“Cathy gets the best moderators, the highest level speakers, the most illustrious audiences, and the most press for the events she produces of anyone with whom I’ve ever worked.”
Chester Burger, Chester Burger & Company, Inc.
Audiences at CGC Events
Our audiences are as illustrious as our speakers and, in fact, on numerous occasions former speakers have re-joined us to hear their fellow industry leaders. Attendees have included:

Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel

Larry Aidem, President, Rainbow Ventures

Steven Alesio, Chairman & CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

Robert M. Amen, Chairman & CEO, International Flavors & Fragrances

Mark M. Besca, Managing Partner, Ernst & Young

Gary B. Bettman, Commissioner, National Hockey League

Kathy Bloomgarden, Co-CEO, Ruder Finn, Inc.

Louis D. Boccardi, President & CEO, Associated Press (retired)

George W. Bodenheimer, President, ESPN & ABC Sports, The Walt Disney Co.

Dr. Carolyn D. Brockington, Director of Stroke Center, Institute of Neurology & Neurosurgery, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital

Pauline J. Brown, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Harold Burson, Founding Chairman, Burson-Marsteller

Coleman M. Brandt, Chairman, Ark Asset Management Co.

Sir David Tweedie, DJ Gannon, Danita K. Ostling, Floyd Norris & Ned Regan
The International Accounting Standards Board’s Sir David Tweedie, Deloitte & Touche’s DJ Gannon, Ernst & Young’s Danita Ostling, The New York Times’ Floyd Norris & Baruch College’s Ned Regan

John G. Chachas, Managing Director & Group Co-Head, Media & Digital Content, Lazard Ltd.

The Honorable Jon S. Corzine, Governor, State of New Jersey

Mario Cuomo, Of Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Massimo D'Amore, CEO, PepsiCo Americas Beverages, PepsiCo Beverages & Foods N.A.

Paul Duffy, Chairman & CEO, Pernod Ricard USA

Esther Dyson, EDventure

Nora Ephron, Director/Writer, Heartburn Entertainment

Yoshihiro Fujisawa, Chairman & President, Daiwa Securities Trust Company

D.J. Gannon, Partner, U.S. National Office & Leader, IAS Centre of Excellence - Americas, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Philip H. Geier, Jr., Chairman, The Geier Group

Julie L. Gerberding, President, Merck Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc.

Susan M. Gianinno, Chairman & CEO, Publicis USA

Jim Gold, President & CEO, Bergdorf Goodman

Evan G. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, ACE Group

Robert Greifeld, CEO, NASDAQ OMX Group

Duncan E. Goldie-Morrison, CEO, Calyon

Ken C. Hicks, Chairman & CEO, Foot Locker, Inc.

Tom Hill, Vice Chairman, The Blackstone Group LP

Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post

Jay W. Ireland, President & CEO, GE Asset Management Inc.

Terry D. Jackson, Managing Director, International Business & NYC Global Partners, New York City

Alex Jones, Director, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co.

Raymond W. Kelly, Police Commissioner, City of New York, NY

Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates

Gary Knell, President & CEO, Sesame Workshop

Edward I. Koch, Partner, Bryan Cave

Henry R. Kravis, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman, The Estée Lauder Cos.

Shelly Lazarus, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Paul LeClerc, President & CEO, The New York Public Library

Arthur J. Levitt, Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group

Eleanor Mascheroni, Senior Partner, Chief Marketing Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Richard McCormack, Vice Chairman, Bank of America, N.A.

Robert B. Menschel, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Franck Moison, President, Global Marketing, Supply Chain & Technology, Colgate-Palmolive

Betsy Morgan, Former CEO, The Huffington Post

Robert E. Moritz, Chairman & Senior Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

John V. Murphy, Chairman & CEO, OppenheimerFunds

Steven O. Newhouse, President, Advance.net

N.J. Nicholas, Jr., Navy Walk Partners

Paul Noglows, Managing Director & Director, Global Research, Lazard Capital Markets

Danita K. Ostling, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

Richard D. Parsons, Chairman, Citigroup

Alan J. Patricof, Founder & Managing Director, Greycroft Partners

Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg

Mark J. Penn, CEO, Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller

Ann Marie Petach, Managing Director & CFO, BlackRock

Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Diana Phillips, EVP, Worldwide Director of Press/Corporate Affairs, Sotheby's Holdings, Inc.

Ned Regan, Professor, Baruch College

Jessica Reif Cohen, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch

William R. Rhodes, Chairman, President & CEO, Citibank, N.A.

Breakfast at The Plaza
Breakfast at The Plaza

Joseph L. Rice III, Chairman, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

Andrew Robertson, President & CEO, BBDO Worldwide

Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director, Barclays Capital, Inc.

Peter E. Roth, CEO, KBW Asset Management

Charlie Rose, Host, “The Charlie Rose Show”

Daniel Rose, Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc.

Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., Chairman & CEO, W.L. Ross & Company, LLC

Claire Rosenzweig, President & CEO, The Better Business Bureau

Frédéric Rozé, President & CEO, L'Oréal USA, Inc.

Howard J. Rubenstein, President, Rubenstein Associates

William C. Rudin, President, Rudin Management Company, Inc.

William F. Ruprecht, President & CEO, Sotheby's Holdings

Stanley S. Shuman, Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC

James Spanfeller, President & CEO, Forbes.com

Paul E. Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica

Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman & CEO, Sony Corp.

Anne Sweeney, co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks, The Walt Disney Co.

Paul Taaffe, Chairman & CEO, Hill & Knowlton

James S. Tisch, President & CEO, Loews Corp.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, City of New York, NY

John B. Veihmeyer, Chairman & CEO, KPMG LLP

Mike White, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo International

Robert G. Wilmers, Chairman & CEO, M&T Bank Corp.

Steven Newhouse and Floyd Abrams
Advance.nets Steven Newhouse and Cahill Gordon & Reindels Floyd Abrams

Neal L. Wolkoff, Chairman & CEO, American Stock Exchange

Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City

Nina S. Zagat, Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Zagat Survey

Jeffrey A. Zucker, President & CEO, NBC Universal

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman & Publisher, The Daily News