Mark F. Labay has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since April 1, 2020, having previously served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor relations since April 2014. During his tenure at Everi, Mark has held several senior level positions in the areas of Operations, Strategic Development and was our Vice President of Finance and Controller from 2002- 2008.

Mark graduated with honors from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s in accounting.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Andy Rusie was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Whole Earth Brands in June 2020 and served as CFO of subsidiary Flavors Holdings Inc. since December 2019. Prior to joining Flavors Holdings Inc., Mr. Rusie served as VP Corporate Finance & Strategy at Mauser Packaging Solutions, a $4 billion global packaging company. Mr. Rusie spent most of his career at Mead Johnson Nutrition, a $4 billion global leader in infant nutrition. He held multiple global leadership roles from 2003 – 2017 serving in a number of finance leadership roles across various corporate functions and had global expat leadership roles in China, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe during his tenure. In 2017, Andy led the global, cross-functional integration associated with Reckitt Benckiser’s $17 billion acquisition of Mead Johnson Nutrition and was named the global Chief Financial Officer of the Mead Johnson business unit after the integration. Mr. Rusie started his career at Ernst & Young and is a CPA. Mr. Rusie serves as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce South China since 2013. To learn more about Mr. Rusie, please visit his LinkedIn profile.

Sébastien Page is head of the Global Multi-Asset Division. He oversees a team of investment professionals dedicated to actively managing a broad set of multi-asset portfolios representing more than $363 billion in assets including the firm’s target date franchise.  He is a member of the Asset Allocation Committee, which is responsible for tactical investment decisions across asset allocation portfolios, and a member of the Management Committee of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.

Sébastien’s investment experience began in 2000, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2015.  Prior to this, Sébastien was employed by PIMCO as an executive vice president where he led a team focused on research and development of multi-asset solutions.  Prior to joining PIMCO in 2010, he was employed by State Street Global Markets as a senior managing director.

Sébastien earned a Master of Science degree in finance and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Sherbrooke University in Quebec, Canada. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Sébastien coauthored award-winning research papers for The Journal of Portfolio Management in 2003, 2010, and 2011 and the Financial Analysts Journal in 2010 and 2014. He is the author of the book “Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation” (McGraw Hill, 2020) and the coauthor of the book “Factor Investing and Asset Allocation” (CFA Institute Research Foundation®, 2016). Sébastien is a member of the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal and a member of the Research Committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q Group). He regularly appears in the financial media, including Bloomberg TV and CNBC.

Gregg Lampf’s over 25-year career in Investor Relations has been focused on the high technology industry.  During his career, Gregg’s responsibilities have also included media and public relations, corporate communications, industry analyst relations, and competitive and market intelligence.

He currently serves as Vice President of Investor Relations for Ciena Corporation, a mid-cap, global leader of next-gen telecommunications solutions and services.

Gregg has been voted as a top IR Professional in Institutional Investor (II)’s surveys several times as well as a member of the All-America Executive Team including in the most recent survey in which he shared this honor with his CEO and CFO as well as his IR program being voted #1 in the midcap Telecommunications sector.

He enjoys sharing his experiences through a variety of means including authoring NIRI IR Update articles, participating in webinars as well as volunteering as Vice Chairman for the Howard County, Maryland Public Schools Applications and Research Lab Academy of Finance.

Mary Green joined Federated Hermes in 2019 as a vice president and a client portfolio manager focused on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investing.

Mary has more than 25 years of investment experience and is primarily responsible for interaction with clients and consultants with regard to the Hermes Investment Management Limited products. Prior to joining Federated Hermes International in London, Mary was a portfolio strategist at GE Asset Management (acquired by State Street Global Advisors), and a managing director/client portfolio manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management.

Mary received a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and an MBA from Dartmouth College.

Catherine is the Head of Corporate Events at SVB Leerink and is responsible for leading the firm’s global event strategy as well as all events jointly hosted with SVB, SVB Leerink’s parent company. In this position, Ms. Miles is responsible for developing and implementing a global events strategy to support Equity Research, Institutional Sales, and Investment Banking goals and objectives.

Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Ms. Miles was the Head of Corporate access and Associate Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment Group (ISI Group), where she handled all aspects of marketing communications, event planning and corporate relations. Before joining ISI, she was a Senior Vice President and Marketing Manager at Lazard Capital Markets. Previously to that, Ms. Miles was a Marketing Manager at UBS Financial Services and a Marketing Analyst at Media Networks, Inc. (a division of Time Warner/AOL). She began her career as an Account Executive in Marketing at Octagon Marketing.

Ms. Miles earned her B.A. from Middlebury College.

Dylan is a member of Corbin’s Insights Group, leading the firm’s Perception Study Practice and Research Center of Excellence, which he helped establish in 2020, and also oversees the firm’s proprietary benchmarking database, Corbin Analytics. In addition, Dylan is part of the Community Impact Group, supporting the firm’s ESG-dedicated research and advisory solutions. Leveraging a deep market research and statistics background, Dylan provides executives and IROs with proprietary and tailored insights that have led to significant stakeholder value creation. In addition to client-facing engagements, Dylan, in collaboration with founder and CEO, Rebecca Corbin, oversees Corbin’s thought leadership. He is passionate about leveraging actionable insights to drive and support global public companies’ investor-focused communication and engagement strategies.

