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Executive Council’s 2006
Leadership & Innovations Summit: Cut to the Chase
Hosted by Executive Council and Stuart Levine
& Associates.
The Executive Council’s 2nd annual Leadership
& Innovation Summit will take place on April 11,
2007 and we are lining up another all-star cast of executive
speakers. In an age when Americans are spending more hours
than ever at work, people share the troubling concern
about how to maximize their most precious resource-time.
This Leadership & Innovation Summit, based on Stuart
Levine’s new book, Cut to the Chase: and 99
Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift
of Time, will focus on how to regain the gift of
time by cutting to the chase at work.
Speakers will include:
Stephen Rubin, President and Publisher,
Doubleday
Josh Weston, Founder and Honorary Chairman
of the Board, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Dr. Jon R. Cohen, Chief Medical Officer,
North Shore-LIJ Health System; Former Candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, New York State
Theresa A. Bischoff, CEO, American Red
Cross in Greater New York
Addt’l speakers to be announced
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Events
Wrap-Up
Executive Council 2006 Innovations
in Healthcare Summit
Hosted by the Executive Council and Proskauer
Rose
Sponsored by Accenture, Pfizer,
the 2006 Innovative Responses in Healthcare Summit
was the Council’s inaugural healthcare event. Moderated
by Vanessa Fuhrmans of The Wall Street Journal, the audience
was captivated by Secretary Tommy Thompson’s poignant
yet funny keynote address.
Speakers included:
Jason Gorevic, President, Empire
BlueCross BlueShield
Surya Mohapatra, Ph.D.Chairman, President
& CEO, Quest Diagnostics
Dr. Herbert Pardes, M.D. President
and CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital
The closing keynote presentation was delivered by
John Pleasants, CEO, Revolution Health
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Executive Council and GEN3 Partners:
Achieving Double Digit Growth
Hosted by Executive Council, GEN3 Partners and
Unisys. Sponsored by IBM, Philips, Sprint
The
2006 Corporate Growth Summit was designed with the
goal of developing metrics for overcoming growth stagnation
as well as providing practical tools to point your company
toward substantial, sustainable growth. Summit content
was based on summit Emcee Michael Treacy’s best
selling business book, Double Digit Growth: How Great
Companies Achieve It – No Matter What.
Speakers included:
Randy J. Hendricks, President of
Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services, Unisys
Harris Diamond, CEO, Weber Shandwick
Worldwide and CEO Constituency Management Group, Interpublic
Group
Paul Zeven, CEO, Philips Electronics,
North America
Bridget van Kralingen, Global Managing
Partner, Financial Services Sector, IBM Global Business
Services, IBM
Gary Forsee, President & CEO,
Sprint-Nextel
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get
Better Connected?
There are many business events where you can network in
New York. And, there are lots of organizations and clubs.
Right? But, how many times have you been disappointed
and not met the people you expected to meet at these events?
As a non-profit trade association, the Executive Council
exists to foster and create senior level connections in
New York. That’s it. We do it every day. Just like
making the donuts. Now is the time to make the right connections
and stay ahead of the competition. By joining the Executive
Council, you are increasing your visibility to decision
makers and gaining the exposure and access you need to
develop new relationships. We take our job very seriously
– which is to provide you a place to make the right
connections.
Membership for your entire executive team starts as low
as $1,000 per year Download
2007 Membership Form (PDF)
The Executive Council is a powerful marketing
and sales channel that provides you with access and exposure
to new clients and partners. You can network anywhere.
But, the Executive Council will help you make the right
connections. Read
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for
Top Notch Interns?
The Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall
University was
recently recognized by US News and World Report as one
of the top 100 of undergraduate business programs nationwide.
Their students study in such business disciplines as accounting,
economics, finance, management, management information
systems, marketing and sport management.
If you have a need for college students to work on a part-time
basis in your organization or for interns to conduct research
projects, please contact Ms. Jacqueline Chaffin, chaffija@shu.edu
or at 973-761-9354.
