A driving force in the growth of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Laura Alber has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2010. In her tenure at WSI, Alber has held various leadership roles, executing effective growth strategies, strengthening brand recognition, and bolstering profits for the company’s portfolio of multi-channel brands.

As the company continues to innovate, launch new businesses and expand product offerings, she has extended the WSI imprint into new categories with introductions such as Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, PBdorm and most recently new growth opportunities — West Elm and West Elm Market, Mark and Graham, Rejuvenation and the WS Agrarian collection.

Alber considers WSI to be at the poignant intersection of superior lifestyle merchandising and state-of-the-art analytics, positioning the company to outperform competitor lifestyle brands. Through her leadership, she fosters a strong collaborative culture, which she believes is fundamental to continued growth and international expansion.

Since January of 2016, Adam M. Aron has been Chief Executive Officer and President of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., whose nearly 1,000 movie theatres typically serve some 350 million guests annually. On his watch, AMC went from being the second largest movie theater chain in the United States to the largest movie theater chain in the U.S., the largest in Europe & the Middle East, and the largest in the world. His most notable accomplishment at AMC most likely will be the stewarding of AMC through the global pandemic of 2020/21, which crippled the movie theatre industry globally.

AMC becomes the latest high-profile brand led by Aron, who in the past three decades has served as CEO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts (2015), the Philadelphia 76ers (2011-2013), Vail Resorts (1996-2006) and Norwegian Cruise Line (1993-1996).

Aron has been a longtime corporate director, currently serving on the Board of Directors of AMC and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

Aron holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and graduated with a bachelor’s degree Cum Laude from Harvard College.

Scott Barshay is Chair of the Paul, Weiss Corporate Department and has been widely recognized as one of the country’s leading activist defense and M&A lawyers.

Scott has advised numerous companies and boards of directors in defending against activist hedge funds, including ADP, Air Methods, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Avon, Barnes & Noble, BHP Billiton, Cameron International, Cheniere Energy, Chico’s FAS, Commvault, Emerson Electric, Gannett, Harris Corporation, Hertz, Hologic, Honeywell, ILG, Intel, Jones Apparel, Mylan, NCR, Qualcomm, Red Robin, Sara Lee, Starwood Hotels and Web.com.

Scott has represented clients in many of the largest and most important M&A transactions and corporate matters in recent years, including Anheuser-Busch InBev in its $107 billion acquisition of SABMiller; Chevron in its $13 billion acquisition of Noble Energy; General Electric in the more than $30 billion combination of its jet leasing unit GECAS with AerCap; the independent directors of Harris Corporation in its $37 billion merger of equals with L3 Technologies; Honeywell in its unsolicited $90 billion offer to acquire United Technologies; IBM in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat; Qualcomm in its successful defense against a $142 billion hostile takeover offer from Broadcom; Rocket Companies (the parent company of Quicken Loans) in its IPO, resulting in a first day $43 billion market capitalization; Teladoc Health in its $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo Health; United Airlines in its $7 billion merger of equals with Continental Airlines; and 3G Capital and H.J. Heinz in Heinz’s $60 billion merger with Kraft Foods.

Ana Botín was appointed Executive Chairman of Banco Santander in September 2014. Today, Santander is one of the most profitable and efficient banks among its peers in the world, serving over 148 million individual customers and companies across Europe, North America and South America.

During the COVID crisis, Santander has been lending an average of more than a €1bn per day to support businesses, while helping more than 6 million customers through the provision of loan moratoria and other measures.

Under Ana’s leadership, Santander is undergoing an ambitious digital transformation: its digital banking franchise, Openbank is already the largest digital bank in Europe by assets, and Santander has leveraged its scale and technology leadership in payments to create PagoNxt.

Ms Botín, the President of the European Banking Federation, is a Board member of the Coca-Cola Company and a member of the MIT CEO Advisory Board. She is also the founder and Chair of both Fundación CyD, which supports Spanish universities’ contribution to economic and social development, and Empieza por Educar, the Spanish affiliate of Teach for All, that trains talented graduates to become teachers.

