The Council of Institutional Investors appointed Ken as executive director in 2016. He has more than 30 years of experience in investment research, consulting and corporate governance roles. He previously was a partner at CamberView Partners; president and CEO of the Society for Corporate Governance; head of corporate governance at Morgan Stanley Investment Management; managing director for corporate governance analysis at Moody’s Investors Service; director of governance engagement at TIAA-CREF; and in various roles at the Investor Responsibility Research Center. He holds a JD from Fordham University School of Law and an undergraduate degree from Williams College.

Ben Rosenzweig is a Partner at Privet Fund Management LLC, an investment firm focused on event-driven and value-oriented investments in small capitalization companies, and a proven public company director. Previously, Mr. Rosenzweig served as an Investment Banking Analyst in the corporate finance group of Alvarez & Marsal, a global professional services firm, where he completed multiple distressed mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, capital formation transactions and similar financial advisory engagements across several industries. Mr. Rosenzweig currently serves on the board of directors of Potbelly Corporation (NASDAQ: PBPB), PFSweb, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFSW), and Hardinge Inc. (formerly NASDAQ: HDNG). Mr. Rosenzweig previously served on several public company boards of directors including StarTek, Inc. (NYSE: SRT), Cicero Inc. (OTC: CICN), and RELM Wireless Corporation (n/k/a BK Technologies Corporation) (NYSE AMERICAN: BKTI). Mr. Rosenzweig graduated magna cum laude from Emory University with a B.A. in Finance and a second major in Economics.

Martin L. Seidel is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation Department. He has more than 25 years’ experience in securities and corporate litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on corporate control contests, transaction-related securities and shareholder litigations, multiparty class actions and derivative litigations. He regularly advises on litigation matters related to mergers and acquisitions, securities laws, corporate accounting and disclosure, and corporate governance.

Mr. Seidel has tried cases before state and federal courts throughout the United States as well as arbitral tribunals. He has handled investigations before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and by state and federal prosecutors and state Attorneys General across the country.

Ronald Orol leads coverage of activist hedge fund managers, a high-profile group of corporate investors who press for blockbuster deals and were the subject of his book “Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World.” Ron produces the Activist Daily and Activist Weekly briefings, which offer exclusives, trend pieces and breaking analysis about insurgent investors and their M&A efforts. Ron also authored “Corporate Governance in the Era of Activism,” a digital handbook for CNBC’s Jim Cramer. He previously worked as a financial regulation and activism reporter at MarketWatch and Dow Jones Newswires.