CVSG Meeting Participants (2009-present)
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January 2012: Corporate Governance and The Role of Institutional Investors Roundtable, NYC
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Aleksander Andonov | PhD Student | Maastricht University |
| Larry W. Beeferman | Project Director | Harvard Law School |
| Milica Brogan | Weil Gotshal & Manges | |
| Sea Jin Chang | Provost's Chair, Director | National University of Singapore Business School |
| Martijn Cremers | Assistant Professor | Yale School of Management |
| Rebecca Darr | Senior Fellow | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Stephen Davis | Executive Director | Millstein Center for Corporate Governance & Performance |
| Fabrizio Ferri | Assistant Professor | Columbia Business School |
| Harvey Goldschmid | Dwight Professor of Law | Columbia Law School |
| Nolan Haskovec | MDP Audit Manager | Deloitte |
| James Hawley | Director | St. Mary's College of California |
| Ben W. Heineman | Distinguished Senior Fellow | Harvard Law School |
| Henry Hu | Allan Shivers Chair in the Law of Banking and Finance | University of Texas Law School |
| Keith Johnson | Program Director | University of Wisconsin Law School |
| Charles Kolb | President | Committee for Economic Development |
| Jon Lukomnik | Program Director | IRRC Institute |
| Ira Millstein | Theodore Nierenberg Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance | Yale School of Management |
| Randall Miller | Principal | Funston Advisory Services LLC |
| Krishen Mehta | Co-Chairman, Board of Advisors | Center for International Policy Global Financial Integrity |
| Matt Orsagh | Director of Capital Markets Policy | CFA Institute |
| Mark Preisinger | Director of Corporate Governance | The Coca-Cola Company |
| Suzanne Rolon | Director, Corporate Governance | Pfizer |
| Judith Samuelson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Nicole Sandford | AERS Partner - Center for Corporate Governance | Deloitte |
| Michael Schrage | Research Fellow | MIT Center for Digital Business |
| Elliot Schwartz | Vice President and Director of Economic Studies | Committee for Economic Development |
| Aabha Sharma | Associate | Weil Gotshal & Manges |
| Edward Waitzer | Partner | Stikeman Elliot LLP |
| Simon Wong | Partner | Governance for Owners |
| Betsy Zeidman | Senior Fellow | Milken Institute |
September 2011: "Rethinking Shareholder Value and Purpose of the Firm" Roundtable: UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, CA
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Iman Anabtawi | Professor of Law | UCLA School of Law |
| Constance Bagley | Professor in the Practice of Law & Management | Yale School of Management |
| Stephen Bainbridge | Professor of Law | UCLA School of Law |
| Zoë Baird Budinger | President | Markle Foundation |
| Robert Bartlett | Assistant Professor of Law | UC Berkeley Law |
| Tamara Belinfanti | Associate Professor | New York School of Law |
| Antonio Bernardo | Professor of Finance | UCLA Anderson School of Management |
| Nicole Woolsey Biggart | Professor of Management; Former Dean | UC Davis Graduate School of Management |
| Margaret Blair | Professor of Law | Vanderbilt University Law School |
| Ryan Bubb | Assistant Professor of Law | NYU School of Law |
| William (Bill) D. Budinger | Founder & Co-Founder | Rodel Inc. & Rodel Foundations |
| Anne T. Chapman | Vice President of the Fund Business Management Group | Capital Research & Management Company |
| Peter Conti-Brown | Fellow | Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University |
| Thomas Donaldson | Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics | Wharton School of Business |
| Jonathan Feigelson | General Counsel | TIAA-CREF |
| Martin Gelter | Associate Professor of Law | Fordham School of Law |
| Kent Greenfield | Professor of Law | Boston College Law School |
| Henry B. Hansmann | Professor | Yale Law School |
| James Hawley | Professor | St. Mary’s College of California, School of Economics & Business |
| Ben Heineman, Jr. | Senior Fellow | Harvard Law School |
| Andrew Kassoy | Co-Founder | B Lab |
| Prasad Krishnamurthy | Assistant Professor of Law | UC Berkeley Law |
| Lloyd Kurtz | Chief Investment Officer | Nelson Capital |
| David Langstaff | President and CEO | TASC Inc. |
| Jay W. Lorsch | Professor of Human Relations | Harvard Business School |
| Nick Main | Global Leader, Climate Change & Sustainability Services | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu |
| Roger Martin | Dean | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto |
| John Morley | Associate Professor of Law | University of Virginia Law School |
| Eric Orts | Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management | Wharton School of Business |
| Miguel Padró | Project Manager | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Lynn S. Paine | Professor of Business Administration | Harvard Business School |
| Gail Pesyna | Vice President for Human Resources & Program Management | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
| Elizabeth Pollman | Fellow | Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University |
| Tom Quaadman | Vice President | Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, US Chamber of Commerce |
| Roberta Romano | Professor of Law | Yale Law School |
| Judith Samuelson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Lynn Stout | Professor of Corporate & Securities Law | UCLA School of Law |
| Leo E. Strine, Jr. | Chancellor | Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware |
| Klaus Weber | Associate Professor of Management & Organizations | Kellogg School of Management |
| Simon Wong | Partner, Governance for Owners and Adjunct Professor | Northwestern University |
| Edward Zajac | Professor of Management & Organizations | Kellogg School of Management |
July 2011: CVSG Summit: Greentree Foundation in New York
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Roberta Bowman | Executive Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer | Duke Energy |
| Theodore Carter | Executive Vice President | CB Richard Ellis Inc. |
