Corporate Secretary Webinar – Making the most of the proxy statement summary - Speaker biographies

Ben Maiden, editor, Corporate Secretary
Ben Maiden is the editor of Corporate Secretary, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. He had previously been managing editor of Compliance Reporter since January 2007, covering regulatory and compliance issues affecting broker-dealers and asset management firms. Before that, Ben was editor of International Financial Law Review and IFLR’s Americas editor, working in London and New York.

Molly Doran, director of advisory & design services, Labrador
Molly Doran has been with Labrador since its entry into the US market, which introduced European communication and design expertise to the US

Molly has worked closely with compensation consultants, legal counsels, corporate secretaries, HR and accounting departments of some of the world’s leading corporations with one clear focus: producing innovative and transparent stakeholder disclosure documents

Adam Kramer, corporate secretary and vice president of public law, KBR
Adam M. Kramer assumed the role of Corporate Secretary and Vice President Public Law on January 1, 2018 serving as the attorney and secretary for the KBR, Inc. Board of Directors and the Board’s Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Health, Safety, Security, Environmental & Social Responsibility Committees and benefits and investment committees. Mr. Kramer’s responsibilities include executive compensation and employee benefits globally, preparing KBR, Inc.’s Proxy Statement, managing the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting, SEC filings and shareholder engagement, collaborating with ISS and Glass Lewis regarding voting recommendations, designing KBR, Inc.’s global employee benefits and executive compensation plans and advising on their administration, advising in acquisitions, overseeing and representing KBR, Inc. in employee benefits litigations, representing KBR, Inc. before the IRS, DOL and PBGC and advising on HIPAA matters.

Prior to joining KBR, Inc. in 2006, as Assistant Corporate Secretary, Mr. Kramer served as employee benefits and executive compensation attorney for Vinson & Elkins LLP for eight years.

Mr. Kramer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from The University of Texas at Austin School of Law. His achievements include being listed as one of the Best Lawyers under forty in H Texas Magazine in October 2004 and one of the Top Lawyers in Houston in H Texas Magazine in July 2004, June 2006 and June 2015. In addition, he lead the KBR teams that won the 2017 Corporate Secretary award for Best Proxy Statement and the 2015 CorporateCounsel.net award for Best Print Proxy Statement of all small-mid cap Proxy Statements.

David Martin, director, PJT Camberview

Before joining PJT Camberview, Mr. Martin was a consultant in Willis Towers Watson’s executive compensation practice, where he advised clients on annual and long-term incentive plan design, compensation disclosure, and shareholder engagement. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Research at the Society for Corporate Governance (formerly known as the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals). Earlier in his career, Mr. Martin worked for nearly 7 years at Morgan Stanley, including as a member of Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s corporate governance team, where he focused on proxy voting and portfolio company engagement.

Mr. Martin holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in accounting and finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College.