New York Speakers
Kurt Karl
Chief US Economist
Swiss Re
Kurt E. Karl is a Senior Vice President and head of Swiss Re's Economic Research and Consulting, North America. Dr. Karl has responsibility for the North American part of Swiss Re's "sigma" insurance industry research. In addition, he supports Swiss Re's strategic planning and provides internal consulting on products and economic risks. Finally, he supplies insights and forecasts on the U.S. and global economies to Swiss Re Asset Management for use in a variety of corporate decisions, including asset management.
He is an expert on the U.S. and global economies with extensive experience and knowledge of foreign markets and has lived and worked in Europe, Africa and Asia. Dr. Karl is a contributor to many forecasting surveys, including those of the Wall Street Journal, Blue Chips, Bloomberg and Reuters. He is widely quoted in the financial press and recently was rated by Bloomberg to be the best forecaster at CPI inflation and also for the federal funds rate over the past year.
Prior to joining Swiss Re, Dr. Karl was chief international economist at WEFA, Inc., an economic forecasting firm located near Philadelphia. He has a B.A. from the University of Oregon, a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Kurt Kuehn
Chief Financial Officer
UPS
Kurt Kuehn is the chief financial officer of UPS. He is responsible for all activities related to accounting, auditing, finance, financial planning, taxes and treasury. He also acts as a liaison to the finance, investor and analyst communities.
Kuehn serves as a member of the UPS Management Committee, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.
A native of South Bend, Ind., Kuehn attended Yale University and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Miami. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School of Business.
Kuehn began his UPS career in 1977 as a delivery driver. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, industrial engineering, finance and marketing. After several positions in Florida and Montana, Kuehn was named facilities planning manager in 1986. Subsequent positions included work in strategic marketing analysis and financial planning.
In 1996, Kuehn was named manager of the strategic cost department, responsible for profit and loss measurement, customer pricing systems and cost analysis. He later held the position of vice president of business information analysis. In that role, Kuehn oversaw market research, strategic cost analysis, competitive analysis and data mining.
Kuehn became UPS's first vice president of investor relations in 1999 and later that year, helped take UPS public - the largest IPO of the 20th century.
Prior to his current position, Kuehn served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, where he led the company's sales-force integration to provide a harmonized customer experience.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Woodruff Arts Center.
Richard Muzikar
Director of Enterprise Risk Management
Con Edison
Henny Sender
Chief Correspondent, International Financial
Financial Times
Henny Sender joined the Financial Times as its International Financial Correspondent in 2007.
Previously, Ms. Sender was the Wall Street Journal's senior special writer for the Money & Investing section and covered private equity and hedge funds.
Before joining the Journal, Ms. Sender worked in Hong Kong for nearly ten years and covered regional finance for the Wall Street Journal Asia and the Far Eastern Economic Review; prior to that she was in Tokyo for five years for Institutional Investor.
Last year, Ms. Sender was part of a team at the Journal which won a Loeb award for coverage of the meltdown of Amaranth, a hedge fund. Her work on the overseas Chinese received a citation from the Overseas Press Club and she was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her book on India, The Kashmiri Pundits, was published by Oxford University Press.
Ms. Sender holds an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ms. Sender is based in New York.
Adrian Slywotzky
Partner
Oliver Wyman
Kurt Kuehn
Chief Financial Officer
UPS
Kurt Kuehn is the chief financial officer of UPS. He is responsible for all activities related to accounting, auditing, finance, financial planning, taxes and treasury. He also acts as a liaison to the finance, investor and analyst communities.
Kuehn serves as a member of the UPS Management Committee, which is responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.
A native of South Bend, Ind., Kuehn attended Yale University and received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Miami. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School of Business.
Kuehn began his UPS career in 1977 as a delivery driver. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, industrial engineering, finance and marketing. After several positions in Florida and Montana, Kuehn was named facilities planning manager in 1986. Subsequent positions included work in strategic marketing analysis and financial planning.
