Berkeley Forum on Corporate Governance 2021 | Berkeley Middle East Investors Club | 11 November 2021 | Virtual

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2021 Speakers

Afra Afsharipour
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law

Randall J. Baron
Partner, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd

Robert Bartlett
Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business

Ed Batts
Partner, Gibson Dunn

David Berger
Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Andre G. Bouchard
Chancellor (Retired), Delaware Court of Chancery

Eliot Brown
Reporter, Wall Street Journal

David Chen
Managing Director, Head of Global Technology Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley

Wei Chen
SVP & Associate General Counsel, Salesforce

Alan Denenberg
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Michael Dorf
Partner, Shearman & Sterling

Maureen Farrell
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Jill Fisch
Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Steven Fletcher
Chief Executive Officer, Explorer Acquisitions

Marina Gracias
General Counsel, Varo Bank

Melinda Haag
Partner, Paul, Weiss

Katherine Henderson
Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Hannah-Beth Jackson
California State Senate, Former Member

Stephen Johnson
Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, American Airlines

Renee Jones
Director, Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission

William M. Lafferty
Partner, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell

Jamie Leigh
Partner, Cooley

Christina Lema
Managing Director, General Counsel, Vista Equity Partners

Steven Lipin
Chairman and CEO, Gladstone Place Partners

Irene Liu
Chief Legal Officer, Hopin

Mario Mancuso
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

The Honorable Kathaleen McCormick
Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Stephen McKeon
Associate Professor of Finance, University of Oregon

Amelia Miazad
Director and Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business

Laura Murphy
President, Laura Murphy & Associates

Doug Parker
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American Airlines

Frank Partnoy
Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business

David Peinsipp
Partner, Cooley

Obrea Poindexter
Partner, Cooley

John Roe
Partner, Joele Frank

The Honorable Joseph Slights III
Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Steven Davidoff Solomon
Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Business

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Derek Thompson
Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Steve Tonsfeldt
Partner, Cooley

Daniel Wall
Partner, Latham & Watkins

Ross Weiner
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, Explorer Acquisitions

Peter Werner
Partner, Cooley

2021 Sponsors

PRESENTING SPONSOR:
• Cooley

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Davis Polk
• Paul Weiss
• Gibson Dunn
• Gladstone Place
• Joele Frank Shearman & Sterling
• Kirklands & Ellis LLP
• Wilson Sonsini
• Latham Watkins
• MAcKenzie
• PJT Camberview
• Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd