Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO of Competent Boards, which offers the global online Climate and ESG Competent Boards Certificate Programs, with a faculty of over 100 renowned international board members, executives and experts. Helle is the author of the newly published book “Stewards of The Future: A Guide for Competent Boards.”

She has a 30-year track record in turning Environment, Social, Governance (ESG), Climate and Sustainability risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She is working with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors.

Besides being a board member, she serves on:

World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals
His Royal Highness Prince of Wales A4S (Accounting for Sustainability) Global Expert Panel;
The Non-financial Digitisation Working Group of the Impact Management Project (IMP);
The Reuters Panel of Expert Judges for the Responsible Business Awards;
Canadian Climate Governance Experts – a Commonwealth Climate & Law Initiative.
She has served as the Chair of the European Sustainability Reporting Association (ESRA), the Global Compact Network Canada, Datamaran, and as a member of the Sustainability Advisory Panel of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and at the Sustainability Policy Group of the Institute of European Accountants (FEE).

Helle was the creator of the world’s first Green Account based on lifecycle assessment and the world’s first Integrated Report, the first integrated responsible supply chain management system, and was the principal organizer for the CEO/Investor-network for Business Ethics and Non-Financial Reporting. She led the improvement of investor communication for global companies and has worked on Natural Capital Accounting for IFC/World Bank.

In 2020 she was awarded the Global Impact Award and named one of “5 people in ESG to look out for”. She is a regular keynote speaker and author of many thought-leading articles and books.

She is a business lawyer and state-authorized public accountant (CPA) by training and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Auditing. She is a former PwC audit and advisory partner in Denmark and the US leading Sustainability & Climate Practices.

Joined Sands Capital
2020

Work Experience
Cartica Management (2018 – 2020)
Washington, DC | Senior ESG Analyst

Cartica Management (2016 – 2018)
Washington, DC | Senior Global Strategy Analyst

Deloitte CIS (2015 – 2016)
Moscow, Russia | Alfa Fellow

Cartica Management (2014 – 2015)
Washington, DC | Associate, ESG and Global Strategy

Education
Johns Hopkins University (2014)
MA | International Economics and International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies

University of Exeter (2012)
BA | International Relations and Russian

Mr. Posavac runs a global team that supports companies and their C-suite and Investor Relations teams as well as their banking and legal advisers with market intelligence, risk analytics and advisory services focused on institutional investors in the lead up to M&A transactions, general meetings or special situations. His team also works with companies to develop a coherent ESG and engagement strategy to follow legal and industry best practice standards and take advantage of the opportunities in sustainable investments and increased ESG integration. Mr. Posavac has deep knowledge of the ESG and corporate governance sensitivities of institutional investors, their relationships to external advisors as proxy advisory and ESG rating firms and can help stakeholders better understand how to address governance and ESG in order to have the greatest impact in minimizing risks and maximizing opportunities in the current capital markets landscape.

Christopher Deans is a Director, Investor Relation at Q4, a Chartered Professional Accountant and FSA Credential holder with 15+ years of experience in corporate finance and investor relations. At Q4 he acts as an advisor and extension of his clients’ IR teams, assisting with the development of streamlined IR workflow while leveraging Q4’s suite of technology services. Prior to joining Q4, Chris worked in investor relations and FP&A for a major Canadian retailer and in the investment services industry.

Neil Stewart is the Value Reporting Foundation’s New York-based Director of Corporate Outreach, advancing awareness of the organization’s resources and helping companies world-wide with implementation. He is a member of the Value Reporting Foundation’s Assurance Task Force and oversees the SASB Standards Consultant Content Program. Neil brings to the Value Reporting Foundation more than 25 years of experience in and around investor relations and corporate governance. Previously he was at Citigroup as VP IR Advisory on the ADR team, helping non-US issuers develop IR and ESG strategies. Formerly Editorial & Research Director of both IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary magazine, Neil is a board member of NIRI NY, the New York chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.

Katrina Rymill is the VP of IR & Sustainability at Equinix, a global interconnection and data center provider. Joining Equinix in 2011, she spearheaded the effort of re-architecting the company’s IR messaging and communication strategy. Projects have included expanding Equinix’s Sustainability Program, establishing long-term financial targets, setting up Equinix’s first share buyback program, and investor targeting. Prior to Equinix, Mrs. Rymill was Director of Investor Relations at CyberSource, an e-commerce payment gateway, which was acquired by Visa in 2010. In 2009, CyberSource Investor Relations was ranked 2nd by Institutional Investor Magazine. Previously, Mrs. Rymill was the Head of Investor Relations at Redback Networks. There, she created the IR program after Redback emerged from a Chapter 11 debt restructuring, and worked to build a diversified investor base, including a $200 million Secondary Offering. Mrs. Rymill started her career at Merrill Lynch in Investment Banking, where she worked on various leveraged finance and debt deals. Mrs. Rymill earned an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan and a B.A. in Biology from Harvard University.

