CorpGov, IPO Edge and PE Edge will be hosting the second Princeton CorpGov Forum on May 21, 2026, the second LA CorpGov Forum on September 18, 2026, and the sixth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on November 4-5, 2026.
We invite institutional investors, corporate executives, and Princeton alumni/students to attend these events. Registration is currently open for the second Princeton CorpGov Forum, REGISTER HERE.
For information on being a speaker at our upcoming conferences, please email Editor@CorpGov.com.
All events 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.

Second Princeton CorpGov Forum
CorpGov will host the second Princeton CorpGov Forum on Thursday, May 21, 2026, at The Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey. Our roster of speakers features industry leaders and alumni spanning five decades at Princeton, with topics encompassing university endowments, shareholder activism, private equity, venture capital, private and public capital markets, entertainment and the finance of college sports. The forum, hosted in The Prince William Ballroom, includes an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking, followed by a reception with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres.
Agenda – Thursday, May 21 (all activities will be at the Prince William Ballroom)
2:00 pm – Registration and Networking
3:00 pm – Forum Begins
6:00 pm – Cocktail Reception
Panels:
- Endowments: Governance and Alternative Investments
- Activism: Governance from Investor and Board Perspectives
- AI and Cybersecurity in the Boardroom
- Governance in Private Equity: From Investment to Exit
- Public and Private Capital Markets Assessment
- The Business of Entertainment and Advertising
- Finance of Sports: Collegiate Focus
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Second LA CorpGov Forum
CorpGov will host the second LA CorpGov Forum on September 18, 2026, at The Huntington Library in San Marino, close to downtown Los Angeles, California. The event will feature over a hundred institutional investors, corporate executives, and USC alumni in an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking. REGISTER HERE.
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Sixth Palm Beach CorpGov Forum
CorpGov, IPO Edge and PE Edge will host the sixth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 4 and Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, 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 each day after the event from 5pm to 7:30pm.
Watch the 2025 Palm Beach CorpGov Forum Highlights: HERE

For sponsorship, speaker or media enquiries, email Editor@CorpGov.com
Our audience will include approximately 300 attendees including institutional investors, board directors, family offices/HNWIs, attorneys, investment bankers and key advisors.
Full List of Speakers for the 5th CorpGov Forum 2025:
- 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
- Mark Garibyan, Partner, Seward & Kissel LLP
- 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.
- 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
- Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital
- 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)
- Josh Kosman, Senior Correspondent, The Capitol Forum (Moderator)
- Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
- John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)
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