Tiburon hosts unique semi-annual CEO Summits for its executive-level clients. Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII will be held April 14-15, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Battery Park City in New York, NY; please click here to review the tentative client invitee list and agenda for this upcoming Tiburon CEO Summit.

Tiburon CEO Summit XVII was held this past October 7-8, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA; please click here to read about this hugely successful CEO Summit and the preceding CEO Summits as well.

Tiburon's CEO Summits provide a unique opportunity for a select cross-industry group of senior executives to discuss a broad swath of issues regarding the future of the banking, brokerage, investments, insurance, advice, & wealth management businesses. Tiburon's CEO Summits likely provide the only true forum where financial services industry CEOs from across traditional industry silos gather to discuss business opportunities. The list of business relationships resulting from prior Tiburon CEO Summits is impressive.

Tiburon CEO Summits last two-to-three days and focus on in-depth discussions of Tiburon research and leading-edge business models through guest presentations, panel discussions, and break-out sessions. Guest speakers generally support the twin themes of focusing on consumer needs and challenging conventional wisdom. General sessions also often address industry mergers & acquisitions, venture capital & private equity trends, corporate governance, & public policy issues. Panel discussions revolve around consumer, financial advisor, & gatekeeper needs (representing all levels of clients), as well as product manufacturer planned developments. Break-out sessions allow for more in-depth discussions on timely topics as chosen by attendees.

Executive-level Tiburon clients are invited to participate along with a handful of media representatives in a forum of open sharing and discussion of industry trends. The meetings have become a hot ticket for industry executives. There is no cost to attend beyond one's travel expenses. Attendance is by invitation only; all attendees are ongoing Tiburon clients.

Context Setting

Four unique features distinguish Tiburon's CEO Summits from broader industry conferences:

• The senior level status of all attendees; Tiburon seeks to include only the CEO and leading strategy makers from each of its client firms; once invitations are extended, a strict no delegation policy is enforced
  
• The cross-industry characteristics of the attendees; Tiburon seeks to bring clients from related markets and across geographies together to discuss common issues
  
• The requirement of participation; all attendees are asked to participate in presenting and/or serving as panelists in an attempt to create open communications and wide-ranging debate. All attendees are also asked to complete detailed feedback forms and nominate future award recipients and guest speakers
  
• The lack of commercialization; Tiburon's CEO Summits allow for open discussions without the presence of industry vendors and sales pitches
  

	Don Phillips presents his views on customer focus at Tiburon CEO Summit VIII in San Francisco, CA

Tiburon's CEO Summits have come to support two central themes:

• Tiburon has long been known for promoting the importance of staying close to (and listening to) clients and focusing on clients' needs. Tiburon has long argued that the financial services industry conducts too little consumer research, opting to design products before listening to consumers. To foster such a focus at the Tiburon CEO Summits, every Tiburon CEO Summit has included three related panel discussions representing the three levels of clients; these include Ask the Consumers, Ask the Advisors, & Ask the Gatekeepers panels, all of which allow direct open dialog with real industry clients
• Tiburon and the Tiburon CEO Summits have long been known for challenging conventional industry wisdom. Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame does this through research and sharing factual data that often calls into question commonly perceived industry truths. Tiburon welcomes and encourages this critical thinking as part of its CEO Summits, and the firm is most often engaged in moving beyond factual data to help its clients develop innovative business models. To foster this spirit at the Tiburon CEO Summits, every Tiburon CEO Summit is led by a review of the news and an analytical state of the industry speech by Tiburon's managing principal and guest presentations by industry innovators
  

Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII will officially start at 7:45am on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, include a group dinner that night and finish at 1:30pm on Thursday, April 15, 2010. There are over twenty planned sessions. Along with Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame, guest speakers will include Ed Bernard (Vice Chairman, T. Rowe Price Group), Abby Cohen (President, Global Markets Institute, Goldman Sachs Group), Steve Forbes (CEO, Forbes Media), Jim McCool (Executive Vice President, The Charles Schwab Corporation), Jonathan Steinberg (CEO, Wisdom Tree Investments), David Tittsworth (Executive Director, Investment Adviser Association), & Fred Tomczyk (CEO, TD Ameritrade).

