Our Team of Inspectors

Carl Hagberg

Managing Partner and Manager

The managing partner and manager of the CT Hagberg LLC Team of Independent Inspectors of Election. He has served as Inspector of Election at over 400 Annual and Special Meetings and in numerous proxy contests. Carl is considered to be one of the country’s leading authorities on Annual meeting matters and on automating – and auditing – the proxy voting and tabulating processes.

Raymond (Ray) Riley

Co-manager

a Brooklyn, NY based consultant specializing in systems and procedures, serves as co-manager of the CT Hagberg LLC Team of Inspectors. Ray is a partner of CT Hagberg LLC, and has acted as Inspector of Election at well over 300 routine and contested meetings. While serving as the chief technology office for the Corporate and Institutional Trust and Agency Group of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Ray developed the securities industry’s first fully-online proxy tabulation and reporting system. Ray is a former president of the Securities Transfer Association.

Phillip Allbritten, ESQ.

Based in Stillwater, OK, Phil retired at the end of 2018 as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary of Atmos Energy Corporation in Dallas. An attorney licensed in Texas and Oklahoma as well as a licensed CPA, he specialized in corporate governance and federal securities compliance matters during his 30 year legal career. Since he joined Atmos Energy in 1996, Phil was primarily responsible for all activities related to the company’s annual shareholder meetings, including the drafting and filing of proxy statements as well as the planning and conduct of the meetings. Prior to joining Atmos Energy, he was in private practice with Conner & Winters in Tulsa after receiving his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin.

Rhoda Anderson

Based in Cranbury, NJ, guided two of the world’s largest companies to record voting levels – first as Assistant Secretary, Corporate Secretary’s Dept. at AT&T, then as the Director at Lucent Technologies – before founding her own company, which helps companies automate the delivery of annual reports and proxies and to improve the overall reading and information gathering experience for web and mobile users.

Francis G. (Frank) Arren

Served as a V.P. in the Mutual Funds Services Group of Bank Boston, and at Chase Global FundsService, before moving to Equiserve, L.P. where he served as Director, Client Administration. From 2002-2009 Frank was a Client Service Manager and Chief Compliance Officer at Strategic Planning Group, an investment advisory firm in Needham, MA. Frank has served at numerous shareholder meetings, including Eastman Kodak, General Motors, Gillette and Xerox. He is a graduate of the Stonier School of Banking, the New England School of Banking at Williams College and holds an MA from Burdett College in Boston.

Jenna Bentley, ESQ.

Based in Boston, MA, Jenna began her career in the corporate matters group of the legal department at Eaton Vance Management where she focused on maintaining compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the European Union Directives relating to anti-money laundering rules and regulations. An attorney licensed in Massachusetts and New York, Jenna routinely provides guidance to corporate issuers in order to mitigate risks and liability in the United States and abroad and, to prepare for joining our team, has attended and monitored a wide variety of shareholder meetings in 2017 and 2018. Jenna received her law degree from Boston University School of Law, a Master of Arts with high honors in International Law from the University of London, and received a B.A. in History and Management from Boston University.

Deborah Baker

Who divides her time between Birmingham, AL and Atlanta, GA, served from 2002-2006 as the Executive Director of Ethics and Compliance and Assistant Corporate Secretary at BellSouth Corporation. She was responsible for all the company’s Ethics and Compliance programs, for the Board and Committee sections of the proxy statement, for meeting logistics, materials and minutes, for the Board and Committee evaluation process and for monitoring the company’s governance ratings. Currently, she is affiliated with Arcapita, a private international investment bank headquartered in Bahrain, with offices in Atlanta, London, and Singapore.

Kathy Blackwell

Is a San Francisco-based consultant with 20 years of equity compensation experience, including ASC 718 analysis and compliance, SEC financial reporting, and equity plan administration. Earlier, Kathy managed the internal equity compensation function at Charles Schwab, where she developed expertise in executive compensation, corporate and securities law, tax, accounting, human resources, the annual proxy process, and in annual and quarterly financial reporting. A graduate of Oberlin College, she holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and is a Certified Equity Professional.

