Mr. Taylor is the Vice President, Chief SEC Counsel and Secretary of American Water Works Company, Inc., where he is responsible for American Water’s securities law, corporate law and corporate governance compliance and leads the corporate secretary function.  Mr. Taylor also serves as an advisor to the Board of Directors and the executive leadership team and a legal business partner to the company’s accounting, communications, human resources and executive compensation, finance, investor relations and treasury functions. For over 26 years, including more than ten years working in the in-house corporate secretary function, Mr. Taylor has represented a variety of clients in securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and capital raising, corporate governance, executive compensation and business and corporate law matters.

Ally is a Lead Advisor within Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory practice. Prior to joining Nasdaq, Ally spent five years with Sustainalytics, a leading ESG Ratings provider. In her Client Advisory capacity, Ally advised institutional asset managers, wealth managers, and banks on the integration of ESG data throughout the investment process. She holds a M.S. in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.S. in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University. Ally is also an ESG Investing certificate holder with the CFA.​

Raechelle Munna is Assistant General Counsel at Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 electric utility based in New Orleans, Louisiana (NYSE: ETR), where her practice is focused on advising on ESG strategy, performance and disclosure as well as investor relations, corporate governance, capital markets, corporate transactions and securities law matters.  She works closely with Entergy’s sustainability and environmental policy team and in that role has advised on the preparation of two TCFD-aligned climate reports, ESG risk oversight and governance matters, and the development of ESG disclosure controls and procedures to ensure accurate and consistent reporting on ESG matters.  She also advises the investor relations team on ESG and other disclosure matters and investor outreach and engagement.

Prior to joining Entergy, Raechelle practiced law in the corporate and securities group of Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans.  She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Masters in Business Administration from Spring Hill College. She received a Juris Doctorate Degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.  Raechelle is also a licensed CPA in Louisiana and previously served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, where she taught an Accounting & Auditing course.

Frank Kelley is a Director and Head of ESG at Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN). He is responsible for providing thought leadership on corporate governance, executive compensation, proxy disclosure & design, shareholder activism, and sustainability with an emphasis on corporate issuer ESG.

Frank was formerly a Senior Advisor at the largest proxy advisor, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), where he reviewed director independence, equity plans, ESG, say-on-pay, and shareholder proposals.  Prior to ISS, Frank worked at MacKenzie Partners, a leading proxy solicitor specializing in M&A, where he counseled boards, corporate executives, and shareholders on proxy contests, solicitations, tender offers, and other complex corporate transactions.  During this time, Frank was responsible for helping to implement strategies and campaigns for some of the largest proxy fights of the 2010s.  Before MacKenzie Partners, Frank served as a Consultant for Willis Towers Watson where he designed executive compensation programs for corporate issuers, notably within the Electric Utility sector—the first major industry to utilize ESG metrics in compensation programs.

Prior to entering the corporate governance world, Frank was a Sell-Side Analyst in Equity Research. He resides in New York City and Tampa, Florida.

Curtis Ravenel is a Senior Advisor to the co-chairs and Vice Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and a founding member of the Secretariat for the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).  He also serves as a Distinguished Fellow in Sustainable Finance at ClimateWorks Foundation, a Strategic Advisor to Persefoni Ai and Apollo Global Management and a Board Member of Context Labs BV.

Curtis founded the Sustainable Business & Finance Group at Bloomberg LP and served as its Global Head, reporting directly to the Chairman, from 2007-2019. Under his leadership, Bloomberg integrated sustainability considerations into the firm’s operations globally and developed a full range of Sustainable Finance products to evaluate sustainability-related risks and opportunities for finance professionals.

He was awarded a David Rockefeller Fellowship with the Partnership for New York City in 2011, appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the US chapter of the G8 Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013 and received the Columbia Business School Exemplary Leadership Award in 2016. Curtis holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in History from Davidson College.

