Ken Squire is the Founder and President of 13D Monitor and the Founder, Chief Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager of the 13D Activist Fund.

13D Monitor is the premier subscription research service specializing in the analysis of activist investors' 13D filings and following the broader shareholder activist community. Squire has focused exclusively on following shareholder activism and corporate governance since 2006 and is a leading commentator in the industry. He is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other financial publications, and his weekly column The Activist Spotlight was featured in Barron's from 2007 to 2020. He is now a CNBC Contributor and The Activist Spotlight column can be read on CNBC.com.

In 2010, Squire created the annual Active-Passive Investor Summit, a forum that brings together the entire activist investor and corporate governance community and provides top activist investors a platform to present their best investment ideas.

In 2012, Squire founded the 13D Activist Fund, an event-driven mutual fund that focuses on investing in opportunities identified in 13D filings. Squire is the founder, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager. The Fund was the first of its kind, providing both individual and institutional investors diversified, liquid and low-cost access to the most compelling activist investments in this asset class. Following the success of the 13D Activist Fund, Squire launched a hedge fund for larger institutional investors. This private investment vehicle invests alongside, and with the same strategy, as the 13D Activist mutual fund.

In 2021, Squire created the AESG™ investment category, an activist investment style focused on improving ESG practices at companies.

Prior to starting 13D Monitor, Squire was a private equity investor as a principal of LSC Investors and Crown Capital Group, where he worked on analyzing, making and managing various investments in public and private companies. Prior to that, he was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in their New York office. Squire holds a B.S. with a concentration in finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a J.D. from New York University's School of Law where he was an editor of the Law Review.

Jeffrey Smith is a Managing Member, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Starboard Value LP. Mr. Smith is currently on the Board of RB Global, Inc. Formerly, Mr. Smith has served as the Chair of the Boards of Papa John’s International, Advance Auto Parts, Inc., and Darden Restaurants, Inc. Mr. Smith’s board experience includes sitting on more than fifteen public company Boards. Mr. Smith also serves on the Board of Advisors for First Generation Investors, inc., a non-profit with a mission to help first-generation investors learn about wealth generation as well as the Shaquille O’Neal Foundation, a foundation creating pathways for underserved youth to help them achieve their full potential. Mr. Smith received his Bachelor’s of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania.

Jay Clayton served as the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 2017 to December 2020.

Mr. Clayton advises various organizations and individuals on public policy, legal, regulatory and governance matters.

As Chairman of the SEC, Mr. Clayton focused on modernizing the regulation and oversight of our equity (circa $50 trillion) and fixed income markets (circa $50 trillion), concentrating on the interests of long-term investors. Under his leadership, the SEC updated and improved dozens of rules and regulations, increasing both efficiency and investor protection.. Mr. Clayton oversaw an investor-focused enforcement program, involving over 2,800 actions and over $15 billion in financial remedies, with over $3.5 billion was returned to harmed investors.

The SEC also addressed various market developments and emerging risks, including the COVID-19 economic shock, the Brexit and LIBOR transitions, and various cybersecurity matters. Mr. Clayton testified before Congress on numerous occasions. He was an active member of the Financial Stability Board, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.

A summary of SEC activity during Mr. Clayton’s tenure is available here: SEC.gov | Selected SEC Accomplishments: May 2017 – December 2020

Prior to Mr. Clayton’s time at the SEC, he was a member of Sullivan & Cromwell’s management committee, co-managing partner of its General Practice Group and co-head of its Cybersecurity Group. He was a lead lawyer in an array of complex M&A and capital markets transactions, as well as regulatory and governance matters, in the financial, telecoms, energy, transportation and e-commerce sectors. Mr. Clayton also advised a number of individuals and families in connection with their public and private investments and succession planning matters.

Mr. Clayton earned a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in economics from The University of Cambridge and a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Harold Ford, Jr. is a former congressional representative and now serves as an executive vice president and regional president of PNC Bank, New York. In this role, Ford is responsible for new business development and deepening relationships with clients and community organizations. Prior to being named to his current role in February 2023, Ford served as vice chairman of Corporate & Institutional Banking (C&IB) for PNC Bank.

Before joining PNC in December 2020, Ford was a director of Live Oak Acquisition Corporation, a blank check company founded in 2020. He served in Congress for 10 years from 1997 to 2007 representing Tennessee’s 9th congressional district and was a member of the House Financial Services, Budget and Education Committees as well as the Congressional Black Caucus.

After serving in the House of Representatives, Ford spent four years as vice chairman and senior policy advisor of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, seven years at Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director and senior client relationship manager, and is the former non-executive chairman of Rx Saver, a patient-directed prescription medication search engine platform. Ford has also taught public policy at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan.

Ford currently serves on the board of directors of the Lincoln Center, The POSSE Foundation and the River Fund New York.

Ford received a B.A. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Sebastian Alsheimer is a corporate partner in the New York office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He is a leader of the firm’s shareholder engagement and activism practice, focusing on shareholder activism, proxy contests, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Andrew Elken is a corporate partner in New York focused primarily on complex mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Elken also regularly advises officers and boards of directors on activist defense matters, corporate governance, securities law, and other significant corporate matters.

Mr. Elken leverages experience advising on over US$275 billion of M&A transactions across a broad range of industries, including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, transportation, consumer products, industrials, healthcare, life sciences, and financial services.

Bruce H. Goldfarb is President and Chief Executive Officer of Okapi Partners, the proxy solicitation and investor response firm. Bruce works extensively with corporations and investors focusing on investor response strategy and execution for contested election campaigns, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, ESG engagement and other extraordinary situations.

Prior to establishing Okapi Partners, Bruce was the Senior Managing Director and General Counsel of Georgeson Inc. (now a subsidiary of Computershare Limited), where he headed the Global M&A Advisory Group.

Before entering the proxy solicitation business, Bruce was a Senior Vice President of the investment management firm, Scudder, Stevens & Clark, which is now a part of DWS Group. At Scudder, he was a member of the Legal Department and served as Chairman of the Firm’s Proxy Review Committee.

