Leadership

Anne McGuinness is Vice President Investor Relations at ADDO IR. Prior to joining ADDO, Anne led the investor relations function at Knock, a pre-IPO real estate technology company focused on providing convenience, certainty, and cost savings for buying and selling homes. Previously she was investor relations manager at American Homes 4 Rent, an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties. Anne also held investor relations positions at Health Net, Inc., a managed care organization that delivers health care services through health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans, and DTS, Inc., a premier audio solutions provider for high-definition entertainment experiences. Anne received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from California State University Northridge and a certificate in investor relations from University of California Irvine. She is a board member of the Los Angeles Chapter of NIRI, The Association for Investor Relations, and is an active member of NIRI’s Senior Roundtable.

Sam Ramraj is vice president of Investor Relations for Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. In addition to the utility, Edison International has subsidiaries that are competitive businesses providing commercial and industrial customers with energy management and procurement services and distributed solar generation. He is responsible for strategic and tactical leadership of the company’s communications and interaction with the investment community, in addition to building and managing relationships with investors, sell-side analysts and other investment community stakeholders and influencers.

Ramraj has more than 20 years of experience in corporate investor relations and sell-side equity research. Prior to joining Edison International in 2017, he served as vice president of Investor Relations for Tesoro Corporation, a Fortune 100 company that is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products.

Previously, Ramraj was at URS Corporation in San Francisco where he worked in investor relations for 12 years, including as vice president of Investor Relations and director of Investor Relations. Before joining URS, he was an equity research analyst with a number of investment banks, including Lehman Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney, and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Taylor Abbey serves as vice president of institutional marketing and investor relations at Ariel Investments. In this capacity, she is based in Los Angeles and responsible for overseeing Ariel’s sales and expansion on the west coast. Taylor joined Ariel in 2017 to support the firm’s President and Co-CEO. For 3 years, she focused on strategic initiatives aimed to advance the President and Co-CEO’s business development goals and objectives. She serves on the board of directors of Jazz at the Lincoln Center, a not-for-profit organization which seeks to entertain, enrich and expand a community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy across the globe. Prior to this, she served on the board of Step Up Chicago, which provides social and educational programs for high school girls in Chicago. In addition, she served on the associate’s board of Sarah’s Circle, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of homeless women in Chicago. Taylor currently holds her Series 24, 7, and 63 FINRA licenses. She is originally from New Haven, Connecticut and earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Smith College.

Andrea Teodorescu is a Senior Analyst, Investor Relations at The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated. Andrea joined The Cheesecake Factory in 2018 on the Financial Planning & Analysis team. She worked on restaurant budgeting and forecasting, menu pricing, and various analytical projects. After almost three years on the FP&A team, Andrea’s skillset and internal knowledge of the company enabled her to transition to Investor Relations, where she works closely with management to convey The Cheesecake Factory’s story to external stakeholders. She also previously held a position at Guitar Center working in accounting.

Andrea received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and her Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees from California Lutheran University. She is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).

Avery Wannemacher is a Senior Associate at Addo, an investor relations and financial communications firm based in Los Angeles, where she supports clients primarily in the consumer and technology industries. Prior to Addo, Avery completed an internship with ICR, a national investor relations firm, on the Healthy Living team. Avery graduated with honors from Pepperdine University in 2019 with B.A. in Economics and a minor in Applied Mathematics.

Katina Metzidakis is a senior investor relations leader who brings nearly a decade of experience in equity research on Wall Street and a deep understanding of the global consumer sector to her role. Throughout her career, Katina has worked with various consumer companies across the beauty, apparel, and footwear sectors. She has had the pleasure of having a front row seat in companies managing complex corporate transactions, such as IPOs, spin-offs, and acquisitions, as well as activist investor campaigns, C-suite transitions and strategic reviews. After nearly 17 years in NYC, Katina, along with her husband and two young children, made a life-changing decision to relocate to sunny Santa Monica in 2021, where they are thoroughly enjoying spending time outside biking, hiking and going to the beach!

Stacy Feit is Vice President, Investor Relations at Aurora Innovation. Previously, Stacy served as Vice President, Investor Relations at The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated and a Senior Vice President in the investor relations and financial communications division of MWW.

Stacy has guided numerous companies through major milestones, including initial public offerings, spin-offs, acquisitions and restructurings, while also developing and implementing ongoing investor relation programs. Stacy has worked with companies across industries including alternative energy, consumer, healthcare, industrial, lodging, mining, media, real estate and technology.

