PepsiCo Chairman & CEO Indra Nooyi, Senator Ron Wyden, and Other Leaders to Join Global Chief Financial Officers at Wall Street Journal CFO Network

Leading CFOs to Collaborate on Recommendations for Strong Financial Leadership


NEW YORK, May 15, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal will again convene nearly 100 leading global chief financial officers from the world's top corporations at the annual meeting of the CFO Network. The invitation-only event, which will take place June 16-17 at the Park Hyatt in Washington, D.C., will address the most pressing business and policy issues facing corporate finance today.

The gathering will feature policymakers and leaders from a range of sectors. PepsiCo Chairman & CEO Indra Nooyi will open the program in an interview with Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) on moving up to CEO from the role of CFO in today's corporate environment.

Other speakers include:

  • Ron Wyden, Chairman, Senate Finance Committee; U.S. Senator (D., Oregon);
  • Andrew Ceresney, Director of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
  • Jeff Knox, Chief of the Fraud Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice;
  • Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and SVP, The World Bank;
  • Jason Furman, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers;
  • Peter D. Hart, Chairman, Peter D. Hart Research Associates;
  • Bill McInturff, Partner and Co-founder, Public Opinion Strategies;
  • Alexandra Wrage, President, TRACE International;
  • Douglas Holtz-Eakin,President, American Action Forum;
  • Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP);
  • John Rother, President and CEO, National Coalition on Health Care.

Speakers will be interviewed by top editors from The Wall Street Journal, including Deputy Editor in Chief Rebecca Blumenstein (@RBlumenstein), Global Economics Editor Neil King (@NKingofDC), Money and Investing Editor Francesco Guerrera (@guerreraf72), Business Editor Dennis Berman (@DKBerman), and Washington Bureau Chief Gerald F. Seib (@GeraldFSeib).

In addition to the on-stage discussions, The Wall Street Journal CFO Network meeting includes subject-specific Task Force sessions in which the CFO members collaborate to develop a strategic agenda for financial leadership in key areas facing global corporate finance executives.

The results of the meeting will be published in a worldwide special report on June 23 in The Wall Street Journal and on WSJ.com. For more information on The Wall Street Journal CFO Network and its annual meeting, please visit: cfonetwork.wsj.com/. Follow the social conversation at #WSJCFO.

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