The INSEAD Alumni Association kindly invites you to the following event:

Executive Leadership & the Path to the Top

Join former INSEAD Dean Frank Brown and other top executives in a conversation on leadership, the inner traits that are the key to success, advancement strategies for successful executives, and the lessons they’ve learned on their way to the top.

Space is limited.  Pre-registration is strictly required. 

Jacket & Tie required

- Frank Brown, Managing Director – General Atlantic (www.generalatlantic.com)

- Peter Felix, President – The Association of Executive Search Consultants (www.aesc.org)

- Sandy (Alexander) Ogg, Operating Partner at Blackstone (www.blackstone.com)

 Agenda - Tuesday 18 October

18:00 - Registration
18:30 - Moderated panel
19:30 - Q&A
20:00 – Cocktail

For more information about the event, please contact Alfredo Angel at alfredo.angel@alumni.insead.edu / +1-917-664-0861

J. Frank Brown is a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer Designate at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. He will become Chief Operating Officer for the firm in January 2012. 

From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Brown served as Dean of INSEAD, the leading international business school with campuses in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He was the second American Dean since the foundation of the school in 1957. During his tenure INSEAD opened its third campus in Abu Dhabi and established the Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and the Social Innovation Centre. He also increased the participation of women students in the MBA program by more than 50%, built stronger connections with INSEAD alumni and with the business community, and achieved greater brand awareness for INSEAD. Prior to joining INSEAD, Brown had a distinguished 26-year career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, including leadership of the $3.5 billion Advisory Services practice.

Mr. Brown received his B.S.B.A. from Bucknell University and studied on an advanced management program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Peter Felix has been President of the worldwide Association of Executive Search Consultants, based in New York, since 1998. Mr. Felix is a former executive search consultant, who has had extensive experience in association management, in management consulting and in industrial management.

From 1984 to 1994, Mr. Felix served the British-American Chamber of Commerce in New York and London as Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He served as Vice President of Human Resources for the Bendix Corporation in Paris, as a management consultant for the Algerian Oil and Gas industry, and as Manager of Marketing Practices for IBM in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Felix received his BA in Social Studies and Law from Exeter University and MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Sandy Ogg Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Ogg was the Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever based in London. Prior to Unilever he was Senior Vice President, Leadership, Learning and Performance at Motorola.

Before his corporate roles Mr. Ogg worked as a consultant with Dove Associates, The VIA Consulting Group, which he founded, and The Center for Leadership Studies. He began his career as a line officer in the U.S. Coast Guard doing rescue work at sea.

Mr. Ogg received a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics from the United States Coast Guard Academy, a Masters Degree in Human Development from George Washington University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.