Strategic Partners, Strategic Investors,
Corporate Sponsors and Institutional Advisors

Institue 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

Strategic Partners
	Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP	Kenneth J Menges, Partner in charge of Dallas Office
	Deloitte	Skip Moore, Lead Partner; Technology, Media & Telecommunications Sherrie McAvoy, Lead Partner, National Retail Practice
	Huron Consulting	Scott Peterson, Delivery Director

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Strategic Investors

A strategic investor's role and responsibility is identical to that of a strategic partner with financial support at various levels.

Strategic Investors
	Halliburton Investor Relations	Alan Halliburton, Chairman and CEO Geralyn DeBusk, President
	Hodges Capital Management	Don W. Hodges, Chairman

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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.

Corporate Sponsors
	Celanese	Steven Sterin, Senior Vice President and CFO
	Dresser Inc.	John P. Ryan, President and CEO Linda L. Rutherford, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Legal, Ethics & Compliance
	ExxonMobil Corporation	Thomas J. Gill, Manager, Office of the Secretary
	Fossil, Inc.	Jeffrey Curtis Corporate Attorney – SEC Mike L. Kovar, Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
	JC Penney Company, Inc.	Sal Saggese, Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
	Kimberly-Clark Corporation	Timothy C. Everett, Vice President and Secretary
	Lennox International	John Torres, Chief Legal Officer
	Southwest Airlines
	Texas Instruments	Joseph F. Hubach, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel Melendy Lovett, Senior Vice President, President, Education Technology
	TXU Corp.	Jared S. Richardson, Director of Corporate Governance Secretary and Chief Governance Officer

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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.

Institutional Advisors
	Association for Corporate Growth	Kevin T. Six Deloitte Tax LLP Partner
	Center for American and International Law	Mark Smith, Vice Presient
	Financial Executives International	Michael Cangemi, President and CEO
	Financial Executives International (Dallas)	William H. Baxley, Vice President Finance and Treasurer; The Freeman Companies. Paul Mason Executive Vice President and CFO, Fijitsu Transaction Solutions Inc.
	Dallas Regional Chamber
	Investors for Director Accountability Foundation, Inc.	Frederick E. (Shad) Rowe, President and Trustee, Investors for Director Accountability
	The NASDAQ Stock Market	Michael Emen, Senior Vice President of Listing Qualifications
	NIRI	Hala Elsherbini, Vice President Halliburton Investor Relations
	Open Compliance and Ethics Group
	Texas General Counsel Forum	Lee M. Emery, Chief Executive Officer

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Founding Strategic Partners
	JPMorganChase
	Deloitte
	Haynes and Boone
	Marsh