KEYNOTE SPEAKER
 Congressman Michael Oxley
A Leader in Congress
Congressman Oxley recently completed his twelfth full term in the House of Representatives and served as Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services. He led 37 Republicans, 32 Democrats, and 1 Independent on the Committee, which oversees Wall Street, banks, and the insurance industry. In addition to financial matters, Oxley had a long involvement with trade, telecommunications, and energy issues. A firm believer in market competition, Oxley drew on his business and financial expertise to advocate policies promoting personal savings, jobs, and economic growth.
Securing Our Financial Future
Finance and capital formation issues underpin the U.S. economy, and affect everything from business expansions to homebuyers seeking a mortgage. As Chairman of the Committee on Financial Services, Oxley was committed to: promoting competition that results in more choices and lower prices for consumers of financial products; making sure markets are healthy so businesses have access to capital that creates jobs; protecting investors; ensuring the soundness of the banking system; and maintaining America’s leading role in world finance.
Protecting Investors and Promoting Good Governance
Oxley is the co-author of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which established new investor protections and set higher standards for corporate governance in response to business scandals. In signing the bill into law on July 30, 2002, President George W. Bush called Oxley "a true advocate of corporate integrity." Oxley’s committee was the first to hold hearings on the financial fraud at Enron, WorldCom, and other companies.
Fighting Terrorism and Crime
A former special agent of the FBI, Congressman Oxley drew on his law enforcement background on the issues of terrorism and crime. In the weeks following 9/11, Oxley targeted terrorist financing by working to pass a new money laundering statute. Oxley authored the Crime Victims Restitution Act, which requires all criminals convicted of federal crimes to make restitution to their victims. He is a national leader in the fight to prevent children from being exposed to Internet pornography.
Peace and Prosperity
Congressman Oxley is a fiscal conservative who worked to promote economic opportunity in the Fourth District by expanding high technology and advanced telecommunications, securing transportation improvements, encouraging the redevelopment of abandoned sites known as brownfields, and advocating trade policies that increase agricultural and manufacturing exports.
Oxley’s legislative awards for his wise use of the taxpayer dollar include: the Taxpayer’s Friend Award from the National Taxpayers Union; the Guardian of Small Business Award from the National Federation of Independent Business; the Spirit of Enterprise Award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the National Association of Manufacturers Award for Manufacturing Legislative Excellence; the Jefferson Award from the Citizens for a Sound Economy; and the Friend of the Farm Bureau Award. The American Security Council has awarded him its National Security Award every year of his tenure in Congress for his advocacy of peace through strength.
Oxley is also the manager of the Republican Congressional Baseball Team, which plays against Democrats each year in a game that raises money for literacy instruction and other charities.
Personal Background
A resident of Findlay, Congressman Oxley served nine years in the Ohio General Assembly before coming to Congress as a result of a 1981 special election.
Born February 11, 1944, Congressman Oxley is an attorney by profession. He earned his B.A. from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) in 1966 and his law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1969. He is a member of the American, Ohio, and Findlay Bar Associations, and, in 1986, was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Congressman Oxley is a member of the Rotary International, Findlay Elks, Ohio Farm Bureau, Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and Sigma Chi fraternity. He has staff experience with former Eighth Ohio District Congressman Jackson Betts, former Ohio Lieutenant Governor John Brown, and former Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe.
Congressman Oxley and his wife, Pat, are the parents of a son, Chadd.
Featured SPEAKER
 John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation Hope
On May 5th, 1992, John Hope Bryant founded Operation HOPE immediately following the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, California, the worst urban civil unrest in U.S. history. Believing that “you will not lend where you have never been,” Bryant organized a Bankers Bus Tour to take financiers through the effected area. The result was the funding of the first loan to rebuild a business post-riot and the founding of Operation HOPE. Operation HOPE today is operational nationally:
• With on-the-ground “silver rights” campaigns and programs in 14 states, 25 cities, and a global “silver rights” campaign focused on teaching children dignity.
