Rich has been in the financial services industry since 1987 with most of his career focused on shareholder communications and proxy event management.

Rich is the Director of Issuer Solutions at Mediant, responsible for overseeing the delivery of investor communication solutions to funds, annuities, alternative investments and corporate issuers. Rich and his team support Mediant’s distinctive high tech and high touch approach, delivering technology leadership with an unparalleled white-glove service model. Rich brings his extensive experience in the proxy lifecycle to support Mediant’s continued growth across all issuer types.

Prior to joining Mediant, Rich managed corporate issuer programs at Georgeson LLC, where he designed and executed successful solicitation strategies to support long-term corporate governance goals. Prior to Georgeson, Rich spent over 12 years in leadership roles at Broadridge Financial Solutions, where he was responsible for client services, operations and product management for mutual fund proxy solicitation services. He has held management roles at D.F. King & Co., leading call center operations for corporate issuer and mutual fund proxy solicitation campaigns and John Hancock Signature Services, where he led shareholder and broker service teams. Earlier in his career, Rich held the position of assistant vice president of legal operations at Putnam Investments where he led all proxy efforts including vendor selection and oversight.

Rich is an active member of leading industry associations including National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA), Insured Retirement Institute (IRI), Investment Company Institute (ICI), Society for Corporate Governance, Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (IPA), and National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).

Rich is graduate of the Securities Industry Institute, sponsored by SIFMA and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a certificate from the Corporate Governance Bootcamp Program at New York University’s School of Law. Rich attended Northeastern University where he studied organizational leadership.

Mark is currently Vice President, Strategy, Planning & Investor Relations at Gibson Energy, an oil-focused infrastructure company, and was previously Vice President, Corporate Planning & Investor Relations at Veresen Inc.  In both these roles, Mark’s IR duties focused on transforming the companies’ communication, positioning and perception in the market.  Mark is CFA charterholder, and through both Investment Banking and corporate roles, has a broad spectrum of experience including strategic planning, corporate development, equity & debt capital markets, corporate finance, risk management and M&A.

Milla is Founder and President of Millani Inc.

Throughout her career, Milla has worked closely with senior management and
investor relations teams of Canadian publicly-listed companies, as well as
financial analysts and investment managers of several Canadian pension and
investment funds. Prior to founding Millani in 2008, she worked for more than
15 years in the institutional equity markets for major Canadian financial
institutions.

Later, as Deloitte’s Sustainability Leader, Quebec, she was actively
involved in the development of sustainability strategy, management, stakeholder
engagement, and reporting for a variety of Canadian organizations.
Milla is a board member of the Responsible Investment Association and sits on
its Nomination Committee. She is Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the
Finance and Sustainability Initiatives of Finance Montréal. Milla is recipient of
the 2017 Clearn16 Award, and in 2020 was awarded Montreal’s Y Foundation
Women of Distinction Award, in the Business & Entrepreneurship category.

Ms. Earle is an Investor Relations professional and a geologist. Ms. Earle spent several years in the field prior to making the transition into the corporate side of the industry. She received her Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of British Columbia and her Certified Professional Investor Relations designation from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. She is a founding member of the British Columbia Regional Mining Alliance (BCRMA), a regional partnership between Aboriginal groups, industry and provincial government representatives to promote mining investment in the Golden Triangle of northwest BC and the Founding Industry Advisory Board Chair for CASERM (Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models), a new I/UCRC (Industry‐University Cooperative Research Center) between the Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech, backed by the National Science Foundation.

Anthony is a Director with the Responsible Investing (RI) team at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA.

Nuveen’s Responsible Investing team is responsible for creating a firm-wide holistic RI vision, executing a unified framework across Nuveen’s multi-affiliate structure, and expanding strategic business relationships across the firm. Nuveen’s RI framework establishes the firm’s overall RI philosophy as well as guidelines for incorporating RI disciplines in investment decisions and new product development.

Anthony’s responsibilities include leading the engagement efforts across Nuveen, including for its largest affiliate TIAA Investments, by working directly with companies to discuss important ESG issues and developing standards for proxy voting.

Prior to joining Nuveen, Anthony worked as a policy advisor to institutional investors at Institutional Shareholder Services. His other professional experiences include a variety of financial and legal research positions.

He received a JD from Vanderbilt University and a BA in Economics from Hamilton College.

Matt joined Danaher in 2013 as Vice President of Investor Relations. In 2019 he assumed responsibility for Financial Planning & Analysis, and he was appointed Group CFO for the Life Science Instruments Group in 2021. Prior to joining Danaher, Matt was a Vice President in Equity Research at Barclays Capital and served in a similar capacity at Morgan Stanley. He began his career at KPMG where he held positions in the Audit and Transaction Services groups.

Matt is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Public Accountant. He holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Masters in Accountancy and Professional Consultancy from Villanova University

Debbie is Senior Vice President, Investor Relations for Hasbro, a global play and entertainment Company.

