Linda E. Scott is a Partner of Governance for Owners, where she is responsible for the delivery of the GO’s Stewardship Services operations in Europe and the US, including proxy voting, structural and strategic corporate engagement and corporate governance policy matters. She has over thirteen years experience in corporate governance, specializing in US proxy voting and engagement.

Ms. Scott was formerly Director of Corporate Governance at TIAA-CREF and, prior to that, Director of Investor Affairs at the New York State Common Retirement Fund. She is Chairman of the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, which supports research projects in environmental, social and governance issues. She also has a background in communications and media relations, having been Assistant Director of Communications for the New York State Comptroller.

Based in New York City, Ms. Scott is active in civic affairs and serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and Care for the Homeless. She earned an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Trinity College (Hartford). She also attended the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.

Simon Wong is an Executive Partner at Governance for Owners with oversight of the Stewardship Services operation.

Simon has extensive experience in corporate governance and responsible share ownership, and before joining GO in 2009, he was Head of Corporate Governance at Barclays Global Investors based in London. Before joining BGI, Simon was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he served companies and governments in developed and emerging markets on a broad range of governance, organisation, strategy, and financial regulatory matters. Simon is a securities lawyer by training, having worked at Linklaters & Paines and Shearman & Sterling in London, as well as serving as Principal Administrator/Counsel at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

Simon is also a policy adviser to the OECD, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics.

Toshiaki Oguchi is Executive Director of GO Japan. He has more than 20 years business experience in Japan, the U.S. and the U.K and has extensive skills and experience in both corporate governance matters and institutional relations. He has held a number of different roles over that period, mostly in corporate planning and product development for Nippon Life and Nissay Asset Management Corporation. From 2002 to 2003, he was seconded to Hermes Pensions Management in the UK to take the role of Manager, Corporate Governance, Asia-Pacific, in which role he was also exposed to international corporate governance approaches. At Nissay Asset Management, he was a member of the corporate governance committee and the decision-making group of its Japanese corporate governance fund and was also responsible for marketing NAM’s products to non-Japanese institutional investors. Toshiaki is a member of several corporate governance networking groups in Japan and internationally and an active participant in the governance debate.

Rebeca joined the Governance team in January 2010 as Services Analyst covering Europe. She brings a wealth of knowledge in proxy issues around the world to support the team with voting, engagement and policy development. Before joining GO, Rebeca was a researcher with PIRC, where she was involved in the production of corporate governance reports for companies based in developed and emerging economies across North and South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. She developed research, voting and policy papers on proxy issues for several developing markets. Previously, Rebeca worked at Manifest where she was involved in corporate governance research and analysis on Europe. Prior to joining the governance industry, Rebeca worked as a Lecturer in International Relations at Regent’s American College London. A political scientist, Rebeca holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics in Global Politics and is fluent in English, Spanish and French.
 

Josiane was formerly Associate Director of European Corporate Governance at Hermes Pensions Management, which she joined in 2001 and where she worked on governance matters relating to both the indexed portfolios and the European Focus Fund. Prior to this, Josiane worked for Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS), now F&C, where she established their continental European corporate governance programme. She has also worked in a number of legal, investor relations and project management related roles in Paris, at Elf, the oil company, and others. A French lawyer and economist by training, Josiane has a wealth of international experience in researching and developing governance change programmes for individual companies and in campaigning for best practice corporate governance across Europe. She is fluent in French, English and German.
 

Kenji Iwamoto is Director of Engagement Japan. He joined GO Japan in February 2011, responsible for developing engagement approaches at GO Japan (including the Japan Engagement Consortium) and the JEF. Kenji has over 18 years of experience in corporate finance and has had extensive interactions with senior management of Japanese companies to enhance shareholder value. From 2007 to 2010, he was a Director at Taiyo Pacific Partners, LP in Monterey, California, responsible for engagement strategy as well as investment management for the Japan-focused Taiyo Fund. Before Taiyo, he was at Mizuho Corporate Bank in New York, focusing on credit analysis and investment management of US investment grade companies. Prior to working in USA, he was a financial advisor involved in major M&As in Japan at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo. He started his career at The Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ, now Mizuho Financial Group), where he worked on sovereign debt rescheduling negotiations and corporate banking.

Anne takes the lead on voting and engagement with companies in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway, as well as a large number of UK FTSE 350 companies. She is also involved in policy development and takes part in public consultations. Anne is also responsible for GO\'s engagements on social and environmental matters and is an active member of a number of ESG networks and forums. She has a special interest in ethical supply chains and global labour relations. Anne joined GO in 2005 after having covered the voting season at Hermes. She has previously worked in marketing and for a dot-com.

She holds a BA (Hons) in Management, First Class, and a MA in Marketing and Management. In addition to English and her native Danish, Anne is proficient in German, Swedish and Norwegian.

When not working Anne spends time with her family and is co-chairman of her local NCT branch.
 

Kalina joined the GO Stewardship Services team in October 2010 as Services Manager covering Europe. She brings a wealth of knowledge in corporate governance and proxy issues. Before joining GO, Kalina was a corporate governance analyst at Fidelity International, where she was responsible for engagement with portfolio companies on ESG issues, as well as for proxy voting and corporate governance analysis of companies in a number of European jurisdictions.

Prior to this, she was a corporate governance executive with PIRC, where she was involved in the production of corporate governance reports and policy guidelines for the analysis of UK and US companies.

Kalina holds a BA (Hons) in European Studies from King’s College London, an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics and has a Postgraduate Certificate in Finance from Birkbeck College London. She is fluent in English and Bulgarian, as well as being conversant in German.

Yoshikazu Maeda joined GO Japan in October 2009 as an investment and governance analyst. Prior to joining GO, Yoshikazu was an Associate at Goldman Sachs working in the banking sector. He also worked at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo, where he participated in a two year overseas government-sponsored study programme which included gaining a distinction in his MSc in Finance at the London Business School. He is a lawyer by training.