Live from CII Spring Conference 2026: Bertram, sausage sandwiches, and Starbucks

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The episode discusses insights from the CII Spring Conference, including trends in proxy voting and corporate governance.

Thanks to Adam, Felix and the Tallen AV team.  Thanks to the Council of Institutional Investors for having us, and hopefully we alienated just enough people to get invited back. This is Proxy Countdown. Welcome to the big CII show for the week of March 9, 2026 alongside my tag team partner Matt Moscardi. I'm Damion Rallis. On today’s very special CII-scented proxy countdown: A peek into what we do and who we are: storytellers of ESG data and events backed by our exhaustive data set of director performance analytics covering 220,000 directors. Trends we are following into the 2026 proxy season Some dippy poll questions to keep you awake and hopefully lots of audience questions. And on the Big Vote, Matt takes a deep caffeinated dive into Starbuck’s upcoming annual meeting Matt intro Trade Wire - BUY/SELL Top Stories: What’s the deal with conference food? Wait, that’s the wrong script. Let’s start with a few small appetizers before we move on to our big trends of the year. In no particular order: How about this half-win for Ethics at Luminar Technologies ? following a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics inquiry by the Audit Committee CEO and Chair Austin Russell and director…

People in this episode

Hosts: Damion Rallis, Matt Moscardi

Topics covered

• CII Spring Conference
• proxy season trends
• ESG data
• director performance analytics
• Starbucks annual meeting
• corporate governance

Keywords

• CII Spring Conference
• proxy season
• ESG data
• Starbucks
• corporate governance
• director performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Council of Institutional Investors, Starbucks, Luminar Technologies, Jabil

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