Rivel's GuideLign Annual Conference - IR in Motion November 18, 2025 - November 19, 2025 Hotel del Coronado San Diego - Coronado, CA

Shari Bento is head of Corporate Access and the Investment Group Resource Management Team at Capital Group, home of American Funds. She has 22 years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for six years.

Prior to joining Capital, Bento was the director of corporate access at Stephens Inc. Before that, she was part of the global corporate access team at Citigroup in New York, handling execution for the REIT and consumer sectors. Earlier in her career, she worked in institutional equity sales at Janney Montgomery Scott.

She holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in business marketing, both from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Bento is based in Los Angeles.

As Executive Vice President, Dave oversees business development, manages Rivel's global revenue strategy, and leads consulting for the company's Governance and Sustainability division. With over 25 years of experience, Dave advises public companies on corporate governance, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) strategies, and stakeholder engagement. Dave has a history of aligning business development efforts with market trends and investor priorities to drive revenue growth.

He has been at the forefront of analyzing investor perceptions, proxy issues, and sustainability matters, advising boards and management teams on optimizing stakeholder engagement, corporate disclosure, and governance frameworks. His expertise includes leveraging frameworks like SASB/IFRS, TCFD, GRI, SDGs, and other industry-specific standards to help organizations communicate and achieve sustainable growth and meet growing stakeholder and global regulatory demands such as CSRD.

Throughout his career, Dave has managed complex engagements, including corporate actions, annual and special meetings, and high-profile proxy campaigns. He collaborates with directors and counsel to design and execute tailored board evaluations that assess alignment on strategy, risk management, and corporate culture.

Before joining Rivel, Dave held senior leadership roles at firms such as Georgeson, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, AST Phoenix Advisors, and Argyle. He was the founder of Rivel’s Governance and Sustainability division. Beyond his professional pursuits, Dave serves on the advisory board for the School of Arts and Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology. He is a certified professional coach and former Olympic Development soccer coach. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing and coaching soccer, and a host of other sporting and outdoor activities.

Dave holds a BA in English from the New York Institute of Technology.

Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory at Lazard, advising clients on shareholder activism, strategic investor relations, capital raising, and corporate governance.

Mary Ann joined Lazard from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was Co-Head of Global Equity Capital Markets, a role she assumed after her tenure as Head of Americas Equity Capital Markets. She also worked for UBS as Head of Americas Equity Capital Markets. Mary Ann began her career at Bankers Trust in leveraged finance.

Mary Ann provides expert guidance across regions and market sectors on a range of shareholder and corporate finance matters, including activism preparedness and defense, investor perspectives on M&A and strategic actions, IPO advisory and capital raising, trends in ESG, and corporate governance. She has extensive knowledge of the global equity markets and public market investors.

Mary Ann is on the Investment Committee of the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies and the Board of Advisors at the Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC.

She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth.

Annmarie Stewart Després serves as managing director and head of corporate access at Citadel Securities, bringing more than 25 years of experience in corporate access, business development, and strategic execution.

Després led the successful launch of the firm’s corporate access division, overseeing content strategy, full-cycle execution, and infrastructure development.

She began her career in investment banking and sales and trading at Citigroup Global Markets. She later spent more than 10 years at RBC Capital Markets, where she played a key role in global corporate access, driving strategic initiatives across global equities, fixed income, equity research, and investment banking.

Després has a proven track record of building high-impact initiatives and cultivating strong relationships with C-suite executives, investor relations professionals, institutional investors, wealth managers, and sovereign investors.

As a solutions specialist for TrendLign perception studies, Jennifer provides guidance to Rivel’s clients in support of critical decision making, planning and strategy. She works one-on-one with IROs, management teams and the board to interpret study results and develop action steps that achieve maximum impact.

A seasoned executive, Jennifer brings over 26 years of investor relations experience. She served as vice president of IR at industry giants including ExxonMobil, Caterpillar, DuPont, Campbell Soup and Best Buy. Her diverse expertise includes navigating mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, CEO and CFO transitions, earnings beats and misses, lawsuits, investor days and various shareholder proposals. She excels at understanding the perceptions and expectations of the buy-side and sell-side, and instilling best practices to inspire confidence in management teams.

Outside of work, Jennifer participates in her church choir, is a master gardener and enjoys spending time with her husband and two adult children.

Jennifer graduated as a National Merit Scholar and 10th in her class from the University of St. Catherine with a B.A. in English. She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Jennifer holds an Investor Relations Charter (IRC) designation and actively contributes to NIRI. She served on the national board from 2019 to 2021, was named a NIRI fellow in 2023 and has presented at multiple NIRI chapter events. Jennifer has held leadership positions in the NIRI Philadelphia and NIRI Twin Cities chapters and currently mentors two NIRI representatives. She contributed content to the NIRI Book of Knowledge, set to be published this fall.

Greg Lemenchick has served as Domino’s vice president of investor relations and sustainability since March 2025. In this role, he leads the company’s investor relations team and oversees its sustainability efforts. He joined Domino’s in 2023 as vice president of investor relations.

Previously, Lemenchick was vice president of finance at City Barbeque, where he managed finance, treasury and technical accounting functions. Prior to that, he spent nearly 10 years at The Wendy’s Co., holding various roles, including senior director of investor relations, corporate financial planning and analysis, and finance director of development. He began his career with Ernst & Young as a manager in their assurance practice.

