Alissa Amico

Alissa Amico was formerly responsible for overseeing OECD's work on financial markets and corporate governance in the Middle East and North Africa, and is currently Managing Director, Govern, Economic and Corporate Governance Centre. She has provided technical expertise to a number of governments in the region in the design of regulatory initiatives and institution building, including in particular to stock exchanges, securities regulators, central banks, ministries of finance and economy, as well as corporate governance centers. She has authored and assisted in the development of corporate laws and corporate governance codes in a number of countries, and has also provided policy advice to governments on broader economic challenges related to capital-markets development and the governance of state-owned enterprises.

Alissa has authored a number of publications and books, articles in academic journals, regional, and international newspapers, and she is a regular contributor at key regional fora. Alissa holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Schulich School of Business, York University, and a master's degree in political economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the French Institute of Directors' International Commission. Alissa was named one of the Top 100 Leaders in Europe and the Middle East by the Centre for Sustainability and Excellence in 2011 and was recognized by Columbia Law School as the Rising Star of Corporate Governance in 2014.

Yılmaz Argüden

Dr. Yılmaz Argüden is a leading strategist, advisor, and board member of major public and private institutions and NGOs. He is the founder and chairman of ARGE Consulting, a leading management consulting firm based in Istanbul. ARGE has been recognized at the European Parliament as one of the best three companies shaping the future with its commitment to corporate social responsibility. ARGE is the first Turkish signatory of the UN Global Compact and has served as the B20 Governance and Sustainability Knowledge Partner.

He is also the chairman of Rothschild investment bank in Turkey. He has served on the boards of more than 50 companies in different jurisdictions; as an adjunct professor of business strategy at Bogazici University and Koç University; an author of numerous books, and a columnist focusing on business, strategy, and governance issues.

He has founded and led numerous NGOs and initiated the National Quality Movement. As the elected chair of the Local Networks Advisory Group he represented 100+ National Networks on the Board of the UN Global Compact, the world's largest sustainability platform.

He is a renowned governance expert and served as a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group of the IFC's Corporate Governance Group, and as the vice-chairman of the Public Governance Committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD. He is also the founder of the nonprofit Argüden Governance Academy operating under the aegis of Bogazici University Foundation.

He has a PhD in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate Institute. He is an Eisenhower, Fulbright, NATO, and Tubitak fellow; and a recipient of numerous leadership, distinguished citizenship, and career awards. He was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum for his commitment to improve the state of the world. www.arguden.net

Roger Barker

Dr. Roger Barker is director of Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors (UK). Since 2015, he has been a UK Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, the EU consultative body. He is senior advisor to the Board of ecoDa (European Confederation of Directors' Associations) and chairman of the ecoDa education committee. He is a board member of European Women on Boards ASBL and has also worked as an external advisor on corporate governance for a number of international organizations, including the EBRD, IFC, and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Barker's book, Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe, was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also the author of the IoD's main guide to the role of the board, The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success (Kogan Page, 2010). During the first part of his career, Dr. Barker spent 13 years as an investment banker in London and Zürich, with UBS and Bank Vontobel. He is the holder of a doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, where he was a lecturer at Merton College, and also has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics, finance, and political science from the universities of Cambridge, Southampton, and Cardiff.

Andrea Calabrò

Andrea Calabrò is full professor since October 2011 and is chairholder of the WIFU-Foundation Chair of Business Administration and Family Entrepreneurship at Witten Institute for Family Business, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. He received the European PhD and was a visiting scholar at BI Norwegian School of Management. He is now dean of research of the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, STEP (Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices) European Council Member and STEP Global board member, and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Rome La Sapienza, and University of Bergamo. He was Hamrin Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for Family Enterprise and Ownership of Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden. His main teaching activities are in the areas of: corporate governance and accounting, boards of directors, strategic management, and international business management. His major research interests are governance mechanisms of family businesses, especially the role of the supervisory board, supplementary formal and informal governance questions in family SMEs, and the process of internationalization of family firms. He is author of many publications in international journals including Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Family Business Review, International Business Review, Journal of Small Business Management. His most recent book, Governance Structures and Mechanisms in Public Service Organizations. Theories, Evidence and Future Directions, was published with Springer in 2011.

Dennis Carey

Dennis Carey is vice chairman of Korn/Ferry International. He specializes in the recruitment of chief executives and corporate directors. He has conducted searches for the CEOs of 3M, Tyco International, MCI, American Standard, and many other companies; assisted numerous boards in CEO succession projects; and completed searches for directors of Allied Signal, American Express, Amgen, CBS, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, NCR, Sprint, and Tyco International, among others. He has served as Delaware Secretary of Labor, as vice president of the University of Delaware, and on boards of publicly traded firms. He is the coauthor or coeditor of CEO Succession, The Human Side of M&A, How to Run a Company, and Boards That Lead. He founded or cofounded the Chairman Academy, CEO Academy, Lead Director Academy, and Prium.

Ram Charan

Ram Charan is a business advisor who has worked with executives and directors of many companies, including Bank of America, DuPont, General Electric, Grupo RBS, Novartis, Tata Group, Verizon, and Yildiz Holdings. He has served on the Harvard Business School faculty, and he teaches in Wharton Executive Education. He helps boards go beyond Sarbanes–Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange by providing practical ways to improve their group dynamics. His recent authored or coauthored books include Execution, Global Tilt, Confronting Reality, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Profitable Growth, Boards That Lead, and The Attacker's Advantage. His articles have appeared in Fortune magazine, including two cover stories, and he has served on the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance and on the boards of Austin Industries and Tyco Electronics.

Solange Charas

Dr. Charas is a board director, senior-level HR executive, and adjunct professor. She provides advisory services to boards and C-Suite executives on optimizing the return on investment in human capital. She currently serves as the chair of the audit committee of a public company, and on three private for-profit organizations and one nonprofit.

In her client work, she specializes in human capital metrics, using proprietary analytical approaches to identify the drivers of economic value creation that allow organizations to improve corporate leadership effectiveness, employee productivity, and M&A success.