• As founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE to date Bryant has raised more than $80 million in grant funds and more than $250 million in lending commitments for low-wealth homeownership and minority small business ownership and entrepreneurship nationwide.
• Operation HOPE has in turn attracted 300 leading private-sector companies with $5 trillion in assets between them, more than 1,000 non-profit organizations and schools, and more than 100 government agencies as partners in its work.
• The five-year goals of Operation HOPE are to educate 5 million low wealth children in financial literacy, recruit 25,000 professionals as HOPE Corps volunteers, fund $1 billion in low-wealth homeownership, attract 1,000 of the world’s leading companies as partners, and to spark a movement around “silver rights.”
A national community leader cited by the past four sitting U.S. presidents for his work to empower low-wealth communities across America and an active advisor to the past two U.S. presidents, John Hope Bryant is one of the most authoritative and compelling advocates for poverty eradication in America today. To the producer of the NBC Weekend Today Show John Hope Bryant is “a revolutionary of our times,” to U.S. President George W. Bush he is “a social entrepreneur,” and to civil rights icon Dr. Dorothy Height he is “a dreamer -- with a shovel in his hands.”
John Hope Bryant is a businessman, an author of BANKING ON OUR FUTURE, a book on youth and family financial literacy published by Beacon Press, a former United Nations goodwill ambassador to the United States, a local partner with former President Clinton in an effort to educate every child in Harlem, New York in financial literacy, a national partner with former President Clinton and his foundation to greatly expand access to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for victims of Hurricane Katrina and all low-wealth Americans, a Presidential Appointee for President George W. Bush, a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum, the founder of Operation HOPE, and working with HOPE spokesman Ambassador Andrew Young, the author of a new movement in America and a clear and compelling vision for the eradication of poverty in the 21st century; the Silver Rights Movement.
In his role as a private sector businessman John Hope Bryant runs Bryant Group of Companies, and has served on several corporate boards, including the corporate board of directors for 3-Day Blinds, Inc. and Southern Pacific Bank. John Hope Bryant currently serves on the community board for Wells Fargo & Co. and the national advisory board for First American Corporation, a Fortune 300 company.
In the community John Hope Bryant serves on the board of trustees for First A.M.E. Church, the oldest Black church in Los Angeles, California, the national board for the Black Leadership Forum, the board of visitors for Xavier University, the board of governors for the City Club on Bunker Hill, the board of directors of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, the national honorary board for the Underground Railroad Freedom Center and 89.3 FM KPCC - Southern California Public Radio, and the board of the John & Sheila Kennedy-Bryant Family Foundation.
John Hope Bryant was born on February 6th, 1966, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Mrs. Sheila Jenine Kennedy-Bryant.
Featured Speaker
 Charles Bowman
Global Compliance & Operational Risk Executive, Bank of America
Charles Bowman is the Global Compliance & Operational Risk Executive for Bank of America, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, and is responsible for overseeing compliance and operational risk activities for the company globally.
In this role, Bowman has been influential in driving a culture of compliance throughout the company, and several external studies have cited Bank of America’s compliance concepts as leading-edge.
Bowman chairs the Compliance and Operational Risk Committee, which oversees and approves the company’s compliance and operational risk policies and processes to assure sound risk management.
He joined Bank of America in 1996 as associate general counsel in the Legal department, supporting business clients within Global Corporate & Investment Banking. In 1999, he was named Principal Compliance Executive. Prior to joining Bank of America, Bowman served as a law partner in a law firm where his practice focused on corporate and financing transactions.
Bowman earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was graduated in 1978 with Honors and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1982, he received both a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina Law School and a master’s degree in Public Policy Analysis from Duke University.
Involved in the local community, Bowman has served as General Counsel to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce from 1995 to 1996 and President of the Mecklenburg Mental Health Association in 1998. He is a member of the Compliance Directors’ Roundtable, the Mecklenburg County Bar Association, American Bar Association and North Carolina Bar Association.
He is married and has two children.
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