Jennifer Borden, Esq.

Began her career as General Counsel for the Abandoned Property Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the founder of Borden Consulting Group, LLC (2010) following twenty years in leadership roles in unclaimed property law and public accounting. Earlier, Jennifer was SVP and General Counsel at Unclaimed Property Recovery and Reporting, LLC, where she worked closely with senior officers of hundreds of publicly traded companies. Prior to that, she was a partner at Holland and Knight LLP, and was a leader in the State and Local Tax Practice at Ernst & Young LLP. Jennifer received her law degree from Suffolk University and holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Boston Latin School and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Latin School Association.

Anne V. Bruner, Esq.

Based in the greater Houston area, Anne was senior counsel and the primary legal advisor to the Financial Reporting, Investor Relations and Executive Compensation groups at Anadarko Petroleum, Inc., where, until the acquisition by Occidental Petroleum in 2019, she was also responsible for the company’s annual and special shareholder meetings. Earlier, (2006-11) she served as Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Cheniere Energy, where she has similar responsibilities. Anne holds a JD, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law, Austin and a BS from Tulane University.

Karena Burgess, EA

Based near Dallas TX, Karena spent over 8 years on active duty in the U.S military as a Quartermaster and 10 years with the Department of Defense in finance and budgets. She holds a Bachelor’s in Business Management, a Master’s Certificate in Accounting and is an Enrolled Agent by the Internal Revenue Service. She is currently a member of a boutique enrolled agent company where she actively represents taxpayers before the IRS.

Christine Cannella

Christine, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in investor relations and corporate communications strategy and execution, governance, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. She has held senior roles at NYSE and Nasdaq-traded public firms in global industries including food, beverage, and tobacco, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, solar energy, home construction and land development, heavy equipment rental, custom motorcycle design and manufacturing, and aftermarket accessories, working with brands like Fresh Del Monte Produce, Levitt & Sons and Core Communities and NationsRent. She has years of experience hosting annual general meetings, ranging from large events attended by many to small, intimate, and virtual meetings.

Christine is actively involved in the on Boards Florida Women Initiative and serves on the boards of Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) where she is a member of the Board of Advocates, Women Executive Leadership (WEL), National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), where she was a former President of the Florida Chapter. She has also been a featured speaker at NIRI’s annual national conference. Christine holds an MBA from Nova Southeastern University, a bachelor’s in business from Barry University, and holds multiple Leadership and Board of Directors certifications.

Rhonda L. Carroll

Based in Houston, TX, has over 25 years of experience in corporate governance, having served as the Chief Governance Officer and Corporate Secretary of Encore Bancshares, Inc., a NASDAQ listed financial holding company, until its merger in 2012. Rhonda managed the governance, legal and compliance areas, supervised the preparation and distribution of proxy solicitation materials and coordinated all aspects of shareholder meetings. She is currently the Managing Director of Governance Resource, LLC, a consulting firm which provides corporate governance, regulatory compliance and project management services. She has served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Policy Advisory Committee of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and as Chairman of its Educational Programs Committee.

Gene A. Capello, ESQ.

Based in Westchester County, NY, was Assistant General Counsel & Assistant Secretary at Pfizer Inc. from 2006 – 2012, specializing in corporate governance, securities transactions and as counsel to the audit committee. Earlier, Gene was Managing Director and co-head of policy development for Proxy Governance, Inc. From 1985 through 2004 he was VP and Assistant General Counsel at J.P. Morgan & Co., and J.P. Morgan Chase. He holds a J.D. from St. John’s University, an M.S.W. from New York University, and a B.A. in Business Administration from The City College of New York. He is a member of the American Bar Assn., the Assn. of the Bar of the City of New York and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals. He is currently co-chair of the Practising Law Institute’s annual Audit Committee Workshop.