Dr. Charas' PhD research focused on innovative approaches to select, develop, and manage passionate high-performing, interdisciplinary teams at the board and C-suite level through a proprietary instrument she developed, which allows her to quantify the impact these teams have on corporate financial performance.

She is currently the CEO of Charas Consulting, Inc. Prior to receiving her PhD, she was the CHRO at Praetorian Financial Services Group, Benfield, and Havas Advertising, and in her client-serving endeavors, held senior level positions at Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, and GE Capital.

Dr. Charas has a BA from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Cornell University, and a PhD from Case Western Reserve University. Her work has appeared in academic and practitioner journals including Harvard Business Review, The Conference Board's Director Notes, Corporate Board Magazine, Forbes Magazine, FastCompany, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. She is a contributor to The Glass Company and Delivering on the Promise: How to Attract, Manage and Retain Human Capital.

Jay A. Conger

Jay Conger is the Henry Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College outside of Los Angeles, California. He is also faculty chairman of the Kravis Leadership Institute, one of the nation's preeminent undergraduate leadership development organizations. He has served on the faculties of the Harvard Business School, INSEAD in France, London Business School, University of Southern California and McGill University. His consulting practice provides executive education to many of the Fortune 500 as well as nonprofit organizations on the topics of leadership, board governance, and talent management. Businessweek ranked him as the top executive education professor in the area of leadership. The author of over 100 articles and book chapters and fourteen books, he researches executive leadership, organizational change, boards of directors, and the training and development of leaders and managers. He is one of a handful of authors who have published multiple articles in the Harvard Business Review. His books include Boardroom Realities (2009), The Practice of Leadership (2007), Growing Your Company's Leaders (2003), Shared Leadership (2002), Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (2001), The Leader's Change Handbook (1999), Building Leaders (1999), and Winning'Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion (1998). He received his DBA from the Harvard Business School, his MBA from the University of Virginia, and his BA from Dartmouth College.

Steven De Haes

Steven De Haes, PhD, is Full Professor Information Systems Management at the University of Antwerp and the Antwerp Management School. He is actively engaged in teaching and applied research in the domains of digital strategies, IT governance and management, IT strategy and alignment, IT value and performance management, IT assurance and audit and information risk and security.

He teaches at the bachelor, master, executive, and PhD levels. He also acts as academic director for the Executive Master of IT Governance and Assurance, the Executive Master of Enterprise IT Architecture, the Executive Master of IT Management and the (fulltime, pre-experience) Master in Management.

His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and leading conferences. He is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal on IT/Business Alignment and Governance (www.igi-global.com/ijitbag) and coauthored and/or edited several books, including Enterprise Governance of IT: Achieving Strategic Alignment and Value. He also acts as academic director of the IT Alignment and Governance (ITAG) Research Institute.

He held the positions of director of research and associate dean of Master Programs for the Antwerp Management School. He also acts as speaker and facilitator in academic and professional conferences and coaches organizations in their digital strategies, IT governance, alignment, value, and audit/assurance efforts. He is involved in the development of the international IT governance framework COBIT as researcher and coauthor.

Charles M. Elson

Charles M. Elson is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and the director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is also of counsel to the law firm of Holland & Knight. His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation, and corporate governance. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. Professor Elson has written extensively on the subject of boards of directors. He is a frequent contributor on corporate governance issues to various scholarly and popular publications. He is vice chairman of the ABA Business Law Section's Committee on Corporate Governance. He is presently a member of the board of directors of HealthSouth Corporation, a healthcare services provider and Bob Evans Farms Inc., a restaurant and food products company. He is presently a trustee at the Hagley Museum and Library, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Museum of American Finance.

Adam J. Epstein

A nationally recognized small-cap expert, Adam J. Epstein has advised, governed, and provided growth capital to hundreds of small-cap companies. His capital markets and corporate governance acumen are products of his singular perspective—a former corporate attorney, operating executive, institutional investor, and, now, board advisor. Mr. Epstein is a distinguished National Association of Corporate Directors Board Leadership Fellow, sought-after keynote speaker, and author of a category-defining corporate governance book about which Bloomberg Businessweek commented, “[a]ttention, directors of small-cap companies. Help is on the way.”

Mr. Epstein is an advisor to the boards of pre-IPO and small-cap companies through his firm, Third Creek Advisors, LLC. He speaks monthly at corporate governance and investor conferences, and is a small-cap contributing editor for Directorship magazine, and author of The Perfect Corporate Board: A Handbook for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Small-Cap Companies (New York: McGraw Hill, 2012).

Prior to founding Third Creek, he cofounded and was a principal of Enable Capital Management, LLC (ECM). During his tenure, ECM's special situation hedge funds invested in more than 500 small-cap financings. Before ECM, Mr. Epstein held senior operating roles in merchant banking, technology, and retail. He started his career as an attorney at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.

Mr. Epstein has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and on CNN Presents, and has been quoted extensively in international business media.

Mr. Epstein earned a Juris Doctor from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Vassar College.

Craig K. Ferrere

Craig K. Ferrere is the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Fellow in Corporate Governance at the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware. He has conducted research in the field of corporate governance and is interested in pursuing studies in law, economics, and organizations. He is currently applying to law schools for admission.

Richard Fields

Rich Fields, principal at Tapestry Networks, connects senior independent directors, C-suite executives, regulators, institutional investors, and other key stakeholders through corporate governance leadership networks, working groups, and related projects. Rich is an expert in corporate governance and board leadership who helps individuals and groups find shared interest and purpose. As a trusted advisor and honest broker, he creates space for others to see and build new possibilities for themselves and their organizations.

A distinctive facilitator, Rich finds ways to productively discuss some of the most difficult challenges facing business, helping participants move from chatter to insight and from concern to action. Rich regularly interviews senior business and government officials, academics, agitators, and other thought leaders. He also researches and writes on executive compensation, board composition, independent board leadership, enterprise risk management, and regulatory matters, among other things. Through his work, Rich provides individuals and organizations unique opportunities to learn, engage, and act.

