2011 Executive Summit

Herb Meyer

Former Special Assistant to the Director of the CIA
Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council

Herb Meyer is host and producer of The Siege of Western Civilization , a DVD outlining the threats to our security, our economy, and our culture that has become an international best-seller.

During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Meyer served as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates and other top-secret projections for the President and his national security advisers. Mr. Meyer is widely credited with being the first senior US Government official to forecast the collapse of the Soviet Union.—a forecast for which he later was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, which is the Intelligence Community’s highest honor.

Formerly an associate editor of FORTUNE, he has authored several books including The War Against Progress, Real-World Intelligence, and Hard Thinking. Mr. Meyer and his wife, Jill, are co-authors of How to Write, which is among the world’s most widely used writing handbooks.

Mr. Meyer’s essays on Intelligence and Politics have been published in The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Policy Review, and The American Thinker.

His new project is How to Analyze Information: A Step-by-Step Guide to Life’s Most Vital Skill.

Jim Murren

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer MGM Resorts, International

Mr. James Joseph Murren, Jim has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MGM Resorts International (also known as MGM Grand Inc. and MGM Mirage) since December 1, 2008 and has been its President since August 2007.

Mr. Murren has been the President of Galleon Inc. since December 2008. He served as Treasurer of Galleon, a joint venture firm of Circus & Eldorado Joint Venture since April 2005. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of MGM Resorts International ... from August 21, 2007 to September 2010 and its President from December 1999 to November 30, 2008. Mr. Murren served as the Chief Financial Officer of MGM Resorts International from January 1998 to August 21, 2007, Treasurer, from November 2001 to August 21, 2007, and its Principal Accounting Officer until August 21, 2007. He served as an Executive Vice President of MGM Mirage from January 1998 to December 1999.

Prior to joining the board of MGM Grand Paradise, Mr. Murren was involved in the design, development, financing, management and operations of MGM Grand Paradise. He served as Managing Director and Co-Director of Research for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and served in various other capacities since 1984.

Prior to his employment at MGM Mirage, Mr. Murren spent 14 years on Wall Street as a top-ranked Equity Analyst and served as Director of Research and Managing Director of U.S. Equity Research of Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division. He serves as Co-chairperson at MGM China Holdings Limited and has been its Executive Director since September 22, 2010. He has been an Executive Director of MGM Resorts International since 1998. He has been a Director of Delta Petroleum Corp. since February 2008 and MGM Grand Paradise since January 19, 2010. Mr. Murren serves as a Director of American Gaming Association and Nevada Cancer Institute. He has been a Director of Silver Legacy Capital Corp. since November 2007. Mr. Murren received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Urban Studies from Trinity College in 1983.

Harry Kraemer

Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy
Executive Partner, Madison Dearborn

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn, a private equity firm based in Chicago and also a clinical professor of management and strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $9 billion global healthcare company. He became Baxter's chief executive officer in January 1999, and assumed the additional responsibility of chairman of Baxter's board of directors in January 2000.

Mr. Kraemer joined Baxter in 1982 as director of corporate development. His twenty two year career at Baxter included senior positions in both domestic and international operations. In 1993, he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer, responsible for financial operations, business development, global communications, and European operations. Over the next several years, he assumed additional responsibility for Baxter’s Renal and Medication Delivery businesses. In April 1997, Mr. Kraemer was named president of Baxter International Inc.

Before joining Baxter, Mr. Kraemer worked for Bank of America in corporate banking and for Northwest Industries in planning and business development.

Mitchell Petersen

Glen Vasel Professor of Finance

Mitchell Petersen is the Glen Vasel Professor of Finance. He has published widely in finance and economics. Professor Petersen's research is in the area of empirical corporate finance-the questions of how firms evaluate potential investment projects and how they fund such projects. His recent writing focuses on the funding of small firms and how such funding has been altered by technology and changes in the financial (banking) market. He was awarded the Smith-Breeden Prize for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Finance in 1995 (for his paper "The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data") and the Michael Brennan Award for Best Paper in the Review of Financial Studies in 1998 (for his paper "Trade Credit: Theories and Evidence"). He was runner-up for the Brennan Award in 2008 (for his paper “Does the Source of Capital Affect Capital Structure”) and 2010 (for his paper “Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches”) .

He has been a member of the editorial board of various journals, including the Journal of Finance, Financial Management, Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Intermediation. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and is a member of the Moody's Academic Advisory and Research Committee and served on the Board of Directors of L.R. Nelson.

Professor Petersen was awarded the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2010 and was voted the Kellogg Professor of the Year in 2000, the Executive MBA Outstanding Professor in 2008 and 2010, and Kellogg Alumni Professor of the Year in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Kellogg Professor Petersen taught at the University of Chicago.

Marian Powers

Adjunct Professor of Accounting

Marian Powers earned her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She has served on the accounting faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. Since 1987, she has been an adjunct professor of accounting in the Kellogg School's Executive Education program, specializing in teaching financial reporting and analysis to executives.

She is also co-author of several college accounting textbooks and in-depth cases on financial analysis. The Text and Academic Authors Association chose Financial Accounting as recipient of the 1998 Textbook Excellence Award. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, The Journal of Accountancy, The Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, and Financial Management among others.

Professor Powers has co-authored three accounting and finance interactive multimedia software products. Fingraph® Financial Analyst™ is financial analysis software. Financial Analysis and Decision Making is a goal-based learning simulation focused on how to interpret financial reports. Introduction to Financial Accounting is also a goal-based simulation that uses the Financial Consequences® Model to introduce financial accounting and the financial statements to those unfamiliar with accounting.

Dr. Powers has received recognition and awards for her teaching and is a part of a team that developed and delivers The Conference on Accounting Education, an annual conference.

She has been active in several professional organizations including the Illinois CPA Society, American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association, International Association of Accounting Education and Research, the American Society of Women Accountants, and The Education Foundation for Women in Accounting

Kendall Inman

Founder, Living Yoga, Dallas

Kendall Inman is a yoga teacher, yoga consultant and coach, and founder of Living Yoga Dallas. In 2002, after traveling and experiencing yoga in many places, Kendall returned to Dallas and founded Living Yoga Dallas. She is passionate about bringing yoga to everyone and hosting the finest yoga events, workshops and trainings with the world's finest yoga teachers.

In 2003, she became a registered yoga alliance teacher from Priya Yoga. She has extensive training in Hatha Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Restorative Yoga, Pranayama and Meditation and has enjoyed studying with the world's yoga masters. She has participated in on-going teacher training with Manju Jois, BerylBender Birch, Baron Baptiste, Rod Stryker, Judith Lasater and The Himalayan Institute.

Kendall teaches group classes in Dallas; Playa del Carmen, Mexico; and at workshops and master classes at studios nationally and internationally. She is known as the Urban Yogi: encouraging her students to connect movement with breath and to calm and steady the mind to create an energetically enhancing experience--not just inside the yoga studio, but in our busy everyday lives.