CFA INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Government of British Columbia
Ada Litvinov began her career in the investment industry in 2001, after graduating with a B.Comm degree in Finance. Starting first in wealth management, then making a move to the buy side, she gained her CFA® designation in 2005. She then joined Mawer, an award-winning independent investment management firm in Calgary, where she worked in both equity and fixed income investments until moving to the West coast in 2011.
At British Columbia Investment Management, one of the largest pension plans in Canada, she managed public equity investments across the globe on behalf of British Columbia's public sector pension clients. In 2018, Ada joined BC Public Services as a Senior Economist, providing expert advice and analysis in the provincial government. She previously served on the Board of Directors of CFA Society Calgary and chaired the Canadian Advocacy Council, receiving the CFA Institute Volunteer of the Year award in 2014 for her accomplishments as Chair of the Council. After moving to Victoria, she served on the Board of Directors of the Victoria CFA Society form 2013 until 2016. After leaving the CAC in 2016, Ada joined the CFA Institute Capital Markets Policy Council, where she has been an active contributor ever since.
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- Portfolio Manager and Vice President in Dimensional 's London
Adam Ward is a portfolio manager and vice president in Dimensional's London office and has over 25 years of experience. Adam manages both developed and emerging markets equity portfolios (including core and targeted value strategies) and has a particular focus on Dimensional's sustainability equity strategies, having launched the Global Sustainability Core Equity Fund in 2013.
Adam joined Dimensional in 2011, having previously worked in a variety of roles at AXA Rosenberg, most recently as the company's European deputy CIO. In this role, Adam had specific portfolio management responsibilities, oversaw the trading, portfolio management, and operations teams, and was a member of AXA Rosenberg's investment committee.
Adam began his career in 1994 in Adelaide, Australia, in the KPMG graduate program. He is a CFA® Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, having received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland in Australia in 1993.
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- Managing Director, Talent, People, and Culture, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan ( OTPP ), Canada
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- Director, Sustainable Investment, IFM Investors, United Kingdom
Amanda leads on development and implementation of IFM Investors' sustainable investment strategy across UK and EU, working with the investment teams to deliver for clients and stakeholders. She has extensive experience embedding sustainability across organisations and for clients and was previously responsible for policy and strategy at Barnett Waddingham, a UK-based investment and pensions consultancy. Formerly at The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for most of a decade, Amanda worked across a number of policy areas including sustainable finance and investment, trustee governance and standards, and consolidation of pension schemes.
Amanda is a non-actuary member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Sustainability Board, advising the profession on policy and regulation of environmental and social issues. She is also a charity trustee and currently holds the Vice Chair role on the board of Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove; using her time and expertise to support the community.
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- Deputy Chief Risk Officer
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- Executive Director of the Council of Institutional Investors
Amy Borrus became executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) in July 2020. She joined CII in 2006 as deputy director and was interim executive director in 2015-2016. She serves on the boards of the CII Research and Education Fund and the Sinai Assisted housing Foundation. She also serves on the Best Practice Principles Oversight Committee, which will monitor principles underpinning services of leading proxy advisory firms.
Amy McGarrity, CFA, is chief investment officer of the Public Employees' Retirement Association of Colorado. Previously, she worked at William Blair as a global equity product specialist and held investment positions at Buck Consultants, Prima Capital Holding, William M. Mercer Investment Consulting, and Caxton Corporation. Ms. McGarrity is a member of the SEC Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee and serves on the boards of the Colorado Secure Savings Plan and the Healthy Markets Association. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Business Administration degree from Rider University.
Andrew Rome is the Chief People Officer of CFA Institute, responsible for overseeing the people and culture division of the organization. In this role, he provides strategic leadership to the people and culture staff, including talent acquisition, employee relations, culture and employee engagement, organizational development and people operations.
Rome has more than 20 years of human resources and employment law experience. He has been with CFA Institute for more than a decade, serving in various leadership roles. Most recently, he held the role of Senior Head, Talent and Employment Law at CFA Institute. His tenure includes critical work to implement and execute upon employment-related practices, policies and programs in alignment with business strategy and targets. Prior to CFA Institute, Rome held various legal positions at Media General, Inc., Williams Mullen, and the Circuit Court of Virginia.
Rome earned his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Virgina School of Law. In addition, he's earned various specialist certificates for the betterment of his career including the SHRM SCP (Senior Certified Professional) Certification from the Society for Human Resource Management, a Brain-Based Coaching Certificate from NeuroLeadership Institute in New York, and is a Fierce Certified (LEAF) Facilitator.
He is based in Charlottesville, VA.
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- Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Active Equity at Allspring Global Investments
- Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Fundamental Equity at Allspring Global Investments
Ann Miletti is chief diversity officer and head of active equity at Allspring Global Investments. In
this capacity, she oversees all active equity teams, including management of investment
professionals, trading activity, and other business-related issues. She also oversees the Chief
Diversity Office and provides executive leadership to firm initiatives. Ann joined Allspring from its
predecessor firm, Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). Prior to her current role, she was colead of the WFAM PMV Equity team, managing more than $4 billion in assets.
Ann began her
investment industry career in 1991 at Strong Capital Management. Throughout her career, Ann
has covered most industry sectors as an equity research analyst and portfolio manager. Ann is a
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- Managing Director, Head of ESG, Polymer Capital Management, Hong Kong
Anthony Cheung specializes in Green & Sustainable Investment, ESG Investing and Climate Governance in Asia. Anthony is the Managing Director, Head of ESG at Polymer Capital Management and he has served various asset management roles in London, Singapore and Hong Kong including Gartmore, Pictet and BNP Paribas. He was the first in Asia who attained the Certified ESG Analyst (CESGA®) designation and was awarded Regional ESG Leader Award by Insights and Mandate (I&M) in 2019.
Anthony actively advocates sustainability governance best practice. In addition to the CFA Institutes' ESG Technical Committee, he serves as Supervisory Board member of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), and Steering Committee member of the World Economic Forum Climate Governance Initiative (CGI) Hong Kong. With his deep ESG expertise, coupled with his experience serving in various industry positions and board directorships, Anthony works closely with financial industry and asset owners to promote ESG best practices and initiatives in Asia.
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- Contributor
- Senior Principal Consultant for the Wealth Business
Anubhuti is a Senior Principal Consultant for the Wealth Business in Mercer, Singapore. She is responsible for delivering investment solutions and advice and driving strategic partnerships across South-east Asia.
Anubhuti is an active contributor on investing, leadership and ESG related topics. She advocates for diversity, mentoring and knowledge-based volunteering to advance the investment industry. She has served on the global CFA Institute Education Advisory Committee as a member and Vice-chair for a term of 6 years. She is a member of the Nominating Committee for CFA Institute Board of Governors. She has been appointed as a member of the CFA Institute ESG Technical Committee starting September 2022.She sits on the Advisory Board of Singapore Chapter of CAIA Institute. She is a mentor and champion at Financial Women's Association of Singapore and supports LGBT Great.
Ashraf El Khatib is the Chief Investment Officer, Private Equity, at Ekuity Holding-the investment arm of Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) in Egypt. Ashraf is responsible for direct and indirect investments. Before joining Ekuity Holding, Ashraf led 30+ transactions across the deal continuum in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) region and orchestrated the build-up of a leading modern micro-finance institution and a venture capital fund.
Ashraf is a former Vice President and currently a Board Member at CFA Society Egypt. In addition, he serves at the CFA Institute Education Advisory Committee (EAC). Ashraf has contributed as a speaker at investment conferences, including those hosted by the SuperReturn, Fund Forum, CFA Institute, and IE Business School among others.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
- Professor of Finance at Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina
Barbara Mainzer, CFA, is a Professor of Finance at Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, where she teaches Wealth Management at the MBA, and is the Director of Wealth Management in the Executive Education School. In her 27 year tenure as University Professor, she held the roles of Associate Chair of Finance, Capital Markets and Academic Coordinator of Finance at ORT University in Uruguay, where she taught for more than 20 years.
She is currently speaker and independent Advisor to Finance and Wealth Management Institutions and Columnist for El Observador and VTV.
Her experience in private banking includes client service, portfolio analysis, fiduciary and business management roles with institutions such as Merrill Lynch, where she held the position of Sales Manager for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay and with Julius Bär where she was business manager for the Latin America Southern Cone and Head of the local Uruguayan Office. She holds an Economics Degree from Universidad de la República (Uruguay).
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- Senior Director of Manager Research at Ameriprise Financial
Benjamin Kwasnick has over 15 years of experience as a principal investor in US public equity markets, with a focus on SPACs, special situations, merger arbitrage, and other event-driven strategies. He is the founder of SPAC Research, an independent data service focused on US-listed Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. SPAC Research provides custom data solutions and analysis on the SPAC space, as well as a comprehensive data set and synopsis of all material events throughout each SPAC's life cycle.
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- Director of Research - Standards
As Director of Research - Standards, Bryan Esterly guides the Research Staff's development of the 77 SASB industry-specific standards, including collaborating with Standards Board in its reviews and approvals of the standards. His role is centered on supporting the staff's research and engagements with industry and investors in order to that drive the standardization of financially material sustainability information in corporate reporting for investors. Prior to SASB, Mr. Esterly worked in the financial risk management industry, most recently serving as Vice President with Aon's Financial Services Group.
