Rivel Research Group's Corporate Governance Division Welcomes Industry Veteran, Dave Bobker

NEW YORK, April 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Rivel Research Group, a leader in global investor market research and analytics, today announced the addition of corporate governance veteran, Dave Bobker, to its corporate governance division as vice president, business development.

"We are extremely pleased to have Dave join our corporate governance team," said Brian Rivel, Rivel Research Group's president. "With 17 years of governance experience, his expertise across a variety of corporate actions, proxy fights, annual and special meetings will be invaluable in helping our clients navigate these ever-changing waters in the governance and engagement arena."

Dave is responsible for the development and growth of Rivel's Corporate Governance Intelligence Council (CGIC), both domestically and internationally. During his career, Dave has worked with hundreds of companies and their Boards on varying and challenging governance issues, proxy fights, annual and special meetings. Dave provides insightful, tailored corporate governance advisory services and has organized and led dozens of high-profile engagements, aiding clients in all aspects of their shareholder analysis and engagement.

Brendan Sheehan, managing director of corporate governance for Rivel Research Group, stated, "Dave is an extremely important addition to our corporate governance team. His counsel and years of experience working at the forefront of corporate governance issues both domestically and internationally will help our clients in ensuring understanding of, and engagement with proxy voters and investors, are best-in-class."

Dave actively shares his thought leadership expertise on corporate governance at the local, regional and national levels, regularly speaking at a wide variety of events. Dave was most recently an advisory director & director of sales for Argyle. Previously, he was senior vice president of AST Phoenix Advisors, spent seven years with Georgeson and was one of the founders of Laurel Hill Advisors.

Rivel Research Group's CGIC is the first and only program of its kind that combines a true 360-degree perspective from all constituents – the global buy side, proxy voters, senior management, investor relations and the corporate secretary – to derive what is best-in class engagement and governance. Just as engagement is an on-going process, so too is corporate governance. For both engagement and governance to be effective, they must be predicated on gaining an accurate and detailed understanding of the perspectives and expectations of the investment community

In addition to the most comprehensive library of governance and investor research, CGIC also provides its members:

• Customized, company-specific governance benchmarking reports.
• Ongoing research and best practice reports on how the global buy-side incorporates governance issues into its decision-making process.
• Immediate in-depth surveys among globally representative samples of governance professionals on topical issues/challenges of the day.
• Historical vote analysis that provides insight into how major investors voted on all proxy issues.
• Real-time Q&A with peers where members discuss relevant practices and receive immediate feedback from fellow members.
• Access to the most comprehensive data library in the industry.
• The ability to explore custom issues through small, targeted governance perception and post-engagement studies.

About Rivel Research Group
Since 1991, Rivel Research Group has been the global leader in perception studies, research and predictive analytics within the investment community. We help public companies and asset managers maximize long-term valuation through best practices in investor relations and corporate governance. With more than 600 clients on six continents, our methodology of in-depth interviews, measurements and analysis provide our clients with meaningful and sentiment changing qualitative and quantitative intelligence. Additional information can be found at http://www.rivel.com.

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