Phil Redman serves as the Offering Manager for OneTrust ESG which simplifies the complex task of collecting and reporting on corporate ESG data. In his role, Redman is responsible for the product development and direction of the offering, leading the sales and product engineering team on OneTrust ESG, and day-to-day delivery. He enjoys working with customers and providing features and benefits they now love but didn’t know they needed. Redman brings over 15 years of global, enterprise experience and has led teams on technology product development and strategy at Accenture, Citrix, and was VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. He has a B.A. from Temple University and an M.S. from Boston University on Business Communications.

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.

Dave Armon is CEO of Corporate Responsibility Board. The Corporate Responsibility Board LLC publishes CR Magazine, organizes COMMIT!Forum and manages of the Corporate Responsibility Association. CR Board is a unit of 3BL Media, a Northampton, Massachusetts, company formed in 2009 to serve corporations, nonprofits, NGOs and service providers active in corporate citizenship and sustainability initiatives. In addition to the 3BL Media news and content distribution platform, the company also operates CSRwire, Ethical Performance, Justmeans, ReportAlert and Social Earth.

He is a digital media executive who partners with progressive brands dedicated to making a positive difference through their environmental, social and governance initiatives. His career began with a “deadline every minute” mindset as a business reporter for United Press International. He enjoyed a 20-year tenure at PR Newswire, where he served as president and COO as the company grew to $300 million in revenue.

Dave served as CMO at 3BL Media – a multi-platform news and content distribution leader for Fortune 500s, NGOs and nonprofits – during the acquisition of the Corporate Responsibility Association, Corporate Responsibility Magazine, the 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking and COMMIT!Forum.

He thoroughly enjoying working alongside purpose-driven corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners.

Jana Croom is Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Kimball Electronics, a global electronics manufacturing company (Nasdaq: KE). She has oversight of the accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations and financial planning & analysis functions, including capital allocation, M&A activities, strategy, audit and governance oversight. As a finance leader, she partners with operations to provide solution oriented outcomes that grow the business and create long-term success.

A long tenured utility industry finance professional, Jana has worked in both the electric and natural gas fields. Prior to assuming her role at Kimball, she held positions of increasing responsibility within the finance, operations and regulatory areas of NiSource, an S&P 500 regulated utility. Before joining NiSource, she was employed by American Electric Power focusing on investor relations, corporate finance and treasury.

Jana holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of Wooster and a Masters of Business Administration from the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.

Jana is a member of the advisory board for the Salvation Army of Central Ohio where she chairs the nominating committee. She is also a member of the American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE). She is a graduate of the 2015 cohort of Leadership Columbus and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Albany Community Authority. Jana is passionate about developing the next generation of finance leaders and is involved in the many development programs offered by her company and externally.

Jana resides in New Albany, Ohio with her husband Aaron, their two children AJ and Camille, and rowdy puppy, Ghost.

Nick Mazing is Director of Research for Sentieo, a financial and corporate research platform for executives, investment analysts, and researchers. His career also includes having worked on both the buy side and on the sell side at Lehman Brothers. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is based in Sentieo’s New York City office.

Carrie Christopher is Splunk’s first Director of ESG and Climate, working in the Splunk Global Impact group that is led by Splunk’s Chief Social Impact Officer. Carrie brings 16 years’ experience in environmental sustainability, climate and ESG to her at Splunk, the NASDAQ-traded global tech company headquartered in San Francisco. Carrie plays a central role in establishing the direction, implementation, measurement and reporting of Splunk’s ESG and climate strategy in close collaboration across multiple departments and with key internal and external stakeholders.

Known as a thought leader in the field, Carrie sits on the SASB Sector Advisory Group, participated in the World Economic Forum Industry ESG Metrics and Financial Materiality Working Group, and has driven similar initiatives focused on non-financial reporting. Carrie is responsible for ensuring that credible and material non-financial disclosures connect strong sustainability performance to long-term value creation and loves sharing her knowledge at events such as the IR Magazine’s ESG Integration Forum.

Andrew was appointed to the position of Chief Sustainability Officer & Head of Global Public Policy in May 2021.  Prior to his appointment, Andrew served as Head of Global Corporate & External Affairs after serving as Worldpay’s Head of Global Corporate Affairs & Communications as well as Chief of Staff to the Worldpay Chairman and CEO.  At FIS, Ciafardini is responsible for leading the company’s Government Relations and ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) programs as well as the Risk Department’s Client Relations and Training and Awareness functions.

Previously, Ciafardini served as Director of Corporate Planning and Communications at Chiquita Brands International where he served as chief of staff to the CEO. There he oversaw key internal and external communications projects, including the filming of CBS’s 2010 Undercover Boss episode featuring Chiquita.