| Donna Dabney | Vice President, Secretary and Corporate Governance Counsel | Alcoa Inc. |
| Rebecca Darr | Senior Fellow, Corporate Programs | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Abe Friedman | Partner | CHJ Capital Management |
| Michael Garland | Executive Director | Office of the Comptroller of NYC |
| Ben Heineman, Jr. | Senior Fellow | Harvard Law School |
| Tom Kiely | Director of Sustainability | McKinsey & Company |
| Peter Knight | Co-Founder and President | Generation Investment Management |
| Dean Krehmeyer | Executive Director | Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics |
| Robert Kueppers | Deputy CEO | Deloitte |
| David Langstaff | President and CEO | TASC Inc. |
| Matthew Lepore | Vice President and Corporate Secretary | Pfizer Inc. |
| Andrew Letts | Managing Director, Head of Corporate Governance and Proxy Voting | State Street Global Advisors |
| John Manzoni | President and CEO | Talisman Energy |
| Nancy McGaw | Deputy Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Colin Melvin | CEO | Hermes Equity Ownership Services, Ltd. |
| Bridget Neill | Director of Regulatory Policy | Ernst & Young LLP |
| John Olson | Senior Partner | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP |
| Judith Sameulson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Ruby Sharma | Partner | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Damon Silvers | Policy Director and Special Counsel | AFL-CIO |
| Lynn Stout | Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate & Securities Law | UCLA School of Law |
| Simon Wong | Partner, Governance for Owners and Adjunct Professor | Northwestern University |
| Robert Zivnuska | Director, Americas Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment | BlackRock Inc. |
January 2011: Corporate Governance and The Role of Institutional Investors Roundtable, NYC
| Participant | Organization |
| Larry Beeferman | Harvard Law School |
| Rebecca Darr | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Stephen Davis | Millstein Center for Corporate Governance & Performance, Yale SOM |
| Maureen Errity | Deloitte |
| Jonathan Feigelson | TIAA-CREF |
| Peggy Foran | Prudential Financial |
| Nolan Haskovec | Deloitte |
| Jim Hawley | Saint Mary's College of California |
| Ben Heineman, Jr. | Harvard Law School |
| Henry Hu | University of Texas as Austin School of Law |
| Jon Lukomnik | IRRC Institute |
| Ira Millstein | Millstein Center for Corporate Governance & Performance, Yale SOM |
| Miguel Padro | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Donald Peterson | Avaya (Ret.) |
| Judy Samuelson | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Kurt Schacht | CFA Institute |
| Elliot Schwartz | Committee for Economic Development |
| Aabha Sharma | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| Jim Shinn | Princeton |
| Jennifer Taub | University of Massachussetts, Amherst |
| Ed Waitzer | Stikeman Elliott (via phone) |
| John Wilcox | Sodali |
June 2010: CVSG Summit - "Strategies of Purpose-Driven Firms," Aspen, CO
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Mary Ann Beyster | President | The Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) |
| Alex Bogusky | Founding Partner | Crispin Porter + Bogusky & Chief Creative Insurgent, MDC Partners |
| Bill Budinger | Founder and Retired Chairman | Rodel, Inc. |
| Rebecca Darr | Senior Fellow, Corporate Programs | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Bart Goldstein | Group Executive, Senior Associate General Counsel | MasterCard Worldwide |
| Pat Gross | Chairman | The Lovell Group |
| Consuelo Hitchcock | Principal, Regulatory and Public Policy | Deloitte LLP |
| Andrew Kassoy | Co-Founder | B Lab |
| Marjorie Kelly | Senior Fellow | Tellus Institute |
| Peter Knight | Co-Founder | Generation Investment Management |
| Matthew Lepore | Vice President and Chief Counsel - Corporate Governance | Pfizer Inc. |
| Amy Lyman | Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Research | Great Place to Work® Institute |
| John Manzoni | President and CEO | Talisman Energy Inc. |
| Bridget Neill | Director of Regulatory Policy | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Chuck O'Kelley | Professor and Director, Berle Center on Corporations, Law & Society | Seattle University |
| John Olson | Senior Partner | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Maria Pinelli | Americas Director, Strategic Growth Markets | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Glenn Reed | Managing Director, Strategy & Finance | The Vanguard Group |
| Judith Samuelson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| John Seethoff | Vice President and Deputy General Counsel | Microsoft Corporation |
| Lara Warner | Managing Director, Head of Global Fixed Income & Economic Research | Credit Suisse |
| Jennifer Weber | Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer | Duke Energy |
| Rick Wynn | Founder | Inspire Capital Partners |
June 2010: "Exec Comp and the Missing Connection to Firm Performance" Roundtable with the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance, NYC
| Participant | Organization |
| Ronald Berenbeim | The Conference Board |
| Hye-Won Choi | TIAA-CREF |
| Betsy Cohen | Corporate Director for Aetna, The Bancorp, Inc, & RAIT Financial |
| Stephen Davis | Yale School of Management's Millstein Center for Corporate Governance |
| Charles Elson | University of Delaware Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance |
| Yunwei Gai | Babson College |
| Peter Gleason | NACD |
| Steven Hall | Steven Hall and Partners |
| Dennis Michaud | The Providence Consulting Group and Technical Education Consortium of New England |
| Ira Millstein | Weil Gotshal & Manges and the Yale School of Management |
| Jim Reda | James F. Reda and Associates |
| Judith Samuelson | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Kurt Schacht | CFA Institute |
| John Wulff | Corporate Director for Celanese, Moody's and Sunoco |
May 2010: "Tax Incentives for Patient Capital" Roundtable with The Concord Coalition, Washington, D.C.