In 1996, Kuehn was named manager of the strategic cost department, responsible for profit and loss measurement, customer pricing systems and cost analysis. He later held the position of vice president of business information analysis. In that role, Kuehn oversaw market research, strategic cost analysis, competitive analysis and data mining.
Kuehn became UPS's first vice president of investor relations in 1999 and later that year, helped take UPS public - the largest IPO of the 20th century.
Prior to his current position, Kuehn served as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, where he led the company's sales-force integration to provide a harmonized customer experience.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and the Woodruff Arts Center.
Richard Muzikar
Director of Enterprise Risk Management
Con Edison
Richard Muzikar is Director of Con Edison's Enterprise Risk Management program. In this role, he manages a group of senior level managers across the organization who identify, evaluate, and mitigate major risks. Mr. Muzikar also is responsible for managing Con Edison's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program. Rich holds an M.B.A. degree from New York University and also has completed professional certification and executive training programs at NYU and Dartmouth.
Henny Sender
Chief Correspondent, International Financial
Financial Times
Henny Sender joined the Financial Times as its International Financial Correspondent in 2007.
Previously, Ms. Sender was the Wall Street Journal's senior special writer for the Money & Investing section and covered private equity and hedge funds.
Before joining the Journal, Ms. Sender worked in Hong Kong for nearly ten years and covered regional finance for the Wall Street Journal Asia and the Far Eastern Economic Review; prior to that she was in Tokyo for five years for Institutional Investor.
Last year, Ms. Sender was part of a team at the Journal which won a Loeb award for coverage of the meltdown of Amaranth, a hedge fund. Her work on the overseas Chinese received a citation from the Overseas Press Club and she was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her book on India, The Kashmiri Pundits, was published by Oxford University Press.
Ms. Sender holds an MS from the Columbia University School of Journalism. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ms. Sender is based in New York.
Adrian Slywotzky
Partner
Oliver Wyman
Mr. Slywotzky is the author of a recent book about managing and profiting from strategic risk, The Upside (Crown Business, 2007), as well as The Art of Profitability (2002) and Value Migration (1996). He is the co-author of The Profit Zone (1998), Profit Patterns (1999), How Digital Is Your Business? (2000), and How to Grow When Markets Dont (2003). Business Week named The Profit Zone one of its Top 10 Business Books of 1998. The Upside was on the Financial Times list of Best Business Books of 2007.
A frequent speaker on the changing face of business strategy and business design, Mr. Slywotzky has been featured at The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and has been a keynote speaker at a number of senior executive conferences, including the Microsoft CEO Summit, the Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week CEO Conferences, and CFO Magazine and Conference Board conferences. He has written for numerous leading publications including Harvard Business Review, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Fast Company, Business 2.0, the Boston Globe, Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Business Strategy, Harvard Management Update, Investors Business Daily, and Sales & Marketing Management.
Mr. Slywotzky holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School.
Alex Wittenberg
Managing Partner, Corporate Risk
Oliver Wyman
Alex Wittenberg is the Managing Partner of Oliver Wyman's Corporate Risk practice, with over 20 years of cross-industry experience in risk management advisory and risk transfer solutions. Alex specializes in integrating risk into strategic decision-making and financial performance, designing risk governance for Boards and Management, and developing corporate risk monitoring, mitigation and transfer frameworks. He also advises Board risk and audit committees on risk oversight and strategy. He has developed expertise in manufacturing, oil and gas and life sciences industries.
Alex is Marsh & McLennan's (MMC's) representative to the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risk Network, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He is a leader and technical advisor in joint research and publications with these institutions. He is also frequently quoted in leading publications and is a requested speaker on finance and risk topics.
Alex has served as an Advisory Board member for a North American oil and gas company and was previously Managing Director and Practice Leader for Risk Finance, Risk Modeling and Financial Products at Marsh, Inc. He is a graduate in Economics and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
