MARY JO WHITE
Partner and Chair of the Litigation Department
Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP.

Mary Jo White is Chair of the 225 lawyer litigation group of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Ms. White’s practice concentrates on internal investigations and defense of companies and individuals accused by the government of involvement in white collar corporate crime or SEC and civil securities law violations, and on other major business litigation disputes and crises. Ms. White is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and is ranked in the first tier for litigation trial lawyers in Chambers Global USA 2006. In addition Ms. White has also served as a Director of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. and on its Executive, Audit and Policy Committees. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

From June 1, 1993 until January 7, 2002, Ms. White served as the first and only woman United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, widely recognized as the premier U.S. Attorney’s office in the country. As U.S. Attorney, Ms. White supervised more than 200 Assistant United States Attorneys with the responsibility of enforcing the federal criminal and civil laws of the nation. She also served as the first Chairperson of Attorney General Janet Reno’s Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys from all over the country. 

Under Ms. White’s leadership, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York successfully investigated and prosecuted numerous cases of national and international significance. These include cases involving large scale white collar and complex securities and financial institution frauds as well as cases involving corporate criminal liability, international terrorism, international money laundering, police and other corruption, organized crime, civil rights, environmental law violations, narcotics trafficking and major racketeering cases. The international terrorism cases include the prosecutions of those responsible for the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993; the terrorists who planned to blow up the United Nations and the FBI Building in Manhattan; the terrorists who plotted to simultaneously blow up a dozen jumbo jets; the indictment in 1998 of Osama bin Laden and the leadership of the al Qaeda terrorist organization, including those responsible for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Tanzania; and the investigation of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
 

LARRY D. THOMPSON
Senior Vice President – Government Affairs, General Counsel & Secretary
Pepsico Inc.

Larry Thompson is Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel, and Secretary for PepsiCo. He is responsible for PepsiCo's worldwide legal function, as well as its government affairs organization and the company's charitable Foundation.

PepsiCo ranks among the world’s largest convenient food and beverage companies, with revenues approaching $33 billion. Its businesses include Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Cola, Tropicana, Gatorade and Quaker Oats.

Mr. Thompson assumed his position in October 2004. He most recently served as a Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and his government career includes serving in the U.S. Department of Justice, where his role as Deputy Attorney General included supervision of overall operations. In 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft named Mr. Thompson to lead the National Security Coordination Council. Also in 2002, President Bush named Thompson to head the Corporate Fraud Task Force. He led the Justice Department's ongoing Enron investigation and was responsible for corporate fraud investigations.

Previously, Mr. Thompson was a partner in the Atlanta, Georgia law firm of King & Spaulding where he practiced in the Antitrust and Litigation Departments from 1977 to 1982. From 1982-1986, Mr. Thompson served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In that role, he directed the Southern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and served on the Attorney General’s Economic Crime Council. After returning to King & Spaulding in 1986 as a partner, Mr. Thompson resumed his practice in civil and criminal litigation. In July 1995, Mr. Thompson was appointed Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation by the Special Panel of U.S. Circuit Court Judges appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. In April 2000, Mr. Thompson was selected to chair the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control.

Mr. Thompson serves on the Board of Directors of Templeton Funds and is an elected Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is also the recipient of the Edmund Jennings Randolph Award for outstanding contributions to the accomplishment of the Department of Justice’s mission, Outstanding Litigator Award by the Federal Bar Association, and the A. T. Walden Award for outstanding accomplishments to the legal profession by the Gate City Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Thompson is a frequent speaker at legal seminars around the country and several of his articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and in several legal publications. He holds a B.A. in sociology from Culver-Stockton College, an M.A. in sociology from Michigan State University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan. In 2004, Mr. Thompson added another chapter to his academic career as a visiting professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School.
 

RAYMOND S. TROUBH
Corporate Director
Raymond S. Troubh Inc.

Raymond S. Troubh is a Financial Consultant in New York City and has been a Non-Executive Director of more than twenty-five public companies. He has lectured extensively on corporate governance and on the duties and responsibilities of Directors of public companies. He has served as Chairman of the Compensation, Audit, and Finance Committees of a number of Boards of Directors.

Mr. Troubh served as a Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Harold H. Burton of the United States Supreme Court and to Chief Judge Thomas W. Swan, United States Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, and was an Associate of Sullivan & Cromwell, and a Partner of Lazard Freres & Co., specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

He was named a Director of Enron Corp. in November, 2001 and subsequently served as Non-Executive Chairman until Enron’s emergence from bankruptcy in November, 2004. He also is a member of the Boards of Directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, General American Investors, Gentiva Health Services, Hollinger International Inc., and Triarc Companies, Inc., among other public companies. Certain of his prior Directorships include Time Warner, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Health Net, Inc., Becton, Dickinson & Co., Johns Manville Corporation and America West Airlines, among others.

Mr. Troubh is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Yale Law School.

In 2003, Mr. Troubh was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Bowdoin College and was named Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
 

FLOYD NORRIS
Chief Financial Correspondent
New York Times


Floyd Norris is the chief financial correspondent of The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. His column appears in both papers on Fridays, and a weekly analysis of financial data, called “Off the Charts,” appears on Saturdays.

Norris has worked for The Times since 1988, and spent 18 months in 2004-2005 based in Paris at the offices of the International Herald Tribune.

He has been a financial columnist for most of his career at The Times, although he spent more than a year in 1998 and 1999 as a member of The Editorial Board of The Times.

Before joining The Times, Mr. Norris had been with Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly since December 1982, where he wrote “The Trader’’ column on the stock market.

Mr. Norris was the 2003 recipient of the Loeb Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for exceptional career achievements in the field of business, financial and economic news. In 2001 he received the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for his insightful columns educating investors about the complexities of Wall Street. In 1998, he was cited by the Financial Writers Association of New York for outstanding lifetime achievement.

He and his wife, Christine Bockelmann, compiled and edited “The New York Times Century of Business,” which was published by McGraw-Hill in late 1999.

He is a past director of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and a former member of the board of advisers of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program at Columbia University.

Mr. Norris began his career in journalism as a reporter for the College Press Service, a news service for college newspapers, in September 1969. From September 1970 to January 1972, he was a reporter and editor for The Manchester (N.H.) American, a newspaper he helped to found. From January 1972 to August 1974, he was a reporter for The Concord (N.H.) Monitor, covering the state legislature and politics. From August 1974 to December 1977, he worked for UPI. In 1977 and 1978 he was press secretary to, then, Sen. John Durkin. From 1978 to 1981 he was a business writer and editor for the Associated Press.

Born in Los Angeles on Sept. 6, 1947, Mr. Norris attended the University of California in Irvine. He was a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University for two terms and received an MBA in 1982.

Mr. Norris lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.