About
Joann is Senior Director of
the Corporate Governance Consulting Group at Morrow Sodali. With a strong focus
on executive compensation, she brings diverse corporate governance experience
and strategic insights blending both perspectives from a proxy advisor to large
institutional investors lens to help issuers effectively manage a dynamically
changing ESG environment. Prior to joining Morrow Sodali, she led executive
compensation initiatives for 7 years at Fidelity’s Investment Proxy Research
Team, supporting both asset managers and the ESG stewardship team in assessing incentive
structures and voting decisions at US and Canadian portfolio companies. She was
also the Governance Sector Lead for Technology and Communication Services and
frequently engaged with boards and senior leadership on prevailing ESG matters
and market trends.
Joann spent 12 years at
the proxy advisory firm, ISS, in various roles before later joining the US
Executive Compensation Team upon the emergence of the Say-On-Pay governance
landscape. She was a key contributor on policy development, hosted investor
roundtables, and helped develop several ISS keystone products and services. She
later managed the ISS US Executive Compensation Team; a team primarily
responsible for publishing compensation research analyses, pay-for-performance assessments,
and advisory vote recommendations for issuers of all market capitalization.