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Updated Preliminary Agenda: 5th Palm Beach CorpGov Forum Nov 5-6

CorpGov, IPO Edge and PE Edge will host the fifth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 5 and Thursday, Nov, 6, 2025, at the Palm Beach Lake Pavilion, located waterfront with sweeping views of Palm Beach Island. The Forum will feature panels and firesides from 1pm to 5pm. Networking receptions will follow at The Cove Club West Palm (sponsored by ASC Advisors) on Nov. 5 and Cucina Palm Beach (sponsored by Fox Rothschild) on Nov. 6.

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Preliminary Agenda – Wednesday, Nov. 5 

12:00 pm – Registration and lunch – Palm Beach Lake Pavilion

1:00 pm – Forum Starts

1:00 pm: Digital Asset Treasury

  • Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn 
  • Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)
  • Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC​

1:30 pm: Private Equity Meets Founder and Family-Owned Businesses

1:55 pm: Private Equity in Florida Sports

  • Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University
  • Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
  • Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures

2:25 pm: From Series A to IPO: Deep Diligence Across the Deal Cycle – Fireside with Paul Quinlan

2:40 pm: Tech-Enabled Private Equity

  • Adam Doyle, EVP, Head of Technology Finance, Alliance Funding Group
  • Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity​
  • Alex Moazed, General Partner, Applico Capital
  • Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield​

3:05 pm: Governance: The Evolution from Private to Public Markets

3:30 pm: Break

3:35 pm: VC Investing in Latin America

3:55 pm: AI: From Hospitality to Real Estate

  • Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)
  • Ariel Mark, Head of Western US Investments, Tokyu Land US Corp.
  • Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc. (NYSE: TOST)
  • Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport

4:20 pm: Maximizing the Value of Directors on VC-Backed Boards

  • Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus
  • Ryan Keating, Partner – Outsource Accounting Services Practice, EisnerAmper​
  • Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital
  • Patrick Whelan, Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins

4:45 pm: Media Industry Dealmaking: Paramount Global and Beyond

Depart for reception at The Cove Club (sponsored by ASC Advisors)

Preliminary Agenda – Thursday, Nov. 6

12:00 pm – Registration and lunch – The Palm Beach Lake Pavilion

1:00 pm – Forum Starts

1:00 pm: Capital Markets Assessment and Private to Public Company Readiness

  • Tad Nacheff, Head of East Coast Capital Markets and Financial Sponsor Coverage, NYSE
  • Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel​
  • Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors
  • John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)​

1:30 pm: Trading Action: Readying for the Reddit Bandits

2:00 pm: Crisis Management: Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Asset Managers

2:15 pm: IPO Prep and Public Company Life: Navigating Regulations

2:45 pm: Barbarians at the Gate: An International Perspective

3:15 pm: 2026 Proxy Season Outlook

3:45 pm: Break

3:50 pm: Contested M&A

  • Adam Kommel, Shareholder Activism Development Lead, Bloomberg LP​
  • Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins​
  • Heath Winter, Partner, Corporate Governance & Shareholder Engagement, Longacre Square Partners
  • Christopher Young, Investment Banker, Formerly Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, ISS

4:20 pm: Activism: Views from the Board, CEO and Outside Agitator

  • Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners​
  • John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)​
  • Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)​
  • Jessica Wood, Partner, Corporate Governance, M&A, Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense, Sidley Austin LLP

4:50 pm: Keynote Fireside with Trian

  • Josh Frank, Partner and Co-Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management
  • Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)

Depart for reception at Cucina Palm Beach (sponsored by Fox Rothschild)

Watch the 2024 CorpGov Forum Highlights:

Our audience will include approximately 300 attendees including institutional investors, board directors, family offices/HNWIs, attorneys, investment bankers and key advisors.​

The event will be digitized into a report published on CorpGov and by its content partners (under relevant company stock tickers) Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Terminals, Reuters via LSEG Workspace, and AlphaSense, and filmed with multiple 4K video cameras and professional editing.

For sponsorship, speaker or media enquiries, email Editor@CorpGov.com  

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5th CorpGov Forum 2025 Preliminary Speakers:

Keynote: Josh Frank, Partner and Co-Investment Officer, Trian Fund Management

Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)

Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)​

Randall Adams, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP

Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University

Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus

Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn   

Steve Bruce, Managing Partner,  ASC Advisors

Christine Carson, President and CEO, Carson Proxy​

Pablo Casilimas, Managing Partner, OneSixOne Ventures

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

Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel​

Adam Doyle, EVP, Head of Technology Finance, Alliance Funding Group

Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball

Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners

Brendan Foo, Partner, Global Head of Corporate Contests, Forward Global

Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners​

Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners​

Ira Gorsky, Managing Director, Edelman Smithfield​

Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP

John Grau, President, InvestorCom 

Josh Harlan, Founder & Managing Partner, Harlan Capital​

Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)

Gabriel Hasson, Global Head of Governance and Shareholder Advisory, ICR

Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures

Taylor Ingraham, Partner, ASC Advisors

Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Private Equity​

Ryan Keating, Partner, EisnerAmper​

Alex Knowland, Principal, Comvest Credit Partners

Adam Kommel, Shareholder Activism Development Lead, Bloomberg LP​

Jonathan Lo, VP of Finance, EisnerAmper 

John Marchisi, Executive Director – Capital Markets, Artex Risk Solutions​

Ariel Mark, Head of Western US Investments, Tokyu Land US Corp.

Mark Martini, Founder and CEO, WimbledonGlobal, Inc.

Mario Masrieh, Managing Director, Recognition, Trivest

Alex Moazed, General Partner, Applico Capital

Francisco Morales, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins​

Patrick Murphy, Head of NYSE Market Making, GTS​

Tad Nacheff, Head of East Coast Capital Markets and Financial Sponsor Coverage, NYSE

Steve Parish, Partner, ICR

Paul Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Quinlan Partners

Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC​

Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group

Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc.

Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport

Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital

Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer, AvePoint

Emma Sissman, Vice President, Impact Investing, Goldman Sachs

Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors

Zach Swartz, Partner, Corporate Real Estate Practice, Vinson & Elkins ​

Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins​

Bob Verrico, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, InvestingChannel, Inc.

Patrick Whelan, Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity, Vinson & Elkins

Heath Winter, Partner, Corporate Governance & Shareholder Engagement, Longacre Square Partners

Jessica Wood, Partner, Corporate Governance, M&A, Shareholder Activism and Corporate Defense, Sidley Austin LLP

Marc Yaklofsky, Managing Partner, New York, Forward Global

Christopher Young, Investment Banker, Formerly Director of M&A and Proxy Fight Research, ISS

Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal (Moderator)​

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

John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)​

Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)

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