Over 750 members and guests enjoyed the FWA Annual Dinner and 24th Annual Women of the Year Awards on Wednesday, April 30th. They came to honor two highly regarded leaders:
Evelyn Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estée Lauder Companies and Founder & Chairman of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and
Christine Poon, Vice Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Board of Directors and Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group.
The Annual Dinner is the FWA’s primary fundraiser. This year it netted more than $275,000 for the FWA of New York Educational Fund which supports the FWA’s scholarship, mentoring, and other education programs.
In addition to the two honorees, the dinner recognized two FWA mentees from the Murry Bergtraum High School and the Baruch College mentoring programs, Christy McLean and Elizabeth James, respectively. All four speakers, honorees and mentees, spoke eloquently about life’s lessons and the family, friends, and mentors who helped them along the way.
The Annual Dinner is an opportunity for FWA members, the President’s Circle and other corporate table sponsors, their employees, and other FWA supporters to reconnect, meet fellow professionals and share experiences.
Our special thanks to the FWA staff -- Jennifer Durst, Nancy Sellar, Lisa Buddenhagen, Rosalind Lloyd and Janet Vetter -- the Annual Dinner Committee, and the many Board and other members who all contributed to the evening’s success. Special acknowledgements are due to The Estée Lauder Companies, Johnson & Johnson and Dara Lamb for the evening’s gift bag; Deloitte LLP for partially underwriting the new FWA video; the distinguished dais guests and all of the corporate table supporters.
“... The honorees and the student speakers were fabulous. The folks from [President’s Circle firm] were very impressed with the dinner and there was a lot of positive buzz generated...”
“…Spectacular dinner: great honorees who delivered impactful, short addresses; student speakers who moved the audience with their pentimento reflections; a vivacious emcee who kept the pace moving; a healthy representation of individual members, a new video, etc...”
“Congratulations on a wonderful job. I had the President and VP Communications of Nontraditional Employment for Women at the Financial Literacy table and they were so excited to be a part of such an impressive evening. I felt the same way. Thanks.”
“Congratulations on putting together a terrific, interesting, fun Annual Dinner. All of your efforts were very obvious, from the selection of the really special Honorees, to the numbers on the corporate sponsors and dais guests, to the speeches and preparation of the speakers, to the Emcee and her crackerjack timing. Even the meal seemed better!”
“My husband was in the audience… and he couldn't say enough about how much he felt Trish added to the Dinner's success.”
“All was fabulous! [My company] attended with a valued client and her friend that is a potential client and it was a successful evening for us…please e-mail me a draft proposal regarding upgrading from a table to President’s Circle Gold that I can forward to our NJ/NY Site Leadership for consideration.”
“I was very impressed with the Emcee, the honorees and students, and the professional pace that kept everyone’s interest. Trish’s comments on the economic climate were very interesting, and she added a lot of pizzazz and punch to the introductions. It was a very enjoyable evening.”
FWA Annual Dinner Corporate Sponsors
The FWA is very grateful to its many corporate supporters who attended the dinner and who were represented with ads in our dinner journal.
President's Circle Companies
AIG
The Bank of New York Mellon
CIT
Citi
Colgate-Palmolive
Credit Suisse
Deloitte & Touche
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
HSBC Bank USA
Lehman Brothers
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
KPMG
Proskauer Rose LLP
Prudential Financial
TD Ameritrade
Thomson Reuters
UBS
Wachovia Securities
Additional Corporate Table Supporters
3i
Ambac
Baruch College
BDO Seidman LLP
BMO Capital Markets
BNP Paribas
Bristol Myers Squibb Company
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Calvert Investments
Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation
The Estée Lauder Companies
E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corp.
IBM
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
Johnson & Johnson
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel
Latham & Watkins LLP
Loeb & Loeb
Mercer
Moody's Investor Service
NASDAQ
Ogilvy & Mather
Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Royal Bank of Scotland
Shearman & Sterling
Sullivan & Cromwell
TIAA-CREF