At Tapestry, he leads the Lead Director Network, Compensation Committee Leadership Network, Audit Committee Leadership Network, and several regional audit committee networks throughout North America. He is also co-chair of the Shareholder–Director Exchange (SDX). In 2015, Rich was one of four worldwide winners of The Millstein Center at Columbia University Law School's Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award. Rich is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (Honors) and Clark University (Magna Cum Laude).

Eugene H. Fram

Eugene H. Fram, EdD, is professor emeritus, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). With an eclectic academic background, he holds two degrees in business from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in higher education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. An award-winning teaching professor, he was J. Warren McClure Research Professor of Marketing at RIT for about 20 years, with publications centering on marketing and nonprofit governance issues. His other awards include a RIT presidential medallion for outstanding university service and a commendation from RIT's University News Service for building relationships with news media.

In 2011, a former student endowed a $3 million RIT chair in Critical Thinking in his name. Fram describes the honor as “a professor's dream comes true!” He has held a variety of academic administrative positions, including marketing department chair, and director of the center for management studies, both at RIT.

Fram's professional background includes a family business partnership and a business/nonprofit consulting practice. His clients include consumer, industrial, service, and nonprofit organizations. Currently blogging on nonprofit governance, his site has about 350 posts and 2000 followers. He has authored or coauthored over 125 published articles, plus six books. He has served on 12 nonprofit boards and five for-profit boards. His book, Policy vs. Paper Clips: How Using the Corporate Model Makes a Nonprofit Board More Efficient & Effective, is now in its third edition. Other published books cover small business marketing, small business finance, and high-performance nonprofits.

John R. S. Fraser

John Fraser, FCPA, FCA, CIA, CRMA, is the former senior vice-president, internal audit, and chief risk officer (13 years) of Hydro One Networks Inc., one of North America's largest electricity transmission and distribution companies. He has over 30 years' experience in the risk and control field, mostly in the financial services sector at companies such as Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), Wood Gundy, CIBC, and Newcourt Credit Group, including areas such as finance, fraud, derivatives, safety, environmental, computers, and operations. He is a recognized thought leader on enterprise risk and control and speaks frequently internationally. John is an adjunct professor at York University, where he teaches enterprise risk management in the Masters in Financial Accountability Program; he is on Faculty of The Directors College; he has co-edited two university textbooks on enterprise risk management; and he is Program Director for the Schulich Business School Masters Certificate Program on Business Performance and Risk Management.

Jonas Gabrielsson

Jonas Gabrielsson has a PhD in business administration from the School of Economics and Management, Lund University. He is currently associate professor in Business Administration at Halmstad University, where he also serves as department head for the Department of Business, Economics and Law. He has previously been affiliated with CIRCLE, which is a Centre of Excellence in Innovation Studies at Lund University, as well as with the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo. His main teaching activities are in the area of entrepreneurship, strategic management, and corporate governance. His research focuses on boards and governance in new and small firms, entrepreneurial learning and competence building, and the commercialization and diffusion of technology. He also has a general research interest in the creation and evolution of markets and industries. He has previously received the Annual Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship Research granted by the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. He has also received the Best Reviewer Award in the Corporate Governance SIG at the EURAM conference. His scholarly work has appeared in academic journals such as Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Science and Public Policy, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Management Studies. He is a member of the EURAM Corporate Governance SIG Team and serves on the editorial board of International Small Business Journal.

Anthony Goodman

Anthony Goodman is a Consultant at the Russell Reynolds Associates Board Consulting Practice. Based in Boston, MA, he has significant experience working with board directors and their stakeholders across sectors in the United States and Europe.

Anthony was educated at New College, Oxford University where he received his Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1985.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Anthony was a partner at Tapestry Networks from 2003–2015. While at Tapestry, Anthony created and led many corporate governance networks, including those for Fortune 500 lead directors and audit committee chairs. Anthony was also founding co-chair of the Shareholder-Director Exchange (SDX) and has been a board director at a nonprofit called America SCORES New England that provides after-school programs in Boston public schools from 2004 to date. Anthony wrote the Leading View column for the Financial Times from 2009 to 2014. Before that, Anthony was the CEO of Smythe Dorward Lambert, Inc., a consultancy specializing in leadership development, change management, and employee communication from 1999 to 2003. He began his career in marketing and public relations in the UK.

Anthony is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors in the United States and the International Corporate Governance Network. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the UK.

Holly J. Gregory

Holly J. Gregory, co-head of Sidley Austin's global Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Group, counsels on the full range of governance issues, including fiduciary duties, risk oversight, conflicts of interest, board and committee structure and leadership, special investigations, board audits and self-evaluation processes, shareholder activism, proxy contests, shareholder engagement and proxy advisory firms, compliance with legislative, regulatory and listing rule requirements, and governance best practice. She played a key role in drafting the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and has advised the Internal Market Directorate of the European Commission on corporate governance regulation.

She has lectured extensively on governance topics, including at events in Europe and Asia sponsored by the U.S. State Department. The author of numerous articles on governance topics, she writes the governance column for Practical Law: The Journal.

Ms. Gregory is founding co-chair of the ABA Business Law Section's Subcommittee on International Corporate Governance Developments and is co-chair of the ABA Delaware Business Law Forum. She co-chaired the ABA task force for the sixth edition of the ABA Corporate Directors Guidebook (April 2011), chaired the ABA task force that delivered the “Report on the Delineation of Governance Roles and Responsibilities” to Congress and the SEC in August, 2009, and in September 2014 began a three-year term as chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Gregory has been recognized as: best in Corporate Governance at Euromoney Legal Media Group's inaugural America's Women in Business Law Awards 2012; the leading practitioner in corporate governance law in the Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law (July 2010); and is listed among the “100 Most Influential Players in Corporate Governance” (NACD/Directorship 100), Directorship Magazine, for 2015 and all prior years.

Steven Hall

Steven Hall is a founding partner and managing director of Steven Hall & Partners. He has consulted for over 35 years with senior management and compensation committees in planning and implementation of senior executive compensation programs and incentives for corporations, subsidiaries, business units, and divestitures.