Prior to his private sector work, Ciafardini dedicated his career to public service in both the legislative and executive branches of government, including serving as a State Representative in Ohio.

While serving in Washington from 2001 until 2008, Ciafardini served in numerous leadership roles including as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House.  In this role, Ciafardini served as the President’s liaison to state legislators across the nation and was responsible for ensuring their priorities were considered during White House policy discussions.

Earlier, Ciafardini worked as Government-to-Citizen Portfolio Manager at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) where he directed government-wide strategies for improving the public’s access to federal information and services through the use of information technology. In this role, Ciafardini helped bring accountability and transparency to government programs by leveraging technology.

Prior to OMB, Ciafardini was appointed as Assistant Chief of Protocol at the U.S. Department of State and served under the leadership of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He traveled to over 30 countries and was responsible for coordinating the visits of world leaders to the United States for meetings with the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, and other senior government officials.

Shortly after returning to Ohio, Ciafardini was asked by Speaker Husted to fulfill the remainder of Jim Raussen’s term as State Representative for the 28^th District. During this short stint in the Statehouse, he voted to protect the interests of his constituents.

Ciafardini is a proud alum of University of Cincinnati’s Blue Ash College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from George Mason University.

Adrian is a father of two, self-confessed sports mad, technology enthusiast with a passion for Environmental conservation.

He combines this unique combination of interests with a passion for using Easy-to-Use technology to enable large organizations do more to improve their impact on the environment, the economy and society in general. Adrian’s background prior to founding Accuvio was in technical architecture with Accenture, and Dell as a Software Development project manager after completing his BSc Degree in Computer Science at UCD.

It was on this career journey that he encountered the challenge of Sustainability reporting across global organizations which lead to his light bulb moment that it needs to be made easier, for such accountability to be “main stream”.  He was also involved in the early days of CoderDojo.com, a volunteer-led worldwide charity that teaches children from ages 6 – 14 how to develop software and electronics.

Jennifer Frasier is a seasoned HR professional with 25 years of experience within the technology, hospitality, healthcare, waste management and professional services industries.

Over the course of her career, Jennifer has held a number of HR generalist and Inclusion & Diversity specialist roles of progressive global responsibility. She currently serves as the first leader of Inclusion & Diversity for FIS, the world’s largest provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. In her role, she is responsible for developing and leading the company’s strategy to leverage inclusion and diversity as a change agent to respond to ever-evolving and complex global dynamics and to drive positive bottom-line impact. Prior to FIS, she worked in I&D roles at Marsh & McLennan Companies and Mercer.

Jennifer has a M.S. in Industrial and Organization Psychology from University of Tennessee. Jennifer currently resides in Atlanta, GA, with her son, Jackson, and her pet Corgi, Ella. Jennifer is an avid traveler (when not in pandemic) as part of her own diversity awareness journey as well as an embarrassingly over-enthusiastic soccer (football) mom.

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.

Erika is the Chief Impact Officer at Pathstone. She joins the Pathstone team from Cornerstone Capital Group (acquired by Pathstone in 2021), the sustainable and impact investment advisory firm she founded in 2013.

Erika founded Cornerstone Capital Group to bring the disciplines of finance, economics, and sustainability to bear in pursuit of a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism. Over the course of her 25-plus years on Wall Street, she developed a deep belief in environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) analysis as a critical input to investment decision-making.

Prior to launching Cornerstone, Erika was Managing Director and Head of Global Sector Research at UBS Investment Bank. She chaired the Global Investment Review Committee, served on the UBS Securities Research Executive Committee, and served on the Environmental and Human Rights Committee of the UBS Group Executive Board.

Her work has been featured by media including Bloomberg, The Guardian, the Financial Times, Investor Relations Magazine, and Forbes. Erika speaks on sustainable investing and finance at venues around the world including the UN Global Compact, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Clinton Global Initiative, the Wharton School, the NYSE, the Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD), the Aspen Institute, the White House, and many other forums. Erika holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School. She recently joined the Board of Directors of Conscious Capitalism.

Selected achievements:

Founding Board member, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Current Board member, Conscious Capitalism
Advisor to the Humanity United’s Know The Chain initiative
Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council
Ambassador for the World Benchmarking Alliance
Member of CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative Advisory Council
United Nations General Assembly Speaker and Global Compact Board Advisor
Advisor to former Clinton Global Initiative Market-Based Approaches team; plenary speaker at 2014 Winter Meeting
Served on World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing & Capital
Served on Program Design Advisory Council, Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program, Innovating for Sustainability
Has been named among the nation’s “Top 50 Women in Wealth” by AdvisorOne, one of the “Purpose Economy 100,” the “Good 100” and one of 50 “Conscious Capitalists” who are “Transforming Wall Street.” Named by Worth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World.” Received Babson College’s 2019 Lewis Institute Centennial Social Innovator Award.