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- DRC Liaison Staff Member
- Associate General Counsel - Global Litigation and DRC
Carson Johnson is Associate General Counsel - Global Litigation & DRC at CFA Institute. Carson supports the business on strategy initiatives and product offerings to mitigate litigation risk, manages customer and vendor disputes, and oversees enforcement and protection of CFA Institute's trademarks. She also serves as Advisory Counsel to the Disciplinary Review Committee (DRC), helping to ensure the DRC operates efficiently, fairly, and in accordance with the CFA Institute mission, the Bylaws, and the Rules of Procedure. Before working for CFA Institute, Carson was a Partner with a litigation law firm in Richmond, Virginia, where she represented clients in insurance coverage, products liability, and commercial litigation matters. Carson began her career with a large, global law firm defending corporate clients in mass tort and products liability litigation. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
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- Senior Researcher / Data Analyst at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Chie Mitsui a Senior Researcher / Data Analyst at Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. She is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Science and has a master's degree from Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science. Before joining Nomura Research Institute in 2008, she worked at Jiji Press Ltd.
Chie specializes in corporate disclosure information and associated systems, IFRS, and corporate governance. A member of IFRS Taxonomy Consultative Group (ITCG) of International Accounting Standard Board 2014, she has been publishing articles and reports regarding efficient disclosure information for investors' & analysts' activities.
In the past several years, Chie has been researching the trends of disclosure systems, environmental investment, corporate governance code, and the impact on those issues from the UK and EU related discussion. As well as issues related to IFRS disclosure and data utilization.
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- Head in the Global Industry Standards Department
- Head, Global Industry Standards, CFA Institute, United States
Chris Fidler is a Head in the Global Industry Standards department at CFA Institute. Mr. Fidler leads the promotion of CFA Institute industry codes and standards globally and helps to identify areas where new standards are needed. He currently leads the development efforts for the CFA Institute ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products. Prior to joining CFA Institute, Mr. Fidler was a management consultant at Thought Logic Consulting, LLC, and served in a number of management roles at Capital One Financial Corporation. Mr. Fidler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Illinois and a Master of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at University of Virginia.
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- Founder and Managing Partner at ESG Portfolio Management
Christoph M. Klein, CFA, is founder and managing partner at ESG Portfolio Management. Previously he served as a portfolio strategist, managing director, and head of ESG credit at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. Prior to his current role, he served as partner and head of fixed income credit at TriPoint Asset Management. Mr. Klein also worked as a multi-strategy portfolio manager for credit hedge funds at CPM Advisors and as an analyst and portfolio manager for corporate and convertible bonds at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. He has served as a visiting scholar at Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at New York University. Mr. Klein began his career as a private banking investment strategy analyst at Deutsche Bank. He was a member of the UN PRI Fixed Income Working Group and serves as an instructor for ESG seminars for Moody's Analytics. Christoph received his diploma in business administration from the University of Trier.
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- Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young LLP
Chris is a New York-based Partner in the FSO Assurance practice of Ernst & Young LLP. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry servicing Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) clients. Chris focuses much of his time working with investment advisors, regulated investment companies including exchange traded funds, non-registered funds and service providers. He also leads the firm's WAM Assurance ESG go-to-market strategy focusing on value-added services and providing various limited assurance reports. Chris has a BA in Economics / Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross. He is a CPA licensed in Massachusetts and New York.
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- Founder and CEO of Ailman Advisors
Christopher J. Ailman is the founder and CEO of Ailman Advisors. He serves on several boards and advisory boards, including the International Corporate Governance Network, the Pacific Pension Institute, and Milken Institute Global Capital Markets. Mr. Ailman received the Institute for Fiduciary Education Leadership Award and the Richard Stoddard Award for service in the investment of public pensions. Previously, he served as the CIO for the Washington State Investment Board, the Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System, and the County of Sacramento. Mr. Ailman has a bachelor of arts in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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- Director With Private Asset Management at Robert
Christopher K. Merker, PhD, CFA, is a director with Private Asset Management at Robert W. Baird & Co. He also serves as the part-time director of the Sustainable Finance and Business program at Marquette University. He is a past member of the CFA Institute ESG Working Group, responsible for development of the global ESG investment product disclosure standards and a member of the CFA Institute ESG Advisory Panel. He publishes the blog, Sustainable Finance, and is co-author of the book, The Trustee Governance Guide: The Five Imperatives of 21st Century Investing. Chris received his PhD from Marquette University and MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management.
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- Consultant, United Kingdom
Clive Emery was Head of Multi Asset Strategies at Invesco, where he focuses on sustainable multi-asset solutions, and he was one of two Net Zero investment champions at the firm. He launched the Summit Responsible Range, five risk-targeted responsible multi-asset funds, for which he pioneered Responsible Asset Allocation (RAA), a separate and additional step to the traditional tactical and strategic asset allocation processes. He is a member of the Sustainability and Responsible Investment (SRI) committee of the Investment Association, a contributor to the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association's policy vision, a member of TISA's SRI committee, and a member of the Disclosure & Labelling Advisory Group developing sustainable disclosure regulation for the UK fund industry with the Financial Conduct Authority and Her Majesty's Treasury.
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- Managing Partner of Albamen Capital Partners
Conrad Yan is Managing Partner of Albamen Capital Partners. Albamen Capital Partners is an industrial investment firm focusing on renewable energy and digital infrastructure in China. Conrad is a Mainland Opportunities Committee member of Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council and was the immediate past Secretary of Pacific Pension & Investment Institute (PPI), an educational non-profit based in San Francisco that convenes pension and investment thought leaders for in-depth dialogue and knowledge sharing on the issues facing long-term institutional investors, representing more than $25 trillion in assets.
As a CFA charterholder, Conrad was founding chair of the Global Investment Performance Standard (GIPS) committee in Hong Kong, and he was recognized as an Outstanding Volunteer by CFA Society Hong Kong (formerly HKSFA) in 2005. Conrad was also a participant at the Capital Formation Workshop at the 71st CFA Institute Annual Conference in Hong Kong in 2018.
Crista DesRochers, CIPM, joined ACA Group's ESG team from the Performance Services team, where she provided Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) consulting and verification services to investment managers across the globe. She brings more than 15 years of investment management consulting experience to the ESG team and specializes in ESG assurance-related services. Crista is an active volunteer with CFA Institute. She is currently a member of the GIPS Standards Technical Committee and the ESG Verification Subcommittee, and a former member of the United States Investment Performance Committee (USIPC). Crista earned her BA in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Washington State University and is a member of CFA Institute and CFA Society of New York.
Dimitri Senik, CFA, leads the Investor Trust Services at PwC Switzerland. Mr. Senik provides assurance services to investment managers and investors with respect to investment process and governance, investment performance and risk management, GIPS compliance, and ESG Investing. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the Pension Funds of PwC Switzerland. Mr. Senik has been a long-standing volunteer in the standard-setting bodies for the GIPS® standards and currently chairs the GIPS Standards Technical Committee. He is also a member of the GIPS Standards Expert Group of the Asset Management Association Switzerland. Mr. Senik chairs the ESG Verification Subcommittee of CFA Institute, which is currently engaged in the development of the new ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products. He holds a degree in international economics and is also a Chartered Certified Accountant.
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- Chairman of the Governance Committee
- Advisory Council of Lovell Minnick Partners LLC
Dr. Heinz J. Hockmann is a member of the Advisory Council of Lovell Minnick Partners LLC, a private equity company and buyout manager focusing on financial services and business services.
Heinz was an executive officer at Commerzbank AG in Germany for nearly twenty years and was a Member of the Management Board of the Bank with responsibilities for asset management, private banking, and investment banking. Earlier in his career at Commerzbank, he formed its asset management business for international institutional clients and later built the bank's global asset management platform. Afterwards, he ran the Management Board of Westfalenbank AG, a midsize bank for corporate and private clients, investment banking, and asset management. He then joined Fortis Investments and expanded its asset management business in Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe.
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- Research and Policy Officer at Better Finance
Edoardo Carlucci is Research and Policy Officer at Better Finance. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Economics, Finance and Management with Law at Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis on "Shareholding and Interlocking Directorates in the Italian Corporate Governance". In 2014, he graduated at the ULB University obtaining the Master Degree in European Studies with Economic Specialization. He wrote an analytical thesis on the "Fragmentation of the European Financial Markets".
He previously worked in the European Institutions and Civil Society Organizations dealing with various aspects of economic issues and policies such as EU Internal Market, EU Competition Policies, Public Procurement and SMEs. He also worked on research projects and analysis as European Economic Forecasts. At Better Finance, Edoardo is responsible for various policy and research areas such as Sustainable Finance, Fintech, Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance.
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- Partner
- Key Partner of the Firm 's National Transaction Services Practice Group
Edward Hackert is a Partner in the Assurance Services division of Marcum LLP. He has more than 25 years experience working with public and private companies in the areas of accounting, auditing, advisory services, corporate taxation, mergers and acquisitions, capital financing transactions and business restructuring. He has developed a reputation for successfully guiding clients through the intricacies of complex accounting and reporting issues; closing mergers, acquisitions and capital financing transactions; and completing business restructuring cases.
