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 |