2011 Panel
Catherine Bromilow
Partner, Center for Board Governance, PwC
Catherine L. Bromilow, CPA, is a partner in PwC's Center for Board Governance. She works with boards of directors and audit committees of major companies and institutions, providing insight on leading practices, enhancing their ability to comply with evolving regulations and expectations, and benchmarking their processes against leading practices. She has worked extensively with boards and directors from a number of countries, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela.
For the past 13 years, Catherine has been active in researching and advising on matters relating to board-level governance. She oversees numerous publications for audit committees and boards, including PwC's annual Current Developments for Directors and the quarterly periodical To the Point. She authored the second and third editions of Audit Committee Effectiveness - What Works Best, as well as Corporate Governance and the Board - What Works Best. In 2010, for the fourth consecutive year, NACD/Directorship magazine named her as one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance in the United States.
Catherine speaks frequently about corporate governance leading practices with boards and at conferences and seminars. She is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in New Jersey) and a Chartered Accountant (from Canada) and holds a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Doreen Wright
Former Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Campbell Soup Company
Doreen Wright served as Campbell’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer from 2001 – 2008. She led the company’s global information technology organization and reported to Douglas R. Conant, President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Campbell, Doreen was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Nabisco.
Doreen began her career at Merrill Lynch, managing several retail client service processing units. In 1984, she joined Bankers Trust Company as Vice President, Institutional Trust and Custody Marketing. For the next 10 years, she held leadership positions as a Managing Director and Senior Vice President of numerous large-scale institutional customer service and technology groups. From 1995 through 1998, Doreen was Senior Vice President, Operations and Systems for Prudential Insurance Company’s Prudential Investment Group. She was the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Nabisco from 1999 to 2001.
Doreen serves on the Board of Directors of the Dean Foods Company, Conseco, Inc. and the Oriental Trading Company. Doreen has previously served on the boards of The Yankee Candle Company, Alphanet Solutions, Inc., the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Repertory Ballet. She was also a trustee of the Campbell Soup Foundation.
Doreen is a frequent industry speaker on an array of topics including Business and IT transformations and Audit Committee oversight of IT risk. She was an advisory board member of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research and Temple University’s Fox School of Business. She also served on the Gartner Advisory Board. She has a passion for the arts and has been a trustee and patron of numerous performing and fine arts organizations.
Doreen was awarded the Amy B. Kahn Women in IT Leadership award in 2004, the Temple University Fox School of Business Information Technology Leader award in 2007, and was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in November 2008.
Doreen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.
Janet Clarke
President & Founder, Clarke Littlefield LLC
Janet Clarke is President & Founder of Clarke Littlefield LLC, a firm focused on providing strategic consulting services to the financial services industry with particular emphasis on marketing technologies. Her prior experience includes executive roles at DealerTrack Holdings [2002-03] Young & Rubicam, including Chairman & CEO of its KnowledgeBase Marketing subsidiary [2000-01]; Citigroup, where she was Managing Director of Global Database Marketing [1997-2000] and executive positions at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company [1979-1997].
Clarke is a Director of 1 NYSE public company: Asbury Automotive Group. She serves on the governance committee and chairs the compensation & human resource committee. Additionally, she serves on the boards of several small private companies and chairs the audit committee of one of those [Education Dynamics].
Clarke served as a director of ExpressJet Holdings [2002-2010], eFunds Corporation [2000-07] and Gateway Corporation [2005-07]. These companies were sold.
In 2004, Clarke chaired the special committee in the ‘going private’ transaction of Cox Communications***. In 2007, she joined the board of the privately held acquirer, Cox Enterprises, where she currently chairs the compensation committee and serves on the Audit and Diversity committees.
Clarke is a graduate of Princeton where she serves as a Charter Trustee Emeritus and served as Chairman of the Audit Committee [2000-07] and co-Chairman of the Capital Campaign [1995-2000].She currently serves on the advisory board of Princeton’s Center for Economic Studies [CEPS] and is a member of the Princeton University Varsity Club Board. She has an AMP from Harvard Business School and is a former member of the Alumni Advisory Board [2002-2005].
Clarke and her husband reside in Florida.
Panel Facilitator
Lisa Wexler
Talk Radio Host
Lisa Wexler is the Gracie-Award winning creator of The Lisa Wexler Show, the most popular talk radio show in Fairfield County, CT. You can hear the show Monday- Fridays, from 4- 6 PM at AM 1400 WSTC and AM 1350 WNLK as well as via internet streaming on lisawexler.com. Lisa is also the co-author of "Secrets of a Jewish Mother," (Penguin/Dutton) with her sister, "Real Housewife of NYC" Jill Zarin, and her mother, advice columnist Gloria Kamen. “Secrets” has just been published in paperback and is being translated into Chinese, Russian and Japanese. “Secrets” is the recipient of a 2010 Connecticut Press Award.
In addition to winning the title "Gold Coast Best Radio Personality" for 2011, 2010 and 2009 by Moffly Media, Lisa was also named one of "Connecticut's 2010 Movers and Shakers" by the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. Lisa is an attorney admitted to the Bars in Connecticut and New York and graduated from The Johns Hopkins University and The New York University School of Law. At NYU, Lisa won the American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in constitutional law. Lisa is also a co-founder of “Women In Power” an association devoted to presenting informative events for professional women. Lisa has been married to the same wonderful guy, Bill Wexler, for 29 years, which is rather astounding. They have two great kids, Jon and Joanna. The family is very grateful that Sugar, their adorable bichon, has agreed to live with them.
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