Bruce practiced corporate law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore for more than six years, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions and international matters.

Bruce is a current member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University School of Law, the Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, and the Board of Advisors of the NYU Law School Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance. He was previously a member of the Council of Institutional Investors Market Advisory Council. Bruce also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Signature Theatre.

Bruce earned a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law. He received a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania concurrently with a B.S. Econ., concentration in Finance, from its Wharton School.

Philip Larrieu is Investment Officer of Stewardship for the Oregon State Treasury. With a wealth of experience, Philip is a highly qualified investment professional with a deep commitment to sustainability and ESG. Philip leads the engagement, ESG integration, and stewardship initiatives for the Oregon State Treasury.

Prior to joining the Oregon State Treasury Philip spent 17 years in the Sustainable Investments and Stewardship Strategies group at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) focusing on sustainability investing, activist investing, geopolitical risk, and ESG risk oversight.

Philip holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Political Science from Allegheny College, received his CFA Charter in 2008, CAIA charter in 2016, and FRM in 2020.

Mr. Hetrick is the Director of Research at Engaged Capital. His responsibilities include managing the research process from idea generation through to portfolio company communication as well as developing and overseeing the analyst team.

Prior to joining Engaged Capital, Mr. Hetrick spent over ten years with Relational Investors, a $6 billion activist equity fund which he joined following completion of his undergraduate studies. Mr. Hetrick began his career with Relational as an associate analyst when the firm had roughly $800 million in assets under management. He eventually became the firm’s senior consumer analyst overseeing over $1 billion in consumer sector investments. Prior to his work heading up the consumer research team, Mr. Hetrick was a generalist covering major investments in the technology, financial, automotive and food sectors.

Mr. Hetrick is a member of the Board of Directors of Rent-A-Center, Inc., a NASDAQ listed furniture and electronic rent-to-own company. Mr. Hetrick graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Economics and Finance from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Chadwick has been a Portfolio Manager since joining Ancora in 2014. He is President of Ancora subsidiary Ancora Alternatives LLC and leads the Alternatives group while also serving as Portfolio Manager for a number of the firm’s Alternative investment products. Jim has had a lead role in growing Ancora’s alternative investment business and building and managing the investment team. He leads the firm’s shareholder activist strategy and has worked in the shareholder activist arena for over 20 years. Jim also leads the group’s investment research efforts and is actively engaged in day-to-day idea generation, risk management and investment decision-making.

Prior to joining Ancora, Jim was the Managing Director of the private equity firm Harlingwood Equity Partners, LLC. Before joining Harlingwood, Jim founded and managed two activist hedge funds, PCI Partners LLC and Monarch Activist Partners LP. He began his activist career in 1999 working for the pioneering activist fund Relational Investors LLC.

Jim earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles. He has served on the board of directors of seven public companies as a result of activist intervention including the following Ancora portfolio companies: Stewart Information Services Corp (NYSE: STC), Riverview Bancorp (Nasdaq: RVSB), and Hill International (NYSE: HIL).

Mr. Kiper currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Legion Partners Asset Management, LLC. Mr. Kiper co-founded Legion Partners in 2010. Mr. Kiper also serves as a Director of Lifecore Biomedical, Inc. (NasdaqGS:LFCR) which engages in development and manufacturing services for injectable pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Prior to Legion, Mr. Kiper was a vice president of Shamrock Capital Advisors, a private investment vehicle of the Roy Disney family and served as a portfolio manager for the Shamrock Activist Value Fund. Prior to Shamrock, Mr. Kiper founded and operated Ridgestone Small Cap Value Fund. He began his career as an auditor with Ernst & Young. Mr. Kiper is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Ted Yu is the Associate Director (Specialized Policy and Disclosure) in the Division of Corporation Finance (Division) at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As a member of the Division’s senior leadership team, Mr. Yu oversees the Division’s Office of Mergers and Acquisitions, Office of International Corporate Finance, and the Office of Structured Finance.

Previously, he was the Chief of the Division’s Office of Mergers and Acquisitions, Senior Advisor to SEC Chair Mary Jo White, Senior Special Counsel to the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, and Senior Special Counsel in the Division’s Office of Chief Counsel. Mr. Yu was also in private practice in New York and Washington, D.C. He received his law degree from The George Washington University Law School and his B.A. in history from Cornell University.

Joseph Berardino is a Managing Director with Alvarez Marsal and leader of the Corporate Transformation Services solution He is based in New York

Alvarez Marsal brings a differentiated transformation offering to corporations, leveraging the functional expertise offered by performance improvement talent coupled with the firm’s renowned restructuring and private equity capabilities As businesses are vulnerable or looking to keep pace with constant disruptors, A&M is ideally positioned to bring the experience and skills needed to address activist investors and position corporations for success through enterprise wide change

With more than three decades of executive leadership and Board service experience, Mr Berardino has a proven track record managing complex Board and C Suite dynamics to enact change

Previously, Mr Berardino was an audit partner with Arthur Andersen where he spent more than 30 years in various client serving and leadership roles, including CEO of Andersen Worldwide

Mr Berardino has lectured extensively on corporate governance, leadership and ethics before senior corporate executives and college campuses He served in various capacities, from CEO to Chairman of the Board for Profectus Bio Sciences

He is currently a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Institute of Human Virology and has served on several public company Boards of Directors

Mr Berardino earned a bachelor's degree from Fairfield University, where he served as a member of the Board of Trustees for 18 years, and has chaired the Advancement and Finance Committees

Kyle’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

His experience spans the range of M&A activity, including both domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, divestitures, joint ventures, and other complex corporate transactions, as well as shareholder activism and takeover defense. He also regularly advises companies and their boards on fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and securities law matters.

Recognized by several legal publications, Kyle was ranked in Legal500 U.S. in the M&A/corporate and commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn+) category in 2023. He was named a “Rising Star” in M&A by Law360 in 2020, honoring him as one of five outstanding M&A lawyers in the U.S. under the age of 40 “whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.” He was also named a “Rising Star” by Expert Guides in 2022 and 2021 and a 2020 “Rising Star” by The Deal in The Dealmaker Quarterly.

