Venue
Lotte New York Palace
Lotte New York Palace, 455 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

What is Qwoted?

Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Thu Jun 16 EDT - Fri Jun 17 EDT (over 2 years ago)
Location Lotte New York Palace
455 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA
Region Americas
Details

• Engage
with industry thought leaders on why and how ongoing shareholder engagement and activism play a vital role in affecting share value

• Discover
how activist investors cultivate relationships with companies to positively influence sustained value creation

• Apply
the latest campaign practices of activists, how they unfold, their outcomes, and how boards and executives work constructively toward improved stock performance

Speakers

2022 Speakers

Kirsten Spalding
Senior Program Director, Investor Network, Ceres

Alicia Ogawa
Project on Japanese Governance and Stewardship, Center of Japanese Business and Economy, Columbia Business School

Ivan Frishberg
Chief Sustainability Officer, Amalgamated Bank

Ellen Holloman
Partner, Global Litigation Group, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Ted Dhillon
Co-Founder & CEO, Figbytes

Divya Mankikar
Senior Director, Global Head of ESG Market Engagement, S&P Global

Michael Moran
Author, Award Winning Documentarian and Skytop Contributor

Jason M. Halper
Partner, Cadwalader

Andrew Shapiro
President, Lawndale Capital Management, LLC

Patricia Olasker
Senior Partner, Davies

Nelson Obus
President, Wynnefield Capital

Steven Balet
Managing Director, Strategic Governance Advisors

Craig Durrant
Vice President, Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley

Jeremy Fielding
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Partner, Kekst CNC

Christopher P. Davis
Partner, Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen

Lyndsay C. Howard
Senior Analyst for Foreign Policy, Bloomberg LP

Sunil (Sunny) A. Misser
Chief Executive Officer, AccountAbility

Scott Zdrazil
Senior Investment Officer, LACERA

Lawrence Heim
Editor, Practical ESG.com

Terry Norman
Founder, Blue Tractor Group

Craig Urciuoli
Director of Marketing & Business Development, The RBB Fund, Inc.

Gianna McCarthy
Director of Corporate Governance, New York State Office of the Comptroller

Michael Garland
Assistant Comptroller – Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, Office of New York City Comptroller

Amy Borrus
Deputy Director, Council of Institutional Investors (CII)

Maureen Kline
Vice President, Public Affairs & Sustainability, Pirelli Tire, North America

Andrea Vittorio
Senior Reporter, Bloomberg Law

Randy Rice
Senior Advisor, Policy & Communications, Office of Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner

Bill Davis
Managing Director, Stance Capital

Ethan Powell
Founder and CEO, Impact Shares

Richard F. McMahon, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Energy Supply and Finance, Edison Electric Institute

John Jenkins
Senior Editor, Corporatecounsel.net

Fred Pletcher
Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Dan Zacchei
President, Special Situations, Sloane & Company

Katherine Doherty
Corporate Finance Reporter, Bloomberg News

Eleazer Klein
Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel

Bob Marese
President, MacKenzie Partners, Inc.

John Glenn Grau
President and CEO, InvestorCom

David Katz
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Sarosh C. Kuruvilla
Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Cornell University

Jason Judd
Executive Director, Cornell University New Conversations Project, School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR)

Leslie Picker
Reporter, CNBC

Lex Suvanto
Managing Partner & CEO Financial Communications, Edelman

Charles Elson
Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair of Corporate Governance, University of Delaware

Daniel Yunger
Partner & Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, Kekst CNC

Dianne McKeever
Chief Investment Officer, Ides Capital

Steven J. Pully
Director, Multiple Boards; Co-Founder, Speyside Partners

Phil Goldstein
Principal, Bulldog Investors

Jeffrey Korn
General Counsel/Secretary, Crexendo

Jared Landaw
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc.

Eric Rosenfeld
Chairman and CEO, Crescendo Partners

Jason Frankl
Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Josh Black
Editor-in-Chief, Activist Insight Ltd

Rhonda Brauer
Founder and President, RLB Governance LLC

Ed Mullane
North America Editor, Activistmonitor, Acuris

Kai Liekefett
Partner and Chair, Shareholder Activism Practice, Sidley Austin, LLP

Benjamin Dell
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Kimmeridge

James Han
Partner, GO Investment Partners

David Hackett
Adviser, Baker McKenzie

Cameron Munter
U.S. Ambassador (retired)

Tom Polton
Founder, NV Sustainability LLC, Former Global Environmental Sustainability Lead, Pfizer

Richard Howitt
Board Member, Former CEO and Member of the EU Parliament, and Author

Bahar Gidwani
CTO and Co-Founder, CSRHub

Eric Israel
Financial & ESG Executive, Skytop Contributing Author

Carol Nolan Drake
Corporate Governance, ESG and Diversity, and Federal Relations Attorney and Author, Carlow Consulting, LLC

James Brusseau
AI Human Impact Expert, Professor, Pace University

Sponsors & Partners

2022 Sponsors and Partners

CO-LEAD SPONSORS:
• Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
• Schulte Roth & Zabel

AMBASSADOR SPONSOR:
• Kekst CNC

TITLE SPONSORS:
• Finsbury Glover Hering
• Cadwalader

PROGRAM SPONSORS:
• Morgan Stanley
• FTI Consulting
• Edelman
• Sidley
• InvestorCom Shareholder Intelligence
• MacKenzie Partners, Inc
• Borden Ladner Gervals
• Sloane & Company
• Davies
• Kleinberg Kaplan
• AccountAbility
• Bluetractor
• S&P Global
• Breakthtough Results
• Baker McKenzie
• Moody's ESG Solutions
• EEI
• FigBytes
• Practical ESG

NETWORKING PARTNERS:
• Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
• Boldly.
• CSR Hub