Name: WFF US: Fireside Chat with Gretchen Carlson & Julie Roginsky
Start: 2022-09-13T17:30:00Z
End: 2022-09-13T20:30:00Z
Location: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF US: Fireside Chat with Gretchen Carlson & Julie Roginsky

September 13, 2022

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM EST

New York, NY

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Join us on Tuesday, September 13th 2022 for an inspiring Fireside Chat with the founders of "Lift Our Voices", Gretchen Carlson & Julie Roginsky. Gretchen and Julie will discuss discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and the work they are doing to ban NDAs and forced arbitration clauses in organizations around the country.

Agenda

5:30 pm - Registration / Check-In

6:30 pm - Fireside Chat

7:30 pm - Networking

Speakers

Gretchen Carlson

Lift Our Voices

Gretchen Carlson

Co-Founder | Lift Our Voices

Gretchen Carlson is a journalist, author, television personality, and co-founder of the non-profit, Lift Our Voices. A PEOPLE TV special contributor, she previously appeared as the host of numerous television programs, including CBS’s The Early Show, Fox & Friends, and The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson.

An internationally recognized advocate for women’s rights, Carlson’s bold actions against Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was a watershed moment in the global #MeToo movement. Carlson was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” and is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Be Fierce” and “Getting Real.”

Carlson is an honors graduate of Stanford University and studied at Oxford University.

Julie Roginsky

Lift Our Voices

Julie Roginsky

Co-Founder | Lift Our Voices

Julie Roginsky is a co-founder of the non-profit, Lift Our Voices. A nationally recognized political consultant, Roginsky began her career working at a prominent organization dedicated to electing more women to political office. Throughout her career, she has focused her efforts on mentoring and empowering women who seek to become engaged in the political process.

Roginsky is a former contributor at CNBC and the Fox News Channel, where she was a frequent co-host of “Outnumbered” and “The Five”. In 2017, she became one of the first women to file a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against the Fox News Channel and its chairman.

She has served as an advisor to major corporations, start-ups, non-profits, labor unions, and dozens of elected officials, including governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and state legislators.

Roginsky received both her B.A. and M.A. with honors from Boston University.

Julie Zuraw

The Julie Zuraw Group

Julie Zuraw

CEO | The Julie Zuraw Group

In 2003, Julie left a high-level career in advertising behind to consult directly with business leaders on corporate brand strategy, team-building, and their own leadership challenges. As the Me-Too revolution unfolded, she became sought after by female executives in particular, and out of this work Lead Like a Woman was born.

Prior to founding The Julie Zuraw Group, Julie was Director of Strategy for the Publicis Brand Optimizations Systems Group, where she built the group’s brand education practice and oversaw global client operations and brand identity initiatives.

She has held C-level positions in professional services firms, trained Boards of Directors, and held various management roles in New York City political campaigns.

And she has been a faculty member at Columbia University and Barnard College, where she has taught courses to undergraduates on skill-development pedagogy and to graduate students on pitching their professional projects.

Julie is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

Mary Touchstone

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Mary Touchstone

Partner and Head of Fund Finance Practice | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Mary Touchstone is a Partner and Head of the Fund Finance Practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mary has helped to establish Simpson Thacher as a global leader in the representation of financial sponsors in fund financings. She is widely acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the subscription credit facility market and represents many of the world’s preeminent sponsors of private equity, real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds on the largest and most complex fund facilities.

Mary and her team regularly work on a wide variety of fund level financings, including secured and unsecured subscription (or capital call) facilities, with borrowing capacity for the fund as well as its parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and portfolio companies; fund guarantees and other credit support of portfolio level financings; NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations provided as aftercare facilities for funds that are later in their life cycles with less uncalled capital and more portfolio asset value; credit facilities for managed account vehicles; employee co-investment loan programs; management lines to investment advisers for working capital purposes; and liquidity financings for registered funds.