Dr. Martha L. Carter is a Vice Chairman and Head of Governance Advisory with Teneo. She leads Teneo’s governance advisory division, advising CEOs and boards of public and private companies on corporate governance best practices, activism defense, executive compensation, shareholder engagement, strategy, and other matters that come to the board. Dr. Carter currently sits on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Corporate Governance Forum and previously sat on the Markets Advisory Council at the Council of Institutional Investors (CII).

Prior to joining Teneo, Dr. Carter was the Head of Global Research at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Chair and Founder of the ISS Global Policy Board. During her 13 years at ISS, Dr. Carter led Global Research’s team of 160 corporate governance analysts in 10 offices worldwide. Under Dr. Carter’s leadership, the research team provided institutional investors with corporate governance research and proxy voting recommendations on more than 38,000 companies in 115 markets.

As board chairman and CEO, Brian Cornell heads the dynamic global team behind Target, a leading omnichannel growth company in American retail. Based in Minneapolis, Target has more than 1,900 stores covering all 50 American states, a headquarters location in India and global supply chain and sourcing offices. Together, Target’s purpose-driven team of more than 350,000 works daily to help all families discover the joy of everyday life.

Brian joined Target in 2014 and quickly established a strategic direction that built on the company’s strengths as a multicategory mass merchandiser with an excellent reputation for its shopping experience, design expertise, brand curation and brand development. Brian and team made enormous investments in digital, data and supply chain capabilities, placing the company’s fleet of popular stores at the center both of physical shopping and digital fulfillment, a move that was considered counterintuitive and met with skepticism at the time. This and the 2017 acquisition of Shipt catapulted Target into a leadership position in same-day, store-based fulfillment services, driving the company’s strongest growth trends in its 60-year history.

At the same time, knowing that the Target team and culture were central to success, Brian spearheaded vast investments in wages, benefits, team training and development, diverse and equitable representation, and a corporate culture that helps all team members care, grow and win together.

Jim Cramer founded TheStreet in 1996 and remains an independent contributor through his Cramer Digital production company. He currently produces daily columns and videos for TheStreet in addition to co-hosting CNBC’s Squawk on The Street and his own show, Mad Money with Jim Cramer. Cramer also runs the Action Alerts PLUS charitable portfolio, details of which he shares with members of TheStreet’s Action Alerts PLUS club for investors. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and later returned and earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School after a career as a newspaper reporter. But instead of practicing law, Cramer worked at Goldman Sachs until leaving in 1987 to start his own hedge fund. He retired from active money management in 2000 to embrace media full time and has authored seven books on investing.

Arthur B. Crozier is Chairman of Innisfree M&A Incorporated of New York and of Lake Isle M&A Incorporated, Innisfree’s wholly-owned UK subsidiary.

Mr. Crozier’s practice includes the representation of U.S. and international clients in a wide variety of transactions and proxy contests, as well as annual and special meetings. In addition, he counsels an international roster of clients on corporate governance, shareholder engagement and executive compensation issues.

Recent high profile situations he has worked on include: Cigna Corporation in its acquisition of Express Scripts Holding Co, despite opposition by Carl Icahn; The Walt Disney Company in its acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox; Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in its successful proxy contest against Pershing Square Capital Management; Deckers Brands in its successful proxy contest against Marcato Capital Management; Taubman Centers, Inc. in its successful proxy contest against Land and Buildings Investment Management; Tesla Motors in its acquisition of SolarCity; Chicos FAS in its successful proxy fight against Barington Capital; the successful defense at DuPont against the proxy contest waged by Trian Partners; the successful defense at Allergan against the unsolicited offer by Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Pershing Square Capital Management; the acquisition of Dell Inc. by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management, despite opposition by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management; and the successful defense at Agrium against JANA Partners’ proxy contest.

Amelia DeLuca is Managing Director of Sustainability. She is responsible for overseeing the long-term sustainability strategy, managing Delta’s sustainability investments, building an industry-leading team and partnering with Government Affairs and Legal as the airline swiftly drives positive change in an everchanging regulatory and policy environment.

During her 15-year career with Delta, she has held varied positions within Global Sales, Revenue Management and Network Planning and has been based in Mexico City, Minneapolis, Amsterdam, New York City and Atlanta. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor’s of Science in Math and has her M.B.A. from the University of Amsterdam.