Mr. Hall has been a member of the faculty of NACD where he taught courses on executive and director compensation, and best practices in compensation committee governance. He is the coauthor of the book Executive Compensation Best Practices and has been identified by Directorship as a Top 100 Influential in Corporate Governance since the list's inception. Additionally, he is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, and BusinessWeek and has been interviewed on Good Morning America, ABC's World News, CNBC, Fox Business, and NPR.

Steven Hall Jr.

Steven Hall Jr., consultant, joined Steven Hall & Partners in October 2005.

Mr. Hall Jr. serves as project manager, assisting with executive compensation and board remuneration benchmarking, as well as the modeling and design of incentive plans and compensation issues related to special situations (e.g., M&A, IPO, CEO succession).

Mr. Hall Jr. has authored several articles on executive and director compensation in Compensation & Benefits Review, Agenda, and Workspan Magazine, in addition to authoring our annual Director Compensation Study. Additionally, Mr. Hall Jr. leads our firm's research studies and client outreach efforts and serves as the firm's liaison to members of the press and industry professional organizations.

Mr. Hall Jr. holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University's School of Management.

Mary Halton

A chartered accountant, Mary has a PhD in public policy from University College Dublin, Ireland. She holds an MSc in Executive Leadership, with distinction, from University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Mary's research interests focus on board leadership and effectiveness, with a particular emphasis on behaviors and process. Using a qualitative approach, her research looks inside the boardroom to understand the dynamics and examine how the board can successfully influence organizational outcomes. Mary's PhD study provides a framework for understanding the behaviors essential to good governance and how these are encouraged or constrained by key influencing factors inside and outside the boardroom.

Mary's academic work is underpinned by senior business experience with multinational organizations in Ireland, the UK, and Canada, in particular in the banking and insurance sectors. She has considerable hands-on experience in corporate governance, board process, strategic planning, risk management, policy development, and facilitating change. As a member of a number of boards, she has contributed both in an executive and a nonexecutive capacity, and has chaired the audit committee in public and private sector organizations. Mary is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and was previously a member of the Institute's Governing Council, Oversight Board, and chair of the CSR Committee.

Managing director of Align Consulting Ltd, Mary offers practical support and guidance to business leaders and companies looking to improve board effectiveness, streamline processes, and recruit directors who add value. Integrity is a central tenet of her work, and her research and work interests lie in promoting good governance practices and a culture of doing the right thing. Mary can be contacted at [email protected].

Lauren C. Hanlon

Lauren Hanlon, CPA, CIA, CFE, CRMA, is a senior associate, Risk Oversight Inc. Risk Oversight Solutions focuses on helping companies more effectively manage risk and assurance to meet escalating board risk oversight expectations and add real value. She has spent over a decade providing insight on risk management, internal audit, and internal controls for public and private companies in various industries. She played an important role in the development and testing of one of the world's first enterprise risk management software platforms, CARDmap, as well as developing globally acclaimed risk and control assessment training materials. She coauthored a publication Sarbanes–Oxley and the Canadian Response for the Richard Ivey School of Business (2005), as well as coauthoring Preventing the Next Wave of Unreliable Financial Reporting: Why U.S. Congress Should Amend Section 404 of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, published in the International Journal of Disclosure & Governance (2011). She has also lectured at University of Toronto, Continuing Studies Internal Audit Program and has sat on the board of nonprofit organizations, including St. Jerome's University.

John M. Holcomb

John M. Holcomb is a professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies and has over 35 years of teaching experience at the Universities of Denver, California (Berkeley), Maryland, Rutgers, and George Washington University. He has taught executive education programs in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and has consulted to corporations, trade associations, and think tanks. In 1975, he organized the Foundation for Public Affairs in Washington, DC, and was its first executive director. He was also director of Corporate Responsibility for the Public Affairs Council, an association of over 500 corporations.

He has written many articles and book chapters on the legal, political, and ethical aspects of business. His publications focus on corporate governance, corporate political activities, campaign finance law, crisis management, social movements and NGOs, public policy, and international law. He has served as a commentator on local and national news stories involving corporate crises and legal liability, and presents on programs sponsored by the Institute for Enterprise Ethics and by various business associations.

He has also served as chairman of the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, president of the Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business, and as a member of the advisory committee of the Colorado chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. He has a JD from Georgetown University, MA in political science from Vanderbilt University, and BA from Augustana College (IL).

Morten Huse

Morten Huse has a PhD from NHH in Bergen, Norway. His research focus has been on boards of directors, and particularly on value-creating boards, behavioral perspectives on boards, boards in family firms and in entrepreneurial firms, and about women on boards. His work is published widely, and includes more than one hundred scientific articles and a large number of books. His main monograph is Boards, Governance and Value Creation: The Human Side of Corporate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2007). During the 1980s he was a business practitioner and consultant. Morten Huse has been affiliated with a large number of universities and research institutions in several countries. His main affiliation since 2002 has been as professor at BI Norwegian Business School. He is frequently used as a speaker and consultant in the international arena. Professor Huse has been involved as officer in various academic and business organizations like the AoM and EURAM. In the latter he was president 2010 to 2012. He considers himself a concept-developing scholar, and his ambition has been to create communities of engaged scholars. Morten Huse and his colleagues are now working on projects about the international discourses about getting women on boards, and about the future of boards and governance in light of digitalization. Main theoretical approaches include strategic-choice theories and an extended team-production theory.

Alice Korngold

Alice Korngold, president and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC, provides strategy advisory services and facilitates leadership strategy retreats for board members and executives from multinational corporations, NGOs, and nonprofits. Her areas of expertise are strategy and board governance, sustainability and CSR, corporate/NGO partnerships, impact investing, and measurement and ratings. Korngold has also trained and placed several hundred business executives and professionals on NGO/nonprofit boards. Prior to establishing her global consulting firm in New York in 2005, Korngold founded and ran two highly successful and financially self-sustaining social enterprises.

Korngold authored A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments Cannot (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses (Jossey-Bass, 2005). She is the coauthor of a chapter on “Corporate Volunteerism: Strategic Community Involvement,” in Corporate Philanthropy at the Crossroads (Indiana University Press, 1996).

