Fassil Michael
Corporate Officer/Principal at Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.
Profile
Mr. Fassil Michael is a Head of Thought Leadership at Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. He brings an invaluable breadth of governance, client and company knowledge to the role, with over twenty years of corporate governance and ESG experience at ISS.
In this role he will support all of the businesses in ISS Governance Solutions, with an emphasis on Governance Research & Voting.
Mr. Michael will direct and coordinate thought leadership in support of maintaining ISS’ standing as the global leader in providing the highest quality governance research and related services, business growth, marketing opportunities and promotion of our products and expertise, and will play a key role in representing ISS with clients and in the market.
Prior to his current role, he was ISS’ Global Head of Custom Research.
With more than 20 years experience, he was variously responsible for managing the Global Custom Research, US Custom Research and Social Advisory Services teams, oversaw the implementation of 400+ proxy-voting policies for institutional clients worldwide, and provided corporate governance policy consulting and development services to many institutional investor clients.
He is a graduate of Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT where he earned a B.A.
in International Politics and Economics (IP&E), with a focus on economics.
Fassil Michael active positions
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Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01/05/2014 |
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Middlebury College | Undergraduate Degree |
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Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.
Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media. | Finance |
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