Christina L. Alfandary, Managing Director, ESG and Sustainable Investments, GAMCO Asset Management

Christina L. Alfandary is Managing Director, ESG and Sustainable Investments at GAMCO Asset Management. Since 1987 GAMCO has worked with Socially Responsible Institutions to meet their values based investing objectives through individual mandates as well as a mutual fund. At GAMCO, Ms. Alfandary oversees the company’s expansion of its ESG integration efforts and ESG investing capabilities across the organization. She is a member of the firm’s Proxy Committee. Ms. Alfandary has over twenty-five years of experience in the investment business. Prior to re-joining GAMCO, she served as Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Nikko Asset Management Americas, Inc. until 2015. Among her responsibilities, she was instrumental in a US product launch for an green bond product developed in collaboration with the World Bank. Ms. Alfandary has spoken at conferences on impact investing to family offices and foundations looking to develop ESG and impact investing portfolios. Prior to Nikko AM, she was a Vice President at GAMCO Investors from 2000 to 2005 where she worked with institutional and high net worth clients. Her investment experience includes working at Morgan Stanley from 1990 to 2000, as both a banker and in institutional fixed income sales and trading.

A native of California, Ms. Alfandary received an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School after earning her B.A. from Lewis & Clark College.

Donna F. Anderson is Vice President and Global Corporate Governance Analyst for T. Rowe Price. In her current role, Ms. Anderson leads the policy-formation process for proxy voting, chairs the firm’s Proxy Committee and leads the firm’s engagement efforts with portfolio companies. She serves as a specialist for incorporating environmental, social and governance considerations into the firm’s investment-research process. She is also a member of the firm’s Valuation Committee and the Women’s Roundtable Advisory Council.

Before joining T. Rowe Price in 2007, Ms. Anderson was Director of Equity Research for Invesco Funds in Houston.

Ms. Anderson earned her undergraduate degree in foreign languages from Trinity University and her M.B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin. She is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the Baltimore CFA Society. In addition, she serves on the Advisory Boards of the Council of Institutional Investors and the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

Daniel H. Burch, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of MacKenzie Partners, Inc.

Daniel H. Burch is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of MacKenzie Partners, Inc., responsible for developing and implementing strategies and campaigns for clients involved in proxy contests, tender offers, mergers, financial restructuring and other complex corporate transactions. His particular focus is also on shareholder activism and corporate governance. He has led MacKenzie’s efforts on behalf of its clients in campaigns in North America and Europe for the past 25 years. Mr. Burch previously served as director of corporate development for a major NYSE listed real estate company.

He is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and the National Investor Relations Institute.

B.S. Accounting - Lehigh University

Sara Mathew, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)

Ms. Mathew retired as Chair/CEO of D&B in 2013. During her tenure, Ms. Mathew transformed D&B from a data company to an innovative, digital enterprise introducing Data-as-a service (DaaS) and Big Data Analytics to drive value in the marketplace. Ms. Mathew was named to FT’s 50 Women at the top in 2013, Top value creator in the S&P500 by Chief Executive magazine in 2014, NACD’s Directorship 100 list in 2015, FWA’s Woman of the Year in 2017 and Ascend/Deloitte’s Pan Asian Director of the year award in 2018. Prior to D&B, Ms. Mathew spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble.

She currently serves on the Boards of the Campbell Soup Company, Freddie Mac, Shire, and State Street.

Sabastian V. Niles, Partner, Corporate

Sabastian V. Niles is a Partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz where he focuses on rapid response shareholder activism and preparedness, takeover defense and corporate governance; risk oversight, including as to cybersecurity and crisis situations; U.S. and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, investments, divestitures, and strategic partnerships; and other corporate and securities law matters and special situations.

Sabastian advises worldwide and across industries, including technology, financial institutions, media, energy and natural resources, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, construction and manufacturing, real estate/REITs and consumer goods and retail.

He has counseled boards of directors and management teams on selfassessments, engagement with institutional investors and proxy advisory firms and navigating activist situations involving Barry Rosenstein/JANA Partners, Bill Ackman/Pershing Square, Carl Icahn, Daniel Loeb/Third Point, David Einhorn/Greenlight Capital, Glenn Welling/Engaged Capital, Jeff Smith/Starboard Value, Jeffrey Ubben/ValueAct, Jonathan Litt/Land & Buildings, Keith Meister/Corvex, Mick McGuire/Marcato, Nelson Peltz/Trian, Scott Ferguson/Sachem Head, Paul Singer/Elliott Management, Relational Investors and Tom Sandell/Sandell Asset Management, among many others.

Sabastian received his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Harvard Association of Law and Business (and continues to serve on the Advisory Board) and won the U.S. National ABA Negotiation Championship representing the Harvard Program on Negotiation. He received B.S., B.A., and B.S. degrees in Finance, Economics and Decision & Information Sciences, respectively, from the University of Maryland, where he won two National Championships and four Regional Championships in intercollegiate mock trial.

Ron Shaich is the founder and chairman of Panera Bread, a groundbreaking restaurant brand that today has more than 2,360 bakery-cafes, over 100,000 associates and nearly $6 billion in annual systemwide sales. Ron also served as Panera's CEO from 1984 to 2010 and again from March 2012 to January 2018. Ron is highly respected for his ability to recognize and capitalize on marketplace opportunities. In addition to founding Panera, which established the high-growth fast-casual restaurant segment, Ron earlier in his career founded and grew Au Bon Pain, establishing the bakery-cafe segment. With both brands he disrupted an existing industry paradigm and found new pathways to building companies of value and with values. The result: Panera was the best-performing restaurant stock of the past 20 years, generating annualized returns in excess of 25% over the past two decades and delivering a total shareholder return 44 times better than the S&P 500 from July 18, 1997 to July 18, 2017 (when Ron led a take-private transaction for Panera).

Ron serves as President of the Panera Bread Foundation and spearheaded the Panera Cares initiative, through which the Foundation creates nonprofit community cafes aimed at addressing issues related to food insecurity. He formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Clark University and on the boards of Whole Foods Market Inc., the Rashi School, the Lown Cardiovascular Foundation and the Alliance for Business Leadership. Ron is also a co-founder of No Labels, an organization that promotes bipartisan political problem solving and the development of a long-term strategic plan for the country.

Ron received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clark University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. He is also the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Clark University. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Nancy, and children, Michael and Emma.