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Board Oversight of Risk Management
A central responsibility of board directors is to oversee the risk management of the company. What does this entail, and how should board members perform this critical element of their fiduciary duty? During this webinar we will discuss:
Howard Brod Brownstein, Casselle Smith, Lemar Brown
September 25, 2024
3:00 PM ET
PRESIDENT OF BROWNSTEIN CORPORATION
Howard Brod Brownstein, CTP, is a nationally-known turnaround and restructuring professional, and regularly provides programs for Women in the Boardroom. He is President of Brownstein Corporation, which provides turnaround management and advisory services, as well as investment banking, fiduciary services, litigation consulting, investigations and valuation services. He regularly serves on the boards of directors of public and private companies, and currently serves on the boards of: P&F Industries (Nasdaq: PFIN) where he chairs the Nominating/Governance and Strategic Planning & Risk Assessment Committees, Renew Financial, where he serves as chair of the Risk Committee, and Merakey, a nonprofit with over 10,000 employees. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional, and also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and Immediate Past President and Board Chair of the NACD Philadelphia Chapter. He has authored ninety articles and textbook chapters, is a Contributing Editor at two publications, and is a regular guest-lecturer at Harvard Business School, Wharton, NYU and elsewhere. He received JD and MBA degrees at Harvard, and B.S. (Wharton) and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Partner, Troutman Pepper
Casselle represents publicly traded and closely held companies in sensitive, high-stakes internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters across a broad spectrum of commercial enterprises and industries – including financial services, digital media, energy, and health sciences. These matters often involve allegations of corporate malfeasance, professional misconduct, market manipulation, compliance and operational failures, and violation of federal securities laws.
Casselle takes on matters at every organizational level, ranging from discrete matters involving sensitive allegations made by and about frontline employees to “bet-the-company” matters involving credible allegations of misconduct by officers, directors, and entire divisions of publicly traded companies. In addition to investigating the merits of alleged misconduct, Casselle offers strategic direction to help clients anticipate and mitigate regulatory exposure, develop remediation plans, and strengthen their compliance programs.
A significant aspect of Casselle’s practice involves representing major broker-dealers and investment advisers in regulatory investigations involving all facets of their respective operational footprints — including matters arising from routine regulatory exams and more targeted investigations triggered by acute concerns of customer harm.
Casselle is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as president and chaired the governing board of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau — the nation’s oldest student-run legal services center, and one of the law school’s three historic honors societies. Prior to law school, Casselle was an investigator for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Corporate Board Director • C-Suite Consultant
Lemar Marie Brown is a corporate board director and retired executive with over 25 years of experience at Shell plc and Goldman Sachs. She is currently on the board of InnoVent Renewables. Previously, she served as an independent corporate board director of Certarus, a “green energy” supplier. Certarus transports compressed natural gas (CNG), renewable natural gas (RNG), and Hydrogen over the road in the US and Canada. By displacing more carbon-intensive fuels, Certarus lowers its customers’ carbon emissions and costs. While on the board, Certarus initially prepared to go public. As a result of market conditions, the decision was made to remain private and self-fund rapid growth. Certarus was successfully sold to Superior Plus (TSX: SPB) for over $1 billion Canadian. This was a 20% Return of Investment for its investors.
Lemar deploys her experience in global strategy, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures and leadership as a strategy consultant for national and multinational businesses. Lemar was anExecutive Professor at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School, teaching the Capstone Project Course to Executive MBA students. She continues to guest lecture at TAMU and speak at other organizations. She is a member of NACD and Women in the Boardroom. Lemar received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the Goldman Sachs Fellow.
