Corporate Governance Summit to Feature Mattel, Capital Research and Management Leaders

Corporate Governance Summit to Feature Mattel, Capital Research and Management Leaders

LOS ANGELES - The 2008 USC Corporate Governance Summit, to be held March 20 and March 21, will feature keynote speeches by Mattel Inc. Chairman and CEO Robert A. Eckert and Capital Research and Management Company Vice Chairman Paul Haaga, along with presentations by more than two dozen other business and academic leaders.

The event is the premier gathering of public company directors discussing leadership, accountability and judgment issues they face in a climate of increasing regulatory and shareholder scrutiny. Co-sponsored by Irvine, Calif.-based Resources Global Professionals ("Resources"), the operating subsidiary of Resources Connection, Inc. (NASDAQ: RECN), the summit will be held March 20 and 21 at the Davidson Conference Center on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California.

"The USC Corporate Governance Summit brings together business leaders, researchers and consultants to discuss the issues facing corporate boards," said Dean James G. Ellis of the USC Marshall School of Business, a summit co-sponsor. "In the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley and other recent challenges, the summit is more vital than ever."

"We are delighted to be co-sponsoring this significant event with USC's Marshall School, as we have since its inception three years ago," said Don Murray, chief executive officer of Resources. "Business leaders are increasingly judged by ever-more exacting global corporate governance standards of accountability, transparency, and risk management, so it's crucial that corporate boards think and act in the best interests of all their constituents."

Presentation topics include executive compensation; shareholder activism; audit committee operations; crisis management; best practices for nominating committees; and the role of private equity in public companies.

Eckert joined Mattel in 2000, after 23 years with Kraft Foods. The El Segundo, California-based Mattel is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of toys, with about $6 billion in annual sales.

Haaga has been with Los Angeles-based Capital Research and Management Company since 1985, after a career as attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with law firm Dechert Price & Rhoads. He is chairman of Capital Research's board executive committee, chairman of the Capital International Fund and vice chairman of 14 other funds under the CRMC umbrella. Privately held Capital Group is one of the oldest and largest investment-management companies in the United States, serving institutional and individual investors worldwide, and sponsor of the American Funds family of mutual funds.

Other speakers include luncheon keynote Michael Tennenbaum of Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC; USC Leventhal School of Accounting Professor William Holder, director of the SEC and Financial Reporting Institute; USC Marshall professors Kevin Murphy and Duke Bristow; and Colleen Cunningham, regional managing director of Resources and former president and CEO of Financial Executives International (FEI).

Breakout sessions will feature senior executives or board members with such companies as Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Fannie Mae, Intel Corp., Kimberly-Clark Corp., Latham & Watkins, Legg Mason Inc. and Texas Pacific Group.

For more information and the latest additions to the program schedule, please go to www.marshall.usc.edu/cgsummit or call 213-740-8990.

Important media coverage note:

Summit sessions are open only to registered participants. Media representatives interested in interviewing speakers may arrange to interview key speakers onsite outside of the summit rooms. Contact USC Marshall media relations (see contact information below) to arrange details. Additionally, keynote speeches will be streamed over the Internet and will be available to the public.

About Resources Global Professionals

Resources Global Professionals is a multinational professional services firm that helps business leaders execute internal initiatives. Working as members of client teams, we solve problems, execute and transfer knowledge. Partnering with business leaders, we drive internal change across all parts of a global enterprise - finance and accounting, information management, internal audit, human capital, legal services and supply chain management.

Resources Global was founded in 1996 within a Big Four accounting firm. Today, we are a publicly traded company with over 4,100 professionals, from more than 80 practice offices, serving 2,200 clients around the world.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, Resources Global has served 81 of the Fortune 100 companies.

The Company is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, the exchange's highest tier by listing standards. More information about Resources Global is available at http://www.resourcesglobal.com.

About the USC Marshall School of Business

Based at the crossroads of the Pacific Rim, in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the USC Marshall School of Business trains global leaders to make a difference in the world.

The school annually serves more than 5,700 undergraduate, graduate, professional and executive-education students, in programs at the main campus in Los Angeles, Irvine and North San Diego County. In conjunction with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, USC Marshall operates a Global Executive MBA program in China.

Marshall's many highly ranked programs and centers of excellence include the Leventhal School of Accounting. For more information, go to www.marshall.usc.edu

Contacts:

LeRoy Hudson
USC Marshall
Media relations representative
213-740-5552
news@marshall.usc.edu

Jeff Bellows
Resources Global Professionals
Managing Director - Public Relations
617-897-0350
jeff.bellows@resources-us.com