Debbie has more than 25 years of experience in investor relations.  During her career, she has been a key contributor to corporate and business decisions and a trusted advisor to senior management for strategic communications, corporate events, M&A and crises.

Debbie’s and her companies’ IR programs have been recognized over the years by IR Magazine and Institutional Investor Magazine.

Debbie has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and a Certificate in Investor Relations from Bentley College. She has been a member of the National Investors Relations Institute (NIRI) since the mid-90s and currently serves on the NIRI National Board of Directors. She also served as a subject matter expert on the IRC Question Writing Committee for the inaugural IRC exam and subsequently on the NIRI Certification Council. She previously sat on the NIRI Senior Round Table Steering Committee and has been a speaker at NIRI and IR-focused conferences.

Prior to joining Hasbro, Debbie was Director, Corporate and Internal Communications for APC by Schneider Electric.  At APC, Debbie established and ran the investor relations program until the Company was acquired by Schneider Electric in 2007.  Debbie led APC’s communications for the Company’s $6.1 billion acquisition, developing messages for all stakeholders including investors, customers, vendors and employees. Following the acquisition, Debbie served as Chief of Staff, serving as strategic advisor to the incoming chief executive officer and executive committee during the integration process.

Aaron Howald has been Director of Investor Relations at LP Building Solutions (LPX) since October of 2019. Prior to IR he served in a variety of roles including Continuous Improvement, Strategic Planning, and FP&A since joining the company in 2011.

Before LP, Howald worked as a management consultant specializing in strategy, change management and business process improvement. Before that I worked for Hillenbrand Industries in Batesville, Indiana as a manager of strategic planning.

Howald earned a BS in Finance and Economics from Franklin College and an MBA from Indiana University with emphases in Operations Management and Decision Science.

Dave Hughes was appointed vice president, investor relations and continues improvement in January 2017.

Mr. Hughes joined Imperial in 1989 as a systems analyst in Toronto, where he supported refinery capital projects. He has since held a range of technical, supervisory and management positions within the company’s upstream, downstream and corporate groups. His depth and breadth of knowledge extends to refining, supply and transportation logistics, business analysis and reporting, upstream project management, and commercial pipeline work. Mr. Hughes’ career includes an international assignment with ExxonMobil, where he spent five years in various downstream roles in Fairfax, Virginia and Houston, Texas.

Today, Mr. Hughes leads the investor relations team and is responsible for the company’s continuous improvement efforts, with direct accountability to Imperial’s management committee.
In his continuous improvement role, Mr. Hughes has leadership responsibility for Imperial’s Clarify. Simplify. Focus. program, where he leads a cross-functional team in the prioritization and capture of efficiency initiatives to support the company’s business priorities of safety, operational integrity, reliability and profitability.

Mr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calgary and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Queen’s University.

Mr. Javed is the Vice President of Investor Relations at Hydro One Limited. He assumed the Head of IR role in 2018, after joining Hydro One investor relations team in 2015 shortly after its initial public offering. Mr. Javed has played a key role in shaping the successful investor relations program at Hydro One, which was recognized as the Best Investor Relations for an IPO by IR Magazine. He has tremendous experience with both private and public markets having worked in Private Equity, Investment Management and Management Consulting with a focus on value creation. Mr. Javed attended Harvard Business School, Rotman School of Management, and University of Western Ontario.

Since joining Equinix in 2015, he has held various roles in investor relations and treasury.  In his current role, he has helped shape the company’s IR messaging and communications strategy and while in treasury he managed the company’s capital markets activities for the Telecity, Verizon and Bit-Isle acquisitions.  Prior to Equinix, Mr. Newcom spent seven years HSBC in the Global Banking and Capital Markets division, where he advised US multinational clients on foreign exchange hedging.

Mr. Newcom earned an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.

Jill is Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at Hilton. She joined Hilton in 2014.

Prior to that, she spent more than 10 years in the financial services industry, most recently at Morgan Stanley where she was an Equity Research Analyst specializing in the lodging industry, including the coverage of Hilton, among other global hospitality companies.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, she held similar roles at Lazard Capital Markets and Merrill Lynch. She has been ranked by Institutional Investor and Investor Relations Magazine as a top ranked IR professional.

George Trisic is the Chief Governance Officer and Corporate Secretary of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. He has broad experience managing in high growth, start up and expanding businesses across multiple sites and regions. In his role, Mr. Trisic is responsible for the governance, sustainability and corporate secretarial functions of the Corporation. His skill set includes leading multi-functional groups in finance, human resources, legal and information technology in a senior role. Mr. Trisic also serves on the board of directors of Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure plc. and the Yves Landry Foundation. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Western Ontario. Additionally, he holds a Chartered Director certification from the Directors College (McMaster University).