Kate Scolnick is Chief Financial Officer at Owlet. Ms. Scolnick brings three decades of global financial management experience to Owlet. She previously served as Vice President of Finance at enterprise cloud software company Anaplan. She has an extensive tech background from her other previous positions at Seagate Technology, Intel, McAfee, and EMC. Kate holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.

Victoria is the Vice President of Investor Relations at Informatica Inc. Victoria brings over 20 years of IR experience focusing on financial services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) industries across high-growth private equity ownership structures to established companies undergoing a transition. Prior to joining Informatica, she held IR roles at 8×8, Visa, McAfee, and Providian Financial. Victoria is an active NIRI member since 2002 and currently serves as President of the NIRI San Francisco Chapter.

Erik Carlson is chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Notified, a technology partner for investor relations, public relations and marketing professionals. He brings over 10 years of M&A, strategic finance and business transformation experience across private equity portfolio companies in technology, media, pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Prior to Notified, he was senior vice president of M&A integration at Intrado and director of M&A and strategy advisory at PwC.

Rob Lockerman is a VP in the Investor Day advisory practice at Corbin Advisors, an Investor Relations research and advisory firm assisting public companies with unlocking their full market potential through perception studies, investor presentations, ESG, and other related services.

Rob is responsible for guiding senior executives in all facets of developing and communicating a compelling investment thesis to buy-side and sell-side investors.

Jason Schmidt is the Head of Investor Relations at Upstart. Prior to joining Upstart in 2021, Jason was a Director of investor relations at AMD where he helped to manage the stock from small cap to well over $100B in market cap. Previously Jason was a Director of investor relations at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise where he helped to manage one of the largest corporate restructuring/spin offs. Jason holds an MBA from Cornell and a BA in Economics from UCDavis.

Giuseppe is currently Manager of Contributor Relations at Visible Alpha overseeing the relationship of US and LATAM brokers, and has over 10 years experience in capital markets and corporate investor relations. Prior to joining Visible Alpha, Giuseppe was Director and Head of Investor Relations for Startek, Inc., a technology-enabled business process outsourcing company. Prior to Startek, Giuseppe’s IR experience spanned across both mid and large-cap financials, predominately in the Property & Casualty Insurance sector. Prior to his career in investor relations, Giuseppe worked on the Corporate Actions and Market Watch desk at the New York Stock Exchange. He has a degree in economics from Rutgers University.

David Whyte is the co-founder and CEO of Irwin, a capital markets technology company built for public companies and their advisors. He is responsible for driving its mission to seamlessly connect the world’s capital seekers and allocators to make them more productive, innovative and successful.

Before founding Irwin, David spent a decade working in capital markets, holding positions in investment banking and sales and trading for both global and boutique banks. David’s time on the institutional equity and event-driven sales team at Credit Suisse gave him a first-hand view of the complex challenges facing public companies and their advisors in an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. His domain expertise results in product ideas that rethink traditional ways of doing things, helping Irwin clients and capital markets professionals navigate ongoing industry transformation.

Lauren McDonald is a conference producer at IR Magazine and Governance Intelligence. She brings a wealth of experience from her past roles in campaign organising for The Labour Party in Leeds and Tower Hamlets.

Lauren holds a Masters degree in the History of Race & Resistance and a Bachelors degree in American History & Politics, both from prestigious universities. She uses her expertise and knowledge to inform her current work and ensure high quality outcomes.

In her free time, Lauren is actively involved in a number of charitable causes. She has volunteered with the Girl Guides, the Los Angeles LGBT Centre, and regularly donates her time to political campaigns in and around London.

In her role as conference producer at IR Magazine and Governance Intelligence, Lauren is passionate about providing the best experience to all stakeholders and ensuring all events she produces are of the highest quality.

Steve Wade is head of content for IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary. In his role, Steve and his team are responsible for researching and producing insightful content that helps the investor relations and governance communities stay up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices in their fields.
Steve curates content across multiple platforms, including conferences, workshops, think tanks, podcasts, best practice guides, videos and websites. Steve guides editorial coverage and research to ensure they fulfill the needs of our communities and is responsible for hosting our conferences and presenting research at industry events.
Prior to joining IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary, Steve’s experience has been in ESG and sustainability research, producing conferences for Ethical Corporation (now Reuters Events.) During this time, Steve was a judge for the Deloitte Green Frog Awards and presented research at the Global Sustainable Events Summit and United Nations Global Compact, World Bank & Polish Ministry of Finance events.