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Joe Ferullo is CEO & Publisher of the National Catholic Reporter, an independent non-profit news organization founded in 1964. NCR leads the field in reporting on one of the world's most influential institutions, and its impact on US laws, society and culture.
Prior to NCR, Joe was an Executive Vice President of Programming at CBS, where he oversaw several long-running programs - including Entertainment Tonight and Judge Judy - and helped guide his division's transition into digital & streaming media.
Joe worked for several years as a producer for NBC; he was on the management group that oversaw NBCâs merger with Universal. As a Dateline NBC producer, he received an Emmy award as part of the team that covered the events of 9/11; an Emmy nomination for his story on Vietnamese war orphans; and an Education Writersâ Award with Maria Shriver for their look at inner city schools.
His special hour celebrating the series âFriendsâ scored NBCâs highest Wednesday prime time ratings in five years. Joe spent a month at sea at the Titanic wreck site in the North Atlantic, producing a series of specials for NBC and Discovery. Heâs also developed and produced pilots for public television.
Joe began his career in print journalism: he was a staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine and a reporter for Hearst newspapers. Heâs written for the New York Times op-ed page and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.
As a screenwriter, Joe has written for Universal, USA Network, and Michael Douglasâ Stonebridge production company. His script âGridlockâ became an NBC movie special. He also performed narration for programs on NBC, MSNBC and Discovery.
Joe was on the deanâs advisory board at Hofstra Universityâs Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, and served on the governing board of MEND, an advocacy group for low-income families in the San Fernando Valley. He has been a frequent guest lecturer at Syracuse Universityâs L.A.-based media program.
Joe is a graduate of Columbia University; he was editor-in-chief of the universityâs independent daily newspaper. Joe was born and raised in The Bronx, where his family ran a small Italian bakery.
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If you're involved in corporate law or corporate governance, or just care about business and society, Charles needs no introduction.
He is seemingly ubiquitous and has been for four decades. He is the Executive Editor of Directors & Boards. He's the retired Edgar S. Woolard Chair in Corporate Governance and the founding director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
His other academic credentials include more than a decade as a law professor at Stetson, visiting professorships at the law schools of the University of Illinois, Cordell and Maryland. He was also a Herbert Smith Freehills Fellow at Cambridge University in the UK. He has written extensively on boards of directors, served on advisory boards for both the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
He is and has been a director at myriad of companies. His hard work and thought leadership has been recognized with honors from Directorship, Treasury and Risk Management, Global Proxy Watch and Ethisphere, Charles is also public spirited, having served as a trustee for such non profit organizations as the Big Apple Circus, Tampa Museum of Art, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Museum of American Finance and the Brandywine Conservancy.
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Chris is an American singer songwriter who has opened for Neil Young, BB King, Seal, and a host of others. He recently gained additional worldwide prominence with âWe Can Always Come Back to Thisâ. His hit song aired on 3 episodes of the #1 NBC primetime series âTHIS IS US,' then went on to #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart.
Other recent highlights include: a solo concert at The Kennedy Center, a duet with Sara Bareilles, a sold-out concert with Allison Russell, and performance/interviews on NPRâs WORLD CAFĂ, MOUNTAIN STAGE, AMERICAN FOLK SHOW, SoCAL SOUND, and more.
His 2021 album, 'AMERICAN SILENCE' garnered critical acclaim from NPR, Rolling Stone, NoDepression, SiriusXM, The Bluegrass Situation, AmericanaUK, Acoustic Guitar and others. PopMatters named âAMERICAN SILENCE âTHE #1 Best Folk Album of 2021 and FolkAlley named "Residential School" from AMERICAN SILENCE one of the 100 Essential Folk Songs.
His highly anticipated album titled âLET ALL WHO WILLâ was released on September 1, 2023, with critical acclaim from NPR, NoDepression, American Songwriter, Hi Times and more.
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Chris Pinney, is President and CEO of High Meadows Institute. Chris analyzes and writes about the role of business in today's world and in tomorrow's. While most of us accept our daily interactions with companies like Google and JPMorgan Chase, Chris thinks about the fact that these firms and many others have more impact on our day to day lives than government. He then analyzes the implications both for those businesses and for society.
Prior to High Meadows, Chris held a string of positions where he also looked at business and business leadership from a variety of angles. He was president of the Boston-based Alliance for Business Leadership, a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, Director of Research and Policy and Executive Education at the Boston College Carroll School of Management's Center for Corporate Citizenship, and Director of the Imagine Program, a Canadian initiative focused on business leadership.