Douglas K. Chia

Douglas K. Chia is President of Soundboard Governance LLC, a consulting firm providing advice and support for companies to achieve sound board governance. Prior to founding Soundboard Governance, Doug served as Executive Director of The Conference Board ESG Center. Previously, Doug was Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Johnson & Johnson where he was responsible for the corporation’s board governance, SEC and NYSE filings, global legal entity management, and all aspects of the annual meetings of shareholders.

Doug is a former Chair of the Board of the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals and former member of the Broadridge Financial Solutions Investor Communications Steering Committee. Doug frequently speaks, writes, and appears in the media on corporate governance topics. He also serves as Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law & Governance and teaches corporate governance at Rutgers Law School.

David Dixon

David has over 30 years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Hospital Administration, Wellness, Personal Care and Investor Services. He worked in senior capacities for The Bank of Boston, EquiServe, Wells Fargo Bank and Equiniti, where he served regularly as an Inspector of Elections. He also served as Managing Director and Co-Principal for Progressive Capital LLC where he assisted companies with early stage capital raising and funding.

David has served on a large number of Securities Industry Associations and Boards: He currently serves on the National Board for The Society for Corporate Governance and is the President of the Capital Area Chapter, National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) covering Washington, DC, VA and MD, and is Director of Hayes Mondale LLC.

David is a graduate of Boston University. He also attended the Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Advanced Negotiations Program for Executives. He and his family reside in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Michael Dzieciolowski

Based in Santa Clarita, CA, has over 35 years experience in brokerage and banking operations and in client services. As a former Assistant Vice President and Relationship Manager for BNY Mellon and its predecessors, Mike coordinated transfer agent activities and served as Inspector of Election for over 400 annual and special meetings of shareholders. Clients included Rockwell International, Fluor Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, Hilton Hotels Corporation, Harman International Industries, Imagine Films Entertainment and Corporate Express.

Peter Friz

Based in the Washington DC area, has been involved in the shareholder communications and proxy voting businesses for 15 years. Much of that time was spent at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) where he ran the Voting- related Businesses and was responsible for teams that interacted with Institutional Investors to assure that their votes would be properly and timely lodged with the various intermediaries involved in the proxy voting process. Peter is an expert in U.S. and non-U.S. “proxy-plumbing systems” and has been closely involved with some of the most high profile proxy fights to take place over the past 15 years.

James D. Gaughan, ESQ.

Based in Houston, TX, has over 25 years experience with Fortune 500 companies, serving in corporate governance positions where he supervised the preparation and distribution of proxy solicitation materials and coordinated shareholder meetings from solicitation to vote tabulation. Jim is a long-time member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, having served in a number of officer and committee positions with the New York and Houston Chapters. He also served as a member of the Society’s Law and Corporate Practices Committees.

Leah Grant

Who is based near Seattle, WA, has over 24 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/medical device industry, the last 10 of which were spent in Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. She is the President of Fluididea, Inc., a firm she founded in 2007, which provides communications and IR consulting services to companies in the biopharma & medical device industries. Leah holds a BS from Western Washington University and an MBA from Seattle Pacific University. She is an active member of NIRI; a past president of the Seattle Chapter and a charter member of NIRI’s Strategic Communication and Reputation Management Roundtable.

Anna G. Hagberg

Who is based in New Jersey, began her career as an Inspector of Election in early 2010 by attending annual and special meetings of a wide variety of small, mid-cap and large corporate issuers. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Manager Regulatory Coordination at Merck & Co. She holds a B.S. degree from La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides serving as an Inspector, Anna coordinates the scheduling of the roughly 500 annual, special and contested shareholder meetings currently handled by the CT Hagberg LLC Team.

Peder Hagberg

Peder Hagberg is the Co-Editor and Publisher of The Shareholder Service OPTIMIZER newsletter and magazine, which has been dedicated to helping public companies—and their suppliers—deliver better and more cost-effective services to shareholders since 1997. As an independent Inspector of Election for Shareholder Meetings with the CT Hagberg, LLC inspector team, he has inspected numerous in-person, hybrid, virtual, and contested meetings and frequently writes about “annual meeting best practices” in the OPTIMIZER newsletter.

Peder began his career in the Mutual Funds Servicing and Asset Management divisions at Bankers Trust Company and later Deutsche Bank, where he worked as a Relationship Manager for Pension Fund and Trust Bank clients. In 2001, he left the financial services industry to become the Owner and Publisher of Currents Magazine, an award-winning lifestyle publication and full-service marketing agency in New Jersey.

Peder is a Board Member for several New Jersey-based non-profits and is currently the Board President of Shore House, an accredited Clubhouse that helps adults living with severe mental illness regain life and work skills. He is also a Board Member of the Rumson Country Club, where he serves on the Finance Committee and as Commodore of the Marina. Peder is a graduate of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA.

Terence Hassett

Terence “Terry” Hassett based in Boston, MA has over 30 years experience in the securities industry. He served as a senior executive in Bank of Boston’s Securities Division, as the Vice President and Director of Shareholder Services at Chase Manhattan Bank’s Boston based Transfer Agency and as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mellon Bank’s Transfer Agency subsidiary, Mellon Securities Transfer Services, based in Fort Lee, N.J. Terry is a well rounded professional who has managed all aspects of Transfer Agency. During his career, he has acted as Inspector of Election at numerous annual and special meetings of shareholders as well as special meetings of depositors in connection with savings and loan mutual to stock conversions. Since 2010, Terry has worked exclusively as an independent Inspector of Election at shareholder meetings.

Lisa Hatton Harrington

Lisa Hatton Harrington is an independent board director for publicly traded corporation Slam Corporation and recently for publicly traded Iron Horse Acquisitions. She also currently serves on the board of the USC Gould School of Law Alumni Association, is acting as assistant corporate secretary for two public healthcare companies, and is a lecturer on Corporate Governance for the Wharton School of Business executive education program. Ms. Harrington was Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Viant Technology, a publicly traded advertising software company, and was General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and a Board Director for ChromaDex, a publicly traded bioscience company. Prior to that, Ms. Harrington was Of Counsel at the prestigious global law firm Cooley LLP acting as outside general counsel for public companies as well as start-ups. She has held General Counsel positions at ASICS, Surf Airlines, NBCUniversal/Comcast’s digital division (including Fandango), and Unum Group’s Western division. Ms. Harrington is an experienced chief compliance officer and chief privacy officer, and has also been head of enterprise risk management, internal audit, ESG, and procurement. Ms. Harrington received her B.A. from UCLA and her J.D. from USC Gould School of Law.

She previously served as executive board director and secretary of the Association of Corporate Counsel, and served on the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel board, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles board, and was president of her HOA board. Ms. Harrington was a 2021 Orange County Business Journal Public Company General Counsel of the Year Award Nominee, and a 2022 Los Angeles Times General Counsel Leadership Award Nominee.

Trish Hodson

Who divides her time between the Dallas, TX and San Francisco Bay areaa, has served as Inspector of Election at numerous shareholder meetings – both in the U.S. and Canada. She spent seven years in relationship management and sales at CIBC Mellon Shareholder Services in Toronto, Canada, followed by five years as a Vice President and Relationship Manager in the BNY Mellon Shareowner Services Dallas, TX office, before joining our Team of Inspectors in early 2010.

Nancy Hoffman

Based in the Kansas City area, has over 30 years of experience in banking and stock transfer. She was Senior Vice Presidenvt and Manager of the Securities Transfer Division at UMB Bank for the majority of her career. Nancy served as Inspector of Election at hundreds of annual and special meetings over a 20 year timeframe. She served on the Board of Directors of the Securities Transfer Association and is a Past President of the Kansas City chapter of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Missouri in Kansas City.