She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and two daughters.

Carmine Di Sibio is the Global Chairman and CEO of EY, one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, and today has almost 300,000 people serving clients in more than 150 countries around the world. Prior to being elected to his current post, Carmine served as EY Global Managing Partner – Client Service, leading the execution of the organization’s global strategy and its four geographical areas and four service lines.

Carmine has spearheaded EY’s innovation efforts, including leading a US$1 billion investment in new technology solutions over a two-year timeframe announced in August 2018. He helped to create the Global Innovation team to redefine how EY uses technology to both transform existing services and create new solutions. As a leader of the organization’s acquisitions and alliances strategy, he has helped expand EY offerings in a wide range of new and emerging fields.

Carmine has held several global operating and leadership positions at EY using his extensive experience in financial services. His global experience has equipped him with a keen understanding of cultures and clients around the world, and he is a strong advocate for the power of EY’s global organization.

Virginia “Gina” C. Drosos is the Chief Executive Officer of Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG), the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, where she leads a team of more than 24,000 to deliver a world-class OmniChannel experience to customers of Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared The Galleria Of Jewelry, H. Samuel, Ernest Jones, Peoples, Piercing Pagoda and JamesAllen.com.

Gina was appointed Signet CEO in July 2017 and served as a director of Signet’s Board since 2012. She is also on the Board of Directors of American Financial Group (NYSE: AFG), an insurance and investments company.

Gina has more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in the consumer goods, beauty and healthcare industries, as well as retail. She continues to be at the forefront of innovating mass market e-commerce retail, while globalizing and reinventing product categories, to increase sales and profits of brands recognized worldwide.

A recognized expert on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, Gregory has over fifteen years of experience as an investment research analyst working with investors and companies to identify and address key ESG risks and opportunities.

Prior to joining Joele Frank in 2019, Gregory was the Index Research – Senior ESG Analyst at J.P. Morgan where he led development of its fixed income ESG indices, as well as promoting cross-Research collaboration on advancing ESG integration. Before J.P. Morgan, he was a Senior ESG Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence in London and New York where he was voted a top-rated ESG analyst. He has also held senior positions at the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam, Trucost in London and Merrill Lynch in New York.

Marvin Ellison has served as president and chief executive officer of Lowe’s Companies, Inc., since July 2018.

Marvin has more than 35 years of retail leadership and operational experience with Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Lowe’s, Marvin served as chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney Co., where he delivered positive sales growth, reduced debt and generated positive adjusted earnings per share.

He has extensive experience in the home improvement industry, having spent 12 years in senior-level operations roles with Home Depot Inc. Most notably, he served as executive vice president of U.S. stores from 2008 to 2014, dramatically improving customer service and efficiency across the organization as he oversaw U.S. sales, operations, install services, tool rental and pro strategic initiatives. Prior to Home Depot, Marvin spent 15 years at Target Corp. in a variety of operational and leadership roles.

Marvin earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from The University of Memphis, where he currently serves on the board of trustees, and he also earned an MBA from Emory University. In addition to the Lowe’s board of directors, Marvin serves on the board of directors for FedEx Corporation and the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

Peter Feld is a Managing Member, Portfolio Manager and the Head of Research at Starboard Value. Prior to founding Starboard Value, Mr. Feld was a Managing Director at Ramius LLC, now Cowen Investment Management LLC, and Head of Research of Ramius LLC’s funds that comprised the activist investment strategy. Prior to joining Ramius in February 2005, Mr. Feld was an analyst in the Technology Investment Banking group at Banc of America Securities LLC. Mr. Feld is currently on the Board of Directors of Symantec Corporation. Mr. Feld was formerly on the Board of Directors of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., The Brink’s Company, Insperity, Inc., Darden Restaurants, Inc., Tessera Technologies, Inc., Integrated Device Technology, Inc. along with several others. Mr. Feld graduated from Tufts University, where he received a B.A. in Economics.

Monica Frassoni is a Senior Advisor with Teneo, based in Brussels. Monica brings more than 30 years of experience in European politics, including two mandates as an elected member of the European Parliament (1999-2009), where she was also co-President of the European Green-European Free Alliance Group, and 10 years (2009-2019) as co-President of the European Green Party.

