Suntrust, IBM executives to speak at 2006 Graduate Symposium

October 9, 2006 – Phillip Humann, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntrust Bank, and Bridget van Kralingen, global managing partner, Financial Services Sector, IBM, are keynote presenters for the North Carolina State University College of Management’s eighth annual Graduate Symposium, to be held Friday, Oct. 20, at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley.

Humann will present the breakfast keynote address, beginning at 8:30 a.m., and van Kralingen will give the luncheon presentation, beginning at 1:00 p.m.

The annual symposium also features College of Management faculty members moderating panel discussions of key business issues. Concurrent panel sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. This year’s panel sessions topics include intellectual property, complexity in the supply chain, design thinking management, and biotech alliance management. The complete list of panel session follows.

The symposium provides business leaders an opportunity to network with their peers and College of Management faculty and graduate students. There is no charge to attend the NC State College of Management Graduate Symposium, thanks to the generous support of sponsors, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cisco, and EMC. However, advanced registration is requested by Monday, Oct. 16. Register online at www.graduatesymposium.com.

Following are the panel session topics. The moderators are faculty members from NC State University College of Management unless otherwise noted.

Session one, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

• Implications of Changing Payment Mechanisms, moderated by John Lapp, Ph.D., professor, Department of Economics
• Intellectual Property: Protecting Worldwide Assets, moderated by David Baumer, Ph.D./J.D., professor, Department of Business Management
• Managing Complexity in the Global Supply Chain, moderated by Don Warsing, Ph.D, assistant professor, Department of Business Management
• Challenges of Enterprise Security and Information Privacy, moderated by Julie Earp, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Business Management
• Where has Managerial Execution Gone? Moderated by John McCreery, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Business Management

Panel session 2, beginning at 11:00 a.m.

• Sustainable Business, moderated by John Morrison, vice president, operations, Advanced Energy
• Effective Use of Hedging Strategies for Risk Minimization, moderated by Bruce Branson, Ph.D., professor and associate director of the Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at NC State’s College of Management
• Design Thinking Management, moderated by Lynda Aiman-Smith, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Capital Requirements in Banking, moderator Denis Pelletier, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Economics
• Biotech Alliance Management, moderated by Gabe Cipau, Ph.D., fellow, Center for Innovation Management Studies at the College of Management