DC area.
Jennifer Nycz-Conner is the Editor-at-Large and a columnist for the Washington Business J
ournal, a business weekly in the Washington, D.C. region. Her award-winning
weekly column, “Working the Room,” chronicles office life and
the after-hours networking adventures of some of Washington’s top bus
iness leaders. She also frequently serves as a moderator for Washington bus
iness events.
As Editor-at-Large, she helps create content throu
gh events, video and online. She also recently served as the morning drive
money news anchor on WTOP 103.5 FM.
She also managed the Busines
s Journal’s video operations, serving as its producer and editor.
Before joining the Washington Business Journal, Jen served as the e
xecutive director of Women in Film & Video of Washington, D.C., a non-p
rofit organization dedicated to advancing the role of women in the film, te
levision and media industries. She also worked in television production and
show development for ProServ, which eventually became part of Clear Channe
l Entertainment.
She started her career working on television pr
oductions, including projects with HBO Sports, “The McLaughlin Group&
rdquo; and commercials, music videos and documentaries. She holds a B.S. an
d an M.S. from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse Uni
versity.
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