Preliminary Speakers: 2nd LA CorpGov Forum Sep 18 Featuring Sports, Entertainment, VC & PE

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CorpGov will host the second LA CorpGov Forum on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The forum will begin at 2:00pm and feature an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking, followed by a networking reception at 5:00pm with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

This event will bring together members of the financial community from both LA and beyond to join panels focused on the finance of entertainment and media, sports, along with capital markets and shareholder activism.

We invite institutional investors and corporate executives to attend. For information on being a speaker or sponsorship, please email [email protected].

Registration is now open for this event: REGISTER HERE.

The forum will be digitized into a report published on CorpGov and by its content partners (under relevant company stock tickers) Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Terminals, Reuters via LSEG Workspace, and AlphaSense, and filmed with multiple 4K video cameras and professional editing.

Preliminary Panels Second LA CorpGov Forum 2026:

Sports Investing – Youth to Pro​ ​Venture Capital and PE: A California Perspective​ ​ Entertainment Industry: AI in Focus​ Capital Markets Assessment and IPO Readiness ​ The Board's Role in Shareholder Activism​ Business and Governance in LA​

Preliminary Speakers Second LA CorpGov Forum 2026:

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, Smithsonian Institution​ David Carter, Principal, The Sports Business Group ​ Thomas Courtney, Jr., President and CEO, The Courtney Group​ Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel ​ Dick Drobnick, Former USC Vice Provost for Globalization and IBEAR MBA Program Director, Asia Society Southern California Chairman Emeritus​ Daphna Edwards Ziman, Co-Chairman, Project Rise Partners​ Jon Feldman, Partner and Business Law Group Head, Goodmans LLP​ Joseph Fish, CEP, Managing Director, Stock Operations, Infinite Equity Baird Fogel, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland ​ Noah Francis, Banker, J.P. Morgan Private Bank​​ Sagar Gupta, Portfolio Manager, Anson Funds​ Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper  ​ Thomas W. Hulick, CEO, Managing Partner, Strategy Asset Managers​ Rafique Jiwani, Head of GTM Value Creation, Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Private Equity​ Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov  (Moderator)​ John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)​​

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Sports, Entertainment & IPOs: LA CorpGov Forum Video Highlights

The first LA CorpGov Forum was held on Sept. 4, 2025, at 1500 N El Centro Ave, Los Angeles, California, in the heart of Hollywood. The event was hosted together with Edelman Smithfield and featured over a hundred institutional investors, corporate executives, and USC alumni. The event focused on IPOs, shareholder activism, media and entertainment, governance in Los Angeles, sports business, private boards, and international business.

First LA CorpGov Forum 2025 Panels:

Fireside Chat: Governance in Los Angeles – LA CorpGov Forum Entertainment and Media – LA CorpGov Forum International Business in the Trump 2.0 World – LA CorpGov Forum Maximizing Value From Private Boards – LA CorpGov Forum The Burgeoning Business of Sports – LA CorpGov Forum Capital Markets: M&A and Private to Public Company Readiness – LA CorpGov Forum Role of Boards in Shareholder Activism – LA CorpGov Forum

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