Strategic Partners, Investors, Sponsors and Institutional Advisors

Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance is supported by its strategic partners, strategic investors, corporate sponsors, and institutional advisors. Strategic partners and strategic investors are composed primarily of corporate service providers. Corporate sponsors represent corporations, and institutional advisors are drawn from organizations closely related to corporate America.

Strategic Partners
Strategic partners represent IECG’s outreach to professional service providers who assist corporate directors, senior management and institutional investors with timely advice in their specific areas of expertise. This relationship helps ensure that IECG is at the forefront of important developments throughout the entire spectrum of services affecting corporate governance. Strategic Partners: Provide IECG with access to state-of-the-art expertise in the service areas benefiting corporate governance Develop and present, with UT Dallas faculty, programs that assist corporate directors, senior management, and institutional investors perform their duties Conduct research, in cooperation with UT Dallas faculty, on significant corporate governance issues Contribute to IECG a minimum of $20,000 per year
	Kenneth J Menges, Partner in charge of Dallas Office

Strategic Investors
A strategic investor’s role and responsibility is identical to that of a strategic partner with financial support at various levels.
	David J. Kohl, Senior Vice President & Principal
	Mark Sinclair, Partner

Media Sponsors
	Glenn Hunter, Executive Director

Corporate Sponsors
Corporate sponsors provide important benefits because their representatives to IECG typically have strong ties to corporate directors, senior management, and institutional investors. They assist IECG in identifying and recruiting speakers and panelists, provide guidance on the effectiveness of planned programs and research, and suggest new activities for IECG.
	Robert A. Luettgen, Manager, Office of the Secretary
	Jeffrey Curtis Corporate Attorney – SEC Mike L. Kovar, Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
	Alan Halliburton, Chairman and CEO Geralyn DeBusk, President
	John Torres, Chief Legal Officer
	Sal Saggese, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
	Joseph F. Hubach, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel Melendy Lovett, Senior Vice President, President, Education Technology
	Francis H. Byrd, Senior Vice President, Corporate Governance Practice Leader

Institutional Advisors
Institutional advisors provide IECG guidance in the national/global arena of corporate governance. This group alerts IECG to impending changes and events broadly affecting corporate governance that should be incorporated into research and programs. Institutional advisors also work with strategic partners and corporate sponsors by providing another dimension of research and program review. In addition, institutional advisers provide speakers and access to other groups that can assist IECG in achieving its mission.
	Kevin T. Six , Deloitte Tax LLP Partner
	Mark Smith, Vice President
	Michael Cangemi, President and CEO William H. Baxley, Vice President Finance and Treasurer; The Freeman Companies. Paul Mason Executive Vice President and CFO, Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc.
	Frederick E. (Shad) Rowe, President and Trustee, Investors for Director Accountability
	Michael Emen, Senior Vice President of Listing Qualifications
	Hala Elsherbini, Vice President Halliburton Investor Relations
	Carole Stern Switzer, Esq., President
	Lee M. Emery, Chief Executive Officer

Founding Partners