2nd Princeton CorpGov Forum
Thursday, May 21, 2026
CorpGov is pleased to announce the second Princeton CorpGov Forum on Thursday, May 21, 2026 at The Nassau Inn located in the heart of Princeton, New Jersey.
The Forum will begin at 3:00pm featuring afternoon of panels, firesides and networking. A reception will follow at 6:00pm at the Nassau Inn with cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres.
OUR EVENT IS INVITATION ONLY, CONSISTING OF INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS, CORPORATE EXECUTIVES AND PRINCETON ALUMNI.
Last Year's Agenda
| Time | Panel |
Speakers |
| 3:00pm | Shareholder Activism | Soo Kim ’97, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Standard General, and Chairman of the Board, Bally’s Corp |
| Jonathan Feldman, Partner, Goodmans LLP | ||
| Kenneth Mantel, Partner, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP | ||
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| 3:30pm | Private and Public Capital Markets Assessment | Tad Nacheff, Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage – Capital Markets, New York Stock Exchange |
| Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Stifel | ||
| Alan Wink, Managing Director, Eisner Advisory Group | ||
| Peter Clarke, Senior Director, Roberts & Ryan Investments Inc. | ||
| Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator) | ||
| 4:00pm | Investing and Operating Amid Geopolitical Tensions | Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity |
| John Evans ’91, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Tractus Asia | ||
| Zachary Swartz, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions, Vinson & Elkins LLP | ||
| John Jannarone, ’03, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator) | ||
| 4:30pm | Alternative Investing and Endowments | Tad Smith ’87, Senior Partner 1Roundtable Partners (1RT) and 10T Holdings (10T); co-founder of 1RT |
| Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and co-founder, Ajna Labs LLC | ||
| John Jannarone, ’03, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator) | ||
| 5:00pm | Contested M&A and the Role of Private Equity | Joe Germani, Partner, Longacre Square Partners |
| Francisco J. Morales Barrón, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins LLP | ||
| Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield | ||
| Josh Kosman, Business Reporter, New York Post | ||
| 5:30pm | AI: Finance and Defense | Neil Keegan, CEO and Co-Founder, Marlinspike Partners |
| Kent Collier, Founder and CEO, Octus | ||
| Ryan Flanagan, Managing Director, Investor Relations, ICR |
The event will be digitized into a report published on CorpGov and content partners Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, filmed in 4K with professional editing.