His many recognitions and honors include receiving the Canadian Business Leader Award from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Administration, being named CEO of the Year in 1991 by The Financial Post and The Caldwell Partners and earlier that same year co-chairing the organization Regroupement Economie et Constitution. The following year, he was named Canada's International Executive of the Year by the International Chamber of Commerce and then was inducted into the World Trade Hall of Fame by the World Trade Institution and the Greater Los Angeles World Trade Center Association.

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Liam O'Mahony is Chief Executive of CRH plc, the International Building Materials Group, headquartered in Ireland with operations in 32 countries.

Liam has honours degrees in Civil Engineering (University College Cork), in a Masters of Business Administration (Trinity College Dublin), and is a Barrister-at-Law (Kings Inns, Dublin) where he was awarded the John Brooke Scholarship as first-placed graduate.

He worked in design and project management in Ireland and the UK before joining CRH in 1971 as a Development Manager. Having worked in the Middle East and Africa and managed a number of CRH's Irish and US companies, Liam became Chief Operating Officer of Oldcastle, Inc. in 1989, the holding company for CRH's North American operations. Appointed Managing Director Republic of Ireland and UK Group companies in 1991, he joined the CRH Board of Directors in 1992. He returned to the US as Chief Executive of Oldcastle in 1994 and was appointed to his current position as Chief Executive of the CRH Group from January 1, 2000.

Liam is married with two sons.

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Robert E. Grady serves as Chairman of Carlyle's U.S. venture and growth capital group, Carlyle Venture Partners ("CVP"), which has $1.5 billion under management. He serves on the investment committees of CVP, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners ("CAGP") and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners ("CETP"). He is based in San Francisco. Mr. Grady is a Director of AuthenTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: "AUTH") and a former Director of Blackboard (Nasdaq: "BBBB") and Ingenio (acquired by AT&T (NYSE: "T")). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of privately-held Carlyle portfolio companies, eScreen, The Health Central Network, Panasas, Secure Elements, and Verari Systems. Mr. Grady is a former director and served as Chairman in 2006-2007 of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Grady was a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee at Robertson Stephens, the San Francisco-based technology investment bank. At Robertson Stephens, he served as lead investment banker on over 150 public market financings and M&A transactions, and was an active venture capital investor. Mr. Grady served from 1994 to 2004 on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he taught a course on "Investing in Highly Regulated Industries."

Mr. Grady served in the White House from 1989-1993, as Deputy Assistant to President George H.W. Bush and as Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1991-1993) and as Associate Director of OMB for Natural Resources, Energy and Science (1989-1991). He previously served as Chief Speechwriter and Senior Advisor for the successful 1988 Bush/ Quayle Presidential Campaign (1988); Director of Communications for New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean (1983-1986); and Legislative Assistant and then Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (1979-1983). Mr. Grady serves on the boards of directors of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Pardee RAND Graduate School, TechNet, and the Asia America Multi-Industry Association (AAMA); on the Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada's Strategic Technology Fund; and on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Grady is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Our 2009 Lifetime Achievement Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker, Peter Sutherland, currently serves as Chairman of BP plc., Goldman Sachs International and the London School of Economics. His previous positions include service as Attorney General of Ireland, EC Commissioner responsible for Competition Policy, Chairman of Allied Irish Banks and Director General of The World Trade Organization. Among the many important international organizations with which he is also involved are the World Economic Forum, the European Policy Centre Advisory Council, the European Round Table of Industrialists, the Royal Irish Academy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to which he is Goodwill Ambassador. Mr. Sutherland is of Irish nationality and was educated at Gonzaga College, University College Dublin and King's Inns, graduating in Civil Law. He was also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple, London as well as an Honorary Bencher of the King's Inns. His industrial connections include serving on the Board of Directors of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, and on the Advisory Boards of Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly and Allianz. Mr. Sutherland's distinguished career has included receiving high honors from Spain, Belgium, France, Morocco, Brazil and Portugal and an honorary Knighthood from the UK. Among others, he has received the European Person of the Year Award, the Irish People of the Year Award, and fourteen honorary doctorates from European and American universities.

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