Korngold guest lectures at the graduate business and law schools of numerous universities, including the University of Michigan, Texas A&M University, Harvard University, and Oxford University. Additionally, she gives keynote addresses and moderates panel sessions at national and international conferences, including PYXERA Global, Clinton Global Initiative, and Corporate Governance (California Lawyer). She received a BA in history and an MS Ed. in psychological services from the University of Pennsylvania.

David F. Larcker

David F. Larcker is the James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business; professor of law (by courtesy), Stanford Law School; director of the Corporate Governance Initiative; and senior faculty of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford.

Professor Larcker has published many articles and book chapters on topics such as executive compensation, corporate governance, and strategic business models. He is the coauthor of Corporate Governance Matters: A Closer Look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences and his most recent book is titled A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governance. He has served as a consultant to numerous organizations on corporate governance and design of executive compensation contracts.

He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society; and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. Professor Larcker received the Notable Contribution to Managerial Accounting Research award in 2001. In 2012, he was named to the NACD Directorship 100 as one of the most influential people in the boardroom and corporate governance community. He is currently a trustee for Wells Fargo Advantage Funds.

Edward E. Lawler III

Edward E. Lawler III is distinguished professor of business and director of the Center for Effective Organizations in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has been honored as a top contributor to the fields of organizational development, human resources management, organizational behavior, and compensation. He is the author of over 400 articles and 50 books. His books include Built to Change (2006), The New American Workplace (2006), America at Work (2006), Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage (2008), Achieving Excellence in HR Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Organizations (2009), Useful Research: Advancing Theory and Practice (2011), Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness (2011), Effective Human Resource Management: A Global Analysis (2012), The Agility Factor (2014), Global Trends in Human Resource Management: A Twenty-Year Analysis (2015), and Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness (2015). For more information, visit www.edwardlawler.com and http://ceo.usc.edu.

Richard Leblanc

Professor Richard Leblanc, CMC, BSc, MBA, LLB, JD, LLM, PhD, is one of Canada's leading experts on corporate governance and accountability. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, lawyer, public speaker, consultant, and specialist on boards of directors. He has taught at leading universities including Harvard University. He is a former recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 award; received a teaching award as one of the top five university teachers in Ontario; and was named to Canadian Who's Who.

Professor Leblanc is director of the Masters of Financial Accountability Program at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he is an associate professor, Law, Governance and Ethics.

Dr. Leblanc brings to business and professional audiences a depth of information from his extensive research and work with over 150 organizations, including training, assessment and development of over 1,000 directors and managers. He is engaging, dynamic, and personable. Because of his work with leading companies and current research, Richard is always on the cutting edge of emerging global developments.

Dr. Leblanc possesses an extensive and diversified professional network. He is the founder of the LinkedIn group “Boards and Advisors,” with over 20,000 members globally, which is one of the largest and most active online corporate governance groups.

Dr. Leblanc's insight has guided leaders of organizations through his teaching, writing, and direct consultation to government regulators and national and multinational corporations. He has provided extensive service as an external advisor to boards of directors that have won national awards and peer endorsement for their governance practices.

Dr. Leblanc possesses a Bachelor of Science degree, an MBA, Canadian and American law degrees, a masters in law, and a PhD focusing on corporate governance.

Tim J. Leech

Tim J. Leech, BA MBA FCPA CIA CFE CRMA, is managing director at Risk Oversight Solutions Inc. based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and Sarasota, Florida. Risk Oversight Solutions focuses on helping companies more effectively manage risk and assurance to meet escalating board risk oversight expectations and add real value. He has over 30 years of experience in the board risk oversight, ERM, internal audit, and forensic accounting fields, including expert witness testimony in civil and criminal proceedings, and global experience helping public and private sector organizations with ERM and internal audit transformation initiatives and the design, implementation, and maintenance of integrated assurance frameworks. Leech has provided training for tens of thousands of public and private sector board members, senior executives, professional accountants, auditors, and risk management specialists in Canada, the United States, the EU, Australia, South America, Africa, and the Middle and Far East. He has received worldwide recognition as a pioneer, thought leader, and trainer. His newest breakthrough methodology, “Board & C-Suite Driven/Objective Centric ERM and Internal Audit,” more generally known as “Five Lines of Assurance,” has been licensed by the IIA for global deployment starting in the fall of 2014, and his article “Reinventing Internal Audit,” featured in the April 2015 issue of Internal Audit, has received global recognition. His articles on board risk oversight published in Conference Board Director Notes, Ethical Boardroom, Harvard Law and Columbia law blogs have received global recognition as leading-edge strategy to meet the new, evolving board oversight expectations.

Jon Lukomnik

Jon Lukomnik is one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance. He cofounded the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and GovernanceMetrics International (now part of MSCI), and served as interim chair of the Council of Institutional Investors' executive committee. He serves as executive director of the IRRC Institute, whose research has been widely praised for objectively examining fundamental corporate governance and capital market issues. He is also the managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to asset owners and the asset management industry.

Mr. Lukomnik is a member of the Standing Advisory Committee for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and of Deloitte's Audit Quality Advisory Committee. He has been a director for various public companies, private companies, not-for-profit corporations, and litigation trusts and currently serves as a trustee for the Van Eck mutual fund complex in the United States and related investment trusts in Ireland and Luxembourg. He has been honored by the NACD, ICGN, Ethisphere, and Global Proxy Watch. Mr. Lukomnik writes a monthly column for Compliance Week and more than 100 of his articles have been published academic and practitioner journals. He is the coauthor of The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda (2006), which was a Financial Times pick of the year. His new book is What They Do with Your Money: How the Finance Industry Fails Us and How to Fix It (2016). Both books are coauthored with Stephen Davis and David Pitt-Watson.

Stephen J. Mallory

Stephen J. Mallory is President and CEO of Directors Global Insurance Brokers Ltd., a Toronto-based firm which provides commercial insurance brokerage and enterprise-risk-management services for organizations located across Canada and internationally.

He serves as Chair of the Governance, Risk, and Strategy Committee on the board of VIA Rail Canada Inc., a Canadian Federal Crown Corporation, and is a member of the Pension/Investment Committee. Previously he served as a director with the Standards Council of Canada, also a Federal Crown Corporation.