A frequent contributor to thought leadership, his writings have been featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog.

Kyle is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice. Among other matters, he serves as regular outside counsel to the Envision Freedom Fund (formerly the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund). He is a member of the New York State Attorney General’s Pro Bono Task Force for Reproductive Health.

Kyle joined Cleary in 2011 and became a partner in 2020. He earned his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles.

Charlotte Kiaie is a strategic advisor to founders, boards of directors and management teams across the alternatives investment management industry and corporate sectors. She leads a number of Longacre’s corporate governance and special situations mandates related to shareholder activism, transactions, complex litigation and issues management. Charlotte advises on issues including board composition, shareholder and proxy advisory firm engagement, public positioning and paths to driving enhanced financial value.

Scott S. Winter is a Managing Director of Innisfree M&A Incorporated. Mr. Winter advises companies and investors on all aspects of shareholder engagement focusing on hostile and friendly acquisitions, shareholder activism, contested shareholder meetings, corporate governance, and other proxy solicitation matters. Scott has been involved in most of the significant U.S. hostile takeovers in the past decade as well as activism situations involving, among others, Barington, Corvex, Elliott Management, Engaged Capital, Engine No. 1, Icahn Associates, Land & Buildings, JANA Partners, Pershing Square, Sachem Head, Sarissa Capital, Starboard Value, Third Point, Trian, and ValueAct.

Prior to joining Innisfree, Mr. Winter was an attorney with Skadden specializing in mergers and acquisitions, including cross-border and hostile transactions. Before attending law school, he was a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young LLP for a number of hedge fund and broker-dealer clients.

Mr. Winter earned a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Wisconsin, and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Winter is member of the Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association, and the Society for Corporate Governance.

Scott is the managing partner and portfolio manager of Sachem Head Capital Management, a value-oriented investment management firm based in New York. Prior to starting Sachem Head in 2012, he spent nine years at Pershing Square Capital Management, which he joined at its inception in 2003. Prior to Pershing Square, Scott earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2003 and was a vice president at American Industrial Partners1999, private equity firm, from 1999 to 2001. Scott was also a business analyst at McKinsey & Company from 1996 to 1999. Scott graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. in Public Policy in 1996. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Henry Street Settlement and is also a member of the Robin Hood Leadership Council. He is a current director of US Foods Holdings Corp, and was formerly on the boards of Olin Corporation, Elanco Animal Health, and Autodesk. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.

Ele Klein is co-chair of the M&A and Securities Group, co-chair of the Global Shareholder Activism Group and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He practices in the areas of shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and regulatory compliance. He represents activists, investment banks and companies in matters ranging from corporate governance and control to proxy contests and defensive strategies. His recent representations have included representing Trian Fund Management in The Walt Disney Company; Engine No. 1 in Exxon Mobil; Politan Capital at Masimo Corporation and Centene Corp.; TCI in Canadian National; JANA Partners in Zendesk, New Relic and Mercury Systems; D.E. Shaw in FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc., Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., FedEx and Verisk Analytics; Corvex Management at Anaplan; Starboard Value in RB Global, Inc. (f/k/a/Ritchie Bros.), Papa John’s International and Acacia Research; Elliott Management in Marathon Petroleum, Akamai Technologies and Hess Corp.; Farallon Capital at Exelixis, Inc.; Irenic Capital Management at News Corp.; Greenlight Capital in General Motors; Cevian Capital in Autoliv, ABB and LM Ericsson; Caligan Partners in Knowles Corp. and AMAG Pharmaceuticals; venBio Select Advisor in Immunomedics; Saba Capital in First Trust; Oasis Capital in Stratus Properties; Altimeter Capital Management in United Continental Holding; SRS Investment Management in Avis Budget Group; and Anchorage in connection with board representation at Houghton Mifflin. Ele works on numerous activist campaigns and related transactions every year for some of the largest private investment groups and investment banks in the United States and abroad. In addition, he advises on private investments in public equity (PIPEs), initial public offerings and secondary offerings, venture capital financing, and indenture defaults and interpretation, and he counsels clients in the regulatory areas of insider trading, short selling, Sections 13 and 16, Rule 144, insider trading and Regulation M/Rule 105.

Ele is recognized as a 2022 Dealmaker of the Year in The American Lawyer for his work at Exxon Mobil for Engine No. 1, the largest proxy fight in history, which resulted in the addition of three directors to the Exxon Mobil board of directors. He is also ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, New York Super Lawyers – New York Metro Top 100 and Super Lawyers Business Edition. He has served as a moderator and speaker at numerous conferences and events addressing Shareholder Activism, regulatory and reporting issues, PIPEs, M&A deals, the capital markets and other topics of interest to the alternative investment industry. He is a regular contributor to the Shareholder Activism Insight report and The Activist Investing Annual Review, produced annually by Activist Insight in association with SRZ. Ele received his J.D. from Yale Law School where he was senior editor on The Yale Law Journal.

One of Canada’s leading lawyers in shareholder activism and mergers and acquisitions, Patricia spearheads the activism practice of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, advising both activists and issuers. As one of the country’s pre-eminent law firms, Davies has been involved in almost all high-profile activist campaigns in Canada, representing activists including Elliott Management in relation to Suncor Energy, Pershing Square in connection with Canadian Pacific and Allergan/Valeant, Mantle Ridge in respect of CSX, Aramark and Dollar Tree, Legion Capital in respect of Primo Water, JANA Partners in respect of Agrium, MHR Fund Management in respect of Lions Gate, Scout Capital in respect of Tim Hortons, Oaktree Capital in respect of Rayonier/Tembec, and defending issuers including SunOpta Inc., TransCanada Corporation, Sherritt International, Telus Corporation, Slate Asset Management, Invest REIT, Turquoise Hill Resources, IAMGold Corporation and Aleafia Health. Patricia is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s CEO Advisory Council and is a past chair of their Securities Advisory Committee. She is also an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School where she teaches advanced mergers and acquisitions.