Combining academic expertise with extensive professional experience, Wesley leads The Works’sustainability practice. He provides guidance in stakeholder engagement, materiality and performance measurement, as well as CSR/sustainability communications and reporting. Wesley contributed to the development of the GRI G4 guidelines and serves on sector working groups with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. He is a judge for CPA Canada’s Corporate Reporting Awards and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events. He also lectures for the CSR certificate program at the University of Toronto and for the sustainability certificate program at Ryerson University. Before joining The Works, Wesley was senior sustainability consultant at Stantec and senior CSR advisor at the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. He holds a Master’s in Sustainable Business from the University of Leeds.

Prior to joining Corbin Advisors, Leahruth worked extensively in corporate governance and non-profit consulting. At Georgeson, a premiere proxy solicitation and corporate governance consulting firm, she managed shareholder engagement campaigns, which first introduced her to the growing importance of ESG from the investor perspective. At Equilar, an executive compensation and board data firm, Leahruth managed content and thought leadership for corporate governance conferences, co-hosted with Nasdaq, that addressed issues such as shareholder engagement, diversity in the boardroom, human capital management, and ESG, among other topics.

After graduating from Columbia Business School in 2016, Leahruth relocated to Chicago where she founded Girlspeak, a public speaking and empowerment program for middle and high school age girls. She was accepted into Google’s competitive Google for Entrepreneurs mentorship program and was a member at 1871, Chicago’s preeminent startup incubator. In 2019, Leahruth began consulting with the nonprofit Free Bikes 4 Kidz. Having worked with public companies, institutional investors and nonprofit organizations, Leahruth has developed a wide breadth of experience and understanding of the CSR and ESG landscape.

Leahruth earned her B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, MN where she graduated cum laude and attended Columbia University’s M.B.A. program in NYC where she was accepted into the competitive Columbia Startup Lab for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Leahruth serves on the board of Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, where she is Chair of the Recruitment Committee. She lives in Chicago, is an avid student at Core Power Yoga, where she finds balance and strength and is an academic tutor and mentor for middle and high school age students.

John Miller joined Cowen Washington Research Group in September 2021 and covers ESG and sustainability policy. Mr. Miller previously served as a vice president and senior ESG research analyst at Calvert Research and Management, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he developed and built a quantitative, company-level ESG risk/reward assessment framework targeted towards the global energy and utility sectors. Mr. Miller also worked at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as branch chief in the Office of Enforcement, Division of Analytics and Surveillance. Earlier, he served as Technical and Policy Advisor to a FERC commissioner and as an energy analyst in FERC’s Office of Enforcement.

Mr. Miller holds a B.A. in economic history and political science from The George Washington University, and a Master’s in global history from The London School of Economics and Political Science, where he focused on developmental economics. John also holds the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting certification, which is granted by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).

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Chad leads investor relations and ESG strategy for Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in climate change solutions.Previously, he served in various roles, including structured finance, risk management, and investor relations, with TerraForm Power –an integrated renewable energy company now owned by Brookfield Asset Management. Chad is also a co-founder of and current Board member with Blue Forest Finance, a non-profit focused on harnessing financial innovation to design sustainablesolutions to systemic climate resilience challenges. Chad started his career as an intelligence officer operating primarily in the Middle East.Chad holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the George Washington University.

Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large for Corporate Secretary, an IR Media publication, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. Ben was previously managing editor of Compliance Reporter, covering regulatory and compliance issues affecting broker-dealers and asset management firms in the US and Europe. Before that, he was editor of Euromoney Institutional Investor’s International Financial Law Review and IFLR’s Americas editor, working in London and New York.

Steve Wade is a content researcher and conference producer at IR Magazine where he is responsible for crowd-sourcing intelligence on the big global issues facing investor relations. Steve also creates events where the IROs and the wider financial community can discuss, debate and learn about ways to develop the IR function.

Prior to IR Magazine, Steven’s background has been in corporate social responsibility and responsible investment. During his time at Ethical Corporation (now Reuters Events), Steve launched the ESG symposium, an event focused on connecting the socially responsible investment community with corporate sustainability leaders at listed companies. Steve was a judge for the Deloitte Green Frog Awards, celebrating the best corporate reporting in Eastern Europe. Steve also presented research at the Global Sustainable Event Summit in London and has spoken about extra-financial reporting with the United Nations Global Compact, the World Bank and the Polish Ministry of Finance.

Steve has a degree in Event Management and enjoys playing rugby in his spare time.