Ben Maiden, editor-at-large, Corporate Secretary
Ben Maiden is the editor of Corporate Secretary, an IR Media publication, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. Ben was previously managing editor of Compliance Reporter, covering regulatory and compliance issues affecting broker-dealers and asset management firms in the US and Europe. Before that, he was editor of Euromoney Institutional Investor’s International Financial Law Review and IFLR’s Americas editor, working in London and New York.
Andre Cinq-Mars, managing director, Canada, Lumi
André Cinq Mars is the Managing Director of Lumi Canada. He also founded the highly successful Feedback Interactif, which was acquired by Lumi in 2018.
André has over 30 years of experience in the meetings industry, and has delivered hundreds of successful annual meetings across all sectors. Based in Quebec, his expertise ranges from delivering greater in-room interactions through the use of technology to simultaneous translation – a particular requirement of the Canadian market.
Ross Jeffries, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary, Bank of America Corporation
Ross Jeffries is deputy general counsel and corporate secretary providing legal support to the CFO group and the corporation's board of directors through the office of the corporate Secretary.
Ross leads a team of attorneys, paralegals and support staff to provide legal advice and strategic guidance on matters relating to general corporate, corporate governance, securities, finance laws and regulations. His team provides support and counsel to the Bank of America Corporation and Bank of America, NA boards of directors and committees. His team is responsible for supporting Bank of America’s subsidiary governance and shareholder relations efforts. His team also supports the CFO department, including corporate treasury, corporate investments group, investor relations and accounting. Ross is a member of the CFO leadership team and the CFO risk committee.
Ross joined Bank of America in August 2012 to lead the CFO legal team. He was named corporate secretary in May 2013 and deputy general counsel in November 2013. He has spent his entire career in the financial services industry, including 23 years at Wells Fargo (and predecessor companies Wachovia and First Union). Prior to joining Bank of America, Ross was senior company counsel and assistant secretary practicing in securities, corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters at Wells Fargo from January 2009 to August 2012; and deputy general counsel and assistant secretary practicing in securities, M&A, corporate governance, executive compensation and general corporate matters at Wachovia (formerly named First Union) from July 1989 to December 2008.
Ross earned his JD and BA from Wake Forest University and is licensed to practice law in North Carolina.
Andrew Kramer, vice president, investor relations, iRobot Corporation
As vice president of investor relations at iRobot Corporation since June 2019, Andrew Kramer oversees the company’s investor communications. He joined iRobot after nearly five years at Netscout Systems, a leading provider of network and application performance management solutions. At Netscout, Kramer played an important role in advancing the IR program, highlighted by a transformative $2.3 bn acquisition that involved securing the approval of the transaction by shareholders and, in the process, increased its market capitalization from approximately $1.5 bn to approximately $4 bn.
Kramer’s experience also includes senior IR roles at Interactive Data, Sycamore Networks and ArrowPoint Communications, as well as at Sharon Merrill Associates, a nationally recognized, Boston-based investor relations consulting firm. He served on the board of directors for NIRI, the world’s largest professional association for IR, from 2009 through 2013. He also served on the board of directors for NIRI’s Boston chapter, concluding his tenure as chapter president.
Kramer also served as an adjunct professor at Boston University, teaching investor relations to undergraduate and graduate communications students from 2006 through 2017. He received a BA degree in communication as well as an MBA degree from Boston College.
