The Fairmont Hotel San Francisco
November 2-4, 2016
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Welcome to the General Counsel National Summit!
The members of The PEER 150 are honored to host a destination event of networking and content in San Francisco November 2-4, 2016. 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 the top companies in the silicon valley area with unfiltered discussions and content. It is also a chance for our members to network and share ideas.
We look forward to seeing you in November!
Click the following link to see photos from the 2015 National Summit: PEER 150 National Summit Photos.
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Agenda
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Wednesday, November 2
6:00 pm – Exclusive Opening Reception at Fairmont Hotel (Pavilion Room and Rooftop Garden)
Thursday, November 3
7:15 am – Breakfast
7:50 am – PEER 150 Welcome Comments
8:15 am – Andreessen Horowitz Startup Portfolio Presentations:
Three Frontiers in Legal Technology
AJ Shankar
Legaltech is a vibrant space, but we’re just getting started. I’ll discuss three critical areas where you should expect — or demand — to see improvement in the coming years: user experience, collaboration, and artificial intelligence. I’ll also explain why it’s important to develop these areas specifically with legal users in mind.
Founder & CEO
EverlawDownstream of GC: Endemic Inefficiencies That Are Affecting Your Cases
Sarah Schaaf
The legal industry has experienced a vast amount of change over the past few years operating in a post-2008 ecosystem. More lawyers are choosing to work in smaller firms with limited in-house resources and managing more outsourced legal vendors than ever before. How can technology adapt to these changes, remove bottlenecks and facilitate industry-wide efficiency?
Founder and CEO
Headnote
9:15 am – Tales from the Front Lines of the Sharing Economy
Michelle Fang
General Counsel
Turo
10:30 am – Bus departs for Clif Bar Headquarters
11:15 am – Clif Bar Headquarters Visit
Clif Bar & Company crafts energy food with organic ingredients to feed and inspire adventure. Focused on performance nutrition and snacks, the kitchen crafted lineup includes the CLIF® Bar energy bar, LUNA®, and CLIF Kid® brands. Family and employee owned, the company is committed to using organic ingredients to help create a healthy, just and sustainable food system.
11:30 am – Clif Bar Opening Presentation with Q & A
Bruce Lymburn
General Counsel and Secretary
Clif Bar & Company
Kathy Berg
Partner
ZGF Architects LLP12:00 pm – Clif Bar HQ Tour
12:45 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – Clif Bar General Counsel Presentation with Q & A
Bruce Lymburn
General Counsel and Secretary
Clif Bar & Company
2:00 pm – Bus departs for Salesforce Headquarters
2:30 pm – Salesforce Headquarters Visit
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way, run their business from their phones, create one-to-one customer journeys and make smarter, more predictive decisions from anywhere in real-time. For more information about Salesforce, visit: www.salesforce.com.
2:45 pm – Welcome
Wei Chen
VP, Associate General Counsel
Salesforce3:00 pm – Pro-Bono Initiatives
Shanti Ariker
SVP, General Counsel
Salesforce4:00 pm – Equality
Gino Ramos
Operations Manager, Law and Corporate Affairs
Salesforce4:30 pm – Closing Remarks
Amy Weaver
EVP, General Counsel
Salesforce4:45 pm – Wine and Cheese Reception
5:30 pm – Bus departs for Fairmont Hotel
6:00 pm – Dinner, Casino Night and Silent Auction (Crown Room, Top Floor of Fairmont Hotel)
The PEER 150 is extremely excited and honored to partner with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for this private, invitation-only, gala dinner and casino night on the top floor. The gala dinner will help in raising both awareness and money for this amazing nonprofit institution while also providing unmatched networking. All proceeds will benefit CHLA! A great cause!For more information about CHLA, please visit their website here: http://www.chla.org/.
Friday, November 4
8:30 am – Breakfast
9:30 am – Navigating Technology Disruption and Innovation
Brad Lewis
General Counsel
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company
10:30 am – Legal Counsel as Business Leaders
Tony West
EVP, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
PepsiCo
11:30 am – Peer Presentation: Diversity
Michelle Banks
Former General Counsel
Gap Inc.
12:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – Peer Panel Discussion: What Keeps GCs Up at Night
Matt Zinn
General Counsel
TiVo
Bob Dzielak
EVP, General Counsel & Secretary
Expedia
2:30 pm – Go Big or Go Home: A View From the Inside of Pokémon’s 2016 Success
Don McGowan
General Counsel
The Pokémon Company International
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Grab a drink with your fellow members and attendees!
Speakers
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Shanti Ariker
SVP, General Counsel
Salesforce
Bio Coming Soon!
Michelle Banks
Former General Counsel
Gap Inc.
