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February 9th
Wharton Alumni & Student Cocktail
8:00-10:00p
Location: Boathouse
Row Bar (The Rittenhouse Hotel)
February 10th (Conference Day)
Registration & Breakfast:
7:30-8:45a
Keynote Speaker – Steve
Miller:
9:00-10:00a
Operational Turnaround Panel:
10:15-11:30a
Lunch:
11:45-12:45p
Keynote Speaker – Henry
Miller:
1:00-2:00p
Distressed Investing Panel:
2:15-3:45p
Financial Restructuring Panel:
4:00-5:30p
Cocktails:
5:30-7:00p
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Introducing our keynote speakers: Robert
Stevens “Steve” Miller and Henry
S. Miller
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Robert Stevens
"Steve" Miller, 64, became
chairman and chief executive officer
of Delphi
Corporation on July 1, 2005. He
also serves as chair of the Delphi Strategy
Board, the company's top policy-making
group.
Prior to joining Delphi, Miller was
the non-executive chairman of Federal-Mogul,
and also serves as a director of two
other diverse public companies: Symantec
and United Airlines. He previously served
on the board of Reynolds American and
Waste Management, Inc. Currently, he
serves as a board member of the Economic
Alliance of Michigan. |
Miller began his career in 1968 at Ford
Motor Company, and worked for 11 years
in a variety of assignments in the United
States, Mexico, Australia and Venezuela.
In 1979, he joined Chrysler Corporation
at the request of then-chairman Lee
Iacocca and was the architect of the
Loan Guarantee Act that included negotiations
with 400 lenders and the U.S. government
to secure the bailout of the troubled
automaker. He remained at Chrysler for
more than a decade, eventually serving
as chief financial officer and vice
chairman responsible for all staff activities,
international automotive operations,
and non-automotive operations such as
Gulfstream Aerospace.
Miller left Chrysler in 1992 and became
a partner in an investment banking firm,
advising Olympia & York, a privately
held real estate firm, as it restructured
more than $20 billion in debt. In 1993,
he embarked on a career as a professional
corporate director. In the past decade,
he has returned to the private sector
nine times to serve as a full-time executive
in order to guide the recovery of several
companies. These included:
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1995: Chairman,
Morrison Knudsen, an engineering
and construction firm.
1996: Acting CEO, Federal-Mogul,
an automotive parts maker.
1997: Chairman and CEO, Waste
Management, an environmental services
firm.
1999: CEO, Waste Management.
1999: President, Reliance Group
Holdings, a property and casualty
company.
2000: Office of the CEO, Aetna,
an insurance services firm.
2000: Interim CEO, Federal-Mogul.
2001: Chairman and CEO, Bethlehem
Steel.
2003: Non-executive Chairman,
Federal-Mogul. |
Miller is a native of Portland, Ore.,
where his family owned a timber and
lumber business. He earned a degree
in economics from Stanford University
in 1963, and a law degree from Harvard
Law School in 1966. In 1968, he received
an MBA degree in finance from Stanford
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Over
the course of his career, Mr. Miller
has represented debtors, creditors and
other constituents in numerous out-of-court
and chapter 11 matters. These have included
extremely complex reorganizations where
the services provided involved raising
"rescue" financing, strategic
assignments and divestitures of substantial
assets or businesses of the affected
enterprises. Among the major cases in
which he has played a role (or is actively
involved with) are: Delta Air Lines,
Inc., Gate Gourmet, Interstate Bakeries
Corporation, Stolt-Nielsen, S.A., Stolt
Offshore S.A., Charter Communications,
Independence Air, Kmart, Acterna Corp.,
Spiegal, Huntsman, Avianca, Aurora Foods,
Montgomery Ward & Co., Polaroid,
Sunbeam, SI |
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Corporation, Boston Chicken, Inc.,
PennCorp Financial Group, Bruno's,
Inc., Grand Union Company, Pathmark
Stores, Inc., Air & Water Technologies
Corp., Health Insurance Plan of Greater
New York, Stratosphere Corp, Cajun
Electric Power Cooperative, Celotex
Corporation, Dow Corning Corporation,
Lomas Financial Corporation, ICO Global
Communications, Florida Coast Paper,
Hechinger, Danka Business Systems,
Favorite Brands, Trans World Airlines,
Bank of New England, INTERCO, AmBase
Corporation, Pan Am Corporation, Jamesway
Corporation, America West Airlines,
MK Rail, Alto Parana S.A., Railworks,
US Office Products, RSL Communications,
National Airlines, Reliance Group
Holdings and McCall Pattern Company.
Prior to founding Miller Buckfire,
Mr. Miller was Vice Chariman and a
Managing Director at Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, where he served as the
global head of the firm's financial
restructuring group.
Prior to that, Mr. Miller was Managing
Director and Head of Salomon Brothers'
Restructuring Group. Mr. Miller joined
Salomon Brothers from Prudential Securities,
where he was Managing Director, Co-Head
of Investment Banking and Head of
the Financial Restructuring Group.
He was also a member of the Firm's
Operating Council. Prior to joining
Prudential Securities in 1989, Mr.
Miller was Chief Financial Officer
of Eichner Properties, Inc. From 1977
to 1986, he was employed by Lehman
Brothers, was appointed partner in
1981 and, among other positions, was
Head of the Private Finance Group
in Corporate Finance. Mr. Miller received
his B.A. from Fordham University College
of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and an
M.B.A. from Columbia University's
Graduate School of Business in 1970.
Mr. Miller is a former Member of the
Investment Policy Advisory Committee
of the United States Trade Representative,
Executive Office of the President
of the United States. He is also a
Trustee of Save the Children, the
Turnaround Management Association
and The Washington Institute for Near
East Policy and a memeber of The Board
of Visitors of Fordham College at
Rose Hill.
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