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Chief Enforcement Conference 2018

Chief Enforcement Conference 2018

For ENF Supervisors Only

  • DAY ONE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

  • [+]8 a.m. | Registration

    Coffee and light pastries available each morning at 8 a.m. in the auditorium foyer

  • [+]9 - 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks (30 mins)

    Stephanie Avakian and Steve Peikin

  • [+]9:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Keynote: Extreme Productivity, Robert Pozen (60 mins)

    Robert Pozen is Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was formerly Chairman of MFS Investment Management, which manages over $200 billion in assets for over $5 million investors worldwide. During 2002 and 2003, Pozen was the John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, teaching interdisciplinary courses on corporate governance and financial institutions.

    In late 2001 and 2002, he served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. In 2003, he also served as Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Pozen was formerly vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management and Research Company, the investment advisor to the Fidelity mutual funds. From 1987 to 1996, he was managing director and general counsel of Fidelity Investments.

    Before joining Fidelity, Pozen was a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, where he led the banking/securities department from 1981 to 1986. Prior to that, he was Associate General Counsel to the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1978 to 1980. Pozen also was a law professor at Georgetown and New York University from 1973 through 1977. He has served as Chairman of an SEC advisory committee on improving financial reporting.

  • 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | BREAK (15 min)

  • [+]10:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Criminal Coordination (75 mins)

    Moderator: Marc Berger, Regional Director, NYRO

    Panelists:

    Kay Pyszka, Associate Regional Director, CHRO

    John Berry, Associate Regional Director, LARO

    Graham Loomis, Regional Trial Counsel, ARO

    Assunta Vivolo, Assistant Regional Director, Cyber/PLRO

  • [+]12 - 1:30 p.m. | LUNCH and NETWORKING (90 mins)

    AMU — Room 3211, SP1

    CFIU — Room 8002, SP1

    Cyber — Room 4280, SP2

    FCPA — Room 4860, SP3

    MAU — Room 4280, SP2

    Trial Unit — Room 5860, SP3

  • [+]12 - 3:15 p.m. | SUPV PARALEGAL BREAKOUT SESSION (210 mins) | Room 8280

    Contract Planning & Oversight - Cheryl Watts

    Records Management - Jean Sadlowe

    Litigation Support - Carrie Holt

  • [+]12 - 3:45 p.m. | ARDO BREAK OUT SESSION (225 mins) | Room 5000

    Welcome Remarks - Robert Fisher, Victor Valdez

    OHR Discussion – Jamey McNamara, Dia Gonsalves, Erica Nyland

    OFM Discussion – Rick Taylor, Richard Taylor

    Performance Mgmnt - Dia Gonsalves, Erica Nyland

    Security Services – Dean Hunter, Cedric Watson

    OME Presentation - Robert Fisher, Victor Valdez

  • [+]1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Survey of Significant Legal, Litigation and Policy Issues (60 mins)

    Panelists:

    Joe Brenner, Chief Counsel

    Bridget Fitzpatrick, Chief Litigation Counsel

    David Gottesman, Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel

  • [+]2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Brainstorming Session (60 mins)

    The Brainstorm Session focuses on getting the best ideas from our one team. The Session is designed to encourage conversations, brainstorming, and collaboration among small discussion groups, focused on what we should do differently – our processes, the substance of what we do, our ability to manage our teams, cases, and priorities. We will divide up into groups, and have our conversations in the Auditorium, before coming back together to discuss as one team so that all managers have the benefit of the best ideas!

  • 3:30 - 3:45 p.m. | BREAK (15 min)

  • [+]3:45 – 4:45 p.m. | Reliance Defenses - From Investigation to Appeal (60 mins)

    Moderator: Bridget Fitzpatrick, Chief Litigation Counsel

    Panelists:

    David Gottesman, Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel

    Dan Michael, Chief, CFIU/NYRO

    Martin Healey, Regional Trial Counsel, BRO

    David Fraser, Regional Trial Counsel, FWRO

  • [+]4:45 – 5:30 p.m. | Negotiation Strategies (45 mins)

    Stephanie Avakian and Steve Peikin

  • [+]5:30 – 7:00 p.m. | Off Site Happy Hour

    Thunder Grill, Front Hall in Union Station

  • [+]6:30 p.m. | Dinner Lottery

    By RSVP

  • DAY TWO: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

  • [+]9:00 – 10:45 a.m. | Discussion and Q&A (105 mins)

    Stephanie Avakian and Steve Peikin

  • 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. | BREAK (15 mins)

  • [+]11:00 - 11:45 a.m. | Keynote – FBI Director Christopher Wray (45 mins)

    Christopher Wray became the eighth Director of the FBI on August 2, 2017.

    Mr. Wray was born in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992. He then clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 1993, he began working in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Mr. Wray began his Department of Justice career in 1997 as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he prosecuted cases ranging from public corruption to gun trafficking and financial fraud. In 2001, he joined the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, where he served as associate deputy attorney general and then principal associate deputy attorney general, with oversight responsibilities spanning the full Department.

    In 2003, Mr. Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. In addition to overseeing criminal matters, Mr. Wray played a key role in the evolving national security mission of the Department. He also served on the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force and supervised the Enron Task Force and other major national and international fraud investigations. At the conclusion of his tenure, Mr. Wray was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the Department of Justice’s highest award for leadership and public service.

    After leaving the Department of Justice in 2005, Mr. Wray returned to private practice at the law firm King & Spalding, where he chaired the Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group.

  • [+]11:45 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Closing Remarks (15 mins)

    Stephanie Avakian and Steve Peikin

Modified: Sept. 24, 2018

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