Mr. Hackert is also a key Partner of the Firm's National Transaction Services Practice Group. He provides due diligence, deal structuring and buy-side representation services that help clients identify and minimize critical financial risks. His findings often benefit clients through final deal negotiations and structuring opportunities.
Mr. Hackert primarily works with mid- to small-cap companies involved with mergers and acquisitions and capital financing transactions. He also advises private companies going public on capital raising strategies, reverse mergers, initial public offerings and the securities registration process. Mr. Hackert is often involved in the Firm's initiatives to provide exception client services and has significantly contributed to the implementation of policies for the effective handling of derivative financial instruments and FIN 48 and best practices for '34 Act Filings. In addition, he was one of the select few who participated in Marcum's Emerging Leadership Program, a top-level training program. Mr. Hackert joined the Firm in 2004.
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- Head of ESG Stewardship, Managing Director, Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company UK Limited, United Kingdom
Ms. Mariotti is the Head of ESG Stewardship, Managing Director on Cerberus' Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) team. Ms. Mariotti joined Cerberus in 2022 and works across our portfolio companies, desks, and investments to help implement evolving ESG and sustainability initiatives. Ms. Mariotti was most recently a Managing Director in the Portfolio Operations Group at Blackstone, where she helped develop the Firm's global emissions reduction program. Prior to Blackstone, Ms. Mariotti held leadership roles in management consulting at Accenture and IBM Business Services, where she sold and delivered performance improvement programs for industrial clients across North and South America, Continental Europe, and the United Kingdom. Earlier in her career, Ms. Mariotti worked as an engineer in several technical and hands-on operational roles and gained experience working in diligence at DNV GL. Ms. Mariotti has previously served on the boards and in leadership roles for numerous energy organizations, including the World Energy Council and the Energy Institute. Ms. Mariotti received a bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with specialization in Sustainability and Safety Management Systems, and a Master of Engineering, with a focus in Solar Technology, from La Sapienza University in Rome. She also earned a Master of Engineering, with a focus in Operational and Business Risk Management, from the University of Bologna and an Executive M.B.A., with distinction, from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
Fan Huang CFA, CPA, is currently Executive Director, Head of China Index Business with MSCI. before this role, he led the Private Banking unit for United Oversea Bank (China) LTD. Prior to his UOB (China) position, he was the Head of Private Banking with Bank of Ningbo. Before joining Bank of Ningbo, he ran the Asset & Wealth management business for Deutsche Bank in China for 9 years. He had also worked for HSBC, CIBC, TD Canada Trust, and other local Asset management companies.
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- Performance Practice Leader at Fairview Performance Services
- Vice President, Performance Practice Leader, Fairview Performance Services
Greta Nathan is the performance practice leader at Fairview Performance Services where she is responsible for establishing and maintaining the company's products and services. She has over 25 years of industry experience and has performed Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) verification and consulting services in each of her previous positions. Ms. Nathan was most recently with ACA Performance Services, where she worked with some of the firm's largest, most complex global clients. Previously, she worked at Vincent Performance Services LLC and at CAPS, Inc. Ms. Nathan began her career as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, providing audit and other services to a range of investment management firms. She serves as Chair of the GIPS Standards United States Investment Performance Committee (USIPC) and member of the Global ESG Disclosure Standards Verification Subcommittee. Ms. Nathan earned a BS in mathematics and an MBA in accounting from Union College.
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- Managing Director, DPG Deutsche Performancemessungs, Germany
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- DRC Program Administrator
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- Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, United States
Frank Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, and chair of the Department of Sociology, at Harvard. His book, Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton U. Press 2009), shows how HR managers and activists defined what it meant to discriminate in the eyes of the law, elaborating the definition over time.
His book, Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't with Alexandra Kalev (Harvard U. Press [Belknap] 2022), looks at the effectiveness of dozens of different diversity programs, in over 800 companies across more than 30 years, to answer the questions: Which programs help, which hurt, and how can harmful programs be improved? His research has been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Boston Globe, Le Monde, CNN, National Public Radio, Fast Company, and Slate.
Ian Tam, CFA is Director of Investment Research, for Morningstar Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. In his current role, Tam is tasked with evangelizing Morningstar's thought leadership across multiple stakeholder groups within Canada's investment industry inclusive of individual investors, advisors, asset managers, industry trade bodies, and regulators. In 2021, he was the elected Chair of the Canadian Investment Funds Standards Committee (CIFSC.org), a cross-industry organization that oversees mutual fund, ETF, and segregated fund classifications in Canada. The CIFSC recently announced the launch of a framework that helps Canadian investors identify investment funds with ESG-related approaches written in their prospectus disclosures. Tam holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
Isaiah Schulze, CFA is a Managing Director for the frontier and emerging markets investment platform of Cerberus Capital Management, a global leader in alternative investing with approximately $55 billion in AUM. Isaiah's focus is on the underwriting and execution of private equity deals in geographies across Asia and Africa, with a particular emphasis on ESG and impact measurement. Isaiah joined Cerberus in 2018 when Cerberus acquired SGI Frontier Capital where he was a Senior Partner from 2013 to 2018.
Isaiah graduated magna cum laude from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and has achieved the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. In addition, he serves on the CFA Education Advisory Committee. Isaiah has contributed as a speaker at investment conferences including those hosted by JP Morgan, Private Equity International, EMPEA, and CFA Society New York, among others. Isaiah lives in NYC and enjoys amateur triathlon training in his free time.
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- Chief Financial Officer of Social Capital
James Ryans, CFA, is the Chief Financial Officer of Social Capital, as well as for six SPACs currently sponsored by Social Capital. He is also a professor of accounting at London Business School. Mr. Ryans was previously an Independent Director at Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., an Independent Director at Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. I and Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. III.
He received his undergraduate degree from The University of Waterloo, an MBA from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the CFA Society of the UK.
Since 1996, Jay R. Ritter has served as the Joseph B. Cordell Eminent Scholar in the Department of Finance at the University of Florida. Prof Ritter is known as "Mr. IPO" for his work on initial public offerings. During 2014-15, he served as president of the Financial Management Association. He received his BA, MA, and PhD (1981) degrees in economics and finance from the University of Chicago.
Jed Schneider, CIPM, is responsible for compliance with the GIPS standards and performance reporting at Lazard Asset Management. Mr. Schneider has over 25 years of experience in the performance measurement industry and investment operations. Before joining Lazard, his roles have included Head of Performance Reporting for J.P. Morgan's U.S. Private Bank division and Senior Verifier at The Spaulding Group, where he conducted verifications and performance attestations. He also spent time at Morgan Stanley and U.S. Trust managing performance measurement teams and was a statistician for Consumer Reports magazine, responsible for data analysis on all product testing. Mr. Schneider is a former co-chair of the Performance and Risk Committee of CFA Society New York and an active volunteer supporting the GIPS Standards and the CIPM Program. He holds the FRM® (Financial Risk Manager) designation and has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University and a M.S. in Statistics from Baruch College.
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- Council of Institutional Investors As General Counsel
Jeffrey P. Mahoney joined the Council of Institutional Investors as general counsel in 2006. His responsibilities include advocating the Council's membership-approved policies before standard setters, regulators, members of Congress, and other policy makers. Prior to joining the Council, Mahoney was counsel to the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. From 1996-2006, he advised FASB and its parent entity, the Financial Accounting Foundation, on a variety of research, technical and administrative matters, and was primarily responsible for FASB's Washington, D.C. liaison activities. Prior to joining FASB, Mahoney was a corporate securities lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; a law clerk to the Honorable James G. Exum Jr., chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; and an auditor at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mahoney holds a J.D. degree, served on the North Carolina Law Review, and was named to the Order of the Coif. He also holds a B.B.A. degree and an A.A. degree. Mahoney is a member of the District of Columbia and North Carolina Bar Associations and is admitted and qualified to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also is a certified public accountant in North Carolina and Michigan, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Jennie Dong is Head of SPACs in NYSE's Capital Markets Group. She is responsible for leading new business development and execution for both SPAC IPOs and business combinations. She advises SPAC sponsors and their advisers from inception through the business combination, with a focus on NYSE support through the full lifecycle. Prior to joining the NYSE, she held various roles in investment banking where she advised clients on equity financing.
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- Senior Vice President and Private Client Advisor
Jennifer Garbowicz is a Senior Vice President and Private Client Advisor with Bank of America Private Bank based in St. Petersburg, Florida. She leads a team of seasoned professionals who work closely with clients to create strategies for managing the complexities of significant wealth, today and for future generations, and is committed to placing clients' dreams, goals, and priorities first. Together with her team, Jennifer can provide a range of services uniquely tailored to each client's objectives, including strategies for investment management, preparing for liquidity events and philanthropy, trust and estate planning services and credit solutions.