Barbara Manz Howland, ESQ.

Barbara has served in various roles with Chiquita Brands International Inc. for more than 30 years and as its Corporate Secretary and Assistant Corporate Secretary for more than 20 years. During her tenure, Barbara was responsible for corporate governance and compliance matters as well as activities related to the company’s quarterly board meetings, annual shareholder meetings and the drafting and filing of Chiquita’s annual proxy statement. In addition, Barbara managed proxy distribution, the planning and logistics of shareholder meetings and shareholder communications. She also managed the company’s incentive stock option and restricted stock award programs and oversaw due diligence and closing activities associated with acquisitions, divestitures and financial transactions. Barbara currently serves on the board of directors and as an officer of several non-profit corporations.

Louis P. Izzi, ESQ.

With a foundation in the Boston area, Lou has represented clients throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for three decades and is a co-founder of the firm Bell & Izzi, LLC. He began his professional career in a diverse legal practice and served as counsel to a prominent regional financial institution providing advice on collection and debt avoidance and mitigation strategies.

Over the past twenty years Lou has honed his focus, specializing, and advising clients in the pivotal areas of real estate acquisition, development, commercial and residential lending, as well as private, corporate clients on formation, governance, and compliance issues. His acumen extends beyond the legal realm serving as director and officer to various charitable, civic, business, and municipal boards. Lou earned his Juris Doctorate from New England Law/Boston, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stonehill College, and he is an alumnus of the Boston
Latin School.

Richard Kretz

Richard is based in the Chicago area and has more than 25 years of experience in the stock transfer and shareholder relations industry, with a background in Operations Management, Relationship Management and Sales. He also has a background in Education and in Banking Operations.

Richard has served as the Inspector of Elections at hundreds of Shareholder Meetings throughout the United States. He holds an MBA in Finance and an MA in English Literature.

Victor W. Latessa, ESQ.

Based in Charlotte, NC, is a former member of the Greyhound Corporation legal department and has over 30 years of experience in the stock transfer industry. Vic was a Vice President and Team Leader in the corporate trust departments of KeyBank, Wachovia, and National City Bank, and recently retired from American Stock Transfer & Trust. He has assisted hundreds of clients in the coordination of annual and special meetings and has served as Inspector of Election at over 300 meetings. Vic is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and the Boston University School of Law.

Jane F. Ludlow, CPA

Based in Philadelphia, PA, is a consultant specializing in corporate governance, policies, and compliance. She has served as Inspector of Election for over 100 Annual and Special Meetings for publicly-held companies of all sizes. From 1984-98, she served in the Finance Organization and as Executive Director – Corporate Governance at Bell Atlantic, where she supervised the creation of materials and the logistical and voting processes for the Annual Meeting, typically attended by over 500 of the company’s 2 million investors. Jane is an active member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, AICPA, and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.

Joseph MacLelland

Based in South Yarmouth MA, retired in 2009 as the Operations Manager for the Computershare Proxy Group, which he had been managing since 1985. During his career there, Joe was responsible for all the activities necessary to design, produce, mail and tabulate proxies and to certify the vote at over 1,500 Annual and Special Meetings a year. He led or assisted on projects designed to implement developments such as Householding, Notice & Access and IVR and Web-based proxy voting. Until his retirement, Joe was a member of the STA Proxy Committee. He holds an Associate degree from Cambridge School of Business and attended Williams School of Banking.

Gregory Malatia

Based in the Chicago area, retired from LaSalle Bank in 2008 after managing Shareholder Services there for 11 years, where he was responsible for interfacing with the Bank’s corporate clients, coordinating annual meeting requirements and acting as Inspector of Election at numerous annual and special meetings. Earlier, Greg spent 26 years at Harris Bank, ultimately becoming the operations manager for stock transfer, reorg, tax reporting, dividend disbursement and proxy production, mailing and tabulation activities. Greg has been a director of the Securities Transfer Association and is a former president of the Midwest Securities Transfer Association.