Since 2010, she has served as President of the European Alliance to Save Energy, a multi-stakeholder organisation promoting energy efficiency across Europe. She is also President of the European Centre for Electoral Support and a regular speaker and lecturer on sustainable energy, green transformation, climate change and democratic development.

Monica works with our team to advise business leaders on the sustainability agenda in Europe and beyond, and on the importance of taking decisive action to demonstrate their commitment to tackling global climate challenges. She also plays a key role in reinforcing Teneo’s expertise in Europe on ESG and diversity and inclusion issues.

Bruce is a founder of proxy solicitation and investor response firm Okapi Partners, where he serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Bruce works extensively with corporations and investors on solicitation and information agent campaigns. He focuses on investor response strategy and execution for contested election campaigns, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters and other extraordinary situations.

Prior to establishing Okapi Partners, Bruce was the Senior Managing Director and General Counsel of Georgeson Inc. (now a subsidiary of Computershare Limited), where he headed the Global M&A Advisory Group.

Before entering the proxy solicitation business, Bruce was a Senior Vice President of the investment management firm Scudder, Stevens & Clark, which is now a part of Deutsche Asset Management. At Scudder, he was a member of the Legal Department and served as Chairman of the Firm’s Proxy Review Committee.

Kurt Harrison is a senior member of the firm’s Financial Services Sector and is the Co-head of the Sustainability Practice. He is active across a number of different practices, including Board & CEO Advisory Partners, Investment Management and Global Banking and Markets. Kurt has held several leadership roles within the firm, including leading the Financial Services Sector in the Americas and the Global Asset and Wealth Management Practice. He specializes in providing his clients with executive assessment and succession planning advice, as well as customized solutions for their senior leadership needs. Kurt is based in New York.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates 11 years ago, Kurt spent 20 years working within capital markets for a number of leading global banks. He held fixed income leadership roles with Nomura Securities International, Bank of America and Lehman Brothers across multiple asset classes. Kurt began his career as an Analyst with JP Morgan.

R. Scott Herren is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Cisco, managing the financial strategy, global finance organization, procurement, and mergers/ acquisitions and integrations for the company with total revenue for fiscal year 2020 of $49.3 billion and 77,500 employees. Herren is focused on accelerating Cisco’s shift towards a more software-based business model, maximizing long-term shareholder value, and maintaining the high level of integrity and transparency for which Cisco is known.

Prior to joining Cisco in 2020, Herren spent over six years as CFO at Autodesk where he was responsible for global financial strategy including operations, corporate development, financial systems, tax and treasury as well as the company’s procurement organizations. Herren was instrumental in orchestrating Autodesk’s business-model transformation – shifting from selling perpetual licenses to selling subscriptions. Before Autodesk, he held senior level strategy and financial positions at Citrix Systems, FedEx and IBM.

Herren is a member of the Georgia Tech Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Columbia University.

Kara Hurst leads Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon, covering multiple areas across the environmental and social sectors: renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, customer packaging experience, product sustainability, circular economy and waste reduction initiatives, social responsibility and responsible sourcing, sustainability science and innovation, and environmental compliance. Prior to joining Amazon, Kara was CEO of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), a multi-sector group across academia, the retail industry and the public sector. TSC was named one of Scientific American’s “Top Ten World Changing Ideas” of 2012. For eleven years before that, Hurst worked as Vice President of BSR, where she built several global industry practices and lead BSR’s NY and DC offices, as well as the global partnership practice with governments, multi-laterals and foundations. Hurst also co-founded of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC, now the Responsible Business Alliance) and worked in Silicon Valley as Executive Director of the public-private venture OpenVoice, building out early teen channel content for AOL and others. In her early career, she held roles at the Children’s Health Council, leading interdisciplinary educational and development programs, at the Urban Institute as a Research lead in the public finance and housing division, and worked in the offices of two elected officials – Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco and in New York for the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). Kara holds a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MPP from the University of California, Berkeley.

