AHC Group 14th Annual
Corporate Affiliates Workshops

June 21-22, 2005

ABOUT THE PROGRAM |•| SPEAKER BIOS

Workshop Details
 

The AHC Group "Achieving Results" leadership benchmarking workshop series is a process of transformational corporate learning, featuring the experiences and innovations of AHC Group Senior Associates, clients, and our 33 global leading Corporate Affiliate Program member organizations. These ongoing benchmarking workshops over the past 14 years provide an intimate peer-to-peer sanctuary of leadership mentoring and high level executive debate and discussion of the most relevant issues to you and your firm. Thus, providing concrete leadership benchmarking workshops of best practices in all sectors of industry to reduce risk and create business value.

This carefully crafted leadership mentoring benchmarking workshop series has been organized to provide a synthesis of all your EH&S, Investor Relations, and executive management needs in four thematic ongoing workshop series:

• Site Remediation & Risk Reduction — Chaired by Dwight Bedsole, Director of Remediation at DuPont.
• Emerging Issues & Stakeholder Value — Chaired by Dennis R. Minano, former Head of Environment at General Motors and now AHC Group Senior Associate.
• Governance & Innovation — Chaired by Walt Rosenberg, VP of Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility at Hewlett-Packard.
• Shareholder Value — Chaired by Hewson Baltzell, CEO of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an AHC Group strategic alliance partner.

Register early to save your seat at this upcoming workshop session as seats are limited to ensure an atmosphere of engagement and intimacy.

For more information:

AHC Corporate Affiliate Program and benchmarking workshop series

"Achieving Results: In Corporate Strategy Today" Workshop Series

June 21-22, 2005 Agenda
Gideon Putnam Hotel & Resort, Saratoga Springs, NY

Room reservations: 1-518-584-3000 — Ask for AHC Group Discounted Rate.
This is one of our most in-demand workshop series, and we will keep this workshop below 60 registered seats.

For future planning:

January 27 and 28, 2005
Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
Phoenix, AZ

*Advanced Confirmed Speakers for June 2005 Workshops*

*Confirmed Speakers for June 2005 Workshops*

Day One: Tuesday, June 21

Site Remediation and Risk Reduction Workshop: 8:00am-12:00pm

Chaired by Dwight Bedsole, Senior Director at DuPont

For the last three years, Dwight Bedsole has chaired this ongoing AHCGroup workshop on site remediation programs and policies, emerging issues, and new risk reduction and management tools. This has become a widely respected workshop transacted with insight and confidentiality.

The workshop now involves over 62 of the leading multinationals in the world. The key speakers for our June 21 workshop include:

Opening comments by: Dwight Bedsole, Senior Director at DuPont

• Greg Cochran, Director of Remediation/Mergers/Acquisitions EH&S — Dow Chemical Company:

  
  

  "Developing Organizational Readiness for Risk Reduction and Risk Mitigation: Recent Lessons at DOW"

  Introduction by: Arden Ahnell — Functional Integration Manager, Remediation Management of BP

• Arden Ahnell — Functional Integration Manager, Remediation Management — BP and Sheryl Telford, Remediation Business Team Manager — DuPont:

  
  Sheryl and Arden will summarize our ongoing work in Site Remediation and Risk Reduction.

• Robert Barrett, Chief Environmental Division and Shawn Holsinger, Chief Environmental Restoration Branch — Air Combat Command:

  
  

  "Accelerated Remediation and Reuse — Transformation of ACC's Cleanup Program"

  Mr. Barrett will discuss how their remediation model — Triad Conceptual Site Model supports strategic planning, multiple work schedules, and real-time decision tools. He will also provide his experiences of where the Air Force was, now is, and where they are headed in working with Triad to close out remediation sites effectively and economically.

  Introduction by: Eliana Makhlouf — Senior VP — Environmental Practice Leader — Marsh

• Mike Paczkowski, the Executive Vice President at Arcadis:

  
  

  "Managing Contaminants of Concern: Using Financial Tools and the Best Science to shape Clean-Up Criteria and Business Performance."

  This one-hour discussion will provide concrete bridges between our Site Remediation workshop and our Emerging Issues workshop. As Arcadis currently serves a number of our AHCGroup Corporate Affiliates, this introductory workshop is designed to advance the state of benchmarking that occurs within this network of 183 leaders.

  Introduction by: Steve Myers — Chief Operating Officer at Brownfield's USA

• Andrew Johnson, Executive Vice President — Blasland, Bouck & Lee and Mark Brown, Senior Vice President and Lead of Sediment Practice:

  
  

  "Managing Major Remedial Liabilities — Business and Strategic Approaches"

  This discussion will provide an overview of a select number of business concepts and strategic approaches to effectively manage a corporation's major remedial liabilities. It will also provide insights into how to manage major contaminated sediment sites — many times a corporation's most significant liability — with the recent issuance of the National Policy for Sediment Remediation.