Joanna Chang, CFA, is an Investment Risk Specialist at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). She provides advice and guidance on investment risk matters relating to regulated institutional asset owners such as pension funds and insurers. Australian pension fund assets under APRA regulation total around $A2 trillion. Ms. Chang's area of specialisation is investment risk governance covering key aspects of the investing process from investment objective and strategy formulation through to implementation. Her scope of work covers all asset classes from fixed interest and listed securities through to alternative assets. She regularly engages with both domestic and overseas peer regulators, industry bodies and investment service providers on investment related matters. This has included working with the UK Financial Conduct Authority on policy initiatives. In addition, she has recently served as a Technical Advisor to the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics. Ms. Chang's current areas of focus include climate change financial risks. She is regularly sought out as a conference speaker on this topic and was also involved with the work of the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Prior to joining APRA, Ms. Chang held several roles within Westpac Banking Corporation's institutional division across financial markets trading and corporate advisory areas.
Ms. Chang's volunteer work with CFA Institute includes exam question reviews and engagement on online member education initiatives. She holds a Commerce degree majoring in Accounting and Finance from Macquarie University (Sydney) and a GARP Financial Risk Manager designation.
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- Chief Advisor for Research and Strategy at CBOE Vest Financial
Joanne M. Hill is chief advisor for research and strategy at CBOE Vest Financial, which provides investments that target return profiles aimed at risk reduction, return enhancement or consistent income. Previously, Dr. Hill served as head of institutional investment strategy at ProShares, managing director at Goldman Sachs, and as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a coauthor of A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) published by the CFA Institute Research Foundation. In addition to serving on the board and heading the research committee for the "Q" Group of the CFA Institute Research Foundation, Dr. Hill serves on the editorial boards of the Financial Analysts Journal®, Journal of Index Investing, and Journal of Alternative Investments. Dr. Hill was a founder and copresident of Women in ETFS, where she continues to serve on the board. She received the William F. Sharpe Indexing Lifetime Achievement Award and the Top Women in Asset Management Award from Money Management Executive. Dr. Hill holds an undergraduate degree from American University, an MA in international affairs from George Washington University, and an MBA and PhD in finance from Syracuse University.
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- Partner in Goodwin 's Technology
Jocelyn Arel is a partner in Goodwin's Technology Companies practice and leads the firm's Special Purpose Acquisition Companies ("SPAC") practice, Jocelyn has nearly two decades of SPACs transactions under her belt and is known for her innovative work for clients ranging the private equity, life sciences, technology, financial services and real estate industries.
She advises clients in all aspects of the SPAC lifecycle, including the initial public offering ("IPO") process; the business combinations or "SIPO transactions"; and structing the debt and equity financing transactions that are often needed to facilitate the closing of SIPO transactions. In addition to her extensive knowledge of the legal issues related to SPACs, Jocelyn has a deep understanding of business, financial and marketing issues that affect the success of SPACs.
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- Managing Director at Coin
Jodie M. Gunzberg is Managing Director at CoinDesk Indices. She leads index product management and strategy, as well as serves as the company's public facing spokesperson. Prior to joining CoinDesk Indices, Jodie was the Chief Institutional Investment Strategist, Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. She served as head of the Graystone Investment Office supporting the investment needs of Graystone Consulting, which include the supervision and guidance of the Graystone Discretionary program. Jodie was also responsible for creating institutional model portfolios for ultra high net worth, pensions, endowments and foundations, and managed a robust platform of thought leadership aimed exclusively at the needs and concerns of institutional clients.
Previously Ms. Gunzberg was the Managing Director and Head of U.S. Equities at S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) where she was responsible for the product management of S&P DJIís U.S. Equity indices, including the S&P 500 and The Dow, the most followed equity indices in the world. Ms. Gunzberg had joined S&P DJI in 2010 as Director of Commodities product management. Prior to that, she spent several years in investment consulting at Ibbotson and Morningstar, and was the chief investment strategist for Marco Consulting, where she advised roughly 350 Taft-Hartley plans with $85 billion in assets. Ms. Gunzberg started her career as an actuarial associate at New York Life Insurance Company and subsequently worked as a quantitative analyst and portfolio manager on the buy-side. She managed real estate at Equity Office Properties, fixed income at ABN AMRO Asset Management, and equities and hedge funds at Driehaus Capital Management and Aragon Global.
Ms. Gunzberg is a CFA charterholder, as well as a member and curriculum consultant of the CFA Institute. She is also a former member of the Board of Directors for CFA NY and CFA Chicago, and founded the CFA New Jersey Group of CFA NY. Ms. Gunzberg currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Department of Finance of Hofstra University and on the Industry Advisory Council and Editorial Advisory Board for the Global Commodities Applied Research Digest at the University of Colorado Denver Business School's J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities. She received her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Emory University.
Mr. Griswold is a graduate of Yale University and attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has served on many boards and is currently a member of several nonprofit boards, including the board of trustees The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Greenwich Roundtable (chair), and Grab the Torch. He is a board member of three for-profit startup firms: The Herbst Group (Chairman), Modern Guild, and HR Moneyball.
John is the CEO of XBRL International, the standards development organisation behind XBRL, the business reporting standard. XBRL International works to enhance transparency and accountability in business performance by developing and promoting its freely licensed global data exchange specifications in the public interest.
Mr. Turner has previously served as the CEO of CoreFiling, a leading XBRL vendor, led the XBRL activities of KPMG International LLP and ran the first regulatory project to utilise XBRL for data collection, leading the data collection and analysis reengineering efforts at APRA, the Australian financial regulator. He is a passionate advocate for the pragmatic use of standards to enhance reporting and with the staff of XBRL International works with the consortium's members and leading regulators around the world to this end.
Turner holds a BA/LLB from the University of Queensland where, in addition to a law degree, he majored in computer science and government. Now based in Oxford in the UK, he works in his current role with regulators, policy makers, standards setters, financial institutions, financial analysts, and the accounting profession from around the world to improve business reporting to the benefit of a wide range of users.
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- Member of CFA Society United Kingdom
Joseph Brady, Executive Director, joined the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. ("NASAA") in 2005 as associate counsel. In 2011, he was appointed General Counsel and in May 2015 was named as NASAA's Executive Director. NASAA members include the state securities regulators in the U.S., provincial and territorial securities regulators in Canada, and the CNBV of Mexico.
As Executive Director, Mr. Brady is responsible for oversight of NASAA's professional staff who work closely with NASAA members in carrying out the Association's century-old mission of investor protection. During his time at NASAA, Mr. Brady's responsibilities have included supporting NASAA's representative on the Financial Stability Oversight Counsel, preparing and reviewing amicus briefs, supporting rulemaking by various committees including the NASAA Broker/Dealer and Investment Adviser Section Committees, and participating in initiatives carried out by NASAA's CRD Steering Committee.
Prior to joining NASAA, Mr. Brady served as chief counsel to the Securities Division of the Mississippi Secretary of State. In this role he managed enforcement cases brought by the division and represented the Secretary of State in matters before state courts and administrative tribunals.
Mr. Brady is admitted to the bars of Mississippi (inactive) and the District of Columbia and is a graduate of the Mississippi College School of Law and the University of Southern Mississippi.
Joseph Kavanagh, CFA, has managed the performance measurement department at KBI Global Investors since 2000, and is responsible for the production of investment return analysis, attribution analysis and market risk analysis to the business. Joe attained his CFA charter in 2004, and is a past President of CFA Society Ireland. He is a consultant to CFA Institute on their global CIPM Program, a professional examination program for performance and manager selection professionals. Joe is a global leader in performance presentation standards and has worked within the governance structure of the GIPS standards since 2011. From September 2016, Joe had been a member of the GIPS Technical Committee which is responsible for the technical oversight of the GIPS standards. He rotated off this position in September 2021 following completion of his five-year term.
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- Head of ESG, Japanese Equity Investment, Invesco Asset Management
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- Senior Vice President and Head of Monitoring and Reporting at Pathway Capital
Karen Lee is a senior vice president and Head of Monitoring and Reporting at Pathway Capital Management. In this role, she oversees the monitoring of portfolio company investments and valuations, portfolio diversification, performance analysis and client reporting activities. Previously, she held senior roles on Client Operations and Performance teams at PIMCO and Goldman Sachs. She received a BS in business administration from Binghamton University and holds a Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) designation.
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- Senior Manager
- Manager for Capital Markets Policy AMER
Karina Karakulova, Senior Manager for Capital Markets Policy, leverages her prior experience in government affairs, public policy and investment management (Series 7, 66) to help formulate policy positions, engagement, and research that advance market integrity, investor protection and industry professionalism. Karina holds a master's degree in financial mathematics from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and bachelor's degrees in economics and mathematics from St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is the author of the weekly DC Policy Corner newsletter.
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- Executive Director, ESG Portfolio Specialist, Calvert Research & Management ( Morgan Stanley Investment Management ), United States
Kate Marshall is an ESG Portfolio Specialist for Calvert's Applied Solutions team, which manages Calvert's Responsible Index series, thematic indexes and active risk managed strategies. Calvert Research & Management has approximately 32 billion in assets under management and is a division of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), which manages over 1 trillion in assets. As an ESG Portfolio Specialist, Kate is responsible for client servicing and portfolio management support. In her role, she prepares and delivers materials to clients to communicate the team's investment philosophy, portfolio performance and product positioning. She also supports day to day portfolio management activities including client and regulatory reporting, portfolio monitoring and research. In addition, Kate helps to shape the team's custom investment solutions offerings.
