Lehigh University: Alumni

Please join the Lehigh University Wall Street Council
for the 2008 Professional Networking Reception

Featuring distinguished keynote speaker Alan P. Winters '80,
Chief Operating Officer of Kingdon Capital,
with remarks by Dean Paul R. Brown

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
6 to 8:30 p.m. —  Cocktail Reception
7 p.m. —  presentation

The Down Town Association
60 Pine St.
New York, NY 10005
212-422-1997
www.thedta.com

$50 per person

Online registration for this event is now closed. If you wish to attend, please contact Evelyn Wolf at 610-758-4682.

Paul Richard Brown became the dean of Lehigh's College of Business and Economics on July 1, 2007.

Prior to arriving at Lehigh, Dean Brown had spent over 20 years at NYU Stern School of Business, where he held a variety of senior academic and administrative positions at both the school and university level, including past chair of the Department of Accounting, Taxation and Business Law. He had served as the associate dean of executive MBA programs and academic director of TRIUM, NYU Stern's global executive MBA program.

His research interests in financial reporting and analysis include: financial statement analysis, FASB/SEC policy analysis, international reporting and analysis, earnings measurement and management, and managing earnings expectations.

Dean Brown has published articles in a wide range of journals and is quoted often in the press. He is co-author of Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, and Valuation: A Strategic Perspective, and he has authored Foundations of Financial Statement Analysis. In addition, Dean Brown is the founding editor of The Journal of Financial Statement Analysis.

Alan P. Winters '80, CFA, is the chief operating officer of Kingdon Capital, where he oversees all administrative aspects of the firm, including accounting, finance, legal and compliance. Alan is also responsible for risk management and investment strategy. 

Alan joined Kingdon — at that time a small hedge fund managing $10 million — in 1986 as the company’s only analyst, and eventually rose to chief investment officer. He left Kingdon in 1997 to move to Paris and later returned to the United States, where he worked as a fifth-grade teacher at a public school in the Bronx. In 2002 he returned to Kingdon Capital in his current capacity. Today, Kingdon has more than $6 billion in assets under its management.

Alan has more than 20 years of investment experience and holds a bachelor's degree from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the chairman of the board of the University Settlement House and is a founding member of The Solelim Fund.

Alan is married and lives in New York with his wife, Hope, and three daughters.