ESP Managing Partner Everett Glenn joined keynote speaker Jeff Berg, CEO and Chairman of International Creative Management at the 2nd Annual Global Business Leadership Competition at UCLA's Anderson School of Business. Mr. Berg has been the head of the ICM, since 1985 and has enjoyed a prime view of goings-on at the highest levels of the entertainment

Willie Tucker, Newman Tucker Group Managing Partner, ICM’s Jeff Berg, and ESP’s Everett Glenn discuss the results of the GBLC competition at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management

industry. Mr. Berg also is a former co-chairman of the California Information Technology Council, has sat on the board of directors of software manufacturer Oracle Corp. since 1997, is a member of the board of trustees at UCLA's Anderson School of Management and is a director at educational-product manufacturer LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.

The GBLC competition is a two-day case competition featuring MBA students from 12 top business schools from around the world. Teams competed in three case modules focused on leadership issues in the global environment including the implications of a joint venture opportunity for a global engineering company; a press conference simulation for a financial services company; and the challenges of global acquisitions in the entertainment industry. The competition addressed dilemmas faced by global leaders by engaging student teams in interactive, task-oriented scenarios.

GBLC’s winning team, and the recipients of the $25,000 first place prize, the members of Queen’s Business School, Canada

Mr. Glenn was a judge of the Entertainment Module of the competition. Other judges, all distinguished business professionals – at the director level or above – from various industries and companies throughout Southern California, included Holly Taylor of Rogers & Cowan, the world's leading entertainment public relations and marketing agency; Tim Molter of Warner Brothers, a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of creative content and their related businesses, across all current and emerging media and platforms; Sue Baumgartner of Comcast, the country'slargest provider of cable services – and one of the world's leading communications companies; Kevin Tackaberry, Chief Human Resources Officer for Prospect Mortgage, the nation's largest independent residential retail lender; Bill Douglas of Paradigm Agency, a leading

entertainment talent agency which guides the careers of an elite roster of actors, musical artists, directors, writers and producers; Cindy Rackowitz of BR Public Relations, a powerful public relations firm which delivers results-oriented results for an international clientele; Alicia Jacobs, Founding Partner of Ajament Partners, a business strategy and human capital management firm that links a company’s talent to its business strategies; Caroline Nahas of Korn Ferry the executive recruitment industry's leader and innovator, the world's premier provider of executive talent management solutions; Seth Lubove of Bloomberg Newsroom, a world leader in news and financial information; Millie Tezanos and John Lippman of Univision, a pioneer in the broadcast industry and the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States; and Willie Tucker of the Newman Tucker Group, the premier West Coast-based executive search firm whose clients include some of the top companies in the nation.

Participating schools included Fudan University School of Management, China, HEC School of Management, France, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School, Hong Kong SAR, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico, London Business School, England, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Peking University Guanghua School of Management, China, Queen’s School of Business, Canada, Seoul National University, Korea, Tel Aviv University (Recanati), Israel, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, and the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, USA.

Sponsors for the GBLC competition included Parsons Corporation, a leader in many diverse markets such as infrastructure, transportation, water, telecommunications, aviation, commercial, environmental, industrial manufacturing, education, healthcare, life sciences and homeland security and Genentech, considered the founder and among the world's leading biotech companies using human genetic information to discover, develop, manufacture and commercialize medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions.

Queen's School of Business, Canada was the 1st place winner of $25,000. National University of Singapore was the 2nd place winner of $10,000. The University of Chicago was the 3rd place winner of $5,000.

The participants in the 2008 Global Business Leadership Competition relax for a group shot following the competition

ICM’s Jeff Berg shares some wisdom with the participants at the reception following the 2008 Global Business Leadership Competition

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