Patricia was named one of the leading female transactional lawyers in the world for 2022 by IFLR1000 and was honored as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN. She is recognized in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a Band 1 lawyer in Corporate/M&A and in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada in Corporate Finance and Securities; Corporate Commercial; and Mergers and Acquisitions. Patricia was named Toronto’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year in Mergers and Acquisitions Law by Best Lawyers in Canada, was honored with a Lexpert Zenith Award as one of Canada’s Leading Women Lawyers and was named among the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer magazine.

Douglas Rappaport is a leading litigator and regulatory and compliance lawyer serving as head of Akin’s investment funds litigation practice and co-head of the shareholder activism group.

On a daily basis, Doug advises investment fund clients and others on regulatory compliance and corporate governance matters, including those involving U.S. securities laws, trading issues, compliance procedures and fiduciary obligations.

With significant litigation experience advising funds and companies, Doug has served as lead counsel in matters involving disputes over breaches of fiduciary duty, secured assets, Section 16 short-swing trading, partnership interests, securities fraud, options backdating and insider trading. Doug has won numerous dispositive motions, trials and appeals in both state and federal courts.

Clients interviewed by Chambers USA describe Doug as “a fantastic litigator who is always available and most importantly, consistently delivers positive results.”

He also provides advice on activist investing issues, devising strategies regarding the solicitation of board seats, the displacement of existing corporate management and contests for corporate control.

In addition, Doug regularly represents investment funds, corporations and individuals in regulatory and internal investigations. His experience extends to matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the New York Attorney General’s office, and other state and non-U.S. securities agencies.

David Faber, an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author, is a co-anchor of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" (M-F, 9AM-11AM ET) and an anchor and co-producer of CNBC's acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming. During the day, Faber breaks news and provides in-depth analysis on a range of business topics during the "Faber Report." In his more than two decades with CNBC, Faber has broken many big financial stories, including Disney's deal to buy most of Twenty-First Century Fox's assets, the massive fraud at WorldCom and Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited bid for Dow Jones. Faber has reported 10 documentaries for CNBC for which he has received Loeb, Emmy, Peabody and duPont awards. His book "The Faber Report" was published by Little, Brown in spring 2002; his second book, "And Then the Roof Caved In," was published in the summer of 2009 by John Wiley. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Tufts University.

Greg Brown is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions. Brown has served 15 years as CEO of Motorola and Motorola Solutions. Since the inception of Motorola Solutions under Brown’s tenure, total shareholder return is approximately 800%, more than double the return of the S&P 500. Today this almost 100-year-old global company is the leader in land mobile radio communications, video security & access control and the command center.

Under Brown’s leadership, Motorola Solutions has been named number one in its category on Fortunes Most Admired, named as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes, included on Newsweek’s list of Most Responsible Companies, made The Wall Street Journal Management Top 250, and is considered one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

Brown has served on the boards of Xerox, Cisco Systems, RR Donnelley and Micromuse where he was Chairman and CEO. He also served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chairman of the Rutgers University Board of Governors and Midwest Chairman of the Navy Seals Foundation. He currently serves as Co-Chair of Prium, and is on the boards of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, World Business Chicago and the Big Shoulders Fund. He is also a member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Economic Club of Chicago and The Chicago Club.

In recognition of Brown’s service in Chicago, he was honored with the Daniel H. Burnham Award for Distinguished Leadership by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce for embodying the Daniel Burnham spirit of “make no little plans.” He also received the Chicago Leadership Award from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Chicago Business Hall of Fame Award from Junior Achievement of Chicago.

Brown has served two American presidents as part of President Obama's Management Advisory Board and President George W. Bush's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.

Brown earned a bachelor's degree in economics and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Rutgers University.

Keith Meister is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Corvex Management LP, which he founded in December 2010.

Prior to founding Corvex, Mr. Meister served as Chief Executive Officer and then Principal Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Icahn Enterprises from August 2003 to August 2010. From their launch in November 2004 to August 2010, Mr. Meister also served as Senior Managing Director of the General Partners of Icahn Partners LP and affiliated funds. Prior to joining the Icahn Organization, Mr. Meister served as Co‐President of J Net Ventures from January 2000 through September 2001. Prior to launching J Net Ventures, Mr. Meister worked at NorthStar Capital and Lazard Freres.

Mr. Meister currently serves on the board of directors for MGM Resorts, Bet MGM, and Sema4 Holdings. He has previously served as a director on numerous other public boards including Yum! Brands, Inc., The Williams Companies, The ADT Corporation, Ralcorp Holdings, and Motorola/Motorola Mobility, among others. He is also Chairman of the board of directors for Harlem Children’s Zone and a member of the board of trustees for the American Museum of Natural History.

Mr. Meister received an A.B. in government, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1995.

Boaz Weinstein is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, a $4.4 billion hedge fund focused on credit relative value strategies, based in New York City. Mr. Weinstein founded Saba in 2009 as a lift-out of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group he started in 1998. At Saba, Mr. Weinstein leads a team of 43 professionals, with the senior members having worked together for more than a decade. In 2021, Risk.net named Saba Capital Management Hedge Fund of the Year. In 2023, Institutional Investor named Saba Capital: winner – Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year and – Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year.

Previously, Mr. Weinstein worked at Deutsche Bank for eleven years, the last eight years as Managing Director (a title he achieved at age 27). Throughout his career at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Weinstein had dual responsibility for proprietary trading and market making. In 2008, Mr. Weinstein was promoted to Co-Head of Global Credit Trading, overseeing a group of 650 investment professionals. He was also a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee.

Mr. Weinstein graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in Philosophy. He achieved the title of National Master in chess at age 16.