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Robert Bixby | Executive Director | The Concord Coalition |
| Leonard Burman | Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs | Syracuse University |
| Robert Carroll | Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center for Public Finance Research | American University |
| Joseph Cordes | Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration | George Washington University |
| Rebecca Darr | Senior Fellow, Corporate Programs | Aspen Institute BSP |
| William Gale | Senior Fellow | Brookings Institution |
| Justin Goldbach | Program Manager | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Tracy Gordon | Assistant Professor of Public Policy | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Joshua Gordon | Policy Director | The Concord Coalition |
| Jane Gravelle | Senior Specialist in Economic Policy | Congressional Research Service |
| Ben Harris | Senior Research Associate | Brookings Institution |
| David Langstaff | Chairman, TASC Inc.; Former President & CEO, Veridian Corporation | Chairman of the Advisory Board, Aspen Institute BSP |
| Maya MacGuineas | President | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget |
| Joyce Manchester | Unit Chief, Long-Term Modeling Group | Congressional Budget Office |
| Janet McCubbin | Director, Economic Security | AARP Public Policy Institute |
| Lisa Mensah | Executive Director | Aspen Institute's Initiative for Financial Security |
| Joseph Minarik | Senior Vice President and Director of Research | Committee for Economic Development |
| Pamela Moomau | Senior Economist | Joint Committee on Taxation |
| Matthew Orsagh | Director, Capital Markets Policy | CFA Institute |
| Pamela Perun | Fellow | Aspen Institute's Initiative on Financial Security |
| Diane Lim Rogers | Chief Economist | The Concord Coalition |
| John Sabelhaus | Lecturer, University of Maryland; Senior Economist, Investment Company Institute | |
| Frank Sammartino | Assistant Director, Tax Analysis | Congressional Budget Office |
| Judith Samuelson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Damon Silvers | Director of Policy and Special Counsel | AFL-CIO |
| Eugene Steuerle | Richard B. Fischer Chair | The Urban Institute |
| Eric Toder | Institute Fellow | The Urban Institute |
| Joann Weiner | Writer | PoliticsDaily.com |
| Roberton Williams | Senior Fellow | Tax Policy Center |
| George Yin | Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation | University of Virginia School of Law |
October 2009: Aspen Principles Signatories Dinner, hosted by Pfizer, NYC
| Participant | Title | Organization |
| Beth Brooke | Vice Chairman | Ernst & Young |
| Bob Kueppers | Deputy CEO | Deloitte |
| Constance Horner | Lead Director | Pfizer Inc. |
| David Langstaff | Chair of Advisory Board | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Ira Millstein | Senior Partner | Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Jeff Kindler | Chairman and CEO | Pfizer Inc. |
| Jim Rogers | Chairman, President and CEO | Duke Energy |
| John Manzoni | CEO | Talisman Energy Inc. |
| John Olson | Senior Partner | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Judith Samuelson | Executive Director | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Matthew Lepore | VP and Chief Counsel, Corporate Governance | Pfizer Inc. |
| Rebecca Darr | Senior Fellow, Corporate Programs | Aspen Institute BSP |
| Richard Goodman | CFO | PepsiCo |
| Roger Ferguson | CEO | TIAA-CREF |
| Stephen Davis | Executive Director | Millstein Center for Corporate Goverance, Yale University |
| Suzanne Nora Johnson | Corporate Director | Pfizer Inc. |
| William Gray III | Corporate Director | Pfizer Inc. |
| Bill George | former CEO of Medtronic, HBS Professor |
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