Prior to MSIM, Kate worked at BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) where she primarily advised private equity firms on ESG integration, including impact investing and ESG due diligence. Kate also worked with consumer goods and food and agriculture companies to design and implement supply chain sustainability and women's empowerment programs. Before working at BSR, Kate was the lead ESG Analyst for the Materials sector at Sustainalytics where she conducted company and sector-level research, advised clients on ESG integration and contributed to the firm's research methodology development.
Kate holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of British Columbia.
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- CEO of Girls Who Invest
- CEO, Girls Who Invest, United States
Katherine Jollon Colsher is the President and CEO of Girls Who Invest, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing gender diversity and inclusion in investment management with a focus on growing the pipeline of women in frontline investing positions.
Kurt N. Schacht, JD, CFA, is Head of Advocacy for CFA Institute. He is responsible for all aspects of policy advocacy, regulatory affairs and legislative outreach, focused on advancing investor protection, financial market transparency and fairness. Kurt serves on a range of stakeholder advisory groups engaged on investment management policy issues and was the former chair of the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee.
Prior to joining CFA Institute Kurt served as Chairman of the Investor Advisory Committee for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been involved in the investment management business since 1990, serving as chief operating officer for a retail mutual complex in White Plains, NY, general Counsel and COO for a Manhattan based hedge fund, and as chief legal officer for the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) in Madison, WI.
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- Vice President and CIO for BBVA Argentina Asset Management, Lea
Lautaro Veliz Espeche, CFA is Vice president and CIO for BBVA Argentina Asset Management, leading a team responsible for the management of mutual funds for individual and institutional investors. He is part of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Funds Association in Argentina (CAFCI) and in the past he was Vice president and Secretary.Prior to become CIO of the company, he was Analyst with focus on the Latam Financial Sector. In addition, Mr. Veliz Espeche teaches Fixed Income in Master of Finance at Universidad Del Cema, where he is finishing its PhD. He became a CFA charterholder in 2012 and is a graduate of the London Business School Senior Executive Programme.
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Chief Risk Officer for Universities Superannuation Scheme
Lindsey is Chief Risk Officer for Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and its dedicated investment management arm, USSIM. Prior to joining USS in 2020, he worked at UBS for 28 years in various roles across Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Risk Control, latterly as Global Head of Investment Risk and UK CRO.
Lindsey was a member of the board of CFA Society of the UK from 2017, and Chair of the board from 2021, until the end of his term in November 2023. He also chaired the CFA UK Exams and Education Committee overseeing the various certificates run by CFA UK.
Lynn Raebsamen, CFA, founded her own investment business in 2017 focusing on real estate and China and partners with HSZ Group in Hong Kong to develop their business in Europe. Throughout her career in Europe and Asia, she has explored many different disciplines, ranging from derivatives structuring to leading interdisciplinary teams in financial technology and building businesses from scratch. Ms. Raebsamen has worked for major investment banks, such as Credit Suisse and UBS in Switzerland, made an adventurous move to a Korean bank in Seoul, and subsequently moved to Hong Kong to work for Bloomberg.
Margaret Franklin, CFA, leads CFA Institute in promoting the highest standards of education, ethics, and excellence in the investment profession. She assumed her role in September 2019 and has more than 25 years of industry experience. Before joining CFA Institute, Margaret led International Wealth Management for North America and was president of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Advisory Services in Canada. She is a founding member of the CFA Institute Women in Investment Initiative and sits on its Future of Finance content council. Margaret holds a bachelor's degree in administration in economics from McMaster University, Ontario.
Margaret Franklin, CFA, leads CFA Institute and its more than 170,000 members worldwide in promoting the highest standards of education, ethics, and professional excellence in the investment profession. She assumed her role in September 2019 and has more than 25 years of investment and wealth management experience.
Before joining CFA Institute, Ms. Franklin led International Wealth Management for North America and was president of BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Advisory Services in Canada. She also served as a board member of BNY Mellon Trust Company (Cayman). Margaret joined BNY Mellon in 2016.
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Ms. Franklin held multiple senior management positions, including president of Marret Private Wealth and COO of Marret Asset Management, a credit and hedge fund asset manager in Toronto. During that six-year tenure, she had direct oversight of all aspects of the private wealth business. Prior to joining Marret, Margaret was a partner with KJ Harrison & Partners.
Ms. Franklin began her career in the institutional business and has worked with pension plans, endowments, foundations, and government agencies at State Street Global Advisors, Mercer, and Barclays Global Investors.
She previously served as chair of CFA Institute Board of Governors and is a former president of the CFA Society Toronto Board. Ms. Franklin is a founding member of the CFA Institute Women in Investment Initiative, a past recipient of the Alfred C. Morley Distinguished Service Award in 2014, and a member of its Future of Finance Content Council.
Ms. Franklin earned a Bachelor of Administration in Economics from McMaster University in Ontario. She is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society Toronto.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
Maria Wilton, CFA, has a 30-year history in the investment industry with leadership experience in asset management and pension funds. She is a member of the CFA Institute Board of Governors, deputy chair of Infrastructure Victoria, and a director of Victorian Funds Management Corporation, Australia Post Super and Dexus Wholesale Property Fund. Maria is the former managing director and chair of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Ms. Wilton was with BT Financial Group (formerly Rothschild) and County Investment Management, where she was a diversified fund and fixed income portfolio manager. She began her investment management career at JP Morgan Investment Management as an economist and portfolio manager. Before joining the investment management industry, Ms. Wilton worked for the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra in an economic research capacity. Maria is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. She holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Tasmania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) Charterholder. In 2019, Maria became a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to business and finance and to the community.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
Winters is a former chair and executive officer of CFA Society Chicago. She also currently serves as president of Chicago Finance Exchange, a professional organization for senior women in finance. Marie earned her MBA in finance and economics at Washington University and her BA in mathematics at Knox College.
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- Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the Commonfund
- Trustee, Member of the Committee, and Chair of the Investment Committee of the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust
Mark Anson, CFA, is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the Commonfund and chair of the Boards of CF Private Equity and Commonfund OCIO. Previously, he was the President and Chief Investment Officer for the Bass Family Office of Ft. Worth, Texas, which was recognized as Family Office of the Year for 2014 and 2015.
He was the President and Global Head of Investment Management at Nuveen Investments. Prior to Nuveen, Mark served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer for the British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), the largest institutional investor in the UK. In addition, Mark was the CEO of Hermes Pensions Management in London, an asset management company wholly owned by the BTPS. Prior to joining BTPS, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest institutional investor in the United States.
Mark is currently a Trustee, Member of the Committee, and Chair of the Investment Committee of the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust. He also serves on the Law Board of the Northwestern University School of Law, Board of PanAgora Asset Management, and the Board of Directors of the Toigo Foundation. He is the only person to serve on the Board of Governors for both CFA Institute and the CAIA Association. He was an inaugural member of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee and the Chairman of the Board for the International Corporate Governance Network.
Mark has published over 90 investment articles in professional journals and has won three Best Paper Awards. He is the author of five financial textbooks including the Handbook of Alternative Assets, which is the primary textbook used for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst program. He has also received several industry awards in recognition of his leadership in asset management including the Lifetime Achievement Award in Pension Fund Management from Plan Sponsor and the CAIA Leadership Award from the CAIA Association. Mark earned a BA in economics and chemistry from St. Olaf College, a PhD and master's in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a JD from Northwestern University School of Law, all with honors. Mark has earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant professional degrees, and he is a member of the New York and Illinois Bar Associations.
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- Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, California Public Employees' Retirement System ( CalPERS ), United States
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Managing Director
- Member of the Montgomery College Foundation Board
Marty Colburn is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at CFA Institute. He guides
Mr. Colburn is a member of the Montgomery College Foundation Board and leads the
Matyas Horak, CFA, FRM is the ESG Investment Manager responsible for driving broader ESG integration and climate transition alignment at Legal and General Retirement Institutional, one of the UK's largest bulk annuity providers and part of Legal and General Group (L&G). Prior to joining L&G, Matyas worked as a lead analyst in the research team of Trucost, part of S&P Global (now Sustainable1), responsible for developing methodologies, products, and delivering projects for financial institutions to help understand their exposure to climate and other environmental risks and opportunities. Before S&P he had spent six years in project and commercial real estate finance in client facing roles from origination to restructuring and another 4 years as a credit analyst, working in Central Eastern Europe, the Netherlands and the UK. Matyas holds two masters in Sociology and Economics and has completed the UNEP FI Environmental and Social Risk Analysis Course. He is also a Financial Risk Manager - Certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, a CFA charterholder and has been a member of the ESG Panel since its inception.
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- Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards ( CFP Board ) VP of Public Policy
- Vice President of Public Policy for the CFP Board
As Vice President of Public Policy for the CFP Board, Maureen Thompson works to advance the mission of CFP Board by advocating its public policy positions before Congress, the executive branch of the federal government, state legislatures and other state governmental offices.