He has completed the Directors Education Programs at the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D) and at the Government of Canada. He holds the CRM (Canadian Risk Management) and FCIP (Fellow, Chartered Insurance Professional) designations, and a BA from the University of Western Ontario.

Steve is a member of the CSA Canadian Risk Management Mirror Committee TC 262, and is an instructor teaching at the Rotman Business School/ University of Toronto to participants of the Institute of Corporate Directors, DEP/ICD.D program.

Nora McCord

Nora McCord, managing director, joined Steven Hall & Partners in December 2005.

Ms. McCord advises clients on the design and implementation of executive compensation and board remuneration programs and assists clients in the development of comprehensive shareholder outreach programs, including CD&A drafting and creation of shareholder talking points and presentation materials. Ms. McCord also spearheads the firm's expert witness and litigation-support practice.

Ms. McCord is a frequent speaker and author on compensation and corporate governance topics for organizations such as WorldatWork, The Conference Board, National Association of Corporate Directors, National Association of Stock Planning Professionals, Global Equity Organization, and Directorship. She is also the author of a chapter on board compensation in the recently published sixth edition of The Compensation Handbook. Additionally, she has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, TradeWinds, Agenda, Directorship and the Huffington Post and has been interviewed on NPR's Marketplace.

Ms. McCord holds a master's degree from Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and a B.S. from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

James McRitchie

James McRitchie is the publisher of Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net), a leading online resource for news, commentary, and transformation since 1995. CorpGov.net helps long-term investors exercise their rights by linking them to research and coordinating direct action.

He is one of the most prolific filers of shareowner resolutions. McRitchie's 2002 SEC petition reenergized the debate over proxy access to nominate directors. His 2014 actions prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to back off its decision to allow issuers to exclude resolutions by putting forth watered-down versions of their own.

Prior to founding CorpGov.net, McRitchie had a long career in California state service, heading legislative, rulemaking, environmental review, and business development functions, also serving as a director on several nonpublic corporate boards.

McRitchie graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a BS in education/sociology, 1972; California State University, Sacramento with an MPA in public administration, 1979; and Boston College with an MA in sociology/social economy, 1992.

After 20 years of pulling investors to CorpGov.net, McRitchie is now looking to push predisclosed institutional investor votes to shareowners. Algorithms could then allow semiautomated voting based on investor values, which will hopefully go well beyond short-term share price maximization.

Nell Minow

Nell Minow is vice chair of ValueEdge Advisors, which provides guidance and support to institutional investors on engagement with portfolio companies. Previously, she was co-owner and a member of the board of GMI Ratings (formerly The Corporate Library, which she cofounded and chaired), until it was sold to MSCI in 2014. GMI is the leading independent research firm that rates boards of directors and evaluates governance risk. Earlier, she was a principal in the governance activist investment firm Lens, and general counsel and president of Institutional Shareholder Services. She is coauthor with Robert A. G. Monks of three books, including five editions of Corporate Governance, the leading MBA textbook in the field, and she taught MBA students at George Mason University for five years. In 2008, she received the highest award from the International Corporate Governance Network and in 2013 she received a lifetime achievement award from Corporate Secretary Magazine. She is also the founder of Miniver Press, and a frequent writer on culture and media, including a column for the Huffington Post.

Ms. Minow is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA 1974) and the University of Chicago Law School (JD 1977).

Robert A. G. Monks

Pioneering shareholder activist and corporate governance advisor, Robert A. G. Monks has written widely about shareholder rights and responsibility, corporate impact on society, and global corporate issues. He is the author of numerous books and articles including, Corporate Governance, Power and Accountability (with Nell Minow), Watching the Watchers, The New Global Investors, The Emperor's Nightingale, Corpocracy, Corporate Valuation, and Citizens DisUnited.

An expert on retirement and pension plans, Mr. Monks was appointed as one of the founding trustees of the Federal Employees' Retirement System by President Reagan. He served in the Department of Labor as administrator of the Office of Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs, having jurisdiction over the entire U.S. pension system. President Reagan also appointed him as a director of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

Mr. Monks was a founder of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading corporate governance consulting firm. He also founded Lens Governance Advisers and cofounded The Corporate Library (now part of MSCI) and ValueEdge Advisors. He is a shareholder in and advisor to Trucost, the environmental research company.

Mr. Monks had a featured part of the documentary film, The Corporation, and was the subject of the biography, A Traitor to His Class by Hilary Rosenberg.

Mark B. Nadler

Mark B. Nadler is principal of Nadler Advisory Services, a consultancy specializing in board effectiveness and CEO succession. He has consulted to companies of all sizes across a broad range of industries, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to family-owned businesses and private equity portfolio companies.

Mr. Nadler cofounded Nadler Advisory Services with his brother, David Nadler, in 2014, following several years as a partner in the Leadership Consulting Practice of Heidrick & Struggles. Prior to that, he was a partner for 16 years at Delta Consulting Group (later Mercer Delta and Oliver Wyman Delta), where he founded the global Strategic Communication practice and helped develop the corporate governance practice.

He has written or contributed to nearly 65 publications related to leadership, governance, and organizational effectiveness, including three books with David Nadler—Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Excellence in Governance (2006); Champions of Change (1998); and Competing by Design (1997). He authored “Beyond Best Practices: Revisiting the Board's Role in CEO Succession,” a chapter in Boardroom Realities (2009) edited by Jay Conger.

He is frequent speaker on governance and succession before groups including the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Academy of Management, Wharton School's Corporate Governance Program, the University of Southern California's Corporate Governance Summit, the Bank Directors' Chairmen and CEO Forum, the Human Resources Planning Society, and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.

Prior to consulting, Mr. Nadler worked as a journalist and news executive. He was a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal and vice president/executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and twice served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Mark holds a BA in English from George Washington University. He is a member of the Academy of Management and a past member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Stephen F. O'Byrne

Stephen F. O'Byrne is president and cofounder of Shareholder Value Advisors Inc., a consulting firm that helps companies increase shareholder value through better performance measurement, incentive compensation, and valuation analysis. His work on measuring the strength and cost-efficiency of top management incentives has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Investing, Conference Board Director Notes, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and the WorldatWork Journal. He is the coauthor, with Professor David Young of INSEAD, of EVA and Value-Based Management. He was previously head of the compensation consulting practice at Stern Stewart & Co. and a principal in the executive compensation practice at Towers Perrin.

