From the Chair
Nancy Valentine, Ice Miller LLP, IWIRC Chair
Dear Fellow IWIRC Members,
IWIRC continues to seek to provide women insolvency professionals with the opportunity to connect, to support and to network with each other. I am thrilled to continue the mission of IWIRC. For fifteen years, IWIRC has provided me with the opportunity to lead, the opportunity to generate business, the opportunity to understand and grow professionally, and the opportunity to be friends and work with amazing women. I attribute much of my success and my resiliency in the challenging environment of professional services and particularly the insolvency industry to IWIRC.
In the wake of the many dialogues spurred by the recent U.S. election and the ongoing challenges women (and all other minorities) face, it is clear that women can continue to benefit from opportunities to network with and support each other in organizations like IWIRC. IWIRC must remain focused on its mission and find new ways to meet its mission for the benefit of its members and its members’ organizations. As such, IWIRC’s leadership has commenced a process to create a strategic plan for the organization to be presented at IWIRC’s Fall Conference in 2017. The first step in the plan process is the IWIRC survey that we have prepared to generate information and data regarding the organization and its membership. IWIRC asks that you respond to the survey by December 31, 2016. Please watch your email and participate so we have broad responses and adequate data from our membership to allow IWIRC to meet this goal.
We also are encouraging our membership to use IWIRC’s website and social media outlets. For example, please update your membership information on the website, please provide information regarding your capabilities as a speaker, and look for events to attend hosted by local networks when traveling. For IWIRC’s next event, we look forward to seeing many of you at the ABI Winter Leadership Conference (December 1-3, 2016) and the presentation of the 2016 WOYR Award and Women’s Reception at the Conference.
The International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
E-Newsletter
Volume 22, Number 4
November 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2016 WOYR Award Winner......................2
IWIRC's Fall Conference...............3
2016 Rising Star Award Winner...........5
IWIRC All Star Breakfast..................6
Member Spotlight....7
Feature Article.........8
Network Happenings............11
Member News........20
Upcoming Network Activities................22
Welcome IWIRC New Members................24
2016 Sponsors................26
Save the Date!........29
SPONSORS
Thank you to all of our 2016 sponsors for their support of IWIRC! For a complete list of sponsors, please click here.
Nancy Valentine
IWIRC Chair
Ice Miller LLP
Alexandra CC Schnapp
IWIRC Newsletter Director
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia