Host Hotel: Claremont Hotel & Spa
HQ Stops: PayPal, CBSi, Yelp and Memorial Stadium
October 25-27, 2017
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Welcome to The PEER 150 General Counsel National Summit!
The members of The PEER 150 are honored to host a destination event of networking, content, and company HQ visits in the Bay Area October 25-27, 2017. Attendance is reserved for current members of The PEER 150 as well as select guests and colleagues approved by our PEER 150 team.
The event will be filled with unique and exclusive access to PayPal, CBSi and Yelp HQs with unfiltered discussions and content (other stops coming soon). It is also a chance for our members to network and share ideas.
We look forward to seeing you in October!
Click the following link to see photos from the 2016 National Summit: PEER 150 National Summit Photos.
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Agenda
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Wednesday, October 25
6:00 pm – Exclusive Opening Cocktail Reception at Claremont Hotel & Spa
9:00 pm – Adjourn
Thursday, October 26
7:00 am – Breakfast & Registration
8:00 am – PEER 150 Welcome Comments
8:15 am – The GC as Consiglieri – The Importance of Gaining Trust
Russ Elmer
The General Counsel can either be the “head lawyer” or a trusted advisor to the CEO, senior executives and the Board of Directors. To be effective, a General Counsel must gain the trust of all these constituencies and be involved in making significant decisions. The title of General Counsel does not automatically mean that you will be in the “inner circle” of decision-making in your organization. In this session, we will talk about what it means to be a trusted advisor and different ways the General Counsel can earn that trust.
VP & General Counsel
LendingClub Corporation
9:15 am – The Rise of State and Local Regulation and Enforcement
Trent Norris
With gridlock prevailing in Washington, state and local legislators and enforcers are enacting new regulatory requirements and taking a more active role in enforcement. This poses significant challenges to businesses and requires new strategies and skills for their in-house counsel to stay abreast of developments, be involved in advocacy efforts, and to improve compliance procedures. Our panel will discuss these challenges with specific examples and suggestions for ways that senior in-house counsel can address them.
Partner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Peggy Otum
Partner
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Anthony Samson
Senior Attorney and Policy Advisor
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
10:30 am – Bus departs for PayPal Headquarters
11:30 pm – PayPal Headquarters Visit
Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 203 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person.12:00 pm – Private HQ Tour & Networking
1:00 pm – Lunch at PayPal
1:30 pm – PayPal Presentation
John Nai
CISO
PayPal2:30 pm – Interactive Discussion
Jason Truppi
Director, Endpoint Detection & Response
Tanium
3:30 pm – Bus departs for California Memorial Stadium
4:30 pm – Arrival for Dinner & Casino Night (All PEER 150 Groups)
The PEER 150 is extremely excited and honored to partner with Make-A-Wish for this private, invitation-only, dinner and casino night at California Memorial Stadium. The evening will help in raising both awareness and contributions for this amazing nonprofit institution while also providing unmatched networking. All proceeds will benefit Make-A-Wish! A great cause!For more information about Make-A-Wish, please visit their website here: http://www.wish.org/.