Michelle Banks is the Former Executive Vice President, Global General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer of Gap Inc.
In addition to the global legal function, Michelle oversaw Gap Inc.’s global legal function in addition to global equity, integrity and privacy functions. She also led the foundation, franchise services, government affairs & public policy and sustainability functions during her tenure at Gap Inc.
Before joining Gap Inc. in 1999, Michelle was in-house legal counsel for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, and prior to that, worked in Japan as American counsel for ITOCHU Corporation. She was also associated with several law firms, including Morrison & Foerster in California and New York, focusing on corporate finance and international commercial transactions.
Michelle graduated from UCLA with degrees in Law and Economics, and was admitted to the California bar in 1988. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Minority Corporate Counsel Association and on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession.
Kathy Berg
Partner
ZGF Architects LLP
Kathy Shaloo Berg is Partner at ZGF Architects LLP in Portland, Oregon. In her 20-year career at ZGF, Kathy has led teams from programming through construction for a broad range of buildings, including mixed-use district developments, corporate offices, research buildings, and branding projects. Kathy’s work with leading clients in the fields of technology, workplace, higher education, and research has enabled her to facilitate delivery of high-performance design.
Wei Chen
VP, Associate General Counsel
Salesforce
Bio Coming Soon!
Bob Dzielak
EVP, General Counsel & Secretary
Expedia
Robert Dzielak has served as Expedia’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since April 2012. Dzielak previously served as Expedia’s Senior Vice President and acting General Counsel since October 2011.
Since joining Expedia as Assistant General Counsel in April 2006 and through his service as Vice President and Associate General Counsel between February 2007 and October 2011, Dzielak held primary responsibility for the worldwide litigation portfolio of Expedia and its brands.
Prior to joining Expedia, Dzielak was a partner at the law firm of Preston, Gates and Ellis, LLP (now K&L Gates LLP), where his practice focused on commercial and intellectual property litigation.
Dzielak received his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School.
Michelle Fang
General Counsel
Turo
Bio Coming Soon!
Brad Lewis
General Counsel
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company
Brad Lewis is a Managing Director and the General Counsel of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, a national bank subsidiary of BlackRock which manages over $1 trillion in assets for institutional clients. BlackRock is a global leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services, with over $4.8 trillion in assets under management.
In addition to his duties as General Counsel of BTC, he leads the global legal teams supporting BlackRock’s Institutional Client Business and BlackRock Solutions®. BlackRock Solutions provides the Aladdin® investment management platform to a diverse range of external clients including asset managers, insurers, banks, governments and official institutions, as well as FutureAdvisor®, BlackRock’s robo-adviser platform. Lewis also coordinates BlackRock’s intellectual property protection globally, including trademarks, patents and IP enforcement.
Prior to joining BlackRock, Lewis was a litigation partner and practice head at Fenwick & West, where he represented clients in a variety of matters, including government investigations by the SEC and the U.S. Department of Justice, securities litigation and intellectual property disputes. From 1990 through 1997, Lewis served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of California, where he prosecuted political corruption, fraud and other white collar crimes.
Lewis has been an instructor at the Stanford Director’s College on internal investigations and corporate governance, and an instructor in trial advocacy at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He received awards as a federal prosecutor from the FBI, Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Lewis received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and his law degree from the University of California Berkeley, where he was an Executive Editor of the California Law Review.
Bruce Lymburn
General Counsel and Secretary
Clif Bar & Company
Bruce Lymburn is the General Counsel and Secretary of Clif Bar & Company, the well-known maker of great-tasting and nutritious energy bars and other foods. He has been Clif Bar’s lawyer since 1996 and General Counsel since 2004. A pilot for over 32 years, Bruce also leads Clif Bar’s aviation department. Bruce received his undergraduate degree in earth sciences in 1979 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his law degree in 1982 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Don McGowan
General Counsel
The Pokémon Company International
Bio coming soon!
Gino Ramos
Operations Manager, Law and Corporate Affairs
Salesforce
Bio Coming Soon!
Sarah Schaaf
Founder & CEO
Headnote
Sarah Schaaf is the founder and CEO of Headnote, a technology company that is mapping the legal industry as a transaction network of attorneys, clients and vendors. Sarah is also an attorney that worked most recently in Google’s Discovery Department. Prior to Google, Sarah worked as outside counsel at medium and large firms in San Francisco defending corporate clients in complex litigation matters. Her knowledge about the intricacies of the legal industry are not only based on her work as an attorney, she also grew up in a family of lawyers and has spent the majority of her life working in and around law firms.
Sarah attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law where she served as President of the Student Bar Association. She was also an editor and author for Loyola University Chicago’s International Law Review and was published for her article, “What’s A Survivor To Do? An Inquiry Into Various Options and Outcomes For Individuals Seeking Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art.”
