Time

Panel

Speakers

3:00pm

Shareholder Activism

Soo Kim ’97, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Standard General, and Chairman of the Board, Bally’s Corp

Jonathan Feldman, Partner, Goodmans LLP

Andrew Freedman, Co-Managing Partner, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP

John Jannarone, ’03, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

3:30pm

Private and Public Capital Markets Assessment

Tad Nacheff, Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage – Capital Markets, New York Stock Exchange

Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Stifel

Alan Wink, Managing Director, Eisner Advisory Group

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

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

4:00pm

Investing and Operating Amid Geopolitical Tensions

Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity

John Evans ’91, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Tractus Asia

Zachary Swartz, Partner, Real Estate Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions, Vinson & Elkins LLP

John Jannarone, ’03, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

4:30pm

Alternative Investing and Endowments

Tad Smith ’87, Senior Partner 1Roundtable Partners (1RT) and 10T Holdings (10T); co-founder of 1RT

Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and co-founder, Ajna Labs LLC

John G. Quigley, Co-Founder and former Managing Partner, Nassau Capital, established in the mid-90s as the exclusive manager of the Princeton endowment’s alternative assets (Moderator)

5:00pm

Contested M&A and the Role of Private Equity

Joe Germani, Partner, Longacre Square Partners

Francisco J. Morales Barrón, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield

Josh Kosman, Business Reporter, New York Post

5:30pm

AI: Finance and Defense

Neil Keegan, CEO and Co-Founder, Marlinspike Partners​

Kent Collier, Founder and CEO, Octus

Michael Weiksner ’95, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, DragonGC

Ryan Flanagan, Managing Director, Investor Relations, ICR