Sales Director of the Notified Account Management team. Prior to Notified, Kerry spent 12 years at Nasdaq-helping companies in all stages of development incorporate ESG into their story and helping them better engage with stakeholders.

Chris Librie is director of ESG, corporate sustainability and reporting. Prior to joining Applied Materials in 2020, Chris led ESG and corporate sustainability programs at Samsung Semiconductor, eBay and HP Inc. He holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh and an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania.

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).

Material prepared by the Cowen Washington Research Group is intended as commentary on political, economic, or market conditions and is not intended as a research report as defined by applicable regulation.

Jeffrey Osborne is a managing director and senior research analyst covering the sustainability & mobility technology sector. Prior to joining Cowen in July 2014, he was a managing director covering the cleantech, industrial, and environmental services sectors for Stifel/Thomas Weisel Partners. He holds a BS in business and economics from Trinity University and an MBA from Wayne State University.

Mark Phanitsiri is a Portfolio Manager and Director with Allianz Global Investors. He manages $2 billion in assets across the Global Insights fund, Global High-Technology Fund, US Small Cap Fund and US Dividends Fund. He has also been a technology analyst with the firm. Prior to joining in 2010, Mr. Phanitsiri worked on private and public equity investments at Sageview Capital and technology buyouts at Thoma Bravo Equity Partners, as well as technology investment banking at Credit Suisse. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. Mr. Phanitsiri is a CFA charterholder.

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.

Ian leads MerchantCantos’ global sustainability and ESG practice. He advises clients on sustainability strategy, reputation management, creative communications and reporting.

He has over 15 years’ experience delivering corporate reporting and communications campaigns for clients across financial, technology, consumer and energy sectors in the UK, US, Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining Brunswick Ian was Director of Corporate Responsibility at KPMG.

Recent clients include Alibaba, Nike, PwC, PepsiCo and the World Bank.

As Head of ESG Strategy and Engagement, Michael leads outreach and engagement with corporate issuers, the buy side and sell side, and other capital markets participants and service providers to rewire the capital markets towards the long term. Michael joined CECP from the sell side where he was most recently a Director of Investor Access at UBS Investment Bank. In this role, he advised Investor Relations Officers (IROs) on the development and implementation of investor marketing programs as well as educated IROs on broader industry trends including MiFID II and the mainstream shift by active investors toward integrating financially material ESG factors into their investment processes. Prior to joining UBS, Michael held various positions on both the buy side and sell side including at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, and Citi Global Markets. Michael has an MBA from Temple University’s Fox School of Business and a BA in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Michigan.  He is also a SASB FSA Credential holder and was named to NIRI’s 40 under 40 class of 2020.

Nathan Rozof, CFA is Executive Vice President of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at FIS. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and execution of the company’s global consolidated forecasting and reporting as well as leading investor relations and financial analysis for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

Rozof joined FIS through the company’s acquisition of Worldpay, Inc. Prior to joining FIS, he led Worldpay, Inc.’s and Vantiv Inc.’s investor relations programs as well as financial analysis for both companies’ M&A efforts. Rozof’s earlier experiences include roles of increasing responsibility within global investment banking and consulting organizations. He served as a lead and associate equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley and Citi, respectively. He also served as an analyst and consultant at Accenture.

Rozof earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with Distinction from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and was elected to Institutional Investor’s All-America Executive Team, Best IR Professionals in 2016 and 2017.

John Truzzolino is the Director of Business Solutions for the Donnelley Financial Solutions, DFIN. With more than 2 decades of SEC and global reporting experience, John is leading DFIN’s ESG thought leadership, client engagement and partner program, including authoring ESG thought leadership, geared for CFO’s and finance teams, published on FEI Daily, as well as, expanding ESG credentials with Berkley U ESG Board Certification and currently working on SASB FSA training certification.

​John participates and leads emerging ESG reporting working groups including; EDMCouncil – ESG Working Group; The Data Coalition – Chair ESG Working Group; XBRL-US – Chair- Regulatory Modernization Working Group Data Quality Committee.

Laurie Havelock is a journalist, writer and podcaster who has worked with IR Magazine for almost a decade. Outside of writing about investor relations, corporate governance and green finance, he also works for the i newspaper as a news editor and culture writer. Away from writing, he works on several comedy podcasts including Podshambles and Idle Fantasy and was formerly a radio DJ, and hosted a weekly show on Shoreditch Radio called What’s Your Plan B? He lives in London with Mischa, his dog.

Tim Human is senior reporter at IR Magazine. He rejoined the publication in 2019 after two years working as a freelance writer for a range of international clients. Previously, he was editor of IR Magazine between 2013-2017. He has also written for Corporate Secretary, IR Magazine’s sister publication, and CorpComms, the UK-based magazine for corporate communications professionals.

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.