The Financial Women's Association Of San Francisco
Presents
An Industry Leadership Series Event

"Navigating the Economic Downturn"

featuring
Deborah Bailey, Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Mary Bitterman, President, The Bernard Osher Foundation
Patricia Callahan, Executive Vice President,
Office of the Transition, Wells Fargo & Company
Ann Winblad, Managing Director and Founder,
Hummer Winblad Ventures

Please join us for "Navigating the Economic Downturn: Managing personally and professionally through difficult times"

You're invited to a panel discussion with an extraordinary group of women from the financial services, nonprofit, and technology sectors. We will learn how these woman are navigating these turbulent economic times from both a career and personal perspective.

More about the Speakers:

Deborah Bailey is a director in Deloitte & Touche LLP's Governance, Regulatory & Risk Strategies practice, who has more than 35 years experience in navigating and directing a variety of supervisory programs at large federal regulatory agencies.

Most recently, Deborah served as the deputy director of the Banking Supervision and Regulation Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In this role, she was responsible for numerous supervisory programs and risk management, and oversaw the supervising of U.S. banking organizations and foreign banking organizations operating in the United States.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve in 1997, she served as the New York field office director for six years at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where she began her career in 1973. She holds a bachelor of business administration degree in banking and finance from the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga.

Mary G. F. Bitterman is President of The Bernard Osher Foundation, a 32-year-old philanthropic organization headquartered in San Francisco that supports the arts and higher-education programs related to scholarships, lifelong learning activities, and integrative medicine.

Previously, Bitterman served as President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, an independent grant-making foundation serving Californians, and before that as President and CEO of KQED, one of the major public broadcasting centers in the United States. She has served also as Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority, Director of the Voice of America, Director of the Hawaii State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and Director of the East-West Center's Institute of Culture and Communication. She has produced several documentaries for public television and has written on telecommunications development and the role of media in developing societies.

Bitterman currently is a director Barclays Global Investors; Bank of Hawaii (Lead independent director); Bay Area Council Economic Institute; The Bernard Osher Foundation; Commonwealth Club of California (Chair-elect); Public Broadcasting Service - PBS (Immediate past Board chair); and PBS Foundation (Board chair). She is also an Advisory Council member of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Pacific Forum/CSIS as well as Project Dana, an interfaith volunteer caregiving project founded by the Buddhist temples of Hawaii for the frail elderly and disabled.

She is an Honorary Member of the National Presswomen's Federation and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Bitterman received her B.A. from Santa Clara University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from Bryn Mawr College. She holds honorary doctorates from Dominican University of California, Santa Clara University, and the University of Richmond.
 

Executive Vice President Pat Callahan is responsible for providing oversight and strategic direction for the merger of Wells Fargo & Company and Wachovia Corporation. The Office of Transition, overseeing the most extensive merger in the company's history, coordinates merger-related activities among all businesses for both companies, gathers and assesses information, tracks progress, shares best practices, and will help create the new Wells Fargo. Callahan also oversees Corporate Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Enterprise Expense Management and the Social Responsibility Group.

A 31-year veteran of the company, Callahan was head of Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management, providing regulatory compliance oversight for the company. Before that, she was head of Human Resources since the Norwest-Wells Fargo merger in 1998. Before the merger, she was head of Wholesale Banking Systems, Finance and Operations, and head of Human Resources from 1993 to 1997.

Callahan began her banking career at Crocker National Bank and held management positions in operations, finance and commercial real estate. In 1984 she was promoted to senior vice president and manager of Corporate Services. When Crocker merged with Wells Fargo, she became division manager of Wholesale Operations and Systems and served on the company's Corporate Responsibility Committee. In 1991, she assumed responsibility for systems, operations and finance for the Real Estate Group.

She graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned her bachelors' degree in mechanical engineering and her masters' degree in management/finance.

Callahan serves on the Board of Directors of The Marine Mammal Center and is a Trustee of Dominican University in San Rafael.
 

Ann Winblad
Managing Director and Founder
Hummer Winblad Ventures

Ann Winblad is the co-founder and a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and over 30 years of experience in the software industry have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications. Ann was also the 2007 Financial Woman of the Year.

Ann began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann received a BA in mathematics and in business administration from the College of St. Catherine, as well as an MA in education and international economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of St. Thomas.

Ann has served as a Director of numerous start-up and public companies and currently serves as a director of Ace Metrix, Krillion, MuleSoft, Star Analytics and Voltage Security. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas. Ann is an advisor to numerous entrepreneur groups, as well as co-chair of SD Forum. 

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