Prior to coming to CFP Board in 2017, Maureen was known around Washington, D.C. and nationally as a champion for consumers and investors. She was often cited by policymakers and the media as a highly-regard advocate for working families, the elderly and other groups that do not often have a voice on Capitol Hill or in the White house. Previously, Maureen was a senior principal in The Hastings Group for over 26 years. There she built a highly successful government relations and coalition building practice and was involved with a wide-variety of high-profile public policy issues including the Dodd-Frank Act and bankruptcy reform. She also led and managed the Save Our Retirement coalition of 75 organizations in support of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule to protect American retirement savers from conflicts of interest.
Prior to founding The Hastings Group, Maureen served as a legislative and policy adviser to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), working on a variety of financial services reforms to benefit the American public. Maureen is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Skidmore College, earning Bachelor's degrees in history and government.
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- Member of the Governance Committee
- Member of the Risk Committee
Mei Gao joined IDG Capital, a preeminent China-focused alternative asset management firm with over USD 30 billion of assets under management (AUM), as a Partner in 2016 to focus on cross-border investments. From 2003-2016, Mei held various leadership roles, including President and Head of Portfolio Management, at Fore Research & Management, a New York City-based hedge fund with over USD 3 billion of peak AUM, and gained extensive investment experience. In 2013, she was listed as one of "the 25 Most Powerful Women on Wall Street" by bussinessinsider.com. Mei started her career in finance at TD Securities where she spent five years managing the bank's convertible arbitrage portfolio.
Mei currently serves on the board and investment committee of Cavamont Investment Advisors. She is a director of Generation Asia Acquisition Limited. She was also a board member of TCFA (The Chinese Finance Association) from 2004-2006.
Mei is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University (MBA) and Shantou University (BA). She is also a CFA charterholder.
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- Managing Director, Sustainable Finance Americas, S & P Global Ratings, United States
- Team Leader for the Sustainable Finance Group at S & P
Michael Ferguson is a Managing Director and the Team Leader for the Sustainable Finance group at S&P Global Ratings. He manages a team of 20 North American and LatAm Sustainable Finance Analysts. He has been involved in the development, roll-out, and updating of our Climate Transition Assessment, and is responsible for the inclusion of ESG risks into our credit ratings. He also supports our efforts on Second Party Opinions (SPOs). He is responsible for developing the learning curriculum on ESG throughout S&P Global Ratings. Much of his thought leadership research revolves around energy policy and labor issues, especially in the United States.
Michael joined S&P Global Ratings in December 2011 and was in the North American Energy Infrastructure practice as a credit analyst for approximately seven years, covering project financings and power companies. Previously, he worked as a forensic accounting consultant with FTI Consulting in Washington, DC. He worked on a wide array of cases, ranging from stock option backdating and revenue recognition to embezzlement and Ponzi schemes. Michael also worked in the Financial Services Assurance practice at Ernst & Young LLP; he audited hedge funds, insurers, and banks, as well as government agencies.
Michael graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He also received an International Business Certificate. He received a Master of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Virginia in 2006 and a Master of Business Administration degree from Duke University in 2011, as well as a Masters of Liberal Arts in Sustainability from Harvard University in 2023. Michael is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Certified Public Accountant, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He also holds the CFA Institute ESG Investing Certificate.
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- Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer at Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management
Michael G. Trotsky, CFA, is executive director and chief investment officer at Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. Previously, he served as executive director at Massachusetts Health Care Security Trust and as a senior vice president and portfolio manager at PAR Capital Management. Mr. Trotsky also served as a senior analyst responsible for technology and telecommunications at Greenberg Summit Partners and as a portfolio manager, senior analyst, principal, and senior vice president at Independence Investment Associates (a John Hancock subsidiary). Initially trained as an engineer, he began his career at Intel Corporation. Mr. Trotsky will serve on the 2014-15 CFA Institute Board of Governors and previously served as chair of the CFA Institute Asset Manager Code Advisory Committee. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Assistant Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
Michael Ohlrogge is an assistant professor of law at New York University School of Law. He is co-author of the recent and influential paper "A Sober Look at SPACs" the findings of which have been widely covered in publications such as The Economist, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and many other venues.
Monica Filkova, CFA has expertise in debt capital markets, property finance, climate and sustainable finance. Her current focus is on climate and nature analytics, market research, criteria definitions, and strategy. She is currently a Climate Change and ESG Manager - Shareholder Investments at Aviva Life, and also technical lead on standards and metrics landscape assessment for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). She chairs the Climate and Investing Panel, which is responsible for the Certificate in Climate and Investing launched by CFA UK in 2022, and has been a member of the ESG Panel since 2019. Between 2017-2020 Monica was Head of Market Intelligence at climate finance NGO Climate Bonds Initiative, and in 2020, Director, Sustainable Finance at Fitch Ratings.
Prior to pivoting to sustainable finance, Monica's focus was on property finance and debt capital markets. Starting in property consulting with Arthur Andersen, she moved on to real estate investment banking with Deutsche Bank, then into large loan origination and CMBS, becoming Head of Structuring - Debt Capital Markets at Eurohypo. After the Global Financial Crisis, she was involved in CMBS restructuring (Brookland Partners), bank property debt exposure and policy assessments (Alvarez & Marsal) and distressed debt credit research (Chalkhill Partners), among other mandates.
Monica is a CFA charterholder. She holds the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate. She holds a Master of Management degree from Cornell University, USA, and a BBA from the American University in Bulgaria. She is the current chair, Certificate in Climate and Investing, CFA Society UK and Climate Change and ESG Manager - Shareholder Investments, Chief Investment Office, Aviva.
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- Member of the Nominating Committee
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- Director at Deloitte France
Ophélie Peypoux is a Director at Deloitte France, where she leads the French SRI Label and Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) consulting and verification services to investment managers in France and abroad. She has over 14 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2011, Ophélie Peypoux worked in financial markets, as a salesperson for credit derivatives, ETFs and equities. She holds a master's in management from EDHEC Business School.
Orim Graves is a visionary leader and proven advisor, guide, and implementer of evolutionary growth and transformational change within investment organizations. As the Executive Director of the National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP) for more than ten years, he revolutionized the organization while architecting the vision, strategy, and execution for NASP's mission of promoting diversity, financial education, investment, and advocacy across the financial services sector. Currently Orim operates an independent consultancy to provide strategic and tactical investment advisory services, ESG integration, market strategy, and diversity equity and inclusion consulting to diverse clients across the global investment sector.
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- Member of Audit and Finance Committee
- Chief Operating Officer of the Bulfinch Companies, Inc
Pamela is Chief Operating Officer of The Bulfinch Companies, Inc., a commercial real estate company with a history of nearly nine decades, in Boston, Massachusetts. In her role, Pamela oversees daily operations, including guiding strategic planning, providing oversight, and working closely with various teams and Bulfinch ownership. In addition, Pamela plays a key role in leading the development and implementation of the firm's culture, sustainability objectives, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Pamela is a member of several Internal committees that collaborate across departments to advance the firm's mission including the Investment, Asset Management, Valuation, Technology, and DEI Committees. Recognized as a key leader, mentor, and role model, in 2022, Pamela was the recipient of the Globe Street's Women of Influence Award in the Corporate Executive category. Prior to joining Bulfinch, Pamela was Managing Director, Head of Charitable Asset Management at State Street Global Advisors, where she led a team that oversaw investment and administration for over $3B in endowment and charitable assets. Pamela also spent 18 years as SVP, Head of Trust Investments and Operations at Harvard Management Company, where she oversaw the Trusts and Gifts group in fulfilling the fiduciary responsibilities for Harvard University's investment assets and trusts. In addition to the CFA Charter, Pamela holds a Chartered Global Management Accountant designation and is a Certified Public Accountant since 1998.
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- Managing Director for Research, Advocacy, and Standards
Paul Andrews oversees the strategic direction and leadership of the Research, Advocacy, and Standards function at CFA Institute, where he seeks to position the organization as an innovator and thought leader in investment management. Previously, he served as Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) for two terms. Mr. Andrews revamped the strategic direction of IOSCO and oversaw the development of numerous global standards, recommendations, and principles. Mr. Andrews also served as vice president and managing director, international affairs, at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), where he directed the organization's international engagements and worked closely with key regulators and regulatory bodies worldwide, including IOSCO. In addition, he worked at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, where he worked in the Division of Market Regulation and the Office of the General Counsel. Mr. Andrews has also worked in private legal practice. He is a graduate of the Catholic University School of Law and Villanova University.
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- Managing Director, Global Partnerships & Client Solutions
Paul Moody directs the organization's regional, marketing and customer experience strategy, and leads the teams who work with the 160 local CFA societies around the world. His priorities include deepening our society and institutional relationships, accelerating our B2B and B2C sales and distribution capabilities, bringing new professional educational products to market, and driving revenue growth across our product portfolio.
