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RIAA is partnering with The Shareholder Commons (TSC) to bring you a complimentary breakfast session as part of the RIAA Conference. As momentum builds across the region, this session offers a timely opportunity to move from interest to action — strengthening the collective ability to make a credible, compelling case for system-level investing.
Held on 28 May at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, this will be a highly interactive session, structured to allow for inputs into future developments, case examples from leaders, and collaborative discussions and co-creation.
Space is limited and priority will be given to RIAA attendees. Breakfast will be served during the event.
Separate ticket is required to attend, register here.
Chief Research Officer at The Shareholder Commons
Dan has spent more than a decade developing innovative frameworks for managing corporate and investor impact through multi-stakeholder processes. He most recently served as Chief Research Officer at the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI), which grew out of the Impact Weighted Accounts Project of Harvard Business School. Prior to that, Dan was Head of Standards and Insights at the international non-profit, B Lab.
At B Lab, Dan oversaw the performance standards for B Corp Certification and the B Impact Assessment, a social and environmental performance measurement and management tool that has been used by more than 100,000 businesses globally. At IFVI, he led the creation and development of the only independently governed public good methodology for impact accounting, which quantifies social and environmental impacts in monetary terms to increase comparability and decision-usefulness and makes it possible to understand links and tradeoffs between impact and financial performance.
Chief Executive Officer of The Shareholder Commons
Rick practiced law for 30 years at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in Wilmington, Delaware, including four years as managing partner. During that time, he was selected as one of the ten most highly regarded corporate governance lawyers worldwide and as one of the 500 leading lawyers in the United States. In 2015, Rick became Head of Legal Policy at B Lab, where he worked to create sustainable corporate governance structures around the globe. He left that position in 2019 for a fellowship that led to the creation of The Shareholder Commons.Rick serves as Director and Treasurer of the American College of Governance Counsel, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Beren Pharmaceuticals, P.B.C., the Council of Institutional Investors Markets Advisory Council, and the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Delaware Corporation Law Council, the body responsible for maintaining the premier corporate statute in the United States, where he previously served as Vice-Chair and Chair and drafted legislation, including provisions prohibiting mandatory arbitration, enabling proxy access, implementing majority voting and authorizing benefit corporations.Rick has testified before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Delaware General Assembly; he also served as consultant to the United States Department of Justice in Purdue Pharma bankruptcy matter. He is the author of Benefit Corporation Law and Governance: Pursuing Profit with Purpose (Berrett Koehler 2017).
