Business Insurance Online Executive Forum^TM Webinar

"Enterprise Risk Management:
Eliminating Obstacles to Success"

Presentation date August 26, 2008

This Business Insurance Online Executive Forum^TM Webinar is sponsored by:

Enterprise risk management is taking on increasing importance, as organizations face rising intensity in the regulatory and competitive environments in which they operate. ERM is more than compliance with a set of rules; it offers the promise of sustainable competitive advantages to those organizations that can fully implement it. What are the obstacles to embedding ERM within an enterprise? Where are the pitfalls to avoid and how can organizations overcome them?

Join Business Insurance Editor Regis Coccia, along with our expert panel, for a lively online presentation devoted to helping your organization eliminate any enterprise risk management, making your efforts more successful.

BI's Online Executive Forum^TM webinars, developed by our editorial staff, are highly informative online events where noted panelists and respected business leaders come together with BI's editors to discuss the most pressing issues in this live interactive format. The forum encourages audience interaction and questions.

PANELISTS:

• Laura L. Brooks, Vice President, Risk Management and Chief Risk Officer, PSEG Group
  

  Laura L. Brooks is vice president of risk management and chief risk officer for Public Service Enterprise Group, an energy company based in Newark, N.J. Ms. Brooks implements PSEG's enterprise risk management strategy and recommends methodologies for assessing and evaluating risk across all PSEG businesses.

  Ms. Brooks previously was vice president-risk management for PG&E Corp., a unit of PSEG. Prior to that she was employed by Deloitte & Touche, Equitable Resources, Equitrans and Southern California Gas Co.

  She is a member of the Committee of Chief Risk Officers, comprised of CROs from more than 30 corporations, which has worked to develop reporting guidelines for energy companies to help restore the confidence of investors and ratings agencies. Ms. Brooks also currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Quantitative Finance program at Rutgers University and the Enterprise Risk Management program at North Carolina State University; is a director of Provident Financial Services and the Provident Bank of New Jersey; and serves on the Board of the Girl Scouts of Greater Essex and Hudson Counties.

  Ms. Brooks has a master of science degree in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of science in petroleum engineering from Stanford University. She also hold bachelor and master of arts degrees in mathematics from the University of Colorado.





• Steven Dreyer, U.S. practice leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings, Standard & Poor's Corp.
  

  Steven Dreyer is Standard & Poor's Corp.'s U.S. practice leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings, overseeing a group of 50 analysts providing credit ratings and research on investor-owned electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, gas pipelines, project finance, and public-private infrastructure partnerships. Mr. Dreyer, based in New York, also leads an S&P research project on the applicability of Enterprise Risk Management analysis to the credit analysis process for corporate ratings globally.

  From 2000 to 2006, Mr. Dreyer was North American practice leader for Insurance Ratings. He joined Standard & Poor's in 1990 with its acquisition of ratings firm Insurance Solvency International Ltd., whose U.S. subsidiary he managed. Previously he was responsible for insurance industry forecasting at Chase Econometrics.

  Mr. Dreyer was named to Insurance Newscast's "List of 100 Most Powerful People in Insurance in North America" from 2002 to 2006. In 2003, he contributed to the Greater New York Safety Council's "Roundtables on Sector Preparedness," reporting to the 9-11 Commission. He is a director of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, which sets ethical standards in the sale of life insurance and annuities.

  Mr. Dreyer earned a bachelor of arts degree in Statistics from the University of Delaware and did graduate work at Drexel University. He has completed executive development programs at the University of Virginia, Columbia University and INSEAD.





• John J. Hampton, KPMG Professor of Business; Dean, School of Professional & Continuing Studies & Graduate Business Programs, St. Peter's College
  

  John J. Hampton is the KPMG Professor of Business and dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Studies and Graduate Business Programs at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J. He specializes in business ethics, legal liability and enterprise risk management.

  Mr. Hampton is author of the Emerging Risk Strategies column, which is published in Business Insurance in print and online. The column explores issues relating to enterprise risk management and how organizations can create a strong culture that fosters a broad perspective on managing internal and external exposures. In columns to date, he has explored such varied topics as corporate governance, chief risk officers, chief strategy officers, risk management in Russia, and the evolving role of the risk manager.

  Mr. Hampton previously served as dean of the business schools at Seton Hall University and Connecticut State University and was a professor of risk management at The College of Insurance, now the School of Risk Management at St. John's University.

  Mr. Hampton also served as executive director of the Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. from 2000 to 2004.

The event is moderated by Business Insurance Editor Regis Coccia.