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Executive
Council Advisory Boards:
News & Activities
Sprint’s
Michael L. Desa Joins Executive Council of New York Board
The Executive Council of New York announced the
appointment of Michael L. Desa, area vice president for
Sprint (NYSE: S) Business Solutions — New York Metro,
to its board of advisors. With more than 25 years of industry
experience in telecommunication system engineering, manufacturing
and operations, Mr. Desa will bring a breadth of insight
to broaden the Council’s reach and strengthen the
offerings it provides its members and the metropolitan
area. Read
More
 Saatchi
& Saatchi’s James Orsini Joins Executive Council
of New York Board
The Executive Council of New York announced the appointment
of James L. Orsini, executive vice president and director
of finance and operations for Saatchi & Saatchi in
New York, to its board of advisors. With extensive experience
in executive management and finance, Mr. Orsini will play
a vital role in furthering the Council’s strategic
mission and goals as it serves the New York business community
and its members. Read
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 Dan
Bennewitz, VP, Americas East, IBM, Joins Executive Council
Financial Services Advisory Board
Dan Bennewitz, VP, Americas East, IBM, has been named
to the Executive Council’s Financial Services Advisory
Board. Bennewitz is a 25 year veteran of IBM and is responsible
for sales and support of all IBM products and services
in the region and is responsible for the region’s
overall success. Read
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 Jeffrey
Wingate, Managing Principal, Integro Joins Executive Council
Financial Services Advisory Board
Jeffrey B. Wingate, managing director and head of client
development for Integro’s New York office, has been
named to the Executive Council’s Financial Services
Advisory Board. Previously, he served as sales leader
for the New York metro region of Marsh. Wingate's insurance
expertise spans the areas of financial services, technology/telecommunications,
real estate and retail. Read
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 Richard
Zall of Proskauer Rose and Joseph Lemaire of Accenture
Appointed Co-Chairs of Executive Council of New York’s
Healthcare Advisory Board
The Executive Council is very pleased to announce the
appointments of two of New York’s most respected
healthcare industry leaders to its Healthcare Advisory
Board: Rick Zall’s law practice focuses on corporate
and regulatory representation of a wide array of public
and private health care clients, predominantly in the
health care services, managed care, information technology,
and medical device sectors. Read
more
Joe Lemaire is the Northeast Market Leader for the Health
& Life Sciences Provider Practice coordinating Accenture's
vast portfolio of offerings for the health provider industry.
His current client responsibilities include several top
companies in the pharmacy benefit management, medical
devices and diagnostic lab businesses. Read
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Executive Council is Hiring
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Recap
2006 Ten Awards
The "Academy Awards of New York Business,"
the New York Ten Awards is an annual selection of ten
companies and individuals in the greater New York business
community that display extraordinary leadership and innovation.
Carly Fiorina captivated the crowd at Cipriani Wall Street
with inspirational lessons learned from Corporate America.
A special thanks to Bruce Mosler, President & CEO,
Cushman & Wakefield, who served as this year’s
Ten Awards Chairman, and to Liz Claman, Co-Anchor, CNBC’s
“Morning Call” who served as Master of Ceremonies.
Over 400 attendees and 20 media outlets came to celebrate
the best of New York business and congratulate this year’s
Ten
Jonathan Tisch, Loews Hotels
Jack Nelson, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Jonathan Gray, Blackstone Group and
Philip Falcone, Harbinger Capital Partners
Ami Nahshon, The Abraham Fund Initiatives
Dr. Deborah Kenny, Village Academies
Are Traasdahl, ThumbPlay and
David Rose, Angelsoft LLC
David Turner, Thomson Financial
John Hayes, American Express
Jason Finger, SeamlessWeb
Jared Kushner, New York Observer
Tim Armstrong, Penry Price and
Craig Nevill-Manning, Google
There was also a special Ten Awards NASDAQ Closing Bell
ceremony with the winners at NASDAQ’s MarketSite
in Times Square.
Watch
the Ten Awards NASDAQ Market Closing ceremony
See the CNBC, Carly, and NASDAQ videos and Ten Awards
photo gallery here
2006 Ten Award Winners, Guests and Sponsors at the NASDAQ
Stock Market Close on November 7, 2006
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Johnston/On
Nina Zagat, Co-Chair, Zagat Survey
 What
is your background and how did you become the Diva of
Dining?
I don’t regard myself as a “Diva”, but
this is how the Zagat Survey started.
Tim [husband, Tim Zagat] and I met at Yale Law School,
and we got married in the spring of our second year. Shortly
after we began practicing law, we were assigned to the
Paris offices of our respective law firms. Whenever possible,
I used to spend my lunch break taking classes at Le Cordon
Bleu cooking school.
Once back in New York, we joined a wine tasting group.
During one of the group’s dinners, an outspoken
friend of ours blasted the then most important New York
City food critic. Tim asked each of our 20 fellow diners
to give him the names of a few people who ate out regularly
and might enjoy participating in a restaurant survey.
We released the results of this informal survey free of
charge on mimeographed, legal sheets of paper. It involved
roughly 200 people rating and reviewing 100 restaurants.
That was 1979. Three years later, in the fall of 1982,
we published our first survey in book form for sale.
Today, our surveys have expanded to cover restaurants
in 85 cities and a host of other leisure activities. Our
group of surveyors has reached well over 250,000 people.
What is your most successful guide?
Year after year our New York City Restaurant guide remains
most popular. But we regularly do customized guides for
large companies involving sales of a million or more copies,
and a couple of years ago we made a single sale of five
million copies of our Movie Guide.
What are some of your challenges?
We are continually expanding to new geographies, introducing
new content categories and making Zagat content available
on new platforms. One central challenge that we always
keep top of mind is our goal of making Zagat content available
to consumers in every format and on every platform they
may find useful. A second challenge is facilitating connectivity,
i.e. helping our customer to act on their decisions.
What makes New York special?
New York is unmatched in the diversity and quality of
its restaurants. We now have over ninety cuisine types
represented in the NYC guide. It’s hard to imagine,
but as recently as 1979, there were only nineteen.
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