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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 |
• 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
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
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