Kenneth A. Graves

The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is a state-owned pension fund management firm headquartered in Sacramento, California. Founded in 1932, the firm has long been at the forefront of shareholder activism in the US. CalPERS provides retirement and health benefit services to private individuals and employers, specifically active, inactive and retired employees of California state and local public agencies. They routinely put pressure on companies to achieve better corporate performance corporate governance.

The Dayton Power & Light Co. engages in the provision of electricity and natural gas. Its business include the sale, transmission, and distribution of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial and governmental customers. The company was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Dayton, OH.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

The International Integrated Reporting Council operates a council focused on integrated reporting. Richard Stuart Howitt has been the CEO of the American company since 2016.

Virtus Event Opportunities Trust operates as an open-end management investment company that provides risk-adjusted returns with relative volatility in virtually all market environments. The fund invests in event-driven stocks of companies involved in publicly announced mergers, takeovers and other corporate reorganizations, asset sales or other divestitures, restructurings, re-financings, recapitalizations, reorganizations and other special situations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Valhalla, NY.

Integrity Insurance provides insurance services. It offers business, auto, home and life insurance. The company is headquartered in Appleton, WI.

Stichting Global Reporting Initiative provides manpower training and vocational rehabilitation and habilitation services. The non-profit company is based in Amsterdam, NL. and has subsidiaries in United States. The Dutch company was founded in 1997 by Allen White. Eelco van der Enden has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants provides vocational education in accounting. The company provides services to the accounting community, regulatory bodies, and other organizations. It also operates in Jersey City, Washington, and Lewisville. It was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Grange Insurance Co. provides casualty insurance services. Its service categories include auto, home, business, and life insurance. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Celanese Chemicals, Inc. produces chemical products. It offers acids, anhydrides, aldehydes, polyols, glycols, solvents, monomers, amines, cellulose acetates, and catalyst. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

GE Power & Water provides customers with a broad array of power generation, energy delivery and water process technologies to solve their challenges locally. Power & Water works in all areas of the energy industry including renewable resources such as wind and solar; biogas and alternative fuels; and coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy. The business also develops advanced technologies to help solve the world’s most complex challenges related to water availability and quality. Power & Water’s six business units include Distributed Power, Nuclear Energy, Power Generation Products, Power Generation Services, Renewable Energy and Water & Process Technologies. Headquartered in Schenectady, N.Y., Power & Water is GE’s largest industrial business.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Greater Hartford Arts Council, Inc. is a non profit organization that provides leadership for the financial success and organizational stability of the arts, heritage and cultural community of Connecticut’s capital region. It supports the growing non-profit arts and cultural sector with operating support grants to the five largest community institutions: the museum, the ballet, the opera, the symphony, and the theatre company. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Nasdaq ISE LLC operates equity and trading options exchange. It transformed the options industry by creating efficient markets through innovative market structure and technology. It provides investors with a transparent marketplace for price and liquidity discovery on centrally cleared options products. The company was founded by David Krell in May 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Capital Z Asset Management LLC provides investment advisory services. The firm manages investment vehicles that provide sponsorship capital to hedge funds while assuming a meaningful minority interest in its management companies and general partners. The company was founded on January 24, 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Capital Z Investment Partners LLC (Capital Z Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1998 by Laurence W. Cheng. The firm is headquartered in New York.