Shaival Patel is the Head of US Equity Sales at Mizuho and has 17 years of experience in equity sales, equity research, and investment banking. He joined Mizuho from Macquarie where he covered hedge funds in NY and Chicago. Prior to that he worked in equity sales selling Horizon-Kinetics’ equity research to the investment community as a product specialist. He has also spent time at Credit Suisse where he worked in equity research and began his career in investment banking at Jefferies. Shaival graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Ostfeld is a Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at JANA Partners where he has nearly 20 years of experience enhancing value as an engaged shareholder. Prior to joining JANA in 2006, Mr. Ostfeld was at GSC Partners, where he served in their distressed debt private equity group and focused on acquiring companies through the restructuring process and enhancing value as an equity owner. He was previously an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation.

Mr. Ostfeld currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mercury Systems and TreeHouse Foods. He was previously a director at Conagra Brands, HD Supply until its sale to Home Depot, and Team Health until its sale to Blackstone Group. Mr. Ostfeld serves on the board of Columbia University’s Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy.

Mr. Ostfeld received a JD from Columbia Law School where he was a Senior Editor of Columbia Law Review, an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Columbia Business School and a BA (magna cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia University.

David Johnsonis the Founder and Managing Partner of Caligan Partners LP, an SEC-registered investment firm founded in 2018. He manages the growth and strategic direction of the Firm and is responsible for the Fund’s investments. Mr. Johnson has a controlling interest in Caligan Partners GP and the Firm.

Previously, Mr. Johnson was a Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, where he was employed from 2010 -2017. At Carlyle, Mr. Johnson was involved in many of the firm's strategic initiatives and sat on investment committees for a number ofdifferent funds that invested in both equity and credit. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Johnson worked for 6 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was a Vice President in the Principal Investments area. In this role, Mr. Johnson served as a director and an observer to numerous boards of public and private companies.

Mr. Johnson currently serves on the board of directors for LiquidiaCorp. (LQDA), a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Mr. Johnson also joined the board of Exelixis(EXEL) on June 1, 2023as a result of a successful proxy contest. Mr. Johnson has also recently served on the board of AMAG Pharmaceuticals from 2019 –2020 where he joined following the settlement of an activist campaign, oversaw the replacement of the management team followed by a sale of the company.He has formerly served on the Executive Committee for the Harvard College Fund, has served as Chair of the Finance & Investment Committee for the Riley's Way Foundation, and is a member of the board of directors of the Children's Scholarship Fund.

Mr. Litt has over 25 years of experience as a global real estate strategist and an investor in both public real estate securities and direct property.

Mr. Litt founded Land & Buildings in the summer of 2008 to take advantage of the opportunities uncovered by the global property bubble. He has built L&B into a prominent activist hedge fund in the real estate space, successfully affecting change and unlocking shareholder value at numerous public real estate companies, including BRE Properties, Associated Estates, and MGM Resorts.

Prior to founding L&B, he was Managing Director and Senior Property Analyst at Citigroup where he was responsible for Global Property Investment Strategy, coordinating a 44 person team of research analysts located across 25 countries. He was the #1 ranked Institutional Investor real estate analyst for eight years and top five for 13 years.

Mr. Litt was recognized as a leading analyst since 1995, achieving prestigious Institutional Investor Magazine #1 ranking for 8 years and top five ranking throughout the period. Mr. Litt also achieved top ranking from Greenwich Associates since 1995. During his career as a sell-side analyst, he was involved with many mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other forms of financing. During this time, he developed close relationships with both public and private real estate professionals.

Before moving to the sell-side in 1994, Mr. Litt worked on the buy-side investing in public real estate securities and buying real property during his tenure at European Investors and BrookHill Properties, where his career began in 1988.

Mr. Litt graduated from Columbia University in 1987 with a BA in Economics and NYU’s Stern School of Business in 1990 with an MBA in Finance. Mr. Litt can often be seen on CNBC or quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other industry publications. He is also the President of a not-for-profit, the Children with Dyslexia Scholarship Fund, which provides children with scholarships to secondary schools that specialize in dyslexia.

Prior to founding Palliser Capital in 2021, James Smith was the Head of Elliott’s Hong Kong office. James joined Elliott UK in 2001 where he focused on European investments before moving to Hong Kong and advancing to the roles of Portfolio Manager & Head of Office. Prior to joining Elliott and from 1999, James gained a variety of experience in the telecommunications sector with start-up company FirstMark Communications Europe. Prior to FirstMark, and following his graduation from Cambridge University in 1997, James held the role of Investment Analyst at Fleming Asset Management.

Bill Fiske leads Georgeson’s M&A and Contested Situations group in the United States. In that capacity, Bill and his team advise boards of directors and company executives on a range of issues involved in corporate transactions and complex shareholder issues. Georgeson’s advice and expertise prepare clients in all facets of corporate governance, shareholder activism, shareholder identification, and institutional investor and proxy advisor voting policies; providing guidance to steer through the maze of tactics and procedures involved in these situations.

Bill is a 30+ year veteran in the proxy industry with 25 years of service with Georgeson. He has worked with hundreds of public issuers developing and implementing targeted investor communication strategies regarding stockholder meetings, corporate actions including both negotiated and unsolicited M&A, proxy contests and shareholder activism.

Bill’s clientele includes companies from all industries and all size market caps. His practice involves a broad spectrum of matters involving stockholder voting, including:

• Corporate Governance – Advising executives and boards of directors or special committees with respect to corporate governance issues, anti-takeover defenses, and response plans to recent stockholder votes. Bill is widely considered an expert on institutional investor voting guidelines.

• Mergers and Acquisitions – Representing both public and private strategic/private equity clients on M&A transactions, Bill advises on the tactics and procedures involved in achieving favorable outcomes. Understanding trading activity and how changes in stockholder ownership can affect outcomes is a focus.

• Shareholder Activism – Representing both issuers as well as activists, advising with respect to shareholder proposals, proxy contests, defensive measures, vulnerability assessments, as well as keeping current with regulatory and legislative initiatives relating to governance and director elections.

Bill is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance and the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI). He has also been a featured speaker at many industry events including national and regional Society and NIRI chapter events, The Corporate Boardroom Summit, The General Counsel Forum, as well as many other law firm and advisor conferences.

Patrick’s principal areas of practice are private equity, mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism. Patrick is Co-Head of V&E’s Shareholder Activism practice, which advises public companies in competitive proxy solicitations, strategic investor relations, and corporate governance. He also counsels senior management, boards of directors, investment managers and both private equity and strategic investors in a wide variety of complex business transactions, corporate governance matters, strategic investor relations and other special situations. His experience includes advising clients in connection with shareholder activism related investments, hostile takeovers, public and private M&A transactions, strategic minority investments and corporate capital investments. Prior to joining Vinson & Elkins, Patrick practiced law at a leading shareholder activism law firm and a preeminent corporate law firm in New York City.

In 2021 and 2022, Patrick has been featured on Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” list and was recognized as “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500 U.S. in the Shareholder Activism – Advise to Boards category. Patrick was ranked “Up and Coming” by Chambers USA in the Corporate/M&A: Takeover Defense (New York) category in 2021-2023. He has also been recognized on Thomson Reuters’ “Super Lawyers” rising star list for 2022.

Patrick is a member of the firm’s Diversity Executive Committee.

Jennifer Longhurst is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s M&A and Corporate Governance Groups, and is Co-leader of the firm’s Critical Situations & Shareholder Activism Group. With a highly respected reputation for advising business leaders, boards of directors, special committees and investors on complex transactions, special situations and corporate governance matters, Jennifer is widely recognized as an industry leader, including by Chambers and Partners.

To maximize value and drive successful outcomes, Jennifer provides integrated, judgment-based advice to assist both public market issuers and investors in a broad range of activism-related situations, including in corporate governance issues and disputes, proxy contests and solicitation campaigns, unsolicited M&A proposals, activist campaign strategies, securities law compliance issues, insider trading and reporting and securities regulatory proceedings and investigations.

Her extensive practice knowledge is matched by expertise across key Canadian industries, including, metals and mining, energy and natural resources, heavy industries, financial services, real estate, pharmaceuticals, private equity and retail and consumer markets, making her a trusted advisor on strategic and legal issues and broader business concerns.

Jennifer is an adviser comfortable in high-stakes negotiations and has particular expertise in complex activist situations and global and cross-border transactions; she has worked on some of the most high profile Canadian and international public M&A transactions and proxy contests. Jennifer also regularly counsels on corporate governance, securities law and public reporting, offering a 360 degree view of an organization’s most pressing matters.

In addition to her practice experience, Jennifer is active in the business community as a thought leader, educator, and representative on industry committees and boards. She is a frequent speaker, author, and regular contributor to industry periodicals, as well as conferences and events. Recently, Jennifer co-authored “Anticipating and Responding to Shareholder Activism: An IRO’s Guide” which was featured in IR Leader, a publication of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI). She is also a past adjunct professor of corporate transactions at Osgoode Hall Law School’s Professional Development LLM program and a frequent adjunct instructor of the Osgoode Professional LLM Governance, Activism and M&A conferences. Jennifer is a past Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee, a member of American Bar Association’s Corporate Governance and M&A Committees and the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations’ Corporate Governance Committees, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Walrus.

Ed Garden is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Garden Investments, his family office.

Mr. Garden founded Trian Fund Management (“Trian”) in 2005 with Nelson Peltz and Peter May. He was the Chief Investment Officer of Trian until May 2023 and presently serves as a Senior Advisor. As Chief Investment Officer, he oversaw Trian’s portfolio management, idea generation and due diligence activities. Mr. Garden has extensive experience engaging with public company management teams and boards. He currently serves on the board of General Electric. He previously served on the boards of Bank of New York Mellon, Family Dollar Stores, Invesco, Janus Henderson Group, Legg Mason, Pentair, The Wendy’s Company and Triarc Companies.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Garden worked at Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment banker and BT Alex Brown where he was co-head of Equity Capital Markets.

Cristiano Guerra is the Head of ISS’ Special Situations Research team, which covers contested economic proposals and fights for corporate control. He previously led the US Research team, and prior to that the Latin America Research team, for ISS. In all these roles, he has actively engaged with issuers, shareholders, and other stakeholders regarding investor concerns, disclosure issues and specific governance topics relevant to institutional shareholders. Prior to joining ISS in 2009, he ran the global analyst team for TranSecur, a Washington D.C.-based private intelligence firm providing consulting services to multinational companies.

Widely acknowledged nationally as preeminent in the shareholder activism arena, Andrew Freedman represents many of the most active and prominent activist investors and investment funds, as well as newly launched activist investment firms. A co-founder of Olshan's Shareholder Activism Practice, he now leads Olshan’s top-ranked global Shareholder Activism Group.

Leading activist hedge funds and investors choose Andy to guide them in their shareholder activism campaigns, proxy fights, 13D filings, hostile takeovers, corporate governance matters, and engagements with public company management and boards of directors. Private equity firms also seek his counsel regarding “toehold” stakes, PIPEs, M&A strategies, and transaction negotiations, including offer letters, diligence, NDAs, and regulatory issues.

Andy has represented investors in hundreds of high-stakes, high-profile shareholder activism campaigns in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, helping clients replace more than 1,000 directors on public company boards and strengthening corporate governance and accountability in the process. An out-of-the-box strategic thinker, Andy finds solutions.

He has achieved landmark, precedent-setting proxy contest wins, including for Starboard Value in its historic full board victory at Darden Restaurants (the first-ever replacement of an entire board of an S&P 500 company). He was integral to H Partners' seminal withhold campaign victory at Tempur Sealy and advised Elliott Management in many of its successful campaigns, including at Arconic and Suncor Energy. He has delivered similar successful results for activist shareholders at Shutterfly, Alcoa, L Brands, Brink's, Avon, and Newell Brands.