Gerald Johnson was named executive vice president, Global Manufacturing effective April 1, 2019. In this role, he leads GM’s global manufacturing operations, and the manufacturing engineering and labor relations organizations. He is responsible for approximately 103,000 employees, representing more than 129 sites on five continents and in 16 countries.

Previously Johnson served as GM vice president of North America Manufacturing and Labor Relations, a position he held since August 2017.

Before that, he served as vice president of Operational Excellence, where he worked to develop and execute an enterprise-wide cultural transformation with a focus on process discipline, continuous improvement and waste elimination.

Johnson started at General Motors in 1980, at the Fisher Body Plant in Euclid, Ohio. He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial administration from Kettering University and a master’s degree in manufacturing operations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is on the Kettering University Board of Trustees.

Dianne K. McKeever is Chief Investment Officer, Managing Member and Cofounder of Ides Capital Management LP, a New York-based activist investment advisor that engages with management teams and corporate boards to improve ESG policies and practices and to implement operational, capital and strategic improvements that drive long-term sustainable value for the benefit of all stakeholders. Prior to Ides, Ms. McKeever was a Partner at Park Row Capital. Ms. McKeever began her career at Barington Capital Group, a New York-based small-cap activist fund, where she was a Partner and which she joined in 2001. Ms. McKeever has served as a public company director of LQ Corporation, Inc. and Sielox Inc., where she chaired the Nominating and Governance Committee, and serves as a member of the Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Council. Ms. McKeever holds a JD from Fordham Law and received a BE in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a BS in Chemistry from New York University. Ms. McKeever serves on the Women’s Board of City Year New York and is a founding Board Member of Pyroclastic Arts Inc. Ms. McKeever was recently named to Fortune Magazine’s 40 Under 40, Marie Claire’s New Guard, Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40, American Swiss Foundation’s 2018 Young Leaders and received the 2018 Stevens Distinguished Alumni Award in Business and Finance.

Sheryl Palmer is the chairman and chief executive officer of Taylor Morrison Home Corporation, a leading national homebuilder and developer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since 2007, Ms. Palmer has overseen a highly experienced leadership team in several key national homebuilding markets. With more than 30 years of cross-functional building experience, including leadership in land acquisition, sales and marketing, development and operations management, Ms. Palmer has led Taylor Morrison into the top ranks of America’s largest public homebuilders, following the company’s IPO in 2013.

Under Ms. Palmer’s leadership, Taylor Morrison has been successful in creating trustworthy relationships with both its internal and external customers. The company was named America’s Most Trusted Home Builder for the sixth consecutive year by Lifestory Research, recognized as BUILDER Magazine’s 2020 Builder of the Year, named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine in 2019 and 2020, and recognized as a repeat member of Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI) for transparency in gender reporting and advancing women’s equality in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Ms. Palmer herself was also named a Top CEO in 2018 in the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards.

Chris Raymond is the chief sustainability officer and vice president of Global Enterprise Sustainability for The Boeing Company, and a member of the company’s Executive Council. As Boeing’s first chief sustainability officer, Raymond is responsible for further advancing Boeing’s approach on environmental, social and governance (ESG) priorities, stakeholder-oriented engagement, reporting, and company performance. Raymond’s Executive Council responsibilities include driving shared awareness of ESG trends, opportunities and targets to guide company decision-making and global impact.

Prior to this role, Raymond was the vice president of Sustainability, Strategy and Corporate Development (SSCD) for The Boeing Company, leading the team that shapes the company’s future through market insights, strategies, partnerships and investments for sustainable innovation, productivity and growth.

In addition to his SSCD role, Raymond was asked to also lead enterprise-wide efforts to engage, inform and seek feedback from stakeholders following the tragic accidents involving the 737 MAX airplane. Raymond partnered with the Communications team and leaders from across the company to focus on employees, customers, passengers, suppliers and other valued partners, ensuring their voices and interests were actively represented across all the company’s efforts.

Ravi Saligram is the President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Newell Brands. He is a visionary leader with a proven track record of growing businesses, building brands, developing customer-centric teams, embracing digital, focusing on cash flow, and driving shareholder value. Throughout his career, he has inspired employees to challenge the status quo, created cultures driven toward innovation and built industry-leading diversity and inclusion programs.