Prior to joining MWW, Stacy was an associate at Citigroup Global Markets in their middle market institutional equity sales group. Earlier in her career, Stacy was an analyst in the global corporate and investment banking division at Bank of America where she covered companies in the gaming and leisure industry.

Stacy holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2005. She is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Los Angeles.

Isaac J. Garden is First Vice President, Investor Relations for PennyMac Financial Services, Inc., a recognized leader in the U.S. residential mortgage industry. Additionally, PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. manages PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing primarily in residential mortgage loans and mortgage-related assets. He is responsible for the successful execution of the companies’ investor relations responsibilities and efforts, which includes earnings-related materials and communication with sell-side analysts and other stakeholders.

Prior to joining PennyMac in 2018, Mr. Garden served as manager of investor relations at Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., a major entertainment company with market leading businesses in concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship.

Mr. Garden holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he was a member of the University of Colorado Buffalo football team.

Matt Joanou is the Co-founder and CEO of Stakeholder Labs, an enterprise software company helping public companies engage their shareholders and has over 10 years of experience working with digital loyalty, community, and marketing products. Matt’s career as an entrepreneur started in his Cal Poly dorm room when he helped launch a customer loyalty company called Punchd, which was quickly acquired by Google. Matt went on to lead Punchd’s national expansion and eventual integration into Google Wallet and then worked across Google’s suite of advertising products with some of the world’s top brands and agencies. Matt later joined Reddit, where he worked alongside the founders to build out the business, which gave him a front row seat to the evolution of dynamic retail investor communities and their potential impact on our global financial system. Matt is bringing his unique experiences from Google and Reddit to Stakeholder Labs along with a network of investors and teammates who share his passion and dedication to the evolution of corporate ownership as a solution for our global challenges.

Max Goldstein is the Head of Marketing & Strategy at Stakeholder Labs and has spent over 10 years at the forefront of building vibrant digital communities and converting them into more loyal users, customers and retail shareholders across a variety of verticals including consumer tech, sports, gaming and cannabis. Before joining Stakeholder Labs, Max worked closely with CEO Matt Joanou in Google’s Mobile Apps Lab and managed a national community marketing team that drove the adoption of a suite of small-business loyalty products. That same team led the launch of Google+, successfully onboarded thousands of content creators, and pioneered early iterations of creator marketing with high-visibility engagements with Google products. As a startup operator, Max has worked on numerous projects that have leveraged SEC-regulated crowdfunding and community engagement as foundational pillars of the business. Max joined Stakeholder Labs because of his conviction in the importance of community ownership and he provides partners with tactical support on marketing campaigns, digital tools and corporate strategy to create highly engaged shareholder communities.

Anne McGuinness is Vice President Investor Relations at ADDO IR. Prior to joining ADDO, Anne led the investor relations function at Knock, a pre-IPO real estate technology company focused on providing convenience, certainty, and cost savings for buying and selling homes. Previously she was investor relations manager at American Homes 4 Rent, an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties. Anne also held investor relations positions at Health Net, Inc., a managed care organization that delivers health care services through health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans, and DTS, Inc., a premier audio solutions provider for high-definition entertainment experiences. Anne received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from California State University Northridge and a certificate in investor relations from University of California Irvine. She is a board member of the Los Angeles Chapter of NIRI, The Association for Investor Relations, and is an active member of NIRI’s Senior Roundtable.

Geri Weinfeld is Vice President of Investor Relations at Snyk. Geri has over 25 years of experience in investor relations, finance and corporate communications. Prior to joining Snyk in 2022, Geri was Vice President of Investor Relations at Xperi. Prior to Xperi, she ran investor relations for DTS, an audio technology company, which was subsequently acquired by Tessera in December 2016. Following the acquisition, the company was renamed Xperi Corporation. In December 2019, Geri led the communications around the merger of Xperi with TiVo Corporation and ran investor relations for the combined company, Xperi Holding Corporation until March 2022. From 2011 to 2014, she worked as an Investor Relations consultant for Nexon Co. Ltd., a free-to-play online gaming company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and helped bring the company public in 2011, raising $1.2 billion. Prior to working with Nexon, Geri was Senior Manager of Investor Relations at Activision Blizzard from 2004-2009, Director of Investor Relations at Autobytel.com and Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Buy.com. She started her career as a NASDAQ market maker working at a full-service brokerage firm in Washington, DC.