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CorpGov is pleased to announce the agenda for the second Princeton CorpGov Forum to be held Thursday, May 21, 2026 at The Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey. Our roster of speakers features industry leaders and alumni spanning five decades at Princeton, with topics encompassing university endowments, shareholder activism, private equity, venture capital, private and public capital markets, entertainment and the finance of college sports. The forum, hosted in The Prince William Ballroom, includes an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking, followed by a reception with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres.
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Agenda – Thursday, May 21
2:00 pm – Registration and Networking – The Prince William Ballroom
3:00 pm – Forum Begins – The Prince William Ballroom
Endowments: Governance and Alternative Investments
Activism: Governance from Investor and Board Perspectives
AI and Cybersecurity in the Boardroom
Governance in Private Equity: From Investment to Exit
Public and Private Capital Markets Assessment
The Business of Entertainment and Advertising
Finance of Sports: Collegiate Focus
6:00 pm – Cocktail Reception – The Prince William Ballroom
The event will be digitized into a report published on CorpGov and content partners Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Terminals, Reuters via LSEG Workspace, and AlphaSense, filmed in 4K with professional editing.
We invite all members of the Princeton community along with institutional investors and operating company executives. For more information, please email Editor@CorpGov.com.
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The first Princeton CorpGov Forum was hosted together with The New York Stock Exchange and Goldman Sachs, held on May 22, 2025, at The Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey.
Speakers and Notable Attendees
Paul Haaga ’70, Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company; Chair of the Board, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Board Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Ned Nalle ’76, President, Copper Beeches, Inc.; Previously, ION Media Networks, ABC Studios, President, Universal Worldwide Television, Universal Studios
Thomas Courtney, Jr. ’86, President and CEO, The Courtney Group
Curtis Glovier ’86, S’87, P’19, P’25, Chief Investment Officer, Star Mountain Capital
Robert Maciejko ’88, Founder, Board AI Institute; Managing Partner, Oaks Prime Family Office
John Evans ’91, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Tractus Asia
Phillip Escaravage ’97, CEO, Gift Games
Kevin McLaughlin ’97, Vice President, Brand and Corporate Marketing, Dataiku
Doyl Burkett ’98, Managing Partner and Founder, Integrity Growth Partners
Brian O’Kelley ’99, Co-Founder and CEO, Scope3
Ari I. Weinberg ’99, Contributor, Pensions & Investments; Board member, HBS Club of Connecticut; Class agent, Princeton University Annual Giving
Brian Kirschbaum ’02, Partner, Astra Capital Management
James Shin ’05, President, Film & TV, HYBE America
Judson Wallace ’05, Managing Director, White Rabbit Capital; Former Captain, Princeton Men’s Basketball
Whit Clay, Partner, Head of New York, Longacre Square Partners
Lawrence S. Elbaum, Co-Head of Shareholder Activism Practice and Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Jon Feldman, Partner, Head of Business Law Group, Goodmans LLP
John Grau, President, InvestorCom
Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
Lisa Kaplan, Founder and CEO, Alethea
Andy Katz, General Partner, BrknPar Ventures (Sport Tech Growth Equity Fund)
Ryan Keating, Industry Leader, Venture Services, Eisner Advisory Group
Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group
David Schulhof, Founder and CEO, MUSQ Global Music Industry ETF (NYSE: MUSQ)
Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co. Capital Advisors; Former Global Head of Listings, Nasdaq
Zach Swartz, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)
John Jannarone ’03, CEO, CorpGov (Moderator)
Jarrett Banks, COO, CorpGov (Moderator)
John G. Quigley, Co-Founder and former Managing Partner, Nassau Capital (Moderator)
