Investor Suffrage Movement

Field agents
make things
happen.

In October 2008, we started recruiting our first field agents. The pace of recruitment is accelerating, but
we want to take a moment to celebrate the pioneers who signed up during the first critical month. What is
really impressive about the list is the caliber of the volunteers. Most have made significant contributions to
shareholder activism, corporate governance or socially responsible investing. Several are famous for
those efforts.

When we first announced the Field Agent Program, we stated a goal that field agents be elite investors—
investors not distracted by the Wall Street folly of forever chasing the next hot stock, but smart
professionals and activists who understand that real investing is about engagement.


		John Chevedden Badge No. 00001 In 2007, shareholder activist John Chevedden was involved in 40 shareholder proposals that received a majority vote and 20 that were adopted by management. Chevedden first learned about shareholder proposals from John Gilbert in 1994. The Gilbert brothers (John and Lewis) had submitted 2,000 shareholder proposals from the 1930s until 1987, when a Gilbert shareholder proposal received the first majority vote in history at the Chock Full O'Nuts Corporation. Now, about 100 shareholder proposals obtain majority votes annually.

		James McRitchie Badge No. 00002 James McRitchie publishes CorpGov.Net, a popular corporate governance portal. According to the Council of Institutional Investors, McRitchie’s 2002 SEC petition "re-energized" the debate over proxy access to nominate directors accountable to shareowners. He is a frequent commentator and has addressed audiences in Asia and Europe, with funding from associations, the Asian Development Bank and the U.S. State Department.

		Ben Collins Badge No. 00003 Ben Collins is a research analyst with KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., a firm that helps investment managers incorporate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their investment decisions. Collins also actively contributes to the magazine Dollars & Sense.

		Peter Hasegawa Badge No. 00004 Peter Hasegawa works as an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Boston. Before moving to Boston, he successfully organized the service workers and techs at a hospital in rural Nevada. He works on shareholder activism projects in his spare time.

		Phoebe Rounds Badge No. 00005 Phoebe Rounds is a 2007 graduate of Yale College, where she advocated for disclosure of the university's investments and organized for increasing financial aid. Today, she is an organizer for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Boston. Before moving to Boston, she successfully organized the service workers and techs at a hospital in rural Nevada. She works on shareholder activism projects in her spare time.

		Glyn A. Holton Badge No. 00006 Glyn Holton is an author and consultant specializing in financial risk management. He maintains a number of popular websites related to trading and risk management. He is the founder of the Investor Suffrage Movement.

		Vincent Cirulli Badge No. 00007 Vincent Cirulli is vice president for market risk management at MetLife. He has over 30 years experience in the capital markets, derivatives, finance and risk management.

		Steve Nieman Badge No. 00008 Steve Nieman is president of the Ownership Union. He is active in running shareholder resolutions and board candidates in Internet electronic solicitations. He is a pilot for Horizon Air.

		Jack Ucciferri Badge No. 00009 Jack Ucciferri is Research and Advocacy Director (RAD) at Harrington Investments, Inc. Jack joined Harrington Investments while working on a Master of Arts program in global political economy at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Prior to his graduate studies, he was the founder and CEO of Giants Foot Surf, a surf lodge and surf tour provider located in southwestern Nicaragua.

		John Harrington Badge No. 00010 John Harrington is President of Harrington Investments, Inc. He is the author of Investing With Your Conscience: How to Achieve High Returns Using Socially Responsible Investing (1992) and The Challenge to Power: Money, Investing and Democracy (2005).

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