Presenter:
David Batchelder
Founder & Principal, Relational Investors
June 1, 2010
7:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast & Registration
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. - Program
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Location:
Fish & Richardson Law Center12390 El Camino Real
San Diego, CA 92130
David Batchelder is one of the most revered activist investors. With a deep background in corporate management and board dynamics, he co-founded San Diego based Relational Investors with Ralph Whitworth in 1996. Relational now manages over $6.5 billion for some of the largest pension funds in the world and targets investments in fundamentally sound companies that are poorly managed and/or structured. They have actively pushed for changes in companies such as Home Depot, Intuit and very recently Genzyme. Join us for our last CEO Forum until the fall, and learn why David Batchelder and his team are loved by some boards/CEO's and feared by others.
Mr. Batchelder, 60, is a Founder, Principal, and member of Relational Investors’ Investment Committee. He has over 25 years of financial management, mergers, and acquisitions experience. Mr. Batchelder has served as chairman of one public company, Mac Frugal’s Bargains•Close-Outs Inc., and as a director of ten others: Allwaste, Inc., Apria Healthcare Group Inc., ConAgra Foods, Inc., The Home Depot, Inc., ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Intuit Inc., Mesa, Inc., Nuevo Energy Company, Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation, and Washington Group International, Inc. Five of these public companies were in the Fortune 500 during his service. He remains a director of The Home Depot, Inc. and Intuit Inc.
Mr. Batchelder’s experience as a board member of several public and private companies provided him a direct insight into corporate management and board dynamics. His perspective proves extremely valuable to Relational’s strategy of assisting portfolio companies' managements improve performance and unlock value.
From 1988 to 2005, Mr. Batchelder was also a Principal of Relational Advisors LLC, a financial advisory and investment banking firm, which he founded. He built the firm into a nationally recognized source of expertise for mergers, acquisitions, private financings, and shareholder matters.
Prior to founding Relational Advisors and Relational Investors, Mr. Batchelder held various executive positions with Mesa Petroleum Co. from 1978 to 1988, and in 1986 he was named President and Chief Operating Officer. He also served on Mesa’s board of directors from 1984 to 1987. During his affiliation with Mesa, Mr. Batchelder led the team responsible for Mesa’s investments, acquisitions, and financing activities. Prior to his affiliation with Mesa Petroleum Co., Mr. Batchelder was an Audit Manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP.
A 1971 graduate of Oklahoma State University, Mr. Batchelder holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Location: Fish & Richardson Law Center, 12390 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130 (From I-5 South, exit Carmel Valley Rd/Hwy 56 East. Left off exit. Left onto El Camino Real, left at third traffic light onto Del Mar Corporate Ct. The Fish & Richardson building is on the right.
(From I-5 North, don't take 56 bypass, exit Carmel Valley Rd. Right off exit. Left onto El Camino Real, left at third traffic light onto Del Mar Corporate Ct. The Fish and Richardson Building is on the right.) 