Lemenchick earned degrees in accounting and human resources from Ohio Valley University and is a certified public accountant (CPA).

As a leader and senior advisor with GuideLign, John and our team of experienced IROs deploy their industry expertise and Rivel’s tailored advisory solutions to address questions, issues and challenges for C-level, board and IRO clients. John’s goal is to maximize IR program effectiveness for companies across all locations, industries and market caps.

John started his career in finance and has over 25 years of experience in investor relations. He has led IR teams at various companies and advised diverse clients at IR-related firms.

Beyond his professional commitments, John enjoys spending quality time with his family, traveling, playing golf, and honing his culinary skills.

John received his MBA and bachelor’s in accounting from Santa Clara. He holds an Investor Relations Charter designation and currently serves as President of the NIRI Virtual Chapter board.

Gene has been with Rivel since 2000 and now manages the overall growth of company. While with Rivel, Gene helped to create Rivel’s renowned IR best practices program called GuideLign while overseeing approximately 800 investor perception studies and advising senior management teams and boards on strategic investor communications. Gene is also a frequent presenter and panelist at global investor relations meetings and conferences.

Prior to joining Rivel, Gene spent eight years brokering on Wall Street.

Much of Gene’s free time is devoted to School of Rock activities and his son’s rock & roll band, King Falcon.

He earned a BA in International Business from Hofstra University.

Greg Taxin previously served as CEO of Glass, Lewis & Co., an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Banc of America Securities, a lawyer, and a hedge fund portfolio manager.

Taxin has been on all sides of activist investing over the last 20 years. He has advised companies responding to activists, been an activist investor at more than 40 companies, advised investment funds leading proxy fights, and served as chief executive of Glass, Lewis & Co., the nation's second-largest proxy advisory firm, which provides voting advice to institutional investors in proxy contests.

Before forming Spotlight Advisors, Taxin was president of the Clinton Group, a multi-strategy hedge fund engaged in activist investing. During his tenure, Taxin guided the firm through four proxy fights — three of which it won — and negotiated a dozen settlement agreements with public companies.

Previously, Taxin was CEO of Glass, Lewis & Co., an independent research firm that assists institutional investors in making informed investment and proxy voting decisions. Under his leadership, Glass Lewis provided coverage on more than 13,000 public companies across 65 countries, serving over 350 institutional investors managing more than $13 trillion collectively.

Before co-founding Glass Lewis, Taxin worked in investment banking, providing strategic and financing advice to public and private companies, primarily in technology and telecommunications. He held roles as vice president at Goldman Sachs, director at Epoch Partners, and managing director at Banc of America Securities.

Taxin, who is an attorney, worked with the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ronald Temple is the Chief Market Strategist for Lazard’s Financial Advisory and Asset Management businesses. In this role, Ron provides macroeconomic and market perspectives to Lazard’s investment teams on a firmwide basis and works closely with Lazard’s Geopolitical Advisory group to assess economic and market implications of key geopolitical issues globally. Ron also advises clients of Lazard’s Asset Management businesses regarding macroeconomic and market considerations that are important to achieving their objectives.

Previously, Ron was the Head of US Equity and Co-Head of Multi-Asset Investing for Lazard Asset Management. In this role, Ron was responsible for overseeing the firm's US equity strategies, multi-asset investing, as well as several global equity strategies. He was also a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on various US and global equity teams.

Ron joined Lazard in 2001 as an equity analyst with ten years of global experience including fixed-income derivative trading, risk management, corporate finance and corporate strategy in roles at Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of America NT & SA, and Fleet Financial Group in London, New York, Singapore, San Francisco, and Boston.

Ron has an MPP from Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bretton Woods Committee, the Economic Club of New York, the CFA Society New York, and is the chair of Duke University’s Graduate School Board of Visitors.

Mary Turnbull is the managing director of corporate access at Raymond James & Associates, where she works closely with investor relations professionals to develop strategies for investor outreach and targeting. She also collaborates with capital markets, investment banking, and research teams to organize general and sector-specific conferences, summits, and symposiums.

Before joining Raymond James, Turnbull held various research, sales, and management positions at Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and Salomon Smith Barney.

An active member of the National Investor Relations Institute, Turnbull serves on the board of NIRI Silicon Valley. She has previously worked on the Annual Conference Committee and served as president of the Central Florida chapter. In 2023, she was named a NIRI fellow. Turnbull is also a co-founder of the Women in Capital Markets Symposium, an annual event focused on advancing the professional development of women at Raymond James.

Turnbull earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Fordham University.

To grow and improve the company’s research offerings, Reid works closely with IR professionals, CEOs and CFOs, helping them identify new opportunities to differentiate their investment stories to positively impact valuation, attract new investors and increase investments from current shareholders. Reid has advised a cross-section of US companies from some of the world’s largest and most respected organizations, as well as mid- and small-cap companies.

His experience spans various industries, including consumer products, biotech, transportation, technology and others. He is regularly asked to present at NIRI regional chapter meetings on topics such as guidance, earnings calls, IR best practices and investor days.

Prior to joining Rivel, Reid worked with Gartner Group, where he managed major relationships with a variety of top-ranked Wall Street investment banks. He also spent time with Guideline, where he led business development efforts across a variety of industry sectors.

Reid spends as much of his time as possible with his wife Alison, and their children, either in Boston, NYC or Nashville.

He earned a BS in Business Administration from Clemson University.