Larraine Segil ’79, a prominent business leader and Southwestern alumna, was elected to Southwestern’s Board of Trustees at the Board’s May 2012 meeting. Ms. Segil is a highly respected senior executive with entrepreneurial general management experience and specialized expertise in conflict resolution and the creation, implementation and management of complex business alliances in multiple industries – healthcare, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, aerospace and financial services.

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This week Larraine Segil gave the first Larraine Segil Award for Alliance Competency at the Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles to Linda LoRe, former CEO of Giorgio’s of Beverly Hills, and Fredericks of Hollywood who is a candidate for the Presidential Key Executive MBA program, the same program that Larraine Segil graduated from in 1984. Larraine set up this scholarship to reward women PKE MBA candidates on their leadership in the management of business alliances and to encourage more women to build competency in this field, in which Ms Segil created a global reputation over the past three decades. Here she announces the award, accompanied by Dean Linda Livingstone, Dean of the Graziadio School.

September 14^th 2011 was a busy day for Larraine. She flew from Orlando to Dallas to present the evening keynote for NORTHROP GRUMMAN – at a gathering of the senior executives of their key suppliers – talking about how integrated and strategic supplier relationships need to be approached and managed more like alliances than vendor relationships.  It was a very collaborative active group of attendees with probing and complex situations and questions which led to a lively dinner discussion after Larraine’s Keynote. Larraine has spoken for Northrop Grumman on a number of occasions in the past – and is a continuing resource for the organization on these ever evolving relationship issues.

Larraine Segil gave the KEYNOTE ADDRESS today September 14^th 2011 to THE JOINT GARTNER VENDOR OUTSOURCING & IT SUMMIT and GARTNER INVESTMENT SUMMIT in Orlando FLA– to great acclaim. She has spoken for The Gartner Group before – and the audience is always highly engaged and intelligent. Her Topic was:
Creating Value in Partnering

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Larraine Segil was appointed to the Board of the National Association Of Corporate Directors , Southern California Branch in May of 2011.

Strategic Alliances Advisory Group recommends moves for strengthening TDR partnerships
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