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Podcast: Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein
Episode: James McRitchie: The Gadfly Seeking Corporate Change Via Shareholder Proposals
Description: Start of interview [1:30]Jim's "origin story" [2:12]How his experience at CalEPA led him to become a shareholder advocate [6:07]His experience with Mark Latham, a former Berkeley Prof and Salomon Brothers banker on developing and promoting a new shareholder proposal method  [8:03]His efforts to get elected to the CalPERS board [11:33]CalPERS and the increasing influence of institutional investors in corporate governance  [12:53]"Thirty years ago no shareholder proposal had ever passed." Last year [McRitchie] filed 50 proposals and in 26 of them he got majority vote or else he worked an agreement with the company. [14:21]His Proxy Access petition to the SEC in 2002 [15:28]Why hi...