More casually, Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII will begin with a cocktail reception the prior evening, Tuesday April 13, 2010 at 6:00pm at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Battery Park City in New York, NY. And Tiburon will host a casual dinner at a classic Manhattan restaurant on Thursday evening April 15, 2010 at 6:00pm for local guests or those staying beyond the close of the Tiburon CEO Summit.

Click here for more details on the upcoming Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII. Follow on links will include the tentative client attendee list, tentative meeting agenda, and details on hotels & other logistics.

Tiburon CEO Summit XVII was held October 7-8, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The Summit started at 7:45am on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, included a networking dinner that evening at Servino's Restaurant in the town of Tiburon, & concluded at 2:30pm on Thursday, October 8, 2009. Almost 125 senior industry executives took two days out of their busy schedules to participate. In addition to Chip Roame (Managing Principal, Tiburon Strategic Advisors), featured guests included CEO Summit Award recipients Charles Schwab (Chairman, The Charles Schwab Corporation) & Ken Fisher (CEO, Fisher Investments) and guest speakers Jon Baum (CEO, The Dreyfus Corporation), John Calamos (CEO, Calamos Asset Management), Fred Jonske (CEO, M Financial Group), Deena Katz (Chairman, Evensky & Katz and Associate Professor, Texas Tech University), Pete Kight (Vice Chairman, Fiserv Corporation), Steve Lockshin (CEO, Convergent Wealth Advisors), Andrew Rudd (CEO, Advisor Software & Former CEO, Barra), Steve Wallman (CEO, Foliofn), & Jim Weddle (Managing Partner, Edward Jones & Company). Click here to read about all prior Tiburon CEO Summits.

Tiburon CEO Summits Guest Speakers Policy

Based on feedback from prior Tiburon CEO Summits, Tiburon predominantly invites financial services industry CEOs for the CEO Summit guest speaker slots. Attendees repeatedly report that they take away the most from other CEOs in like situations, and this fosters the collaborative environment sought. Speakers are asked to discuss both their views on industry developments and their businesses. Tiburon deliberately structures time for questions & answers with each speaker, again to foster the collaborative environment.  Aside from Tiburon's own Managing Principal Chip Roame (who kicks-off each Tiburon CEO Summit), past & upcoming speakers have included:

	CEO Summit XIV Guest Speaker Walt Bettinger (President, The Charles Schwab Corporation)		CEO Summits VIII & XVI Guest Speaker Jessica Bibliowicz (CEO, National Financial Partners)		CEO Summits X & XVI   Guest Speaker Mark Casady (CEO, LPL Financial)		CEO Summit XI Guest Speaker John DesPrez (CEO, John Hancock Financial Services, Manulife Financial)		CEO Summits XI & XVI Guest Speaker Ken Fisher (CEO, Fisher Investments)
	CEO Summit XIII Guest Speaker John Gunn (CEO, Dodge & Cox)		CEO Summit XII Guest Speaker Ed Haldeman (CEO, Putnam Investment Management, Marsh & McLennan)		CEO Summits VII & XV Guest Speaker Bill Hambrecht (CEO, WR Hambrecht + Company & Former CEO, Hambrecht & Quist)		CEO Summit XVI Guest Speaker Roger Ibbotson (Professor, Yale University; Chairman, Zebra Capital Management; & Former CEO, Ibbotson Associates)		CEO Summit X Guest Speaker Greg Johnson (CEO, Franklin Resources)

	CEO Summit XV Guest Speaker Joe Mansueto (CEO, Morningstar)		CEO Summit XII Guest Speaker John Murphy (CEO, Oppenheimer Funds, Mass Mutual Financial Group)		CEO Summits VIII & XIII Guest Speaker Don Phillips (Managing Director, Morningstar)		CEO Summit X Guest Speaker Dave Pottruck (CEO, Red Eagle Ventures & Former CEO, The Charles Schwab Corporation)		CEO Summit XIV Guest Speaker Bob Pozen (Chairman, MFS Investment Management, Sun Life of Canada)