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Monique Aiken is the Managing Director at The Investment Integration Project, an applied research and consulting firm with a recently launched SaaS platform called SAIL, the Systems Aware Investing Launchpad. Monique is co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a nonprofit collective focused on narrative change, and host of their podcast, âInto the Recordâ. She is also cofounder of the ReStarter Fund, an economic and climate justice initiative aiming to be a small business lifeline in these unique times. She is also a Contributing Editor at ImpactAlpha where she is a biweekly host of the âBriefingâ podcast and past host of âThe Reconstructionâ, a 24-episode long form interview podcast series.
Monique has been guiding investors in aligning their social impact and investment objectives for over a decade, after nearly 15 years in financial services with Bank of America, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank. In addition to TIIP, her +10 years of impact experience includes time as Vice President of Programs, at Mission Investors Exchange, a 250+ member network for outcomes focused practitioners in impact investing; Director at Tideline, a boutique strategy consultant in impact investing; and Project Manager for No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project at the Clinton Foundation. Monique serves on the Investment Committee for the NYU Impact Investment Fund, the Steering Committee for the Intentional Endowments Network and the Board of Responsible Alpha. She also serves as a Board Member of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice and on the Advisory Board for the Global Bio Fund, a gendersmart biotech and wellness ecosystem and venture fund.
A proud Toigo, CGSM, SEO, and INROADS alum, Monique earned her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business where she specialized in Financial Instruments and Markets, and a B.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Monique is a first-generation Jamaican-American, plays the tenor saxophone (badly), loves coffee, tea and travel (pre-covid at least) and is conversant in Spanish, Portuguese, and un petit peu of French. Monique is also a newly minted childrenâs book author and lives in +100yr old fixer-upper in New Jersey with her husband and their delightful preschool aged son, who is her inspiration.
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If you want to understand, learn about, or even rationally criticize impact investing, Fran Seegull is the person to know in the United States. Fran is president of the U. S. Impact Investing Alliance. She helped incubate the Alliance at the Ford Foundation in partnership with Darren Walker. In 2023, John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation succeeded Walker as Alliance Advisory Board Chair.
Fran is also executive director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing, a donor collaborative in the field. She was previously Chief Investment Officer at ImpactAssets. which includes The Giving Fund, now a $3 billion impact investing donor-advised fund. She served on the G7 Working Group on Asset Allocation, worked for PwC, and taught at the USC Business School, where her course was named the best graduate level elective course at the school.
Fran has an MBA from Harvard, but somehow she's managed to stay grounded and be a problem solver in the real world. Fran is smart, funny, realistic, high powered, and the person to know if you want to know anything about impact investing.
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Matt Moscardi is one half of the podcast, Business Pants, which makes business and investing news suck less for real people and the investor-curious. His day job is as the founder of Free Float, which provides an incredibly complete data set and analysis of the directors at public companies. Matt knows whereof he speaks. He spent almost a decade at MSCI helping to develop that financial service behemoth's ESG ratings model. He chaired the MSCI ESG Research Editorial Committee, sat on the MSCI Research Editorial Board, and wrote more than 100 investor papers, industry reports and profiles while there. Prior to that, he worked at the sustainability NGO Series where he was part of a team providing resources, thought leadership and data to pension funds with cumulative assets of some $10 trillion.
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Greg is the Founder and Executive Director of Start.coop. Greg brings a powerful background of financial strategy, tech, and entrepreneurship to growing the cooperative landscape. Greg's work has ranged from business development to strategic planning for multiple cooperatives.Prior to launching Start.coop, Greg founded and led the Bike Cooperative, a division of CCA Global Partners, and also helped to launch the nation's only purchasing co-op for craft breweries. Greg also previously served on the board of the Cooperative Development Institute for 10 years and was board chair for 3 years.Greg also convenes the Equitable Economy Fund, a $2 million pilot fund convening angel investors to scale shared ownership. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
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If you're an investor or just interested in a smooth functioning economy, Sandy Peters is an unsung hero. She heads CFA Institute's advocacy and regulatory affairs efforts globally relating to the information needs of investors for investment decision making. This includes corporate disclosures, financial reporting, accounting, ESG/sustainability disclosures, and how the information is assured and audited. She also looks at how technology creates new forms of information and how that information is integrated into the capital markets.
