Cynthia is a Sustainability and Climate Expert Leader with Deloitte’s Sustainability and ESG Services. She has been a pioneer in the Corporate GHG Management space for more than 25 years, working to define corporate climate leadership and designing and managing various government and NGO programs that mobilize companies to reduce GHG emissions.

Cynthia joined Deloitte from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy where she advised various programs in aligning their research, development, and deployment strategy with the real-world challenges of industry to decarbonize.  Prior to this role, Cynthia worked at the World Resources Institute where she co-founded and co-led the Science Based Targets initiative and was the Deputy Director of the GHG Protocol where she led the development of various corporate GHG accounting and reporting standards and research on emerging GHG management issues.  Earlier in her career, Cynthia was the founding director of U.S. EPA’s Climate Leaders Program which was the first effort in the U.S. to incentivize companies to measure and disclose their corporate GHG emissions and set ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Cynthia holds a MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration from Cornell University.

Ki Hoon Kim is an Associate General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, a global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Ki Hoon’s current practice spans corporate governance, securities financings, ongoing public company reporting obligations, shareholder engagement and board support. Previously, Ki Hoon practiced law as an associate in the life sciences practice group and an associate in the capital markets practice group of international law firms in New York City.

Christopher Stroh is an Executive Director and head S&P Global’s Situational Analytics team which focuses on sustainability focused ownership and targeting studies, transactional risk and opportunity analyses for companies considering or undergoing strategic changes, and scenario-focused analyses for S&P’s corporate, bank, and exchange partners. He was previously Director of the Corporate Analytics team at IHS Markit and Ipreo which focused on institutional investor targeting strategies for global investor relations programs. In this role, he helped investor relations teams globally understand the institutional investors they should focus on when preparing for investor days, roadshows, and conferences. Prior to joining Ipreo, he began his career in private wealth management. Christopher Stroh attended Boston University where he double majored in Economics and International Relations with specializations in Europe and International Business.

Richard Gluckselig is an Associate General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an S&P 500 biotechnology company headquartered in New
York whose mission is to help patients with serious diseases. Richard has nearly 20 years of
experience advising companies on issues critical to their business. In his current role, Richard
focuses on corporate governance, ESG and financing matters, as well as strategic transactions,
shareholder engagement and board support. Previously, Richard worked as a member of the
securities and public companies practice group of an international law firm in Manhattan.
Richard holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and is admitted to the practice of
law in New York.

Tim Ring is responsible for corporate governance for MetLife and its subsidiaries, the management of board meetings, and engagement with the company’s institutional shareholders. Tim served as Corporate Secretary previously, from 2013 – 2017.

Prior to resuming this role, Tim was Chief Sustainability Officer, responsible for creating the strategic vision and portfolio of initiatives for the company’s sustainable business practices, corporate responsibility and philanthropic activities designed to increase MetLife’s value proposition. This includes aligning the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and activities with the preferences and expectations of shareholders and other significant stakeholders and ensuring they are integrated into the company’s strategy and operations.

Chris Gray is Vice President Sustainability/ ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) at UnitedHealth Group. In this newly established role, Chris reports into the Chief Sustainability Officer and is responsible for designing UHG’s strategies for a sustainable and modern health system, as we as partnering across the enterprise to help drive those strategies and report on the impact and outcomes to internal and external stakeholders.

Chris joined the Sustainability Team at UHG in October 2022 after 15 years at Pfizer, where he established the ESG function and advanced sustainability strategy and operations, public affairs and partnerships. He co-chaired Pfizer’s Sustainability Steering Committee, and lead efforts to embed the ESG discipline into Pfizer business strategies. Chris also served in roles supporting the Chairman & CEO in global public health forums, and managed relationships with key partners, for example the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Chris served in a variety of roles at Ernst & Young, including Markets Leader for the EY Biopharmaceutical Center of Excellence. He partnered with advisory services across the organization to address the needs of life sciences, medical technology, and hospital organizations.

Tejal joined the SOC Investment Group in 2016, where she focuses on corporate accountability and shareholder advocacy.  In her current role, she has worked with investor coalitions on issues like opioids accountability and racial equity audits where she developed strategies for issuer engagement, shareholder proposals, and asset manager outreach.  Prior to the SOC, Tejal was a Senior Associate at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), where she worked with asset owners and asset managers in the development and implementation of their proxy voting guidelines.  Before ISS, Tejal was an Associate at a Connecticut-based law firm, where she represented institutional lenders in a variety of commercial finance transactions and advised public and private companies on securities law related matters.  She currently serves as a director and the Labor Constituency Co-Chair for the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) and previously served on the U.S. Asset Owners Advisory Council from 2019-2021.  She holds a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a MSc. from the London School of Economics.

