Wednesday, October 29, 2025

5th Palm Beach CorpGov Forum Nov 5-6

Panel: Media Industry Dealmaking: Paramount Global and Beyond

5:00 pm – Trolleys depart for reception at The Cove Club 

Preliminary Agenda – Thursday, Nov. 6

12:00 pm – Registration and lunch – The Palm Beach Lake Pavilion​

1:00 pm – Forum Starts

Panel: Capital Markets Assessment and Private to Public Company Readiness

  • Tad Nacheff, Head of East Coast Capital Markets and Financial Sponsor Coverage, NYSE

  • Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors

  • Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel​

Panel: Trading Action: Managing Risk and Execution in Public Markets

Panel: IPO Prep and Public Company Life: Navigating Regulations

  • Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group

  • Zach Swartz, Partner, Corporate Real Estate Practice, Vinson & Elkins ​

  • Mark Martini, Founder and CEO, WimbledonGlobal, Inc.

  • Steve Parish, Managing Partner, Equity Capital Markets, ICR Capital

Panel: Hedge Fund Crisis Management

Panel: Barbarians at the Gate: An International Perspective

Panel: 2026 Proxy Season Outlook

Panel: Contested M&A

  • Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins​

  • Christopher Young, Investment Banker, Formerly Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, ISS

  • Heath Winter, Partner, Corporate Governance & Shareholder Engagement, Longacre Square Partners

  • Adam Kommel, Shareholder Activism Development Lead, Bloomberg LP​

Panel: Activism: Views from the Board, CEO and Outside Agitator

  • Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)​

  • Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners​

  • Jessica Wood, Partner, Corporate Governance, M&A, Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense, Sidley Austin LLP

Panel: Keynote Fireside with Trian

  • Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)

  • Josh Frank, Partner and Co-Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management

5:00 pm – Trolleys depart for reception at Cucina Palm Beach

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5th CorpGov Forum 2025 Preliminary Speakers:

Keynote: Josh Frank, Partner and Co-Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management

Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)

Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)​

Randall Adams, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP

Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University

Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus

Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn   

Steve Bruce, Managing Partner,  ASC Advisors

Christine Carson, President and CEO, Carson Proxy​

Pablo Casilimas, Managing Partner, OneSixOne Ventures

Peter Clarke, Senior Director, Roberts & Ryan Investments Inc.

Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel​

Phil Denning, Partner, ICR

Nikesh Desai, Co-Founder and CEO, InvestingChannel, Inc.

Adam Doyle, EVP, Head of Technology Finance, Alliance Funding Group

Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball

Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners

Michael Fillios, Founder and CEO, IT Ally

Brendan Foo, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Forward Risk

Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners​

Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners​

Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield​

Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP

John Grau, President, InvestorCom 

Josh Harlan, Founder & Managing Partner, Harlan Capital​

Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)

Gabriel Hasson, Global Head of Governance and Shareholder Advisory, ICR

Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures

Taylor Ingraham, Partner, ASC Advisors

Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity​

Ryan Keating, Partner, EisnerAmper​

Alex Knowland, Principal, Comvest Credit Partners

Adam Kommel, Shareholder Activism Development Lead, Bloomberg LP​

Jonathan Lo, VP of Finance, EisnerAmper 

John Marchisi, Executive Director – Capital Markets, Artex Risk Solutions​

Mark Martini, Founder and CEO, WimbledonGlobal, Inc.

Mario Masrieh, Managing Director, Recognition, Trivest

Alex Moazed, General Partner, Applico Capital

Francisco Morales, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins​

Patrick Murphy, Head of NYSE Market Making, GTS​

Tad Nacheff, Head of East Coast Capital Markets and Financial Sponsor Coverage, NYSE

Steve Parish, Partner, ICR

Paul Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Quinlan Partners

Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC​

Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group

Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc.

Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport

Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital

Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer, AvePoint

Emma Sissman, Vice President, Impact Investing, Goldman Sachs

Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors, Former Global Head of Listings, Nasdaq​

Zach Swartz, Partner, Corporate Real Estate Practice, Vinson & Elkins ​

Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins​

Heath Winter, Partner, Corporate Governance & Shareholder Engagement, Longacre Square Partners

Jessica Wood, Partner, Corporate Governance, M&A, Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense, Sidley Austin LLP

Marc Yaklofsky, Managing Partner, New York, Forward Global

Christopher Young, Investment Banker, Formerly Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, ISS

Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal (Moderator)​

Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator) ​

John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)​

Josh Kosman, Chief Reporter, CorpGov (Moderator)

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