	CEO Summit XII Guest Speaker Jim Riepe (Former Vice Chairman & Senior Advisor, T. Rowe Price Group)		CEO Summit XI Guest Speaker Myron Scholes (Professor, Stanford University; Chairman, Platinum Grove Asset Management; & Winner, 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics)		CEO Summit XVII Award Recipient Charles Schwab (Charles Schwab, The Charles Schwab Corporation)		CEO Summit XIV Guest Speaker Michael Steinhardt (Managing Member, Steinhardt Management & Chairman, Wisdom Tree Investments)		CEO Summit XVII Guest Speaker Jim Weddle (Managing Partner, Edward Jones & Company)

Tiburon CEO Summits Attendee Policy

Tiburon maintains a list of over 3,000 executive-level clients at over 300 companies who have engaged the firm, many of whom have actively participated in prior Tiburon CEO Summits. Attendance at each Tiburon CEO Summit is limited to 150 executives and is reserved for Tiburon's clients. If you are an executive-level Tiburon client and would like to participate in a future Tiburon CEO Summit, please contact Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame.

More specifically, there are two specific attendee policies:

• Seniority: Tiburon is making a big effort to limit attendance to the CEOs and leading strategy makers from its client companies. Almost all attendees have C level titles (CEOs, COOs, CFOs, & CIOs); a handful are executive vice presidents leading core business units and/or internal business strategy groups
• Clients: Since Tiburon hosts the events, it is economic reality that the group must be limited to senior executives who have previously benefited from Tiburon's research-based strategy consulting work

Tiburon CEO Summits Attendee Delegation Policy

Once invitations are extended, delegation is not allowed. Tiburon realizes that if substitutes are allowed, the firm may quickly end up hosting a vice presidents Summit, instead of a CEOs Summit. Due to the frequency and other commitments, many Tiburon clients attend Tiburon's CEO Summits only periodically, but are still granted seats as long as they remain active Tiburon clients.

Tiburon CEO Summits Media Policy

Tiburon defines a media policy for each Tiburon CEO Summit. Depending on client & speaker requests, sometimes select media representatives are permitted to attend Tiburon's CEO Summits. In such cases, a few media policies are necessary for maintaining the openness of the Tiburon CEO Summits:

• Media representatives seeking entrance should have previously worked closely with Tiburon's media relations manager leveraging Tiburon's core research
• Media representatives should be planning to utilize Tiburon CEO Summit learnings in story development, with attribution if appropriate
• Media representatives must respect that Tiburon CEO Summit attendees have the right to declare any statement as not for publication
• Media representatives shall not record, print, or otherwise use the last names and financial information of consumer panelists

Tiburon is happy to have media representatives attend its CEO Summits and spread the word about maintaining a focus on consumer needs and challenging conventional wisdom. But that said, frank and open conversations will be prioritized every time over media coverage.

Previous Tiburon CEO Summits Media Coverage

Please click the video to the right to hear Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame comment during his Tiburon CEO Summit XIV keynote opening presentation on the dominate financial services products.

Additional media coverage will be posted here soon.

Tiburon CEO Summit Sponsors

Due to the incredible demand from a large number of its executive-level clients to attend its CEO Summits, Tiburon now holds its CEO Summits at the Ritz Carlton Hotels in New York, NY & San Francisco, CA. Several long-time Tiburon clients, including Advisor Impact, Advisor Software, Charles Schwab Institutional, Dunham & Associates, Envestnet Asset Management, Ever Bank Financial, Fidelity Investments, Fiserv Investment Services, Folio Institutional, Genworth Financial Wealth Management, LPL Financial, Mass Mutual Financial Group, New York Life, ReFlow, Silver Lane Advisors, State Street Global Advisors, & TD Ameritrade Institutional are offering financial support for Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII, while media sponsors include Bank Advisor Magazine, Barron's, Boomer Market Advisor Magazine, Financial Advisor Magazine, Private Wealth Magazine, Registered Rep Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Trusts & Estates Magazine. Tiburon is grateful for this assistance.

				Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII Sponsors
			Tiburon CEO Summit XVIII Media Sponsors