Andy's skill in assessing the prospects for change and devising proxy campaign strategies gives clients a competitive edge regardless of campaign constraints. He is regularly praised as a tenacious adversary, a master strategist, and sophisticated in managing the myriad technical details of campaigns. A tactician of the highest order and aggressive in delivering results, Andy's talent and reputation lend credibility and power to campaigns, ultimately resulting in highly successful outcomes.

Chambers USA has ranked him as a “Leading Lawyer" in Shareholder Activism and one of the top practitioners in the U.S. since 2017. The Legal 500 United States ranks him as a Tier 1 Leading Lawyer in M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Shareholder Activism-Advice to Shareholders. Under Andy's leadership, Olshan is ranked the No. 1 legal advisor to activist investors by every league table and publication covering shareholder activism.

Quoted frequently as an authority in leading national publications and news outlets, like The Wall Street Journal, Andy is a sought-after speaker on activist panels throughout the U.S. and authors articles on shareholder activism for media and academic journals, including Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Nabeel Bhanji is a Senior Portfolio Manager in Elliott Investment Management L.P.’s London office. Prior to joining Elliott in 2012, Mr. Bhanji was a private equity investor at Apax Partners. Before that, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Bhanji has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. In addition to his role at Elliott, Mr. Bhanji currently sits on the Board of Toshiba Corporation.

Daniel H. Burch is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of MacKenzie Partners, Inc.; responsible for developing and implementing strategies and campaigns for clients involved in proxy contests, tender offers, mergers, financial restructuring and other complex corporate transactions. His particular focus is also on shareholder activism and corporate governance. He has led MacKenzie’s efforts on behalf of its clients in campaigns in North America and Europe for the past 30 years. Mr. Burch previously served as director of corporate development for a major NYSE listed real estate company

He is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance and the National Investor Relations Institute.

B.S. Accounting - Lehigh University

A founding member of Joele Frank, Barrett advises Boards and management teams facing complex, high-profile events including proxy contests, mergers and acquisitions, unsolicited takeovers and special situations that threaten the Company’s reputation and their leadership’s credibility.

Over her 20 years with Joele Frank, she has counseled scores of companies navigating engagement with and front-page contests involving some of the most prominent activist investors, including Carl Icahn, D.E. Shaw, Elliott Management, JANA, Starboard, Third Point, Trian and ValueAct, among others.

A trusted M&A advisor, she develops and executes multi-stakeholder communications strategies that have influenced successful outcomes in hundreds of unsolicited, shareholder contested and negotiated M&A transactions.

She speaks frequently on subjects of proxy contests, activism, mergers and acquisitions, corporate crises and reputation management.

In recognition of her achievements, Barrett was named to PR Week’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list. She joined Joele Frank from Abernathy MacGregor Frank. Earlier she worked for Kirby McInerney & Squire and served in the office of Congressman Bob Goodlatte. She received a BA from the University of Virginia, where she also attended the University’s McIntire Institute for Business.

David A. Katz is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City, an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, and chair of the Board of Advisors of the NYU Law Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance. Mr. Katz is a corporate attorney focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder activism and complex securities transactions, has been involved in many major domestic and international merger, acquisition and buyout transactions, strategic defense assignments and proxy contests, and has been involved in a number of complex public and private offerings and corporate restructurings. He frequently counsels boards of directors and board committees on corporate governance matters and crisis management.

Mr. Katz is co-chair of the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, teaches Mergers & Acquisitions at New York University School of Law and previously co-taught a joint law and business short course on mergers and acquisitions at Vanderbilt University Law School and Owen School of Management with former Delaware Chief Justice Leo Strine, who is now of counsel at the Firm.

In addition to being chosen by The American Lawyer as one of the 45 highest performing members of the private bar under the age of 45, The American Lawyer has selected him as a Dealmaker of the Year three times; he has been named by the NACD Directorship as one of the 100 most influential players in corporate governance numerous times; he has been named Lawyer of the Year by the Global M&A Network, Who’s Who Legal’s Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year, Who’s Who Legal’s Corporate Governance Lawyer of the Year and Who’s Who Legal’s Corporate Governance and M&A Lawyer of the Year multiple times. Mr. Katz was elected by The American College of Governance Counsel as an Inaugural Class Fellow and is a member of the American Law Institute, where he is an adviser on the Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance Project.

Mr. Katz serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at New York University (Executive Committee) and at New York University School of Law. He also regularly writes a column on corporate governance for the New York Law Journal with his colleague Laura McIntosh.

Mr. Katz is a member of the American Bar Association, Section on Business Law, where he founded the Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions Task Force on the Dictionary of M&A Terms and a member of the Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions Subcommittee for Acquisitions of Public Companies. Mr. Katz is also a member of the ABA Federal Securities Laws Committee, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Society for Corporate Governance and the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Katz is a graduate of Brandeis University and New York University School of Law

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital, a $3 Billion active impact investing firm. Impactive Capital helps companies allocate capital effectively and ethically to drive more sustainable, profitable and valuable businesses over the long run. Prior to founding Impactive Capital, from 2007 to 2017, Lauren was a Managing Director at investment firm, Blue Harbour Group, where she led investments in the technology, consumer and business and healthcare services industries. Prior to joining Blue Harbour in 2007, Lauren was a Portfolio Manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies.

Lauren received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University. Lauren has been active on various public and private boards including, $4 Billion TEV Envestnet Inc [NYSE: ENV], $10 Billion TEV HD Supply [Nasdaq: HDS], 30% Club Steering Committee, an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance.

Chris Young joined Jefferies in 2018 as a Managing Director and Global Head of the Contested Situations Advisory Team. He is responsible for takeover defense, contested M&A transactions, shareholder activism and corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Young was a Managing Director and Head of the Takeover Defense Practice at Credit Suisse. Mr. Young joined Credit Suisse in June 2010 from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) where he was Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research. Prior to ISS, Mr. Young was an investment banker at Bear Stearns, an M&A lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell and a derivatives trader at Sumitomo Bank, all in New York.