Lisa Mertens

Based in San Francisco, Lisa is a consultant with over 25 years of corporate governance experience having served as a long tenured Assistant Corporate Secretary at Gap, Inc. and as Corporate Secretary at non-profit Gap Foundation, where she was responsible for corporate and non-profit governance, board support, and subsidiary governance. Lisa is a long-time member of the Society for Corporate Governance, having served in a number of officer positions with the Northern California Chapter. Lisa has a B.S. degree from the University of San Francisco.

Suzan (Sam) Miller, Esq.

Based in the Bay Area, Ms. Miller has nearly three decades of experience working at the intersection of law, business, and technology. She is the founder of Miller Consulting Services, working with executives, companies, boards and non-profits as a governance consultant, independent board evaluation adviser, business strategist and coach. Prior roles include Corporate Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, Intel Corporation, where she managed corporate governance, board support, annual meeting and proxy preparation, shareholder outreach, securities filings and stock exchange compliance. As General Counsel, Intel Capital, she played a key role in creating and growing Intel Capital and its investment and M&A practices and processes. She is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance.

Chandi Neubauer-Jackson

Formerly based near Dallas and now on Hilton Head Island, Chandi has had extensive experience as a retail analyst – at ITG Investment Research, Hunter Global Investors and Trivium Capital Management. Chandi is also a retail marketing, merchandising and public relations specialist who wrote regularly for Women’s Wear Daily and appeared on CNBC and Fox Business News. Chandi holds an MBA from Babson College, an ME from The Bank Street College of Education in NYC and a BA from the State University of NY at Stony Brook.

Maria Rizzuti

Based in Connecticut, has 20+ years of experience in managing administrative and compliance functions of Aetna Inc.’s Corporation Secretary’s Office where she served as a Business Project Program Manager (2007-2019) and Paralegal (1995-2007). Prior to its acquisition by CVS Health Corporation in November 2018, Maria developed, coordinated and managed Aetna’s processes for annual and special shareholder meetings, board and committee meetings (including meeting materials and drafting minutes), shareholder relations, SEC compliance for Section 16 and NYSE compliance. Maria holds a B.S. degree from Western Connecticut State University and an ABA approved Lawyer’s Assistant Certificate from Adelphi University.

Barry Shapiro

Who is based in New York City, is the founder of Applied Consulting & Logistics, a shareholder relations consulting firm. Barry spent more than 30 years with Mellon Investor Services and its predecessors as a Vice President & Senior Relationship Manager. He has served as Inspector of Election at more than 200 Annual Meetings, including those for BellSouth, Fannie Mae, The McGraw-Hill Companies, and Yale University Trustee Elections. Barry is the Treasurer of the NYARKOA Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides clean water to hospitals and neighboring communities in Africa, and is also a director of the Stevenson School in NYC.

Wendy Shiba, ESQ.

Based in Los Angeles, CA, has 30+ years of experience in the corporate arena, having served as an executive officer of 3 NYSE-listed companies (EVP, GC & Secretary of KB Home; SVP, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of PolyOne Corporation; and VP, Secretary & Asst. GC of Bowater Inc.) Earlier, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law and in private practice with O’Melveny & Myers. She was the 2012-2013 President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and is a speaker at the annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business. In 2014, she received the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association and the Diamond Award from Corporate Counsel Women of Color.

David L. Siddall, ESQ.