Sandy began her career at a âBig Fourâ accounting firm, KPMG, then went to MetLife where she was the corporate controller. So she has the perfect background to be the watchdog over information for one of the most influential professional investor organizations in the world, having worked as an investor, a corporate preparer, and an auditor.
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As a producer and senior editor of NPRs "All Things Considered" for more than a decade, Alison helped shepherd that show's coverage of one financial crisis, two wars and three presidential elections.
She then became NPR's storytelling guru which meant she guided some of the best radio and podcast talents in the world to become better at narrative storytelling. Today she is a sought after freelance audio editor whose work could be heard on such in-depth journalistic podcast series as "The 13th Step", which tells of how women seeking to overcome drug addiction routinely became victims of sexual abuse by the very residential treatment staff that were supposed to help them, and the podcast, "544 Days" about journalist Jason Rezaian's imprisonment in an Iranian jail while international real politics swirled around his life or death situation.
Alison works behind the scenes, she's rarely on mic but that hasn't stopped her talent from shining through. She was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard and "Believed", the podcast she worked on about Larry Nassar, the former Olympics and college gymnastic coach who abused hundreds of young women, won the Peabody, duPont-Columbia, Scripps-Howard, and Dart awards.
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Greg previously served as the CEO of Glass, Lewis & Co., an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Securities, a lawyer and a hedge fund portfolio manager.
Greg has been on all sides of activist investing over the last 20 years: he has advised companies responding to activists; he has been an activist investor at more than 40 companies; he has advised investment funds leading proxy fights; and he has been the Chief Executive of the countryâs second largest proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis, helping to provide voting advice to institutional investors in proxy contests.
Before forming Spotlight Advisors, Greg was the President of the Clinton Group, a multi-strategy hedge fund that engages in activist investing. While there, Greg guided the firm through four proxy fights (three of which Clinton won) and to a dozen settlement agreements with public companies. Previously, Greg was the Chief Executive Officer of Glass, Lewis & Co., an independent research firm that assists institutional investors in making more informed investment and proxy voting decisions. While Greg was the Chief Executive, Glass Lewis covered more than 13,000 public companies from 65 countries and sold research to more than 350 institutional investors that collectively managed more than $13 trillion.
Prior to co-founding Glass Lewis, Greg was an investment banker. He provided strategic and financing advice to public and private companies, principally in the technology and telecommunications industries. Greg was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co., a Director of Epoch Partners and a Managing Director with Banc of America Securities.
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Holly Gregory is at the pinnacle of America's top corporate lawyers. She co-chairs law firm Sidley Austin's global Corporate Governance practice and also co-leads its Chambers-recognized ESG and Crisis Management teams.
She's won just about every honor available to her. She chaired the American Bar Association's Corporate Governance Committee. The National Association of Corporate Directors named her one of the hundred most influential people in corporate governance 16 straight years. Ethisphere calls her one of the Attorneys Who Matter. She's been recognized by Euromoney and by Legal 500. The National Law Journal says she was a "white collar regulatory and compliance trailblazer". Corporate Secretary Magazine gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Holly played a key role in drafting the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and advised the Internal Market Directorate of the European Commission on corporate governance regulation. And while most service assignments at Sidley are confidential, those that have been made public are eye-opening.
She advised the Business Roundtable on its 2019 Statement on the Purpose of the Corporation, advised ICANN, the international Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (so you can thank her for the fact that your URL still works). She advised the Board of The Pennsylvania State University on governance reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal.
Holly always has a sharp eye for current culture and a wicked sense of humor. Her video breakdowns of the law and corporate governance practices underlying HBO's "Succession" have made her a social media star, and on top of all that, she plays a mean Bluegrass mandolin.
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Adam Barsky is the New York Power Authority's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, he joined the Power Authority in 2019. He is an accomplished senior executive who brings more than 30 years of dedicated experience in management, finance and public policy.
Adam previously served as Chief of Staff and Special Counselor at the Port Authority of NY and NJ. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of IDB bank NY from 2006 to the 2017. In that senior role, he oversaw all aspects of risk management for the bank including credit, market and operational risk, and strategic and reputation risk.
Adam has held numerous positions in state and local government including Deputy Secretary to the Governor of New York for Public Authorities, Financing and Housing and New York City Issues.