4:30 pm – Reception at California Memorial Stadium
5:00 pm – PEER 150 Member Welcome
5:15 pm – Competing in the Digital Vortex (Interactive Workshop Session)
Roy Skillicorn
Sr Dir, HR, L&D, Workforce Transformation – Services Academy
Cisco6:15 pm – Make-A-Wish / Airbnb Partner Presentation
Betsy Biern
CEO
Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area
Mark Levy
Global Head of Employee Experience
Airbnb6:45 pm – Dinner Served, Casino Night & Silent Auction/Raffle
Friday, October 27
8:15 am – Breakfast
8:55 am – PEER 150 Welcome Comments
9:00 am – Peer Presentation #1
Frank Kim
Curriculum Director
SANS Institute
10:00 am – Peer Presentation #2
Thomas Chow
General Counsel, Technology Executive, Business Attorney, Director & Advisor
Exponential Interactive
11:00 am – Bus departs for CBS Interactive Headquarters
11:30 am – CBS Interactive Headquarters Visit
CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corporation, is the premier online content network for information and entertainment. Our culture of creativity and collaboration is our foundation; it’s present in everything we do.11:30 am – Arrival & Check-in
11:45 am – Lunch at CBSi
1:00 pm – CBSi Welcome Comments
Marchelle Johnson Wright
VP, HR
CBS Interactive1:25 pm – CBSi GC Presentation
Darin Bassin
EVP, GC & Corporate Development
CBS Interactive1:45 pm – CBSi Tech Presentation
Floyd Fernandes
VP & CISO
CBS Interactive2:45 pm – Q&A
3:00 pm – Load Bus
3:15 pm – Bus departs for Yelp Headquarters
3:30 pm – Yelp Headquarters Closing Cocktail Reception
Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics. Yelp had a monthly average of 26 million unique visitors who visited Yelp via the Yelp app and 73 million unique visitors who visited Yelp via mobile web in Q1 2017. Yelpers have written more than 127 million reviews by the end of Q1 2017. In addition to reviews, you can use Yelp to find events, lists and to talk with other Yelpers.
4:30 pm – Bus returns to Claremont Hotel
5:00 pm – Guest Departures
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Darin Bassin, EVP, GC & Corporate Development, CBS Interactive
Darin Bassin is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Development, of CBS Interactive, one of the world’s largest digital media companies. He is part of the executive team responsible for developing and implementing strategy and operations of a pioneering OTT streaming service, top 10 global Internet property, and one of the largest publishers of premium content online. Specifically, he is responsible for all legal functions as well as corporate development across CBS Interactive, including digital media rights, strategic transactions, commercial transactions, privacy, employment and HR issues, litigation, and intellectual property.
CBS Interactive is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) and includes all significant digital assets of CBS Corp. These premium digital brands include CBS All Acess, CBS.com, CNET, CBSSports.com, TV Guide Digital, CBSNews.com, CBSN, GameSpot and Download.com, and until divestitures completed in 2016, was the only foreign company operating Chinese-native internet businesses.
Darin joined CBS Corporation in January 2006 as Vice President, Senior Counsel in the Mergers, Acquisitions & Commercial Transactions practice area. Prior to joining CBS, Darin worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Manhattan. Darin earned his L.L.B. and MBA from the University of British Columbia, at Vancouver, Canada. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.
Betsy Biern, CEO, Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area
An executive with more than 20 years of non-profit organizational leadership experience with an expertise in all aspects of fundraising encompassing board recruitment and development, capital campaigns ranging up to $1 billion, major gifts, grants and events. Possesses a proven record of success in leading teams, engaging leadership in soliciting high net worth individuals, communicating organizational mission and cultivating significant community and corporate relationships.
Thomas Chow, General Counsel, Technology Executive, Business Attorney, Director & Advisor, Exponential Interactive
Bio Coming Soon!
Russ Elmer, VP & General Counsel, LendingClub Corporation
As Lending Club’s General Counsel, Russ handles all regulatory and legal matters with an emphasis on securities and banking.
Prior to Lending Club, Russ was Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary at PayPal Holdings Inc., where he managed responsibilities across the corporate legal functions, including corporate securities, M&A, corporate governance, litigation, and other central functions. He also oversaw the legal complexities of the eBay and PayPal spin off.
Prior to PayPal, Russ served as the General Counsel at leading financial services and financial technology companies. He also spent a decade as a Partner at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich. Combined, Russ has over 25 years of experience leading corporate legal teams and providing legal counsel.
Russ received a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Stanford University. He is a member of the State Bar of California.
Floyd Fernandes, VP & CISO, CBS Interactive
Bio Coming Soon!
Frank Kim, Curriculum Director, SANS Institute
Bio Coming Soon!
