5th CorpGov Forum 2025 Preliminary Speakers:
Keynote: Josh Frank, Partner and Co-Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management
Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)
Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)
Randall Adams, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP
Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University
Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus
Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn
Steve Bruce, Managing Partner, ASC Advisors
Christine Carson, President and CEO, Carson Proxy
Pablo Casilimas, Managing Partner, OneSixOne Ventures
Peter Clarke, Senior Director, Roberts & Ryan Investments Inc.
Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
Phil Denning, Partner, ICR
Nikesh Desai, Co-Founder and CEO, InvestingChannel, Inc.
Adam Doyle, EVP, Head of Technology Finance, Alliance Funding Group
Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners
Michael Fillios, Founder and CEO, IT Ally
Brendan Foo, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Forward Risk
Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners
Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners
Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield
Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP
John Grau, President, InvestorCom
Josh Harlan, Founder & Managing Partner, Harlan Capital
Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)
Gabriel Hasson, Global Head of Governance and Shareholder Advisory, ICR
Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures
Taylor Ingraham, Partner, ASC Advisors
Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
Ryan Keating, Partner, EisnerAmper
Alex Knowland, Principal, Comvest Credit Partners
Adam Kommel, Shareholder Activism Development Lead, Bloomberg LP
Jonathan Lo, VP of Finance, EisnerAmper
John Marchisi, Executive Director – Capital Markets, Artex Risk Solutions
Mark Martini, Founder and CEO, WimbledonGlobal, Inc.
Mario Masrieh, Managing Director, Recognition, Trivest
Alex Moazed, General Partner, Applico Capital
Francisco Morales, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins
Patrick Murphy, Head of NYSE Market Making, GTS
Tad Nacheff, Head of East Coast Capital Markets and Financial Sponsor Coverage, NYSE
Steve Parish, Partner, ICR
Paul Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Quinlan Partners
Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC
Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group
Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc.
Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport
Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital
Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer, AvePoint
Emma Sissman, Vice President, Impact Investing, Goldman Sachs
Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors
Zach Swartz, Partner, Corporate Real Estate Practice, Vinson & Elkins
Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins
Heath Winter, Partner, Corporate Governance & Shareholder Engagement, Longacre Square Partners
Jessica Wood, Partner, Corporate Governance, M&A, Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense, Sidley Austin LLP
Marc Yaklofsky, Managing Partner, New York, Forward Global
Christopher Young, Investment Banker, Formerly Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, ISS
Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal (Moderator)
Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)
Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)