Mr. Buterman also asked her about a conversation with John Sargent, the chief executive of Macmillan, a fellow publisher, during which the two talked about Amazon.
The announcement followed a DealBook report that the company was considering whether to join the legal challenge by its former chief executive, Maurice R. Greenberg, on behalf of fellow shareholders.
The decision by A.I.G.'s board follows a public uproar that erupted after The New York Times reported on Monday night that the company was weighing whether to join a $25 billion lawsuit filed by its former chief executive, Maurice R. Greenberg, on behalf of fellow shareholders.
Last June, the institution's co-founder and chairman, Peter Diamandis, a space-tourism executive, convened a gathering of fellow industry luminaries to discuss the conundrum of technology-driven unemployment.
Phil Wickham is the chief executive of the Kauffman Fellows, a Silicon Valley-based leadership program for venture capitalists and innovators.
Mr. Levin can speak with awe about Mr. Fimmel's abdomen in front of fellow executives or choke up after a touching scene, as he did after watching the final episode of "Dawson's Creek" with its cast, said one star of that show, Josh Jackson.
Sutherland, who earned £600,000 from BP last year, defended the record of fellow executives and said that there had been substantial increases in dividend payments, while noting that BP's rival ExxonMobil had paid out more than $30bn on share buybacks in the past year alone.
And if Mr. Anderson, Dow Corning's chief executive, were an irritable kind of fellow, that would irk him mightily.
The pension funds have accused Kenneth D. Lewis, the former chief executive of Bank of America, and his fellow directors of misleading investors about Merrill's deteriorating financial condition.
It is no secret that Richard S. Fuld Jr., the former chief executive of Lehman Brothers, and his fellow officers earned hundreds of millions of dollars in the years leading up to the bank's collapse.