Prior to joining Newell Brands, Mr. Saligram was Chief Executive Officer and Director of Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated, the world’s largest onsite/online industrial equipment auctioneer. He was responsible for transforming the six-decade-old organization into a relationship-based, technology-enabled and data-driven multi-channel asset management and disposition platform. Prior to joining Ritchie Bros., Mr. Saligram was Chief Executive Officer, President, and a member of the Board of Directors of OfficeMax Inc., where he strategically repositioned the company from a commodity office products retailer to an omnichannel workplace services and solutions company and oversaw the historic 2013 merger of OfficeMax and Office Depot.

Ravi has lived in six countries and worked in many more during his nearly 40-year career. For 13 years, Ravi has served on the board of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. He chairs the Governance committee and is a member of the Finance committee. Ravi also serves on the Governing Board of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, GA. Ravi was named to Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Most Admired CEOs” list for 2021.

Adrianne Shapira is a Managing Director in New York leading the Brands North America effort, the firm’s fifth investment division focused on high growth consumer and retail brands. She brings extensive consumer/retail industry experience with over 20 years in finance and operating roles as well as various private and public Board seats. Adrianne spent over 13 years at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in Equities Research covering the Broadlines Retail Sector ranging from luxury brands, accessible department stores and mass big box retailers. She was more recently the CFO at David Yurman, a privately-held, luxury jewelry brand with a global omni-channel reach.

Adrianne currently serves on the Boards of Kohl’s Department Stores, Nest New York and Herschel Supply Company as well as the non-for-profit organization, Youth INC. She previously served as a Director at Hain Celestial and Gilt Group.

Education: Adrianne received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and her MBA from Columbia Business School.

Laura Stein is Executive Vice President, Corporate & Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Mondelēz International, a global company leading the future of snacking with 2020 net revenues of approximately $27 billion. In her role, Laura oversees the company’s global legal, compliance, corporate reputation and ESG agendas, including public and government affairs, internal and external corporate communications, sustainability, community and foundation efforts.

Before joining Mondelēz International in January 2021, Laura served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Affairs for The Clorox Company. During her time there, Laura successfully led Clorox’s global Legal and Corporate Affairs functions, including compliance, enterprise risk, audit, communications, government affairs, ESG and community affairs. She also served as the President of The Clorox Company Foundation, sponsored Clorox’s cybersecurity and enterprise risk management programs, and sponsored the Clorox Women’s Employee Resource Group.

Prior to her time at Clorox, Laura served as Senior Vice President – General Counsel at the H.J. Heinz Company, where she sponsored Heinz’s women’s leadership group and was a Director of Heinz’s Foundation.

Steve is EY Global Vice Chair – Sustainability, leading EY’s climate change and sustainability agenda globally in a newly created role that is the first amongst the Big Four. He helps EY clients create business value from sustainability and accelerate their transition to a lower carbon future. He also leads EY’s overall environmental sustainability strategy across the US$36b professional services organization and its 300,000 people. Steve is leading the organization’s efforts towards decarbonization and has overseen its achievement of carbon neutrality in 2020, carbon negative in 2021, and net zero commitment for 2025.

Steve is founding co-chair of the S30, a group of 30 Chief Sustainability Officers from some of the world’s leading businesses, launched in 2020 in collaboration with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales’s Sustainable Markets Initiative.

Steve was previously EY UK&I Regional Managing Partner and Chair of EY UK, leading the US$3.5b business and its 17,000 employees. During his nine-year tenure he drove an inclusive and green growth, doubling its revenues from £1.3b in FY11 to £2.6, in FY20.

Partner Krishna Veeraraghavan is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Paul, Weiss. He regularly advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other transactions. Krishna also advises boards of directors and special committees on activist defense, proxy contests and other corporate governance matters.

Krishna has long been recognized as a leading advisor by numerous industry publications and directories, including Chambers USA and The Legal 500. He has been named a “Healthcare Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal (2019); a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer (2018); a “Retail & E-Commerce MVP” by Law360 (2017); a “Life Sciences MVP” by Law360 (2015, 2016); a “Transatlantic Rising Star” by The American Lawyer (2016); and a “Dealmaker of the Week” by The American Lawyer (2014, 2015).