At ISS, Mr. Young advised institutional investors on hundreds of contested M&A transactions and shareholder activist campaigns, including hedge fund-led proxy fights for board seats at Heinz, CSX Corp., Target Corp., Motorola, Yahoo, H&R Block, Atos Origin, Tui, and Biogen, as well as hostile bids including Exelon for NRG, Agrium for CF Industries, CF Industries for Terra Industries, BASF for Engelhard, and contested M&A transactions including the aborted Cablevision buyout, Lilly-ICOS, Caremark-CVS-Express Scripts, the Clear Channel and TXU buyouts, Biomet, Lear, and Genentech.

Mr. Young received a BS in foreign service from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a JD, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law. He is also a CFA charter holder.

Kristin Drake is Head of Dimensional’s Investment Stewardship Group within Portfolio Management and is the Chair of the Investment Stewardship Committee. Based in the Charlotte office, Kristin is responsible for implementing the firm’s proxy voting policies, overseeing global vote execution, and overseeing the firm’s global issuer engagement efforts. Kristin plays an active client-facing role, responding to client inquiries and attending client meetings and conferences, where she highlights Dimensional’s investment stewardship priorities.

A licensed attorney in the state of Maryland, Kristin holds a JD from the University of Baltimore and an MA in international affairs from American University. She also holds a BA in French and a BA in political science from the College of Charleston.

Quentin Koffey is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Politan Capital Management. In this role, Quentin works actively with management teams, boards of directors and shareholders of portfolio companies on strategic, operational and corporate governance matters to unlock long-term value for shareholders. Prior to founding Politan, Quentin was a Partner at Senator Investment Group LP, where he created and led its shareholder engagement efforts, and a Portfolio Manager for Strategic Investments at The D.E. Shaw Group, where he started and led the firm’s shareholder engagement strategy. Quentin also served as a Portfolio Manager at Elliott Management, where he focused on active investments in public and private equity and credit.

Over his career, Quentin has established a track record of working constructively with boards and management teams to enhance shareholder value, including at companies such as Centene (NYSE: CNC), Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW), Louisiana-Pacific (NYSE: LPX), and Bunge (NYSE: BG). He is currently a Board Member of Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI). Quentin holds a BA from Yale College, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business

Peter Reali is a managing director and member of the responsible investing (RI) team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.

Peter’s responsibilities include leading Nuveen’s stewardship activities to influence companies, issuers and the broader market to advance ESG best practices. He is a member of the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) Stewardship Advisory Committee and serves as Chairman of the Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Committee.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Peter led the corporate governance and proxy voting function at Lord, Abbett & Co and was on the corporate governance team at T. Rowe Price. From 2005-2013, he was the lead corporate governance analyst at TIAA-CREF.

He holds a BS in Business Administration from Fordham University.

Mr. Icahn began his career on Wall Street in 1961 and has become one of the most well-known and influential investors in America. In 1968, he formed Icahn & Co., a securities firm that focused on arbitrage and options trading. In 1978, he began taking very substantial and sometimes controlling positions in individual companies. Over the years, these positions include: RJR Nabisco, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Uniroyal, Dan River, Marshall Field, E- II (Culligan and Samsonite), American Can, USX, Marvel, Revlon, ImClone, Fairmont, Kerr-McGee, Time Warner, Yahoo!, Lions Gate, CIT, Motorola, Genzyme, Biogen, BEA Systems, Chesapeake Energy, El Paso, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Regeneron, Mylan Labs, KT&G, Lawson Software, MedImmune, Dell, Herbalife, Navistar International, Transocean, Take-Two, Hain Celestial, Mentor Graphics, Netflix, Forest Laboratories, Apple, eBay, PayPal, Hertz, AIG, Cheniere Energy, Xerox, and Freeport-McMoRan. As a leading shareholder activist, his efforts have unlocked billions of dollars of shareholder and bondholder value and have improved the competitiveness of American companies. He and his affiliated companies currently own businesses in a wide range of industries, including real estate, oil refining and manufacturing. Companies in which he and his affiliates currently own majority positions include Viskase Companies, CVR Energy, WestPoint Home, Icahn Enterprises LP, and Pep Boys. He and his affiliated companies also own stakes in many other public companies. Icahn Enterprises LP is Mr. Icahn’s flagship company through which he has acquired many of these positions.

Mr. Icahn, 86, is a graduate of Princeton University, with a degree in philosophy. He has many charitable interests, focusing primarily on medicine, education and child welfare. He is a significant benefactor to, and serves as a trustee on the boards of, the School of Medicine and the Hospital at Mt Sinai. He funded the Icahn Medical Institute Building at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Institute of Genomics, a genomics and multiscale biology research program, at the School of Medicine. In 2012 he made a substantial pledge to the School of Medicine. In honor and recognition of $200 million of financial support by him, the School of Medicine was renamed the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and the Institute of Genomics was renamed the Icahn Genomics Institute. The School of Medicine also established an Icahn Scholars Program to attract a world-class group of physician-scientists to the School.

In the area of education, Mr. Icahn established seven Icahn Charter Schools located in The Bronx, New York, an area marked by poverty and high crime rates. The mission of the schools is based on the belief that all students deserve a rigorous academic program through which they will increase their capacity to learn. As a result, the students will graduate armed with the skills and knowledge to participate successfully in the most intense academic environments and will have a sense of personal and community responsibility. At Choate Rosemary Hall, a premiere boarding school located in Wallingford, Connecticut where he previously served on the board of trustees, he endowed the Icahn Scholars Program, which has awarded a large number of scholarships to underprivileged students, and funded the Carl C. Icahn Science Center, Choate Science Building designed by I.M. Pei. He also sponsored a genomics laboratory at Princeton University which was named the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory for Princeton University's Institute for Integrated Genomics. Mr. Icahn is also a Charter Member of the Nassau Hall Society, which is composed of individuals who have given $5 million or more to Princeton University.

He has also made significant donations to the Randall's Island Sports Foundation, where he previously served as a trustee, for the construction of Icahn Stadium, a track and field stadium located on Randall’s Island. In addition, he has served as a trustee on the board of Lincoln Center.