Greg Taxin of Spotlight Advisors: Activist Investing from All Angles.

Greg previously served as the CEO of Glass, Lewis & Co., an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Securities, a lawyer and a hedge fund portfolio manager.

Greg has been on all sides of activist investing over the last 20 years: he has advised companies responding to activists; he has been an activist investor at more than 40 companies; he has advised investment funds leading proxy fights; and he has been the Chief Executive of the country’s second largest proxy advisory firm, Glass Lewis, helping to provide voting advice to institutional investors in proxy contests.

Before forming Spotlight Advisors, Greg was the President of the Clinton Group, a multi-strategy hedge fund that engages in activist investing. While there, Greg guided the firm through four proxy fights (three of which Clinton won) an ...