List of Participants

March 2025 Roundtable

Zally Ahmadi Head of Corporate Governance, ESG & Executive Compensation, D.F. King & Co.
Chris Anderson Vice President – Leader of Corporate Securities and Assistant Secretary, Eli Lilly & Company
Mary Arutyunyan Director of Governance & Engagement, Eaton Vance, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Ariel Fromer Babcock Head of Investment Stewardship/Co-Head of Sustainable Research, Fidelity Investments
Lucian Bebchuk James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School
Dave Bell Co-Chair, Corporate Governance, Fenwick & West LLP
Kerry Berchem Partner, Akin
Barak Berman Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary, Ventas, Inc.
Ken Bertsch Corporate Governance Specialist, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Karessa L. Cain Partner, Corporate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Nicholas Capuano Partner, Kekst CNC
Monique Cenac Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Freeport-McMoRan
Ocean Chen Principal, Corporate Governance Team, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Ning Chiu Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Christopher Chorengel Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, American International Group
Jackie Cohen Partner,  Ropes & Gray LLP
Carolyn Cross Co-Head of Investment Stewardship, Americas, The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Arthur B. Crozier Executive Chair, Innisfree M&A Incorporated
Glenn Davis Deputy Director, Council of
Institutional Investors
Stephen Davis Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
Matt DiGuiseppe Managing Director, Governance Insights Center, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jonathan Doorley Partner, Brunswick Group
Kristin Drake Head of Investment Stewardship and Vice President, Dimensional Fund Advisors
Katie Driscoll Managing Director, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Andrew Elken Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Holly Fetter Americas Head of Asset Stewardship, State Street Global Advisors
Matt Filosa Senior Managing Director, Teneo
Michael Garland Assistant Comptroller – Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, Office of New York City Comptroller
Marc S. Gerber Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Ola Peter Gjessing Lead Investment Stewardship Manager, Norges Bank Investment Management
Martin C. Glass Partner and Co-Chair, Corporate Practice, Jenner & Block LLP
Laura Gleason Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Governance and Corporate Secretary, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
Marc Goldstein Managing Director, Head of U.S. Research, Institutional Shareholder Services
Lyuba A. Goltser Co-Head of Public Company Advisory Group and Founding Member of Sustainability and ESG Group, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Kelly Grez Corporate Secretary, Merck & Co., Inc.
Courtney Grimble Analyst, ESG Research, Fidelity Investments
Kyle A. Harris Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Oliver Hart Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard  University
Reid Hooper Special Counsel, Cooley LLP
Rick S. Horvath Partner, Dechert LLP
Blair Jones Managing Director, Semler Brossy
Matthew Karlan Partner, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
James J. Killerlane III VP, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, American Express
Stephanie Lavallato Senior Analyst, Investment Stewardship, Legal & General Investment Management America
Randi C. Lesnick Corporate Practice Leader, Jones Day
Steven Li Partner, Freshfields US LLP
Steve Lippman Governance and Engagement Director, Microsoft Office of the Corporate Secretary, Microsoft
Matthew Litchfield VP, Proxy Voting & Governance Research, Bank of New York
Mohani Maharaj Director, Responsible Investing, Nuveen
Bob Marese President, MacKenzie Partners, Inc.
Hillary Marshall ESG Engagement Specialist, Amazon
Bianca Martinez Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Realty Income Corporation
Shaun J. Mathew Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Gianna McCarthy Director of Corporate Governance, New York State Common Retirement Fund
Laura McCracken Regulatory Leader Audit and Assurance, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Caitlin McSherry Global Head of Stewardship, Managing Director, Neuberger Berman
Cole Moore Investment Stewardship Associate, AllianceBernstein
Elizabeth Morgan Partner, King & Spalding LLP
Lona Nallengara Partner, A&O Shearman
Cynthia Nastanski SVP, Corporate Law and Deputy Corporate Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc.
Ryan P. Nebel Vice Chair – Shareholder Activism Practice, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP
Andrew Noreuil Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Zach Oleksiuk Managing Director, Evercore
Iliana Ongun Partner, Milbank LLP
Jeffrey Pochowicz Vice President – Associate General Counsel (Corporate, Securities & Governance) and Assistant Secretary, McDonald’s Corporation
Mark Preisinger Director of Corporate Governance, The Coca-Cola Company
Luciana Rivera Vice President, Investor Relations, Goldman Sachs
John Roe Head of Investment Stewardship, Americas, BlackRock
Zach Rosenthal Vice President and Business Manager, Wellington Management
Michelle Rutta Partner, White & Case LLP
Nicole Sarby VP, Senior Investment Stewardship Analyst, Northern Trust Asset Management
Brian Savage Associate General Counsel, Corporate, Airbnb
Doug Schnell Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Christine Shaw Senior Advisor, Sustainability, Franklin Templeton Investments
Mahmoud Siddig Partner, Joele Frank
Serdar Sikca Principal, FW Cook
Celia Soehner Co-Leader of Capital Markets and Public Companies Practice and Co-Leader of ESG and Sustainability Advisory Practice, Morgan Lewis
Jonathan Steinmetz Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Chase
Wendy Suh Senior Associate, Linklaters, LLP
Roberto Tallarita Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Roy Tannenbaum Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Deborah Telman Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel, Gilead Sciences
Sebastian Tiller Partner, Vinson & Elkins
Anna Toniolo Director of Engagement and Policy Research, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance
Amanda (Mandy) Tornabene Vice President – Governance and Assistant Corporate Secretary, Dominion Energy 
Felipe Ucrós Partner, Gladstone Place Partners 
Laurence Vigneau Senior Advisor – Sustainability, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Paul Washington President and CEO, Society for Corporate Governance
Ali Weiner Director of Corporate Governance, Capital Group 
Sam Whittington Senior Director, Corporate Law, Apple 
Steven J. Williams Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 
Catherine Winner Managing Director, Global Head of Stewardship, Goldman Sachs Asset Management 
Leonard Wood Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Jennifer Zepralka Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
Lori Zyskowski Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 
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