AJ Shankar
Founder & CEO
Everlaw
AJ Shankar is the founder and CEO of Everlaw, where he leads a team that is building the world’s most advanced litigation platform with cutting-edge technology and elegant, intuitive design.
AJ has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an A.B. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University. Among other things, he enjoys crossword puzzles.
Amy Weaver
EVP, General Counsel
Salesforce
Bio Coming Soon!
Tony West
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
PepsiCo
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Tony West is Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of PepsiCo, a global food and beverage leader with net revenues of more than $66 billion and a product portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. PepsiCo’s main businesses – Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola – make hundreds of enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world.
West assumed this role in November 2014 and is responsible for the company’s worldwide legal, government affairs and public policy organizations. He also oversees the company’s global compliance function and serves as President of the PepsiCo Foundation.
Prior to joining PepsiCo, West served as the Associate Attorney General of the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice’s third-ranking official.
West has more than 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors. As Associate Attorney General, he led the Justice Department’s efforts to protect Americans’ civil rights; assist homeowners who suffered losses during the 2008 financial crisis; strengthen the federal relationship with sovereign Native American nations; establish strong partnerships between the nation’s state attorneys general and the federal government; and secure access to criminal and civil legal aid regardless of income.
Prior to his appointment as Associate Attorney General, West served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, the Justice Department’s largest litigating component, where he supervised the work of approximately 1,000 lawyers. In this role, West bolstered the division’s enforcement efforts to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and abuse. He also emphasized the division’s responsibility to bring civil and criminal actions to enforce the nation’s consumer protection laws.
Earlier in his career, West was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, where he prosecuted a variety of federal crimes. He also served as Special Assistant Attorney General at the California Department of Justice and was a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
West graduated with honors from Harvard College, where he served as publisher of the Harvard Political Review, and received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review.
West is based in Purchase, N.Y.
Matt Zinn
General Counsel
TiVo
As Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, and Chief Privacy Officer of TiVo Inc., a NASDAQ-traded software, media, and data analytics company, I oversee worldwide legal affairs and government relations, including securities law, communications, antitrust, and other regulatory matters, litigation, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, intellectual property, privacy, financial transactions and general corporate matters, and provide leadership and direction to the company’s executive management team, global legal staff and outside counsel. I manage an annual budget of $20-30M and a team of 8 attorney/non-attorney staff.
I built and have supervised the legal function for TiVo since 2000 after the Company’s IPO, including multiple financings, acquisitions, regulatory battles, and numerous service provider deals, as well as a change in CEO in 2005. I successfully managed multiple high-stakes patent litigations involving the DISH network, AT&T, Verizon, Microsoft, Motorola/Google, and Cisco resulting in over $1.6 billion in judgments and license fee payments to TiVo. In particular, the DISH litigation spanned 7 years and included 3 trips to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Serving as Corporate Secretary, I established a trusted relationship with the board of directors on corporate governance issues, litigation, and changes in applicable laws and regulations. As Chief Privacy Officer, I successfully guided the Company through multiple privacy policy changes and an FTC inquiry resulting in a determination by the FTC that the Company adheres to its privacy policy. I have testified on behalf of TiVo in several hearings before Congressional Committees on communications and copyright issues. By providing sound legal and business advice, I have enabled TiVo to launch innovative and disruptive products and features while avoiding litigation.
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Charitable Partner
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The PEER 150 is extremely excited and honored to partner with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for the 3rd Annual National Summit in San Francisco! On November 3rd, The PEER 150 and CHLA will be hosting a private, invitation-only, gala dinner and casino night on the top floor of the Fairmont Hotel San Francisco. The gala dinner will help in raising both awareness and money for this amazing nonprofit institution while also providing unmatched networking.
For more information about CHLA, please visit their website here: http://www.chla.org/.
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The Fairmont Hotel San Francisco
Location Information:
950 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
World-renowned, Fairmont San Francisco presents an awe-inspiring picture of historic San Francisco. The grandeur of the luxury hotel atop Nob Hill coupled with its reputation for impeccable service promises a truly memorable experience during your San Francisco vacation. Known for turning moments into memories for leisure and business travelers alike this luxury San Francisco hotel has been host to some of the most influential meetings and events, breathtaking weddings and personalized special occasions of the century.
Hotel Room Information:
The PEER 150 has negotiated a discounted room rate of $379 for a Fairmont Queen room. To book your room, please click here. Through this website you can book, modify, or cancel your hotel reservation at any time.
Please note that hotel rooms will be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis.
If you have any questions about your hotel reservation or the event details, please reach out to Melissa Grosjacques-Colichio, VP of Event Ops, The PEER 150, at [email protected].