Final Agenda: 2nd LA CorpGov Forum Sep 18 Featuring Activism, Sports, Entertainment

CorpGov is pleased to share the final agenda for the 2nd LA CorpGov Forum, to be held on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The conference registration will begin at 1:00pm and feature an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking, followed by a reception at 5:00pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the Garden Court.

This event will bring together members of the financial community from both LA and beyond to join panels focused on the finance of entertainment and media, sports, along with capital markets and shareholder activism.

We invite institutional investors and corporate executives to attend and they may register at the link below. For more information, please email Editor@CorpGov.com.

Registration is open for this event: REGISTER HERE.

Panel Lineup

Best Practices in Sports Finance

Thomas W. Hulick, CEO, Managing Partner, Strategy Asset Managers
Baird Fogel, Head of Global Sports Practice, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland
Noah Francis, Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
David Carter, Principal, The Sports Business Group

Entertainment in the AI Era: Music, Games and Film 

ElizBeth Jones, Founder and CEO, Atomic Venus Media
Willonius Hatcher, Co-Founder, AI and the Culture
Jason Alejandre, President, Founder and Creative Director, Game Mechanic Studios (GMS)
Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners

Venture Capital and PE: A California Perspective on Governance

Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper
Brent Granado, Partner, Sweetwater Private Equity
Thomas Courtney, Jr., President and CEO, The Courtney Group

Capital Markets Assessment and IPO Readiness 

Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
Nicole Brady, Managing Director, Protiviti
Joseph Fish, CEP, Managing Director, Stock Operations, Infinite Equity

Shareholder Activism: An Early Look Ahead to 2027

Sagar Gupta, Portfolio Manager, Anson Funds
Jon Feldman, Partner and Business Law Group Head, Goodmans LLP
John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

Keynote Fireside: Business and Governance in LA

Paul Haaga, Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company; Chair of the Board, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Board Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Dick Drobnick, Former USC Vice Provost for Globalization and IBEAR MBA Program Director, Asia Society Southern California Chairman Emeritus

The forum 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.

Speakers Second LA CorpGov Forum 2026:

Paul Haaga, Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company; Chair of the Board, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Board Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Jason Alejandre, President, Founder and Creative Director, Game Mechanic Studios (GMS)
Nicolle Brady, Managing Director, Protiviti
David Carter, Principal, The Sports Business Group
Thomas Courtney, Jr., President and CEO, The Courtney Group
Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
Dick Drobnick, Former USC Vice Provost for Globalization and IBEAR MBA Program Director, Asia Society Southern California Chairman Emeritus
Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners
Jon Feldman, Partner and Business Law Group Head, Goodmans LLP
Joseph Fish, CEP, Managing Director, Stock Operations, Infinite Equity
Baird Fogel, Head of Global Sports Practice, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland
Noah Francis, Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Brent Granado, Partner, Sweetwater Private Equity
Steve Griffith, CEO, E8 Entertainment
Sagar Gupta, Portfolio Manager, Anson Funds
Willonius Hatcher, Co-Founder, AI and the Culture
Thomas W. Hulick, CEO, Managing Partner, Strategy Asset Managers
Rafique Jiwani, Head of GTM Value Creation, Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
ElizBeth Jones, Founder and CEO, Atomic Venus Media
Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper
Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

Sports, Entertainment & IPOs: LA CorpGov Forum Video Highlights

The first LA CorpGov Forum was held on Sept. 4, 2025, at 1500 N El Centro Ave, Los Angeles, California, in the heart of Hollywood. The event was hosted together with Edelman Smithfield and featured over a hundred institutional investors, corporate executives, and USC alumni. The event focused on IPOs, shareholder activism, media and entertainment, governance in Los Angeles, sports business, private boards, and international business.