Harvard Business School Club of New York

The 2010 Leadership Dinner will feature last year's Business Statesman Award winner Mayor Michael Bloomberg '66 presenting the Inaugural Albert H. Gordon Global Lifetime Achievement Award to:

John Whitehead '47

We expect alumni attendance--young, old, and in-between--to be at an all-time high this year; especially following last year's spectacular dinner, and the fact that this year's dinner will be in The Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You will surely be inspired by the exciting slate of presenters and honorees:

Wilbur Ross '61, Business Statesman of the Year
Thomas S. Johnson '64 & Ann Johnson, Leadership Awards
Deborah C. Wright '84, John Whitehead Social Enterprise Award
Jay Light '70, Dean of Harvard Business School; a Special Honor prior to his retirement
Nabil el-Hage, Senior Dean of External Affairs

Inaugural Albert H. Gordon Global Lifetime Achievement Award:

John Whitehead '47

John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois.

He graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II.

Mr. Whitehead received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1947 and began at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He became Partner in 1956, and Senior Partner in 1976.

In 1985, Mr. Whitehead was asked by President Reagan to become Deputy Secretary of State. He was sworn into office in July 1985, and served until January 1989.

He is the former Chairman of such diverse organizations as The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Harvard Board of Overseers, the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations Association, Haverford College, The Asia Society, the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. He is Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America/GNY.

In late 2001, he was appointed as Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp, the organization responsible for the rebuilding and revitalization of Lower Manhattan. He served in that position until May 2006. He is also the Founding Chairman of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center.

Business Statesman Award:

Wilbur Ross '61

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WL Ross and Co., L.L.C, has restructured many failed companies in the coal, steel, and textile industries. As a turnaround specialist, his firm invests in troubled companies. The son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher, Wilbur Ross was born in Weehawken, New Jersey. In the 1970's, he began his career as the primary bankruptcy advisor at the New York office of Rothschild, Inc. He started a $200 million dollar private equity fund at Rothschild to invest in distressed assets in the late nineties. In 2000, Ross opened his private equity firm, WL Ross and Co. in New York and worked on restructuring the steel industry. In 2002, he organized the International Steel Group and was its Board Chairman. He acquired textile companies, such as Burlington Industries, and in 2003 created the International Textile Group.

WL Ross has recently been investing in financial companies such as bond insurer Assured Guaranty Ltd and Option One Mortgage Corp. WL Ross & Co has been part of fund manager Invesco Ltd since 2006.
Mr. Ross was formerly Chairman of the Smithsonian Institution National Board and currently is a board member of Whitney Museum of American Art, the Japan Society, and the Yale University School of Management, the Harvard Business School Club of New York, the Palm Beach Civic Association, the Palm Beach Preservation Foundation and the Partnership for New York City.

He holds an A.B. from Yale University and an M.B.A., with distinction, from Harvard University.

Leadership Awards:

Thomas S. Johnson '64

THOMAS S. JOHNSON served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of GreenPoint Financial Corp. & GreenPoint Bank from 1993 to 2004, when he retired. Prior to that, from 1989 to 1991, he was President and Director of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. & Manufacturers Hanover Corp where he was the designated successor to the position of CEO prior to the merger agreement with Chemical Bank. Between 1969 and 1989, he worked for Chemical Bank and Chemical Banking Corporation. Mr. Johnson served as President and Director from October 1983 to December 1989, and during this time, he was responsible for corporate and institutional business globally, as well as administration and technology functions. He held various other positions with Chemical Bank, including head of Trading, Treasury and Investment Banking (1979-1983), and Chief Financial Officer (1975-1979).

Prior to that, he worked at the U.S. Department of Defense as Special Assistant to the Comptroller from August 1966 to February 1969. Prior to his time at the Defense Department he worked at Ateneo de Manila University in Manila, Philippines, where he served as Coordinator of the Master of Business Management Program and Instructor in Management Control and Financial Management from July 1964 to July 1966.

Mr. Johnson is involved in a number of philanthropic ventures, including being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of International Education and of the United States-Japan Foundation. He is a Trustee Emeritus and former chairman of Trinity College and a former Trustee of and Chairman of the Union Theological Seminary. He is also a board member of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Foundation, as well as the Inner City Scholarship Fund and the United Way of New York City. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Johnson currently sits on the board of directors of the Alleghany Corporation, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Inc., and The Phoenix Companies, Inc. and is a former director of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, Freddie Mac, NorthFork Bancorporation and Online Resources Corp. In 1964 he received an M.B.A., with Distinction, from Harvard Business School, and he received an A.B. in Economics from Trinity College 1962, where he was on the Dean’s List and a Meyers Scholar.

Ann Johnson

Ann Johnson is president of Ann Johnson Interiors Inc. which she founded in 1998. A graduate of Connecticut College ’68, and NYSID ’97, she is an activephilanthropist whose current leadership activities include Chair of the Regional Operating Council, Tri-State Region of United Way of America; member of the Families Advisory Council of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.; Chairman of the Board of Mountainside Health Foundation (Montclair, NJ); and Trustee and member of 4 committees of her alma mater, Connecticut College.

John Whitehead Social Enterprise Award:

Deborah C. Wright '84

Deborah C. Wright is Chairman & CEO of Carver Bancorp, Inc., (NASDAQ: CARV), the
holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered savings bank and the
nation’s largest African- and Caribbean- American operated bank with approximately $800
million in assets and 150 employees. Carver operates nine full service branches in the New York
City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Black Enterprise Magazine named Carver
the Financial Services Company of the Year in 2006. The American Banker, the financial
industry’s daily newspaper, named Ms. Wright “Community Banker of the Year” in December
of 2003.

Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Wright was President and CEO of the Upper
Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, from May 1996 until June of 1999.
She previously served as Commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and
Development under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani from January 1994 through March 1996.
Previously, Mayor David N. Dinkins appointed Ms. Wright to the New York City Housing
Authority Board, which manages New York City’s 189,000 public housing units.

Ms. Wright serves on the boards of Kraft Foods Inc., Time Warner, The Partnership for New
York City, The Children’s Defense Fund and Sesame Workshop. She is a member of the Board
of Managers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and served as a member of the
Board of Overseers of Harvard University. She earned A.B., J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from
Harvard University.

Monday, May 17
* Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Temple of Dendur in the Sackler Wing, New York City

* Attire: Business/Cocktail
* Time: 6:30pm Cocktails/7:30pm Dinner
* Cost of Individual Tickets: $500/Members; $1,000/Nonmembers and Guests; $300/Recent Alums (2005-2009)
* Recent Alums who buy tickets will receive a free one-year Club membership

* To Purchase a Table, Please Contact Julie Spero, Leadership Benefit Office @ 212-245-6570 x21

* Organizers: HBSCNY Leadership Dinner Committee; Jacques C. Nordeman '64, Dinner Chair

ABOUT THE HBSCNY LEADERSHIP DINNER: HBSCNY sets aside a night each year for a gala event to recognize the accomplishments of extraordinary individuals. Through its Business Statesman Award and Leadership Awards, HBSCNY honors individuals who have excelled in business as well as making major contributions to the community. In addition, proceeds from the dinner are used to fund HBSCNY's social enterprise programs for alumni, scholarships, and the annual social enterprise summit for NYC non-profit leaders. Scholarships include the HBSCNY Fellowship Fund at HBS and multiple full scholarships for local non-profit leaders to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Course at HBS. HBSCNY's Community Partner Program provides pro-bono consulting to local non-profits as well as placement on nonprofit boards through an alliance with BoardAssist.

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