Prior to joining CFA Institute, Mr. Moody enjoyed a 30-year career in asset management, including more than 20 years at Aviva Investors leading strategic partnerships, business strategy, and execution of the Client Solutions business plan. He embedded environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into client solutions - in particular, a climate transition suite of funds across liquid and illiquid assets and smart beta ESG/climate enhanced solutions. Prior to Aviva Investors, Mr. Moody worked at Henderson Global Investors Limited, NPI, and National Westminster Bank. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wolverhampton and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
He is based in the London, UK office.
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- Deputy Chief Risk Officer for Amundi Asset Management US, Inc
Allen is the Deputy Chief Risk Officer for Amundi Asset Management US, Inc. where the risk team oversees Performance and GIPS analytics, investment risk and compliance, and liquidity and operational risk management. Allen is a member of CFA Society of New York and a contributor to the Performance and Risk Analytics Group. He sits on the Steering Committee of GARP Chicago Chapter as well as the Advisory Council of Fellow of Canadian Securities Institute. He is a CFA charter holder and a CPA in the State of Illinois in the US. Allen holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in business administration and is an awardee of Director's Scholarship of University of Oxford Saïd Business School.
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- Executive Vice President at Franklin Templeton
Peter Wilmshurst, CFA, is an executive vice president at Franklin Templeton Investments Australia, working within the Templeton Global Equity Group, where he has research responsibility for banks in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, as well as for Asian telecommunications companies. He is also the portfolio manager of a number of Templeton's global portfolios. Prior to joining Templeton, Mr. Wilmshurst worked as an equity portfolio manager and analyst with Norwich Investment Management and as an actuary at MLC Life Company. He earned a bachelor of economics degree and a master of economics degree from Macquarie University. Mr. Wilmshurst is a CFA charterholder and is a past president of the CFA Society Melbourne.
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- Co - Founder and CEO of Calcbench
Pranav is the co-founder and CEO of Calcbench, where he manages day-to-day activities. Pranav has a background in applied mathematics. He brings more than two decades experience as an analyst at TIAA and ITG, and at Calcbench. In addition, Pranav was a vice president for ModelWare and Quantitative & Derivative Strategies at Morgan Stanley. He is a Board member of XBRL-U.S., is on the Technical Computing Advisory Board for Microsoft and is a member of the CFA Institute's Corporate Disclosure Policy Council ("CDPC") which addresses issues affecting the quality of financial reporting and disclosure worldwide.
Pranav holds a B.S. from Bates College and an M.S. from New York University.
Priyanka Shukla, CFA, works in Investment Sustainability & ESG Research, Engagement, Strategy and Climate Physical risk, across TCW's asset classes. Prior to joining TCW, Priyanka worked as a Senior Portfolio Manager, managing portfolios at the County of Orange. Priyanka serves as a Governor for CFA Los Angeles and as a Member of the CFA Institute's ESG Advisory Panel. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Mumbai, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Priyanka is a CFA and CAIA charter holder and a CIPM designation holder.
Rainer Riess is Director General of FESE and an Independent Advisor to exchanges and financial services companies with more than 30 years of experience in the global exchange industry. He is the Vice Chair of the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG) which provides ESMA with opinions and advice on its policy work.
He was Senior Independent Director in the Supervisory Board of the Moscow Exchange, heading over the years the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination as well as the Strategy Committee. He served for many years as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and was responsible for the cash market business of Deutsche Börse AG. During his tenure at Deutsche Börse he created and managed markets, drove changes in the European corporate governance and accounting practice, financial market regulation and supervision of market player. Major initiatives include running the cash market in a competitive MiFiD environment and financial market crises, the creation of DTB Deutsche Terminbörse/Eurex, developing European primary markets (Neuer Market, indices, corporate governance and regulation), launch of the Xetra electronic trading system and the CCP as well as the creation of the European ETF and structured products markets.
He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the English Theatre Frankfurt and several charitable organizations. He holds a Master in Economics from Johann Wolfgang Goethe- University in Frankfurt and received an MBA from the University of Miami as a Fulbright Scholar.
Rajiv Shukla has an extensive track record of buyouts and equity investments spanning over twenty years. He has served as Chairman & CEO of two Nasdaq-listed Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs): the first SPAC acquired DMTK which is one of the most successful healthcare SPAC transactions of all time. The second SPAC is in the process of closing on the acquisition of Humacyte, an Industry leader in bioengineered human tissues for applications exceeding $150 billion per annum.
Earlier in his career, Rajiv led global M&A for Pfizer R&D where he was involved with nearly $65 billion in acquisitions and then subsequently worked as a hedge fund PM at Morgan Stanley and a private equity investor at CVCI before leading a 4000-person team at a leading publicly listed engineering company as CEO. Rajiv has a Masters in Healthcare Management from Harvard University and a Bachelors in Pharmaceutics from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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- Member of Audit and Finance Committee
- Member of the Governance Committee
- Audit and Finance Committee Charter
- Senior Vice President and Head of Northern Trust Asset Management
Ravi A. Gautham, CFA is a Senior Vice President and Head of Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) in India. In this capacity, he is responsible for playing multiple roles- the build out and expansion of several front and middle office functions that relate to the investment business of Northern Trust, as well as positioning the business appropriately in the market. He serves on the Executive Management Team and the Boards of Northern Trust's two India subsidiaries, with a combined workforce of over 8000 employees.
Prior to his executive leadership role in India, Ravi spent 17 years at Northern Trust's global headquarters in Chicago in a variety of leadership roles across several other Nothern Trust areas and businesses on the institutional side. Ravi began his career in 1994 as a investment performance analyst and subsequently became a founding member of the allied investment risk consulting team. That was followed by capital markets activity- securities lending and transition management. In 2003, Ravi moved to Northern Trust Asset Management as Senior Vice President and Director of Investment Risk Management, at Norther Trust Global Advisors Inc. In that capacity, Ravi was responsible for the management of investment risk and its integration into the portfolio management process, globally, across multiple assets classes. Additionally, as a senior member of the Global Investment Solutions team and investment policy committee, he was responsible for formulating and evaluating custom investment solutions and hedging strategies around the management of pension assets and liabilities for large pension plan sponsors across North America and EMEA. Ravi moved to Bangalore, India in 2010 to establish and grow the NTAM India team across most investment functions, further supporting global regions and legal entities. In addition he provides broad Executive leadership and Board level oversight of the India legal entity.
Ravi has written articles on, published papers, and spoken on investment risk and portfolio management issues at several investment conferences and panels worldwide.
Ravi holds an MSc. (Hons.) in Economics and Management Studies from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science and an MBA in Finance with a full Finance research scholarship from the University of Ohio, Toledo.
Ravi is a CFA charterholder and a member of CFA Society Chicago and CFA Society India. He is also a member of the Global Association of Risk Management Professionals.
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- CAIA Is Managing Director of Hedge Funds & Fixed
this role, Mr. Sanders is responsible for investment policy and strategy, portfolio
Sanders also has prior equity research analyst experience with both T. Rowe Price
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- Founding Partner and CEO, Connectum
- Founding Partner, CEO, and CIO of Connectum Capital Management AS
Richard Stott is a founding partner, CEO, and CIO of Connectum Capital Management AS, one of Norway's first fee-only wealth management companies. Apart from management and key relationship responsibilities, Mr. Stott has responsibility for the company's investment policy and heads its investment committee. Prior to moving to Norway and starting Connectum, he worked in both the UK and Switzerland for a number of institutions such as Coutts and J. Rothschild International. Mr. Stott was also a co-author of the book "The 7 Secrets of Money - the insider's guide to personal investment success." A founder member and past president of CFA Society Norway, he has also served as the Chairman of the British Norwegian Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Stott has a degree in finance and accounting from Leeds Metropolitan University and Hochschule Bremen.
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- Chief Legal and Compliance Officer
- DRC Liaison Staff Member
Sheri Littlefield is responsible for the organization's global legal services, compliance and ethics, board services, and disciplinary functions. As Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, she oversees all legal and compliance matters on a global basis and serves as advisor to CFA Institute leadership and Board of Governors. She also is responsible for oversight of the enforcement of CFA Institute's Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct.
Littlefield joined CFA Institute in 2015, following a 10-year career at General Electric. At GE, she most recently served as General Counsel at GE Industrial Solutions. In that role, she led a global team of legal and compliance professionals running critical compliance, trade, IP, labor, litigation, and transactional support. Littlefield also served as General Counsel to GE Intelligent Platforms, and as Counsel to the Hudson River Program, which was one of the largest and most logistically complex environmental cleanups in U.S. history. Prior to joining GE, Littlefield was counsel in the Albany office of Nixon Peabody. She graduated from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a minor in Japanese. Littlefield earned a Juris Doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.
Shuen Chan, Head of ESG, Real Assets at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) and is responsible for LGIM's responsible investment strategy and integration across the portfolio covering real estate equity, infrastructure equity and private debt. Shuen has been working for over a decade in the intersection of sustainable finance, climate change and impact investing, following a successful career in asset management and capital markets.
She was previously co-founder of a purpose driven ESG advisory firm that helped institutional investors to build the case for sustainable investments and the transition to a low carbon economy. Prior to that, she established a climate investment firm focused on nature-based solutions. Shuen was previously a founding team member of one of the fastest growing credit asset management firms in Europe, European Credit Management, where she was Head of Structured Product Origination. Shuen's early career started in debt capital markets teams at Deutsche Bank, Macquarie and HSBC across Asia and Europe.