Mark Levy, Global Head of Employee Experience, Airbnb
Mark is a seasoned globally minded HR Leader who has chosen to work for big hearted companies and focus on how he and his team can unleash the talents and interests of a company’s employees. He has worked with the likes of Levi Strauss & Company and Gap Inc. partnering with business leaders to support their HR needs including innovative ways to create a learning organization and ensure integration between work and life. Mark also spent two years living and working in Paris France for Thomson/Technicolor.
Mark’s first job was as a travel agent in college and graduate school. His first HR position was with a small boutique hotel company in San Francisco. He has come full circle and is back in the travel business disrupting at Airbnb.
Mark was the pioneer of creating the Employee Experience team at Airbnb, which has created significant changes in the way organizations globally are looking at broadening the HR function. This group includes traditional HR functions in addition to broader areas focused on culture and workplace. Mark’s current areas of responsibility are Recruiting, Diversity & Belonging, Workplace (Food, Facilities, Safety & Security, and Environments), Learning and Development, as well as Ground Control, a team which is responsible for curating the culture. Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where you can belong anywhere, and the employee experience mission is to ensure employees feel they belong here at Airbnb. “It is a privilege, a ton of fun and a lot of work to scale the organization while ensuring we don’t F#@k up the culture.”
Mark has his JD/MBA from the University of Colorado after four formative years at Colorado College. Mark chose to leave the practice of law after one year to focus his career on helping organizations do the right thing and to attract, develop, engage and retain creative and diverse talent to drive business results, curate the culture and create community connections.
In addition, Mark has been actively involved in helping organizations enable their employees to help those less fortunate through volunteering programs and community involvement, and is currently on the Board of First Graduate, a non profit which helps those who are first in their family to attend college.
John Nai, CISO, PayPal
Bio Coming Soon!
Trent Norris,Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Bio Coming Soon!
Peggy Otum, Partner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Peggy Otum is a partner in Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s Environmental group. Peggy practiced law in Arnold & Porter’s Washington, DC office and is now resident in the firm’s San Francisco, CA office. Her practice focuses on complex environmental litigation and regulatory compliance counseling, with particular focus on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; the Clean Air Act; and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Peggy has advised clients in investigations, litigation, and other enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Her experience also encompasses advising clients on environmental aspects of corporate transactions, including identifying and evaluating environmental liabilities associated with manufacturing facilities, negotiating and drafting environmental provisions in corporate agreements, and advising clients on environmental insurance.
Peggy earned her law degree from Howard University School of Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Howard Law Journal, and her B.Sc. in Neuropsychology from The University of Toronto.
Anthony Samson, Senior Attorney and Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Anthony Samson is a registered lobbyist located in Sacramento, where he advocates for clients before the California Legislature, the Governor’s Office, and regulatory agencies on a broad range of issues, including environmental, health care, chemical, life sciences, energy, privacy, housing and land use, transportation, consumer products, hazardous waste, tax, education, water, labor and employment, litigation, and food and agricultural policy. Mr. Samson’s legislative and regulatory advocacy capabilities have been recognized by some of California’s most well-respected policy experts. According to Allan Zaremberg, President and CEO of the California Chamber of Commerce, “Anthony’s sharp political mind combined with his deep knowledge of California’s complex laws make him an expertly qualified lobbyist in both the legislative and regulatory arenas.”
Before joining the firm, Mr. Samson was a Policy Advocate at the California Chamber of Commerce, the largest business advocacy organization in the state, with more than 14,000 member companies. While at CalChamber, Mr. Samson became known for his ability to assemble large industry-wide coalitions to achieve positive outcomes on dozens of legislative and regulatory proposals. For example, Mr. Samson led a broad-based coalition to secure amendments and ultimately remove opposition to an extraordinarily complicated environmental bill related to the protection of Native American sacred sites under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). He also spearheaded and managed one of the largest business coalitions ever assembled in California, consisting of over 250 companies and organizations, to substantially improve a regulatory proposal by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) regarding warning requirements under Proposition 65.