  Introduction by: Bob Forbes, Director, Remediation — FMC Corporation

Emerging Issues Workshop: 1:00PM to 5:00PM

Chaired by Dennis Minano, former head of Energy and Environment at GM and Alan Banks, former Ceo of CoreRatings and ex-USB banker — AHC Group Senior Associates

Denny and Alan joined the AHCGroup in early 2003, and this is the sixth set of his Emerging Issues workshop, now involving over 62 mulinationals from our 183 leader network. This workshop series derives directly from our client work, the twice a year larger workshop gatherings, and from direct inputs from members.

• Art Gibson, Chief Environmental Officer & Counsel — Home Depot:

  
  

  "Emerging Issues in Environment & Supply Chains"

  Introduction by: Dennis Minano, AHC Senior Associate

• Hugh Baker, President — Hunt Power a division of Hunt Consolidated:

  
  

  Mr. Baker will speak on "Energy Security and Grid Modernization" — Hunt Power is our first new Affiliate Member to join in 2005 after he attended the session in January.

  Introduction by: Erin Crotty, AHC Senior Associate — Former NYDEC Commissioner

• Dr. Edgard Habib, Chief Economist — Chevron Texaco Corporate Strategic Planning:

  
  

  "Energy, Corporate Risks, and the Next 10 to 15 Years: Chevron Texaco's View."

  Introduction by: Eliana Makhlouf — Senior VP — Environmental Practice Leader — Marsh

• Fred A. von Ahrens, Division Manager, Active Oxidants Division & Henry Pfeffer Senior Fellow & Technology Director for Industrial Chemicals — FMC Corporation:

  
  

  Henry will discuss the difficult challenge of introducing a new technology for environmental remediation, and will outline FMC's current business plan to launch activated persulfate oxidation for source treatment.

Day Two: Wednesday, June 22

Governance and Innovation Workshop: 8:00am-12:00pm

Chaired by Walt Rosenberg, Vice President of Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility — HP and by Marc Sarkady co-founder of The Calvert Group and Founder of Sarkady Associates

This Governance and Innovation workshop has now met ten times in the last three years since its inception during the turbulent dates of the creation of Sarbanes Oxley and various internal governance reviews. Please contact Lily Gedney (lily@ahcgroup.com) if you'd like to see a summary of our Governance since Enron Lexis Nexis study resulting from this workshop series.

• Walt Rosenberg, VP of Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility — Hewlett-Packard:

  
  

  We are proud to announce that Walt has graciously agreed to serve as the Corporate Affiliates new Chair of the Governance and Innovation workshop series for the next 3 years! Walt will discuss the direction of this workshop moving forward and announce a co-chair in April.

  Walt will also let us inside the Mansion walls of HP on: "Views of Global Citizenship, Environmental Sustainability, and Standards of Business Conduct"

  Increased customer expectations, changing stakeholder expectations, eroding trust, impact of multi-national corporations, changing regulatory requirements, increased transparency and governance issues, and business model transitions all play a role in today's corporate market and your company's business objectives and leadership. And, how do you influence and foster support for the growth of your company?

• Dhamo Dhamotharan, Senior VP and East Division Manager — URS/Advatech and Norikazu Ozaki, MHI/Advatech and Jim Blacksmith, URS:

  This presentation will summarize how industry has responded to society's demand for improved air quality by optimizing production and manufacturing processes, and by developing and implementing air pollution control technologies. This presentation will also summarize how industry has responded to the challenge of improving air quality with new business models.

  
  

• Bob Accarino, Director, Corporate Environmental Services — Abbott Labs:

  
  

• Pat Mahoney, Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Energy Answers:

  
  

  As chairman and founder of several engineering corporations, Mahoney will speak on "Creating Vehicles for Accomplishment: Lessons from the Last 10 Years."

  He will speak from creating the SeaMass partnership with American ReFuels, from creating his Engineering firm Smith and Mahoney in the 1980s, and from his recent creation of Energy Answers Corporation.

  Introduction by: Steve Wolff, President of Power Production at DP&L

Shareholder Value Workshop: 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Chaired by Hewson Baltzel, President of Innovest.

Please visit www.ahcgroup.com , and click on the Innovest pages to see why the AHCGroup has established an ongoing strategic alliance with Innovest, and to learn why Hewson is our chair through our year 2006 workshop in this area.

• Hewson Baltzell, CEO — Innovest Strategic Value Advisors:

  
  

  Hewson will give us an update on Innovest's latest alliances, partners, and users.

• Anne-Maree O'Connor, Managing Director — CoreRatings of DNV:

  
  

  Anne-Maree will discuss the "Short-term versus long-term views on material risks/impact on valuations and how companies can respond to this changing landscape"

• Patrick Pfeifer — Essential Suites Systems:

  
  

  This presentation will focus on a recent project ESS recently compiled with BP looking at the "Best of breed" Environmental Compliance Management module in which they created a next generation tool for managing compliance requirements.

Click this link to view a complete listing of the June AHC Group June Speakers and Workshop Chair Bios:

Click here to view a listing and the agendas for past AHC Group Corporate Affiliate Events.

Please contact Bruce Piasecki directly at bruce@ahcgroup.com if you have any questions about the content of these presentations or their purposes.

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