BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5ef8dffb160a45cf181495af485859d8 DTSTAMP:20240502T125659Z SUMMARY:Good for the Money: The Legacy of Bob Benmosche and AIG DESCRIPTION: \n\nJoin LeBow’s Institute for Strategic Leadership for a un ique panel\nthat will discuss the development of Bob Benmosche\, a leader who would\nsucceed as the CEO of AIG and pay back the 182 billion dollars of TARP\nbailout money.\n\nIn 2009\, at the peak of the financial crisis\, AIG - the American\ninsurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the\nnation hung its ire and resentment during the financial c risis: the\npinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosch e\nclimbed aboard as CEO\, it was widely assumed that he would go down\nwi th his ship. In mere months\, he turned things around\, pulling AIG\nfrom the brink of financial collapse and restoring its profitability.\nBefore t hree years were up\, AIG had fully repaid its staggering debt\nto the U.S. government - with interest.\n\nGood for the Money is an unyielding leader ’s memoir of a career\nspent fixing companies through thoughtful\, uncon ventional strategy.\nWith his brash\, no-holds-barred approach to the job\ , Benmosche\nrestored AIG’s employee morale and good name. His is a stor y of\nperseverance\, told with refreshing irreverence in unpretentious ter ms.\n\n_Book signing available for Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Bac k\nAmerica by Peter Marks and Valerie Hendy._\n\n5:00 p.m. Discussion 6:00 p.m. Reception\n\nModerator: CHRIS STIGALL brings a contemporary brand of opinionated\ntalk and humor to mornings on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT. He is co nsistently\nranked as one of the ‘Top 100 most important talk radio host s in\nAmerica’ by Talkers Magazine. Prior to his arrival in Philadelphia \,\nChris’s radio career began in Kansas City where he worked on-air in\ nvarious music formats before transitioning to talk radio. Chris’s\ndive rse background includes an internship with the Late Show with\nDavid Lette rman in New York and serving as a representative and press\nassistant to U nited States Congressman Sam Graves (MO-6).\nChris regularly addresses var ious Philadelphia civic clubs and\npolitical action committees. He occasio nally appears as a guest on\nCNN\, Fox News\, Fox Business and The Blaze. His radio interviews\nregularly make national news on prominent websites l ike the Drudge\nReport. He also contributes as a guest columnist for publi cations such\nas Breitbart’s Big Hollywood\, American Spectator\, Human Events and\nPhiladelphia Magazine.\n\nPanelists:\n\nVALERIE HENDY was AIG ’s global head of corporate citizenship\,\noverseeing the company’s ph ilanthropic efforts. Valerie worked with\nMr. Benmosche for four years\, f rom 2010 until his retirement in 2014\,\nwriting speeches and letters to e mployees. Before joining AIG\, she\nworked at Citi\, Standard & Poor’s\, GE Capital\, IBM and Joseph E.\nSeagram & Sons. Valerie holds an M.A. In journalism from New York\nUniversity.\n\nPETER MARKS is a staff writer for the Washington Post and the\npaper’s chief theater critic. He previousl y was a reporter covering\ntheater\, culture and politics for The New York Times and was a member\nof the Newsday team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Pr ize for spot news\nreporting. He holds a degree in English from Yale Unive rsity.\n\nNEHAMA BENMOSCHE is a rabbi at Machar: The Washington Congregati on for\nSecular Humanistic Judaism and is a resident of Lafayette Hill\, P A. As\nBob Benmosche’s daughter\, she shares his drive for innovation an d\ncreativity\, general desire to execute “the impossible”\, and has\n taken those passions to another legacy of the Benmosche family as a\nrabbi of a liberal Jewish community.\n DTSTART:20161101T210000Z DTEND:20161101T220000Z LOCATION:Gerri C. LeBow Hall\, 3220 Market Street\, 220 Grand Meeting Room\ , Philadelphia\, PA 19104 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR