June 13, 2014
Scenes from the Silicon Valley All-Day Conference
In a rare Friday entry to the NASPP Blog, I offer a few scenes from this week’s Silicon Valley NASPP Chapter All-Day Conference. Kudos to Inta Abele, the chapter president, and the rest of the chapter board for hosting a great event.
Dee Crosby of the CEP Institute, Valerie Diamond of Baker & McKenzie, and Andrea Kagan of KPMG presented the afternoon keynote, “The Boomers are Coming! The Boomers are Coming!” After their presentation, they happily took questions from audience members. Seriously–look how happy Dee is!
Attendees listen intently to the keynote presentation.
Thanks to all of the event sponsors for supporting the chapter and helping it put together such a great event. Many of these companies sponsor this event for the chapter every year.
Megan Buckley of Ruckus Wireless, Loretta Gardner Miller of Castlight Health, Joan Matlack of Matlack Consulting, and Anamika Mandal of ETRADE. Often when I go through photos from an NASPP event, I realize that in every photo, everyone is from the same company. That was not the case today; this was a very gregarious group and everyone took full advantage of the opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends in the industry.
Stock & Option Solutions always has great tchotchkes (yes, that is how you spell that word) at their booth. This year they again had the boogie bot (in black–collect all three colors!) as well as a number of other nifty trinkets.
The hotel had a jail cell set up in the lobby, presumably in case any of the event attendees got out of hand, not that this would ever happen at an NASPP event. (Actually the cell was part of an exhibit on Alcatraz.)
Takis Makridis of Equity Methods and Dave Thomas of Wilson Sonsini presented “Pulling Levers to Maximize Value in a Compensation Plan Design.” They had the most colorful slides.
The day concluded with the traditional cocktail reception. Here attendees mingle at the reception while waiting for raffle winners to be announced.
The chapter president, Inta Able of Schwab, and vice president, Sorrell Johnson of NetApp, announce a raffle winner. Kudos the Inta, Sorrell, and all of the chapter officers for hosting a great event again this year.
See more pics of the event on the NASPP’s Facebook page.
– Barbara