CorpGov hosted the sixth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on Nov. 4-5, 2026, at the Palm Beach Lake Pavilion and The Cove Club, both located waterfront with sweeping views of Palm Beach Island, along with a reception at Cucina Palm Beach.
The fireside featuring Vishal Garg, Founder and Head of Product, Platform and Innovation at Better Home & Finance Holding Co. (Nasdaq: BETR), took place on Thursday afternoon. The in-person interview was joined by John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief of CorpGov.
Key comments from the panel:
- “I started doing videos, and the videos started getting good pickup… but the open rate wasn’t very high,” said Vishal Garg. “So then I basically went and I replaced myself in the video with an attractive blond lady.”
- “So this is AI and activism in a quite different way than we were thinking about before,” said John Jannarone. “It’s actually a fake person.”
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Photo Gallery of the 6th Palm Beach CorpGov Forum
Speakers: CorpGov Forum 2026:
- Keynote: Paul Abrahimzadeh, Partner, 1789 Capital
- Keynote: Vishal Garg, Founder and Head of Product, Platform and Innovation, Better Home & Finance Holding Co. (Nasdaq: BETR)
- Andrew Bair, President and CEO, Capital Defense Technologies
- Jeff Buzen, Head of M&A, McGill and Partners
- Marcos Cervantes, Founder and CEO, Q-Branch
- Doug Chia, President, Soundboard Governance; Host, The Public Company Series Podcast; Former Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson
- George Corbin, Board Director, Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE: EPC); Former Chief Digital Officer, Marriott and Mars
- Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
- Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
- Adam Dobrik, Senior Director, Shareholder Activism Practice, Forward Global
- Don Duffy, Chairman, ICR Capital
- John Ehrhard, Co-Founder, XQai
- Andrew Freedman, Co-Managing Partner; Chair, Shareholder Activism Practice, Olshan Frome Wolosky
- Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners
- Joe Germani, Partner and Co-Founder, Longacre Square Partners
- Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners
- Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP
- John Grau, President, InvestorCom
- Mary Guzman, Founder and CEO, Crown Jewel Insurance
- Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners
- Benjamin Heriaud, Partner, Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions, Vinson & Elkins
- Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures
- Rafique Jiwani, Head of GTM Value Creation, Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
- Andy Katz, General Partner, BrknPar Ventures (Sport Tech Growth Equity Fund)
- Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper
- Harrison Lance, Head of Capital Markets, Southeast, New York Stock Exchange
- Jonathan Lo, Vice President of Startup Finance, EisnerAmper
- Robert Maciejko, Founder, Board AI Institute; Co-founder, INSEAD AI (Alum-Led); Member, INSEAD’s AI Advisory Group
- Mark Martini, Senior Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets, E.F. Hutton & Co.
- Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal
- Charles Orozco, Senior Vice President – Group Director, Flagstar Private Bank
- Kory Patrick, Principal, Risk Advisory Services, Kaufman, Rossin &Co.
- Matthew Player, CEO, Zoneomics
- Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and co-founder, Ajna Labs LLC
- Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group
- Patrick Rooney, Family Owner, Pittsburgh Steelers; President, Palm Beach Kennel Club
- Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital
- Emma Sissman, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Alternatives
- Dorothy Sluszka, Partner, Shareholder Activism, Corporate/Securities Law, Olshan Frome Wolosky
- Charles Soranno, Managing Director, Protiviti
- Adam Tamzoke, Counsel, Latham & Watkins
- Sebastian Tiller, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets, Vinson & Elkins
- Greg Veltri, Stock Plan Lifecycle Director, Infinite Equity
- Karen Walker, CFO, Sysdig
- Judson Wallace, Managing Director, White Rabbit Capital
- Candice Wilson, Managing Director, CFO Advisory Practice, EisnerAmper
- Joseph Yaker, Founder and CEO, Xpand Global Inc.
- Ned Zelles, Director, Head of GTS Corporate Services, GTS
- Katie Creaser, Partner, Technology, ICR (Moderator)
- Adam Kommel, Activism Data Product Manager, Bloomberg (Moderator)
- Stuart Levine, Chairman and CEO, Stuart Levine & Associates (Moderator)
- Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
- John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)
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