SPACE IS LIMITED. Please RSVP as soon as possible to secure your spot!

Open to Members and Guests only. Invites are not transferable. Must RSVP to Nicole to attend. Adding program to calendar does not constitute a RSVP.

When: September 9 at 7:05 p.m.
Where: Petco Park - 100 Park Blvd. San Diego, CA  92101
RSVP: Nicole

2009 - The Padres improved by 12 games in 2009, going 75-87. Adrian Gonzalez appeared in his second consecutive All-Star Game and also won his second Gold Glove Award in as many years. Gonzalez hit 40 home runs and drove in 99 runs. Heath Bell, replacing Trevor Hoffman as closer, also appeared in the All-Star Game and had 42 saves. Kevin Correia, a San Diego native, led the team with 12 victories and had a 3.91 ERA.
2010- San Diego is currently 1st place in their division! Let’s go, Pads!

Who: Members may bring a spouse, a significant other, a date, or a friend.   

What:  A weekend VIP experience with exclusive wine tastings, tours, laughs, and more..

When: September 10-12, 2010.

Where: The Meritage Resort and Spa - Recently featured on Bravo network's popular reality program Top Chef.

Cost: $2,500 per couple (approximate and nonrefundable), which covers food, wine, accommodations, exclusive experiences, and more!  Members responsible for flight and transportation to and from resort.

If interested e-mail Natalie for updates and registration info. Space is limited. Draft agenda coming soon. Open to MEMBERS only.

On Tuesday, September 14 Jared Cohen will visit Gen Next Members and Guests to give an incredible insight to Middle Eastern youth culture and the influence of technology.  Today, Jared Cohen has become an expert in the use of technology to advance American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.  As a founder of Alliance for Youth Movements ( AYM) and a Member of Gen Next, Cohen has proved to be a leader and expert encouraging technology as a resource for youth in oppressed countries.  The recent Iranian Protests were an excellent example of the power of technology displayed through Twitter and recognized as one of the "Top Ten Internet Moments of the Decade".  For more information on Jared Cohen, please see below.

Open to Members and their guests only-invitation is not transferable. Must RSVP to Sarah to attend.

When: September 14 at 6: 00 p.m.
Where: TBD
RSVP: Sarah  
Dress: Business Casual

About Jared Cohen:

Jared Cohen (born November 24, 1981 in Weston, Connecticut) is a non-fiction author and member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, where he has served since September 2006. Initially brought in by Condoleezza Rice as the youngest member in history, he is politically transcendent and has continued to play an important role under Hillary Clinton.

In this capacity, he focuses on counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, Middle East/South Asia, Youth, and Technology. Prior to his work at the State Department, Cohen received his BA from Stanford University and his M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Cohen has become a specialist in the use of technology to advance American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia. In December 2008, Cohen assembled the first ever Alliance of Youth Movements, which was a summit of 21st century movements that relied almost entirely on technology to affect change. In April 2009, he took senior executives from Silicon Valley to Iraq on the first ever US government technology delegation. Eight months later, Cohen brought Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Iraq in what was the first trip to Iraq by an American CEO from a leading technology company. During June 2009 he intervened to keep the Twitter network online, delaying scheduled engineering work, so that supporters of the Iranian opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, favored by the U.S., could continue using the network to plan anti-government activities.

Open to members and guests only.

When: September 15 at 6:00 p.m. 

Where: Bellevue, TBD

RSVP: chrisr@gen-next.org

Mark McKinnon

McKinnon is an award-winning media producer and communications strategist who has served as principal media advisor for hundreds of corporate and political campaigns around the world. McKinnon has helped engineer five winning presidential primary and general elections.  He has been awarded more than 30 Pollie and Telly awards, honoring the nation's best political and public affairs advertising.

According to Broadcasting and Cable magazine, McKinnon is one of "a handful of players behind every big decision, consensus or roadblock in Washington...putting a unique, sometimes hidden stamp on the outcome of today's debates."

He currently serves on the boards of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Change Congress, an organization dedicated to campaign finance reform, and lectures at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

McKinnon attended UT Austin and served as editor of the award-winning university newspaper, The Daily Texan. He spent several years in Nashville working as a song-writer with Kris Kristofferson. McKinnon also is a two-time Ironman finisher.   He is married and has two daughters.

Details:

Open to Members and Guests of Members only.  Invite is non transferrable.  Must RSVP to kelsie@gen-next.org to attend. Adding program to calendar does not constitute RSVP.

When: September 22 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: TBD – Beverly Hills/Hollywood
RSVP: Kelsie

John Yoo, Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice & Professor of Law at Berkeley

John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations.

Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. In law school, he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, and then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Professor Yoo was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 2003 and at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1998. In 2006, Professor Yoo held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Law at the University of Trento (Italy). He has received fellowships from the Olin Foundation (for work on treaties and constitutional law) and the Rockefeller Foundation (for a book on the effects of globalization on American constitutional law). He has received the Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society.

Professor Yoo has published articles on foreign affairs, national security, and constitutional law . He is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and the forthcoming War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006).

The program is open to Members and guests of Members only--the invitation is not transferable. One must RSVP to attend. Guest list is enforced.

When: September 23 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Montage Resort - Loft Restaurant - 30801 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
RSVP: Natalie

Bio forthcoming. More on the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Open to Members and their guests only-invitation is not transferable.

When: October 11 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: TBD             
RSVP: Sarah

More on Michael Morris:

Born in Fremont, Ohio, Morris graduated from Eastern Michigan University with both bachelors and masters degrees in biology. After he graduated in 1973, Morris worked in the environmental department of Commonwealth Associates, where he prepared environmental impact statements for electrical utility transmission lines, natural gas and oil pipelines, and power plants.

As CEO, Chairman and President of American Electric Power, Michael Morris is accountable for a company that ranks among the largest generators of electricity in the nation. He leads AEP's efforts to develop:

-     An advanced interstate high-voltage transmission system
-    Extra high-voltage transmission line projects
-    Innovative carbon capture and storage systems
-    Energy efficiency and load demand reduction initiatives

As the country's largest electricity transmission system, AEP serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, an area that cover 38 states as well as eastern Canada.

In addition to AEP, Michael Morris serves on the U.S. Department of Energy's Electricity Advisory Board, the National Governors Association's Task Force on Electricity Infrastructure, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Business Roundtable (chairing the Business Roundtable's Sustainable Growth Initiative), and the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation. Morris also serves as a director of the boards of Alcoa, Battelle, Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

Dr. Yaron Brook, President of the Ayn Rand Institute, will visit Gen Next on Tuesday, November 9^th to discuss the contemporary relevance of Ayn Rand's ideas and how they matter to our Members. The evening will present Gen Next Members with the opportunity to interact with the award-winning professor, businessman, and renown speaker.  For more on Dr. Brook please see his bio below.

Open to Members and their guests only-invitation is not transferable. Must RSVP to  to Sarah attend.

When: Tuesday, November 9th
Time: 6:00pm
Where: TBD             
RSVP: Sarah and click HERE to add to your calendar.

About Dr. Yaron Brook:

Dr. Yaron Brook is a prominent advocate for Objectivism, the philosophy of novelist Ayn Rand. As president of the Ayn Rand Institute - which is rooted in laissez faire principles an educational organization based in Irvine, California - he is interviewed frequently in the media and has appeared regularly on the Fox Business Network to debate and discuss current economic and financial news from the Objectivist viewpoint.

Dr. Brook is a frequent guest on a variety of radio and TV shows, having appeared on Fox Business News, Fox News (The O'Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, At Large with Geraldo Rivera), CNN (Talkback Live and the Glenn Beck Program), CNBC (Closing Bell and On the Money), and C-SPAN.  Dr. Brook has also contributed commentary to Forbes.com, and his articles have been featured in major newspapers such as USA Today, the Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Providence Journal, and the Orange County Register.

Dr. Brook was born and raised in Israel. He served as a first sergeant in Israeli military intelligence and earned a BS in civil engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. In 1987 he moved to the United States, where he received his MBA and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Brook became an American citizen on May 28, 2003. For seven years he was an award-winning finance professor at Santa Clara University, and in 1998 he cofounded a financial advisory firm, BH Equity Research, of which he is presently managing director and chairman.

Open to Members and Guests only. Invites are not transferable. Must RSVP to Natalie to attend. Adding program to calendar does not constitute a RSVP.

When: November 16 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: TBD
RSVP: Natalie

About Christopher Cox:

Chris Cox is a partner at Bingham and a member of the Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities Group, advising global companies on strategic issues, corporate governance, securities regulation and general business matters worldwide. He is also a principal of Bingham Consulting Group, focused on strategic issues involving federal and state governments, homeland security, and multistate litigation.

In private practice prior to joining Bingham, Chris was a partner in the international law firm of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Orange County, and a member of the firm's national management. In 1986 he left Latham to work as a White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan.

During a 23-year Washington career, Chris was chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, the fifth-ranking elected leader in the House and a 17-year member of Congress from California.

As a member of the House, in addition to his role as chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Chris was chairman of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Financial Services Committee. For 10 years he served as chairman of the House Policy Committee. In each of these capacities he was responsible for significant legislation, including the Internet Tax Freedom Act, the Securities Litigation Reform Act and the Support for Eastern European Democracy Act.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He earned his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where he later taught corporate and individual income tax. He received his Bachelor of Arts in an accelerated three-year program at the University of Southern California.