Gary Hewitt

Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media.

Riskmetrics Group LLC provides financial risk management services. The firm provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to different financial institutions, corporations and central banks. It consists of three primary business units–risk management, governance services and financial research. The company was founded by Ethan M. Berman in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. provides human resources and financial management consulting services. It advises organizations on managing employee benefit programs, pension plans, and employee hiring, retention and reward strategies. It provides strategic and financial advice to insurance and financial services companies. It also provides related technology, outsourcing and data services. The company operates more than 100 offices in 32 countries. Watson Wyatt was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA

GMI Ratings specializes in the application of non-traditional risk metrics to investment analysis and risk modeling. Founded in 2010 through the merger of The Corporate Library, GovernanceMetrics International and Audit Integrity, the firm provides global research coverage of the environmental, social, governance and accounting-related risks affecting the performance of public companies. GMI Ratings is a signatory to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).