Roy Skillicorn, Sr Dir, HR, L&D, Workforce Transformation – Services Academy, Cisco
Roy Skillicorn currently serves as Senior Director of H.R. leading Cisco’s Services Academy. In this role, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for ensuring Cisco’s Services professionals have the skills and context needed to deliver extraordinary outcomes for their customers.
Roy also studies great teams. Roy believes that culture resides in teams and that company performance is an extrapolation of the effectiveness of the teams and team leaders that comprise a company.
A 20-year veteran of Cisco, Roy previously spent over 15 years as a Services General Manager where he built, launched, and led global services businesses for Cisco. Prior to joining the Human Resources organization, he created and ran Cisco’s global video and collaboration services business. Roy is an active speaker and has presented on the future of work, human performance, digital disruption, and team performance and development.
Jason Truppi, Director, Endpoint Detection & Response, Tanium
Jason Truppi is a career technologist turned FBI agent and now tech entrepreneur. Jason has many years of experience working in information systems and security. More recently, Jason was an FBI Cyber Agent in New York City where he worked some of the Nation’s largest national security and criminal cyber intrusions. He was later promoted as Supervisory Special Agent in Washington D.C. where he was responsible for major data breaches, hactivism and cyber extortion cases across the country. As a Director at Tanium, Jason is helping to advance its security products to enable corporate network defenders on an even larger scale. He is applying his skills and experience in incident response, investigations, penetration testing, analysis and threat intelligence to help solve the cyber crime epidemic that we face today.
Marchelle Johnson Wright, VP, HR, CBS Interactive
Marchelle Johnson is the Vice President, Human Resources at CBS Interactive. CBS Interactive is the premier online content network for information and online operations of CBS Corporation as well as some of the top native digital brands in the entertainment industry.
Marchelle possesses over 17 years of human resources and organizational development experience. Marchelle’s expertise includes Human Resources administration, talent acquisition, leadership development and strategic business partner positions.
Marchelle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Labor Studies from Wayne State University and a Masters degree in Human Resources from Central Michigan University. Marchelle also completed certification programs in HR Strategy with Organizational Strategy Human Resources Leadership from Cornell University.
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For more information about sponsorship, please contact [email protected].
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The PEER 150 is extremely excited and honored to partner with Make-A-Wish for the 4th Annual PEER 150 National Summit! On October 26th, The PEER 150 and Make-A-Wish will be hosting a private, invitation-only, dinner and casino night. The dinner will help in raising both awareness and contributions for this amazing nonprofit institution while also providing unmatched networking.
For more information about Make-A-Wish, please visit their website here: http://www.wish.org/.
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Host Hotel:
Claremont Hotel & Spa
41 Tunnel Road
Berkeley, CA 94705
Opening its doors in 1915, Claremont Club & Spa has been revered as one of America’s iconic luxury hotels. Originally a romantic castle at the start of the Gold Rush and later a grand hotel, this exclusive resort is rich with history and tradition. Overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Claremont Club & Spa in Berkeley sets new heights in service, amenities, and accommodations. For the past 100 years, Claremont has been recognized as an icon in the Bay Area.
Headquarter Visits:
PayPal Headquarters
2211 North First Street
San Jose, California 95131
California Memorial Stadium
2227 Piedmont Ave
Berkeley, CA 94720
CBSi Headquarters
235 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Yelp Headquarters
140 New Montgomery St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
Hotel Room Information:
The deadline has passed to book a room in our block at the discounted rate of $299 plus tax for a Fairmont Queen Room.
Please note, we have a few rooms held that we can switch into your name, but they will go quickly. Reach out to Melissa for availability. Rooms will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have any questions about your hotel room or the event details/logistics, please reach out to Melissa Grosjacques-Colichio, VP of Event Ops, The PEER 150, at [email protected].
Host Hotel Map & Directions:
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