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Three SEC Chairmen and Activist Investor CalPERS to be Honored by Directorship

CalPERS CEO Fred Buenrostro, selected as the most influential player in the first corporate governance ranking by Directorship magazine, will address the 8th annual Directorship Institute on December 11 in New York. Buenrostro will speak at a dinner that opens a two-conference conference and honors recipients named to the Directorship 100, the magazine’s inaugural ranking of the most influential players in corporate governance. Richard Breeden, Harvey Pitt, and Bill Donaldson, all former SEC chiefs, will also be honored.

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BOSTON— (DECEMBER 5, 2007)— CalPERS CEO Fred Buenrostro, selected as the most influentialplayer in the first corporate governance ranking by Directorship magazine, will address the 8th annualDirectorship Institute on December 11 in New York. Buenrostro will speak at adinner that opens a two-conference conference and honors recipients named tothe Directorship 100, the magazine’sinaugural ranking of the most influential players in corporate governance. Richard Breeden, Harvey Pitt, and Bill Donaldson, allformer SEC  chiefs, will also be honored.


Honorees attending include: Gavin Anderson, chairman, Governance Metrics International;Dennis R. Beresford, professor ofaccounting, University of Georgia; LauraA. Berry, executive director,Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility; Carolyn Brancato, director, Governance Center andDirectors Institute, The Conference Board; Richard C. Breeden, former SEC chairman and chairman,Richard Breeden & Co.; Catherine L.Bromilow, partner,PricewaterhouseCoopers; Fred R. Buenrostro,CEO, CalPERS; Roel Campos, formerSEC Commissioner; John C. Coffee,professor, Columbia University Law School; Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large, Fortune magazine; Kenneth Daly, president and CEO, NationalAssociation of Corporate Directors; Julie Daum, practiceleader, Spencer Stuart; Stephen Davis,president, Global Proxy Watch; William Donaldson, former SECchairman, chairman, DonaldsonEnterprises; Theodore L. Dysart,managing partner of the Americas, Heidrick & Struggles; Greg Farrell, reporter, USA Today; Richard Ferlauto, director, pension andbenefit policy and corporate governance, AFSCME; Peggy Foran, SVP,associate general counsel, and corporate secretary, Pfizer; Cono R. Fusco, retired managingpartner, Grant Thornton; Martin Lipton, foundingpartner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Jay Lorsch,professor, Harvard Business School, director, Computer Associates; Mindy Lubber,president, Ceres; Joann Lublin,columnist, The Wall Street Journal; Patrick S. McGurn, special counsel, ISS Governance Services, RiskMetrics Group; James Melican, chairman,Proxy Governance; Pearl Meyer, co-founder and senior managing director,Steven Hall & Partners; Ann C. Mule, chief governance officer, associategeneral counsel and corporate secretary, Sunoco; David Nadler, vice chairman, Marsh& McLennan Companies; Harvey Pitt, formerSEC chairman and CEO, Kalorama Partners; Damon Silvers,associate general counsel, AFL-CIO; Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor, YaleSchool of Management; A. Gilchrist Sparks,partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell; Myron Steele, chiefjustice, Delaware Supreme Court; David Swinford,president and CEO, Pearl Meyer & Partners;Carol J. Ward, vice president andcorporate secretary, Kraft Foods; Ralph V. Whitworth, founder and principal, RelationalInvestors, director, Sovereign Bancorp.

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