CorpGov is pleased to announce the final agenda for the inaugural LA CorpGov Forum on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 1500 N El Centro Ave, Los Angeles, California, in the heart of Hollywood. The forum will start at 2:00pm featuring an afternoon of panels and networking. A reception will follow from 5:00pm to 6:30pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. ​

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Panels:​

2:00PM: The Burgeoning Business of Sports​

David Carter, Principal, The Sports Business Group ​​

Baird Fogel, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland ​

Marcus Lollie, Managing Director, Moelis ​

Noah Francis, Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

2:30PM: Maximizing Value From Private Boards ​

Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice​

Ryan Keating, Partner, EisnerAmper ​

Paul Haaga, Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company; Chair of the Board, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Board Director, National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution​

Hooman Shahidi, CEO, Opus Bloom ​​

John Marchisi, Executive Director – Capital Markets, Artex Risk Solutions

3:00PM: Entertainment and Media​

Mark Young, George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business, USC Business School ​

Andy Howard, Partner and Member of the Executive Committee, Shamrock Capital​

John Nendick, Founder, Malaga Consulting​

3:30PM: Capital Markets: M&A and Private to Public Company Readiness​

Jack Cassel, Senior Vice President, Head of Listings – Western US, Nasdaq

Shari Mager, Partner, U.S. National Leader, Capital Markets Readiness, KPMG US ​

Logan Tiari, Partner, Cooley LLP ​

Noelle Amos, Executive Vice President, Edelman Smithfield ​

4:00PM: Role of Boards in Shareholder Activism ​

Jonathan Feldman, Partner, Goodmans LLP ​

Jon Solorzano, Partner, Governance and Sustainability, Vinson & Elkins​

Sagar Gupta, Portfolio Manager, Anson Funds

John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

4:30PM: International Business in the Trump 2.0 World​

Dick Drobnick, Former USC Vice Provost for Globalization and IBEAR MBA Program Director, Asia Society Southern California Chairman Emeritus​

John Evans, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Tractus Asia​

Ariel Mark, Head of Western US Investments, Tokyu Land US Corporation

5:00PM: Fireside Chat: Governance in Los Angeles

Fred Rosen, CEO, NMFR Entertainment; Former CEO, Ticketmaster Corp.

John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

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The event follows the 4th Annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum, which attracted hundreds of attendees for in-depth panels and extensive networking with guests from around the world, and the first Princeton CorpGov Forum in May. 

After the event, video highlights will be digitized into a report published on CorpGov and content partners Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Terminals, Reuters via LSEG Workspace, and AlphaSense, filmed in 4K with professional editing.​

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