Sarah Altschuller serves as Business & Human Rights Counsel in Verizon’s Business & Human Rights Program. In this role, Sarah supports Verizon’s commitment to integrating attention to human rights impacts into its legal and business operations.  She also seeks to identify and respond to technological trends that may create human rights risks. Prior to joining Verizon in 2018, Sarah was Counsel in Foley Hoag LLP’s Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, where she advised corporate clients on how best to assess and address the human rights impacts of their operations and to respond to emerging legal and regulatory requirements specific to human rights. In 2018 and 2017, she was recognized by Chambers Global as among the top lawyers in the field of business & human rights.

Sarah co-teaches a seminar on business & human rights law at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to law school, Sarah was a research analyst with the socially responsible investment firm, KLD Research & Analytics. Sarah received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science from Williams College.

Michelle Williams is a member of the Litigation, Regulatory and White Collar practice group.
Michelle represents U.S. and foreign clients including multinational companies, financial institutions, and other financial service providers in criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings relating to potential economic sanctions, export control, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering, and advises on compliance with associated regulatory regimes, including data privacy and employee-related matters.

Michelle is a member of our global People Risk team.

Nadira Narine is Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, primarily responsible for research and analysis, coordination and support of ICCR’s Advancing Worker Justice program area, which brings shareholder advocates and allied worker-led and focused organizations together to advance dignity and justice for working people, with a particular focus on corporate operations in US and Canada.

Nadira participates in number of spaces dedicated to advancing worker justice, racial justice, and equity, bringing the perspective of responsible investors who are seeking to activate our investments, strategic partnerships, and movement-building strategies to influence and achieve meaningful gains for workers’ rights in the U.S. and Canada.

She has been a staff member at ICCR since 2004.

Nadira was born in Trinidad. She obtained a BA, from CUNY’s Brooklyn College and MA in Political Science from The CUNY Graduate Center.

Jessica oversees coverage of companies within the Industrials and Materials sectors in the US and Canada for the BlackRock Investment Stewardship team, where she is responsible for engaging with public company management teams and boards of directors on material ESG risk factors on behalf of BlackRock’s clients. She is also responsible for voting BlackRock’s shares at these companies’ annual meetings. A key focus area within her sectors includes the assessment of climate- and nature-related risks, in the context of a company’s long-term outlook and broader considerations for a transition to a lower-carbon economy. Jessica also regularly engages on topics such as governance, compensation, board composition, human capital management, activism, M&A, and strategy.

Jessica is BlackRock’s representative on the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which aims to create a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on nature-related risks. Jessica brings over 13 years of experience in ESG-related roles and financial services; before joining BlackRock, she was on the Stewardship and Corporate Governance team at TIAA. Prior to working at TIAA, Jessica provided financial planning to wealth management clients. Jessica began her career at Moxy Vote (TFS Capital), a start-up focused on proxy voting and retail shareholder advocacy efforts.

Jessica is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and holds various securities licenses. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in English.

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She leads the organization’s executive leadership team and more than 225 employees working to mobilize the most influential investors and companies to drive action on the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global collaborations have grown significantly in size and influence.

As a well-known global thought leader on climate change, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders including global coalitions of institutional investors and corporate boards and executives to factor environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices into their overall strategies. She is frequently quoted in top business and financial news outlets and pens a regular column for Forbes.com on a variety of topics that have elevated the economic and financial case for sustainability action and elevated concepts, such as climate and water risk, to the mainstream investment and business community. She regularly speaks to high-level world and national policymakers on the need for stronger climate policies and regulations to build a stronger, more resilient and sustainable economy. In 2015, Lubber helped catalyze the necessary business support to get the historic Paris Agreement across the finish line, leading Vogue Magazine to name her a “Climate Warrior.”

She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership. In 2020, Lubber was awarded the United Nations ’Champions of the Earth’ Entrepreneurial Vision award. In the same year, Lubber made Barron’s Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance, and then again in 2021, 2022, and 2023. She has also received the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network, William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership from American University, and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation. She has been recognized by the United Nations and the Foundation for Social Change as one of the World’s Top Leaders of Change. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, Ceres was named a top 100 women-led businesses in Massachusetts by the Globe Magazine and Commonwealth Institute.

Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Bill Clinton. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG).

She resides in Brookline, Mass., with her husband Norman Stein. She has two children, Abe and Jessie.

Rebecca is founder and leader of Corbin and a pioneer in investor relations globally. Over her 20-year career in capital markets, she has architected a proprietary and proven methodology to drive sustained value creation based on extensive and unparalleled Voice of Investor® research and insights-driven strategies that have consistently been validated by the global equity markets.

As a subject matter expert and renowned capital markets and investor relations strategist with a demonstrated track record of rerating companies, Rebecca is a trusted advisor and partner to boards and executives who continually seek her research-based insights and counsel. She serves a broad range of global clients across sectors and industries.

Rebecca was in her mid-twenties when she founded Corbin Advisors in 2007 and, under her leadership as CEO, the company has developed a reputation as a best-in-class partner and, as a result, has grown exponentially and continues to set records across key metrics annually. She serves as Editor-in-chief of Inside the Buy-Side®, a leading research publication covered worldwide that identifies and reports on investor sentiment trends globally and best practice. Rebecca is a highly sought after and prolific public speaker, including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and is a recurring guest on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street.

Long committed to giving back, Rebecca dedicates significant time and resources to helping advance social services, the arts, humanities, and education. In 2020, she created Corbin for Nonprofits and committed to donating 20% of that practices’ annual operating profits to nonprofit organizations. Rebecca serves on the boards of Washington College and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and is a past director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and CT Women’s Hall of Fame. She is President of the Jim and Rebecca Loree Foundation, a nonprofit, charitable organization she co-founded with her husband in 2009, which is focused on supporting secondary and higher education.

Rebecca has been a frequent honoree for business and community leadership and most recently received Hartford Business Journal’s Annual Women in Business Award, which recognizes outstanding Connecticut-based female CEOs, entrepreneurs and senior-level executives who have mastered their industry and are admired by the business community. She holds a B.A. in Business Management from Washington College, the first college chartered in the sovereign United States of America, where she graduated cum laude and with Honors.

Rebecca resides in the Nutmeg State with her husband and their four daughters. She loves to spend time with her family, garden, play tennis and run.

Steve Nickelsburg has broad experience in internal investigations, government enforcement matters, and complex civil litigation. He represents and advises corporate clients, sovereign and multilateral institutions, and individuals in cases with cross-border implications, including anticorruption, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering, unfair competition, and intellectual property theft, as well as matters involving human rights claims and sovereign immunity. Steve also advises multinational companies on litigation and transactional risk assessment, risk mitigation strategies, and compliance measures.

Steve is a member of our global Business and Human Rights Risk team, a member of our Global ESG Board, and a member of the Vance Center Committee of The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice.

Alexandra Higgins is a Managing Director at Okapi Partners providing strategic counsel to corporate clients and their advisors with a focus on governance and compensation issues, as well as other ESG concepts.

Alex has over 15 years of experience in corporate advisory and governance roles. Prior to joining Okapi Partners, she served as VP and Head of U.S. Partner Advisory Services at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) Corporate Solutions, where she managed advisory services for U.S. professional services firms on ISS policy, corporate governance issues, equity plan disclosure, and shareholder activism.

Alex also spent time as a reporter for CQ Roll Call, where she covered corporate governance regulation and activist investor campaigns. She began her career as an executive compensation analyst and research associate at The Corporate Library for six years before its merger with GMI Ratings, where she ultimately spent another four years advising law firms on corporate governance matters related to securities litigation.

In 2008, Alex was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern Maine.

Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large of Corporate Secretary, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. He had previously been managing editor of Compliance Reporter since January 2007, covering regulatory and compliance issues affecting broker-dealers and asset management firms. Before that, Ben was editor of International Financial Law Review and IFLR’s Americas editor, working in London and New York.

Laurence Taylor is a content researcher and conference producer at IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary where he is responsible for crowd-sourcing intelligence on the big global issues facing public companies. In this role, Laurence creates industry-wide conferences overseeing the event all the way from conception to completion.
Prior to this role, Laurence held similar roles with Westminster insight, A UK based policy organisation for both private and public sector. Laurence also produced events for Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market, and Industrial Minerals market.