Shuen serves on the CFA ESG Advisory panel and is also a co-author of the ESG certification learning materials. She is also an independent trustee of The Lightbulb Trust, a charitable foundation that supports social inclusion, equality and education through grant giving and impact investing. Shuen is also a board member of the Better Buildings Partnership, a collaboration of the UK's leading commercial real estate owners who are working together to drive greater sustainability, including meeting net zero carbon goals. Shuen has a degree in Economics and an MBA from Imperial College and has been a guest tutor on climate change at Oxford University Saïd Business School on their Executive Impact Investing programme.
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- Senior Director, Capital Markets
Stephen Deane, CFA, is Senior Director, Capital Markets Policy, at CFA Institute. Stephen is also the Executive Liaison to the CFA Institute's Capital Markets Policy Council, and he previously served as the volunteer Chair of the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors. His latest research focuses on private markets, and he is the author of Private Markets: Governance Issues Rise to the Fore.
Stephen joined CFA Institute in 2020 after more than nine years at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He worked in the SEC Office of the Investor Advocate since its inception in 2014, where he helped to build out the office and served as principal liaison to the Investor Advisory Committee. He previously worked at MSCI, Institutional Shareholders Service (ISS), and in international development.
Steven Hendry is chief financial officer of CFA Institute, responsible for leading the global finance division. In partnership with the Board of Governors, senior leadership, and member societies, the finance division helps enable CFA Institute operations, initiatives, strategic planning, and the execution thereof.
Mr. Hendry has more than 20 years' financial and leadership experience. Much of his diverse and varied background comes from Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, and Perpetual, where he led regional and global teams across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the United States. The span of his career covers financial control, reporting and analysis, finance transformation, strategic financial planning, strategic change programs to improve efficiencies and transparency and deliver on financial, audit, and regulatory initiatives.
Mr. Hendry is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Mr. Hendry holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Financial Services.
He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia with his family.
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- Senior Policy Advisor, Association for Savings & Investments, South Africa ( ASISA ), South Africa
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- Chairman of the CFA UK Examinations and Education Committee
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- Director
- Is Director of Diversity
Taffi Ayodele is Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion & Emerging Manager Strategy at the Office of the NYC Comptroller. In this role, Ms. Ayodele drives the strategy within the Bureau of Asset Management (BAM) to expand engagement with and increase allocations to minority and women-owned business enterprises and emerging investment managers. She also has oversight of the Minority, Women, and Disabled Veteran - Owned Broker Program and coordinates BAM's annual Emerging and Diverse Manager Conference.
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- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and ESG Practice Leader, Callan, United States
Thomas H. Shingler is a senior vice president and Callan's ESG practice leader. Based in Callan's New Jersey consulting office, Tom leads our ESG research and education efforts, providing ESG support to Callan consultants, and creating solutions for Callan's clients. He also collaborates with our team of ESG subject matter experts to develop research and insights into trends for the benefit of clients and the industry. Tom works with a variety of clients, including public and corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, as well as endowments and foundations. His responsibilities include strategic planning, investment implementation, manager evaluation, education, and special projects. Tom is a member of Callan's Management and Manager Search committees, and is a shareholder of the firm. Prior to Callan, Tom was co-head of consulting at Orion Consultants, a consulting firm serving the fixed income divisions of global investment banks, where he worked for 11 years. He was responsible for managing several client relationships, new business development, and leading the firm's market research studies. Tom earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School and a BA in history from Princeton University.
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Advisor to the TIFIN Group
Ms. Rothschild is an advisor to The TIFIN Group and a board member of the Financial Fitness Group. In her former role as president of Apex Fintech Solutions, she was responsible for the strategic planning, development, and overall growth of the company. She also directly oversaw internal and client-facing functions including sales, marketing, and product management.
Janjigian previously served on the faculties of several universities including the University of Delaware, Northeastern University, the American University of Armenia, and Boston College. He received his B.S. from Villanova University, and his MBA and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.
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- Member of the Risk Committee
- Industry Expert
Vipin Mayar is a sought-after industry expert interested in Board Roles. His board experience includes - board member at MIT Computer Science AI Lab (CSAIL), Advertising Research Federation's (ARF) Board of Directors, McCann Global Board (leading marketing company in 100+ countries with 15K employees).
Vipin has been at Fidelity Investments for 18+ years, currently leading AI innovation for the company reporting to the Corporate CIO. As part of the CIO Council, Vipin helps oversee $6B in annual IT expenditure. With AI, he has established and led the Enterprise AI Center of Excellence which included building the practices, use cases, AI learning programs with Harvard and MIT, running a 5000+ AI club and developing an AI online academy.
Vipin's AI team has worked closely with Portfolio Managers in Asset Management to provide AI based tools to augment the research process- solutions that provide the latest NLP based search, Generative AI capabilities and screening tools that use image recognition.
Throughout his career across Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, McCann WorldGroup Vipin has led large global Big Data, digital, analytics and AI teams of over a thousand associates. At Fidelity, his team in India for over ten years has included 200+ technologist/analysts in Bengaluru, Chennai and Gurgaon, He is a frequent visitor to India, presented at events and has actively engaged with AI companies in the market.
Vipin has been recognized over the years for his contributions - selected iMedia Top 25, an annual list of 25 thought leaders in the field of digital marketing, ‘Top 100 under 50' diversity leaders by DiversityMBA Magazine, awarded the highest award at McCann for Extraordinary Excellence in analytics. Vipin has authored a book, published by Wiley & Co on driving measurable ROI and digital engagement through all major digital channels. Vipin has given guest lectures at MIT and Harvard Business School and is a frequent presenter to external boards and industry conferences.
Vipin's experience on the consulting and agency side includes AARP, Department of Defense, US Army and several Fortune 500 Companies that include Dell, Microsoft, Intel, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Coke, J&J, MasterCard, American Airlines, Nestle, General Mills, iShares, AT&T, Showtime, General Motors, Kohl's, BMS, Whirlpool, PACCAR and Exxon Mobil. Vipin has been a keynote
Ward Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of G Squared Ascend. Mr. Davis joined G Squared in July 2019, bringing nearly three decades of public equity market research and portfolio management experience to the organization. He has led several investments at G Squared with emphasis on certain Mobility 2.0/Logistics and Online Marketplace sectors.
Mr. Davis holds extensive proficiency in evaluating business plans, appraising management teams, dissecting industry competitive dynamics and scrutinizing financials of publicly traded companies across a multitude of consumer and technology sectors. Over a 26-year career as an equity analyst, portfolio manager and business founders, Mr. Davis successfully led investment management organizations and teams through a multitude of business and market cycles. Additionally, over this time he evaluated and participated in hundreds of initial public offerings.
Prior to joining G Squared, Mr. Davis was the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Caerus Investors, a hedge fund focused on the broad consumer sector that launched in 2009. From 2002 to 2009, he was the co-Founder and co-Chief Investment Officer at Trivium Capital, a hedge fund focused on technology and consumer equities. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Davis was Managing Director at Chilton Investment Company where he headed the consumer sector team. He also served stints at Zweig DiMenna Associates and Massachusetts Financial Services as a senior equity analyst. Prior to his career in investment management, Mr. Davis spent five years at Matsushita Electric Industrial and was the first US employee working within the finance department at the company's headquarters in Osaka, Japan.
Mr. Davis holds an MBA from The Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a BA in East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee University.
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- Executive VP, Head of Client Investment Solutions at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions
Wylie Tollette is Executive VP, Head of Client Investment Solutions at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Prior to rejoining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Tollette served as chief operating investment officer at CalPERS, the largest defined-benefit public pension fund in the US. He helped to lead initiatives focused on enhancing the portfolio and investment decision-making process, engaged the CalPERS Board and various constituents, and helped to redesign the asset allocation and investment strategy committee. He was also responsible for investment performance and risk analytics, investment policy, investment manager engagement, operations, compliance, and business planning.
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- Member of Audit and Finance Committee
- Chief Executive Officer at China Asset Management
- Vice Chair of Asset Management Association of China
Yimei Li, CFA, is Chief Executive Officer at China Asset Management Co., Ltd. Ms. Li has been in that role since May 2018, serving one of the largest mutual fund companies in China with more than USD 240 billion AUM and 200 million investors. Before that, she was the CMO of ChinaAMC for 6 years, leading a team of more than 200 people. She started with international business, then worked in human resources, marketing, sales management, and the fintech business. She served as the founder of ChinaAMC Wealth Management Company. She is also now in charge of the operation and IT functions of ChinaAMC.
Ms. Li also serves as the Vice Chair of Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) and is a member of that organization's pension investment committee. She is very committed to bridging ideas and practices between regulators and market participants. She is a regular conference speaker and has given lectures to high officials of NGOs and charity groups on fundraising and marketing techniques.
Ms. Li graduated from Harvard University with a Masters in Public Policy and from Renmin University of China with a Masters in Economics. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® charter and is a member of CFA Society Beijing.
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- Principal, Uroboros Performance Consulting, LLC, Japan