| Challenging Norms: Changing the Face of Business | ||
| Friday 19 October 2007 | ||
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Sponsors |
Platinum Sponsor
Lehman Brothers is delighted to be sponsoring the Eighth Annual Women
in Business Conference. We have also partnered with London Business
School to establish and develop the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in
Business. These partnerships bear testimony to our consistent effort to
attract and retain the broadest talent pool in our business and our
willingness to act as a thought leader and determine best practice in
encouraging gender diversity in business. This also highlights our
continuing investment in the community and our support of educational
institutions which foster the growth of future generations.
Lehman Brothers, an innovator in global finance, maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity." Gold Sponsor 
American Express, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payments, network, and travel company worldwide offering consumer charge cards, revolving credit cards, and cobrand cards; merchant acquisition and processing, and proprietary payments services. American Express serves consumers, small businesses, mid-market companies, and banking institutions. The Company issues travellers cheques and incentive prepaid products, such as prepaid gift cards, and provides expense management services to numerous firms through its corporate card program. This includes corporate purchasing solutions, electronic invoicing and payment services, and business travel services which includes reservation advice, expense management policy consultation, supplier consultation, MI reporting, data analysis and benchmarking. American Express was founded in 1850 and is headquartered in New York. Silver Sponsor 
Bank of America is the largest bank in the world by tier one capital and the fifth most profitable company in the world. Bank of America is also the second largest bank in the U.S. in terms of revenues. The company's Global Corporate and Investment Banking group (GCIB) focuses on companies with annual revenues of more than US$2.5 million; middle-market and large corporations; institutional investors; financial institutions; and government entities. GCIB provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, treasury management and research. Bank of America serves clients in 175 countries and has relationships with 79 percent of the Global Fortune 500.
The Bank’s international growth strategy is to build a profitable universal bank with Global Markets as a core competency. Bank of America targets European clients with strong U.S. interests and issuer and investor clients with whom the bank already has a strong relationship in the U.S.
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