Based in Colorado Springs and Arizona, David has served as a legal officer, chief governance officer, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary of two Fortune 500 energy companies, Anadarko Petroleum and El Paso Corp. More recently, he has served as Chief Financial Officer of Graceland University, and was a co-founding partner of the McQueen & Siddall, LLP law firm in Scottsdale, AZ and St. Petersburg, FL, where his law practice consisted of estate planning, elder law, business succession planning, “outside” general counsel services, executive compensation, governance, compliance and board consulting and related areas. David holds a BA in Business Administration from Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa, a JD from the University of Iowa College of Law, and an L.L.M. from the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables FL. David also serves on non-profit boards and committees.

Laura Sisneros

A Colorado native based in Denver, Laura has had 34 years of expertise in the Securities Transfer Industry, working initially with a Colorado transfer agent, then with Computershare in various management roles which included responsibilities for Annual Meeting Administration, Operations, Trust, and Corporate Reorganizations. In 2003 Laura became part of Computershare Communications, Inc., as a Business Development Manager. She was promoted to Director of Enterprise Product Management and became part of the CCS Leadership team in 2010. In 2014 her responsibilities included supporting Annual Meeting Compliance Solutions and as a Client Development Manager. Laura, who has served as an Inspector of Elections in numerous corporate meetings, retired from Computershare in December of 2015.

Katherine Smith

Ms. Smith served as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Exelon Corporation from 2017 until 2024, where she advised Exelon’s senior management and Board on corporate governance and securities law matters. She led Exelon’s investor engagement efforts and governance messaging. Previously, Ms. Smith led the Office of Corporate Governance at The Allstate Corporation where she served as Assistant Secretary and Corporate Counsel for nearly twenty years.

Ms. Smith served on the national board of the Society for Corporate Governance and
was a member of its Nominating and Governance. She served as co-chair of the Society’s 69th National Conference in 2015.

Anne St.Martin

Based near Minneapolis, Minnesota, Anne has 35+ years experience in the Financial Services industry. She has had a diverse career, serving most recently as Chief Product Officer for Transfer Agent Equiniti, formerly Wells Fargo Shareowner Services. Focused on product innovation and governance, she was intimately involved in the movement and transition in establishing Virtual Annual Meetings and managed the team of Proxy Solicitation professionals. Her roles prior involved management of Client Services & Business Strategy, Finance, Tax Services and Operational Management, including proxy tabulation and Inspector of Election. Anne was co-chair of the Securities Transfer Association Abandoned Property Committee.

Stephen Tollefsen, ESQ.

Based in the Seattle, WA area, has over 30 years of corporate and securities law experience. Steve has been responsible for coordinating annual meeting services, drafting and filing proxy statements and annual reports, and advising on corporate governance, compliance matters, and proxy contests. He is principal of Tollefsen Business Law PC, focusing on transactional, corporate and securities law matters. He is a member of the ABA Federal Securities Committee, and the ABA State Regulation of Securities Committee.

Kristina Veaco, ESQ.

Is the founder of Veaco Group a corporate governance advisory firm providing practical governance support for companies and their boards. The firm specializes in independent board evaluations. Kris is a corporate securities lawyer and, prior to forming Veaco Group, ran the Office of Corporate Secretary at McKesson Corporation where she was responsible for board governance and support, securities law, stock exchange and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and subsidiary governance. She is a longstanding member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and frequently speaks and writes on corporate governance topics.

Jean Wood, CPA

Based in Los Angeles, CA, Jean spent nearly 30 years on the finance team at publicly traded retail REIT, Macerich, one of the largest owners of regional shopping centers in the United States, where she held the title of Vice President of Investor Relations. Jean began her career as a certified public accountant on the audit team of PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Stanford University.

Gary Wozniak

Is a Long Island, NY based consultant to the shareowner services industry. Gary brings four decades of financial services industry experience in all phases of Corporate Trust Group Services, with an emphasis on managing large, complex clients and transactions. He has helped organize numerous annual meetings and has acted as an Inspector of Election at over 250 routine and contested meetings. Most recently a First Vice President at The Bank of New York Mellon, Gary worked earlier at Marine Midland Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Harris Trust Company. He is a graduate of Pace University.