Douglas Y. Park

Douglas Y. Park provides results-oriented insights to boards of directors, executives, and investors on challenging issues in corporate governance, securities law, and strategy. He gives actionable advice on corporate policy; fiduciary duties; responsible investing; shareholder activism and engagement; director liability risks; executive compensation; Securities and Exchange Commission filings; sustainability disclosure; shareholder rights; stock exchange listing requirements; board policies, procedures, and composition; complex commercial transactions; risk oversight; and long-term value creation.

He is an award-winning instructor of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Startups, and Organization Theory and has taught a wide range of professionals at Stanford University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Doug regularly writes and speaks on corporate governance, and the press seeks his views on current business events and emerging trends.

Doug has been the director of Legal Policy and Outreach at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a partner at Rimon, P.C., and the founder and principal of DYP Advisors.

He has been named a Super Lawyer in Business/Corporate and a Rising Star in Corporate Governance and Compliance in Northern California. Doug is head of the American Bar Association's External Engagement Focus Group of the Sustainability and Governance Subcommittee, and chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure and Reporting Committee.

Doug earned a JD from University of Michigan Law School, a PhD in business from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an AB magna cum laude with highest honors in sociology from Harvard College.

Chris Pierce

Chris Pierce is the chief executive officer of Global Governance Services Ltd. based in London and the director of education in the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute. He works with policy makers, directors, and boards in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the United States, and South America. Prior to becoming CEO, he was the director of Professional Standards at the Institute of Directors (IoD) in the UK. He has also held senior executive management positions in the Overseas Development Administration, British Airways, and Leeds Business School.

Chris has been involved in developing executive and nonexecutive directors in some of the largest listed companies, family-controlled businesses, state-owned enterprises, national investment authorities, sovereign wealth funds, banks and financial institutions in the world. He has conducted a number of board evaluations in both the private and public sectors and in many different countries. In 2016 he was the author of the Mauritian Code of Corporate Governance. His most recent publications include Corporate Governance in the Gulf (2012), Corporate Governance in the UK (2013), and A Guide to Corporate Governance Practices in the European Union (2015).

Chris has a PhD and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, a fellow of the Caux Round Table, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2014, he was awarded the Bertin Medal in Sweden by the International Academy of Quality for his contribution to corporate governance globally over the last decade.

Poonam Puri

Professor Poonam Puri is an internationally recognized scholar, lawyer, and corporate director with expertise in corporate governance, corporate law, and securities law. She is a tenured professor of law and former associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. She is also an affiliated scholar at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where she advises corporate clients on complex corporate governance matters. Professor Puri has also served as an advisor to governments and regulators in Canada and internationally, including the Ontario Securities Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

Professor Puri earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree (silver medalist) from the University of Toronto in 1995 and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1997. She received an ICD.D in 2015.

In 2015, Canadian Lawyer Magazine recognized Professor Puri as one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. Puri is also a former recipient of Canada's Top 40 under 40 award and Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women Award.

Professor Puri serves on the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, and chaired its Governance Committee for four years. She also sits on the board of Women's College Hospital where she chairs its Governance and Nominating Committee. Professor Puri also sits on the Board of Governors of St. Clements School and Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto. She also serves on the board of Arizona Mining Inc. (AZ.TO), a TSX listed company, where she is chair of its governance committee.

Adam Quinton

Adam Quinton is founder/CEO of Lucas Point Ventures and an active investor in and advisor to early stage companies. Previously he was a top-ranked investment bank sell-side investment analyst in the UK, Asia, and the United States, working at UBS and then Merrill Lynch.

He serves on the board of Pinks and Greens and as an advisor to a number of other startup companies. He is on the Executive Advisory Board of Techweek and is member of and/or advisor to several angel investor groups, including 37 Angels and Astia. He is a mentor for the Boulder-based accelerator program MergeLane, and an advisor to San Francisco-based Women's Startup Lab. In 2014 he was named one of the 25 Angel Investors you need to know in New York by AlleyWatch, as well as one of 100 Tech Influencers You Need to Know. In 2015 he was featured in Tech.co as “One of 8 VCs Making Waves.”

In the nonprofit space he is a board member at International House New York and a member of their executive committee. He is also a board member at the Center for Talent Innovation.

Adam is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs where he is a Capstone workshop advisor and member of the management faculty.

He holds a BA and MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (1983, 1987), and an MBA from Cass Business School, London (1991).

Drew Stein

I have been both privileged and fortunate to have lived and worked as chairman, managing director and CEO for a number of diverse organizations in various countries around the world. In addition and separately, I have been heavily involved in working with a number of governments, structuring and managing the dismantling of their monopoly regulatory structures and replacing them with lightly controlled competitive markets that provide a pathway to eventual corporatization and privatization programs. More recently I've been focused on chairing corporates that are involved in changing their business model locked in with implementing turnaround strategies.

I have adjudicated, lectured, and given keynote addresses at various international conferences around the world, focusing on the professional relationship that needs to exist between investors, boards of directors, and key executives captured by the establishment of sound governance practices. I am of the strong belief, based on personal experience, that governance as a corporate discipline provides the platform for directing corporate behavior that in turn contributes and influences the ultimate success of the business enterprise.

I have written a number of books focusing on corporate structure and behavior. My latest publication titled Corporate Musings (2015) captures comments from essays, blogs, and snippets based on various lectures and speeches I've recently presented relating to maintaining sound professional business practices and standards.

Brian Tayan

Brian Tayan is a researcher at the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Brian's work focuses primarily on corporate governance, although he has also written cases in the areas of financial accounting, human resource management, operations, and strategy. He has coauthored two books with professor David F. Larcker, Corporate Governance Matters and A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governance.

Previously, Brian has worked as a financial analyst in the office of the CFO at Stanford University and as an investment associate at UBS Private Wealth Management in San Francisco. He received his MBA from Stanford GSB and his BA from Princeton University.

