The 2021 Berkeley Forum for Corporate Governance

Steven Davidoff Solomon, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Honorable Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Honorable Joseph Slights III, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Randall J. Baron, Partner, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd

Jill Fisch, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Katherine Henderson, Partner, Wilson Sonsini

John Mark Zeberkiewicz, Director, Richards, Layton & Finger

Eliot Brown, Reporter, Wall Street Journal

Maureen Farrell, Reporter, New York Times

Frank Partnoy, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Gregory Elders, Managing Director, Joele Frank

Melinda Haag, Partner, Paul, Weiss

Jolynn Vallejo, Chief of Staff, Kapor Capital

Peter Werner, Partner, Cooley

Laura Murphy, President, Laura Murphy & Associates

Amelia Miazad, Director and Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business

Afra Afsharipour, Professor, University of California, Davis

Ed Batts, Partner, Gibson Dunn

Jason DiLullo, Partner, Qatalyst Partners

Jamie Leigh, Partner, Cooley

Irene Liu, Executive in Residence, Berkeley Law Executive Education

Afra Afsharipour, Professor, University of California, Davis

Wei Chen, SVP & Associate General Counsel, Salesforce

Michael Dorf, Partner, Shearman & Sterling

Steven Lipin, Chairman and CEO, Gladstone Place Partners

Robert Marese, President, MacKenzie Partners

David Peinsipp, Partner, Cooley

Steven Fletcher, CEO, Explorer Acquisitions

Emily Roberts, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Usha Rodrigues, Professor, University of Georgia School of Law

Ross Weiner, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, Explorer Acquisitions

Derek Thompson, Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Andre G. Bouchard, Partner, Paul, Weiss

Honorable Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Honorable Joseph Slights III, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

David Berger, Partner, Wilson Sonsini

William Lafferty, Partner, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Associate Professor, Stanford University

Doug Parker, Chairman, American Airlines

Stephen Johnson, Executive Vice President and Strategic Advisor to the CEO, American Airlines

Renee Jones, Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission

Robert Bartlett, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Hannah-Beth Jackson, Former California State Senator

Amelia Miazad, Director and Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business

Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase

Obrea Poindexter, Partner, Cooley

Marina Gracias, General Counsel, Varo Bank

Daniel Wall, Partner, Latham & Watkins

Christina Lema, Managing Director and General Counsel, Vista Equity Partners

Mario Mancuso, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Stephen McKeon, Professor, University of Oregon

Afra Afsharipour, Professor, University of California, Davis

Mark Brilliant, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Panos Patatoukas, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Jamie Leigh, Partner, Cooley

John Doerr, Author, “Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now”

Erik Gerding, Director, SEC Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Stavros Gadinis, Professor, University of California, Berkeley