Prior to joining Corbin, Dylan was a strategist at UTC Aerospace in Supply Chain Management for the Castings, Forgings & Raw Materials division, responsible for assisting efforts to facilitate effective management of the supply chain via regular interface with the customer, as well as drafting commercial and government aerospace proposals. Prior to that, he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention (CHIP), conducting population level analytics to drive prevention programs for a key global disease.

Dylan graduated magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in Statistics and was named a National Investor Relations Institute 40 Under 40 honoree in 2020.

Investor relations industry leader, with expertise in corporate advisory, product design, implementation and sales and marketing strategy.

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.

Mark is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in the financial sector. Mark’s vision for OpenExchange is driven by his ability to see where traditional financial services are enhanced by technological advancements. He was previously CEO of Soundview Technology Group and, through its acquisition of Soundview, an EVP of Charles Schwab Corp. Before Soundview, Mark was the head of investment banking of the firm’s predecessor, Wit Capital, the first online investment bank, known for pioneering innovation to the distribution of IPOs. Earlier in his career, he was with Smith Barney, and was president of Smith Barney Pacific, head of global equity sales and head of equity capital markets. Mark currently serves on the board of Proctor Academy. He earned his BA in economics from Cornell University.

Simon has extensive business development, marketing and operational experience with the application of technology to meetings, events, learning and research. After ten years of supporting global meetings & events clients from the UK, Simon arrived in the US in 2006. As Managing Director, Americas, Simon has overseen the growth of Lumi in the region, both organically and through acquisition.

Sherry Moreland is President and Chief Operating Officer for Mediant. Joining the company in 2007 as Director of Issuer Services, she brings more than 30 years of industry experience in broker/dealer operations, mutual fund processing, shareholder services operations, and retirement plan administration, among other functions to the role. Ms. Moreland previously served as Mediant’s Chief Operating Officer, managing operations and performance for the company’s fast-growing services to banks, brokers, corporate issuers and mutual funds. Prior to that role, she was Vice President and Senior Operations Manager for First Union’s Corporate Trust Group (now Wachovia), and Assistant Vice President of Operations for Reliance Trust Company. She also held positions at Primerica Financial Services in Operations and Customer Service. Ms. Moreland holds a BA in political science from University of Georgia, and serves on the Board of Visitors at its School of Public and International Affairs. Throughout her career Ms. Moreland has served on and chaired several industry and corporate committees and taskforces.

Smooch Repovich Reynolds joined ZRG Partners at the end of 2017, bringing with her a career that spans more than 25 years of executive search consulting, specifically focused in the Global Investor Relations Officer and Chief Communications Officer functional areas. Smooch pioneered IR executive search as a direct result of her affinity for the capital markets, and has partnered with CEOs and CFOs to address corporate valuation issues and financial market expectations throughout her career. As the profession and financial markets have evolved dramatically the last two decades, she has served as a key influencer of the direction of the Investor Relations profession through her stewardship with client management teams.

In addition, her thought leadership in the Corporate Communications functional niche has been framed by her tenure as a former Chief Communications Officer and her broad participation in the global communications community. Smooch has leveraged this first-hand experience to partner with leadership teams providing guidance by framing corporate communications functions, and by serving as a gateway to exceptional talent whose corporate brand innovation experience has elevated her client companies to new heights of success.

She is considered a leading authority on the intangible leadership traits that define talent who are recognized as part of the top 10% of Investor Relations and Chief Communications Officers globally. Her executive search experience has spanned partnerships with management teams and Boards at organizations ranging in size from pre-IPO entities to global, multinational Fortune 500 market leaders, across all industry sectors.

Having completed approximately 300 Investor Relations Officer searches, one consideration to note about Smooch’s work is the increase in her clients’ share valuation during her tenure as a recruitment management team advisor – nearly $500B in increased valuation that she has contributed to as a direct result of her commitment to clients on the topic of recruiting the right talent.

Smooch has authored numerous thought leadership articles about the CEO-CFO-IRO triumvirate and the impact of their interlocked relationship as it relates to the investment community and valuation. She has been the featured expert on IRO and CCO careers across traditional media and social/digital media, and is called upon by numerous professional groups to speak on wide ranging talent and leadership topics. Smooch has her own website: www.smoochunplugged.com, where she regularly shares her insights about corporate talent initiatives and the competitive advantages of smart, strategic recruitment partnerships. Smooch is also book author.

Prior to joining ZRG Partners, Smooch served at two multinational executive search firms as the Managing Director of each firm’s respective Global Investor Relations and Communications Officer practice groups. In addition, she served as the Chief Communications Officer for The Irvine Company, a recognized national privately-held real estate development company. And, prior to that she was the Founder and CEO of The Repovich-Reynolds Group, a North American focused executive search firm specializing in IRO and CCO search assignments which she led for nearly 20 years. Smooch has served as a Chief of Staff to the CEO of a global public relations agency and started her career in politics as a Press Deputy.

She is a long-time member of the National Investor Relations Institute and a Lifetime member of the International Association of Business Communicators. Smooch has served on several non-profit boards, including serving as Board Chair for two of those entities: American Cancer Society of Los Angeles and Westridge School in Pasadena, CA.

Ben Ashwell is the editor at IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary, covering investor relations, governance, risk and compliance. Prior to this, he was the founder and editor of Executive Talent, the global quarterly magazine from the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants. Before moving to the US, Ben was the vice president and editor at Executive Grapevine, overseeing a daily news website, ten annual supplements and HR Grapevine, the UK’s leading HR and talent management magazine. In his spare time, Ben enjoys rock climbing and writing fiction and poetry

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.