Greg Timbrell

Dr. Greg Timbrell holds a Bachelor of Financial Administration from the University of New England (1986) and a PhD in information systems from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (2006). After a 25-year career in industry, consulting, and government, he joined QUT, where his research foci are digital strategy, IT management, and governance. He advises both government and industry in these areas.

Dr. Timbrell is the author of the book Information Systems Consulting (2013–15).

Michael Useem

Michael Useem is William and Jaclyn Egan Professor of Management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive MBA courses on leadership and change, and he offers programs on leadership, teamwork, governance, and decision making for managers in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He also works on leadership development and governance with many companies and organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He is the author of The Leadership Moment, Investor Capitalism, The Go Point, and The Leader's Checklist. He is also coauthor and coeditor of Learning from Catastrophes, and coauthor of The India Way, Boards That Lead, and Leadership Dispatches.

Elizabeth L. H. Valentine

Elizabeth Valentine, has an MBA (Henley, UK) and, in early 2016, will complete a Doctor of Information Technology at Queensland University of Australia, Brisbane. Her thesis is about the board of director's changing role in a digital world. This work developed the first known multisector, validated competency set in enterprise IT governance for directors and senior executives. Her other research interests include corporate governance, the knowing–doing gap, and the use of technology in corporate learning and education.

Elizabeth tutors in cross-disciplinary business and information systems topics and has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and leading conferences. Before commencing her doctoral studies, Elizabeth held two chief-executive roles in the area of competency standards' setting, with specializations in aviation, tourism, and the build environment. She has also held a number of boards of director roles.

Elizabeth is a sought after international keynote speaker, guest lecturer, and consultant in areas such as change strategy, digital vision setting, board competency profiling, organization design, and corporate learning and development.

Mark Van Clieaf

Mark Van Clieaf is partner with Organizational Capital Partners (OCP). He brings over 25 years experience consulting worldwide for institutional investors, boards, and management with a broad background in management structure design and organization effectiveness, CEO/executive succession planning and executive search, CEO performance scorecard design, executive compensation, pay for performance, and corporate governance—all linked to shareholder value and sustainability for societies.

His early career was in the advertising and graphic design industries and he was a senior manager in the executive search and business strategy consulting practices of Price Waterhouse. His research and thought leadership has been published in a number of publications including The Rotman International Journal of Pension Management, The Corporate Board, Directorship, Directors and Boards, and The Ivey Business Journal. He is frequently quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and USA Today. He was a guest lecturer on corporate governance at the Ivey School of Business; commissioner for the National Association of Corporate Directors, Blue Ribbon Commission on CEO Succession Planning; founding member, Executive Selection Research Advisory Board, Center for Creative Leadership; and past-president of the Strategic Leadership Forum. He has a BA in economics and business from York University and a post-graduate certificate in international business from Seneca College.

Henry D. Wolfe

Henry D. Wolfe is a private investor with a focus on underperforming businesses. He has been an active catalyst for substantial creation of value for shareholders in a variety of underperforming basic industry situations, both private and public.

Currently, Mr. Wolfe is chairman of De La Vega Occidental & Oriental Holdings. He is also chairman of Riverview Holdings and a co-investor with H.I.G. Capital in Arctic Glacier Group Holdings, Inc. where he is also vice chairman of the board. Previously he has served as nonexecutive chairman of numerous companies across a wide array of industries.

Articles and letters written by Mr. Wolfe on corporate governance topics have been published in Directors and Boards (2010), Board Room INSIDER (2003, 2008), Institutional Investor's Journal of Private Equity (2006) and The Financial Times (2002).

Mr. Wolfe has served as a guest lecturer on high-performance boards for Dr. Richard Leblanc's corporate governance class at Harvard University in 2013 to 2015 and is scheduled again in 2016.

Mr. Wolfe received his BS degree in zoology with honors in 1976 from Clemson University, where he was also a member and captain of the Clemson rugby team. In addition he was also a member of the state of South Carolina's “Select Side” touring all-star rugby team and served as its co-captain.

Ronald Zall

Ronald I. Zall is a nationally recognized authority on directors, boards of directors, family business governance, and corporate governance generally. He is a former director of the National Association of Corporate Directors and served for many years as its director of education. He is now a member of the NACD Advisory Board and is a member of its Editorial Advisory Board. He has lectured on corporate and family business governance throughout the United States, including the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He has published numerous articles on the subject in NACD's Director's Monthly, and he has authored handbooks on corporate governance covering such subjects as publicly traded companies, privately held companies, ethics and legal compliance, and he recently completed a handbook on boards of directors in family-owned or controlled companies. He is the founder and chairman of Corporate Directors Institute. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Daniels College of Business, lecturing on corporate governance and family businesses. He was recently named Executive in Residence at the Daniels College.

Mr. Zall is a second-generation native of Denver, having been born in the Mile High City on February 17, 1930. He attended the University of Colorado from 1947 until 1950 and then completed his college education by obtaining a bachelor of science degree in 1950 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1952, both from the University of Denver. He was admitted to the Colorado Bar in 1953. Mr. Zall was the firm's office manager for several years, and is currently of counsel.

Bob Zukis

Bob Zukis is a technology executive, author, speaker, and advisor on corporate IT governance, cybersecurity, and the business impact of disruptive technologies.

He is a Senior Fellow for The Conference Board Governance Center, and is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors SoCal Board. He has CEO and leadership experience in VC and PE backed technology firms, and retired as an advisory partner at PwC in 2012. At PwC, he held a range of practice leadership positions and advised the global Fortune 1000 on a range of strategic, operational, and technology issues. He has lived and worked on four continents across twenty countries.

Named to the Financial Times Digital 50—Board Candidates with Skills in New Technology, Zukis is a sought after speaker, author, and thought leader who is regularly quoted and published in a variety of press. He is the author of Social Inc.—Why Business Is the Next Social Opportunity Worth Trillions (Kauffman Fellows Press, 2013). He is holds an MBA with honors from The University of Chicago and a BBA from Texas Tech University.