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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.

Best Practices in Sports Investing

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.

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)​

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.

Fireside Chat: Governance in Los Angeles – LA CorpGov Forum

Entertainment and Media – LA CorpGov Forum

International Business in the Trump 2.0 World – LA CorpGov Forum

Maximizing Value From Private Boards – LA CorpGov Forum

The Burgeoning Business of Sports – LA CorpGov Forum

Capital Markets: M&A and Private to Public Company Readiness – LA CorpGov Forum

Role of Boards in Shareholder Activism – LA CorpGov Forum

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