Before that, he served as Budget Director and Chief Financial Officer of the City of New York and as Director of the Mayorâs Office of Operations. Adam also worked as Chairman of the New York City Employees Retirement System, Chairman of the New York City Transitional Finance Authority, and Chairman of the NYC Municipal Water Finance Authority, Acting Commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
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Professor Uri Gneezy is one of the world's leading behavioral economists. He holds the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics at the University of California San Diego, and is also visiting professor of Economics at Amsterdam University.
Uri is the author of "Mixed Signals", the well received book about how incentives designed to get people to do one thing, sometimes send unintended signals that confuse people about what they're supposed to do, or worse. In some ways, "Mixed Signals" is the logical sequel to his previous book, "The Why Axis", co-written with John List. In both books as well as in his academic papers, Professor Gneezy focuses on putting behavioral economics to work in the real world.
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Amongst theater people, Estelle Parsons is revered as an actor's actor. She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in "Bonnie and Clyde", another Academy nomination for her work in "Rachel, Rachel". Five Tony nominations, a BAFTA award, an Obie, a Theater World Award, and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
She created a memorable character as Bev Harris, Roseanne's television Mom. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of Estelle's acting or directing credits. As a director, she has staged works by Shakespeare, Brecht and Oscar Wilde amongst others. She's a former artistic director at the Actors Studio and is still a stalwart at that esteemed institution.
She is, she says, most alive on stage in front of a live audience. Anyone who's ever seen her in "Miss Margarida's Way" or "August: Osage County" understands intuitively and completely what she means.
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Paul Clements-Hunt invented what might be Investing's most controversial three letters - ESG. He literally invented the phrase in a Geneva office building nearly 20 years ago.
Paul ran UNEP FI, the United Nation's signature program for financial institutions. He helped create and then was a founding board member of the Principles for Responsible Investing, which today is backed by more than 4500 investment institutions with about $US125 trillion in assets under management.
He was a journalist in the UK, even doing time at the tabloid flagship, the Sun. He founded an environmental advisory firm in Bangkok, worked for the International Chamber of Congress in Paris, and was a senior advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Since 2012, he has built The Blended Capital Group, which is a key behind the scenes player in many joint government business investor collaborations. These are for-profit ventures that also benefit tens of thousands or even millions of people. For example, in Brazil at the edge of the Amazon, Blended Capital provides affordable credit to off the grid farming, fishing, and mining communities, as well as the basics to empower and enrich them.
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Carole Laible is the CEO of Domini Impact Investments. She has over twenty years of impact investing experience, having joined Domini in 1997. Ms. Laible is responsible for the overall research and mutual funds operations of the firm. She also leads institutional client service and marketing initiatives, and collaborates with Amy Domini, Chair, in the development of overall business strategy and business plan implementation.
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David Bank co-founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one â and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and other publications, breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance. Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com called âBreaking Windows,â his book on Microsoft, one of the âbest business books of the year.â A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University,
David has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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David Webber is the author of the critically-acclaimed book, The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Laborâs Last Best Weapon, published by Harvard University Press. Webber toured extensively for the book and published op-eds about it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
In 2022, Webber published scholarly articles in the Harvard Business Law Review, the University of Chicago Business Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Business. His co authored article, âShareholder Value(s): Index Fund ESG Activism and the New Millennial Corporate Governance,â was selected as one of the top ten corporate and securities law articles of 2020 in a national survey of law scholars by Corporate Practice Commentator.
Webber is the winner of Boston University School of Lawâs 2017 Michael Melton Award for Teaching Excellence, and the deanâs award for service to the law school in 2020 and 2021. He also co-teaches the Pensions and Capital Stewardship course for the Harvard Trade Union program at Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Columbia and NYU Law School, where he was an editor for the law review.
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Doug Chia is a corporate governance expert. The National Association of Corporate Directors and the GC Powerlist describe Doug as being among the most influential people in corporate governance. He is a sharp-eyed observer of, and player in, how America's great corporations are run. After a career in corporate America,
Doug runs his own consulting firm, Soundboard Governance. Doug is a former Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson, Assistant General Counsel, Corporate of Tyco International, Executive Director of The Conference Board ESG Center and Chair of the Board of the Society for Corporate Governance, president of the Stockholder Relations Society of New York, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange Governance Commission. While he was in college, Doug was an intern at the White House helping write speeches for George Bush Senior. Today he holds fellowships and or teachers at Rutgers Law School, Fordham Law School, the Aspen Institute at the American College of Financial Services.
On this episode of Outside In Doug talks with Jon about governance, empowering boards, shareholder resolutions, quasi-governmental corporations and racism.
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