Providing the proxy voting infrastructure used by more than 90 percent of North American public companies and mutual funds, New York–based Broadridge Financial Solutions collects a wealth of data on shareholder participation and opinions. It collaborates with the PwC Governance Insights Center to produce ProxyPulse reports that reveal the percentage of retail shares voted and levels of support for director candidates. Also in the report covering the July 1–December 31 annual meeting mini-season: For the first time, the majority of retail investors (52 percent, up from 43 percent the year before) received their proxy materials electronically — a milestone for the Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions (ICS) business and Robert Schifellite, the segment's president and Broadridge's corporate senior vice president. ICS, which accounts for more than three-fourths of Broadridge's $3 billion in annual revenue, is Schifellite's platform both for e-business innovation (as in the ProxyEdge institutional proxy management system, and online and mobile voting capabilities) and for advocating more efficient — often meaning paperless — corporate governance and customer communications as a matter of principle. "This is not the same old proxy business," says Schifellite, 59, explaining Broadridge's expanding digital ambitions. In view of marketplace and technology trends and business imperatives, "we have to continue to be a leader in digital," adds Schifellite, who has worked for Broadridge and predecessor ADP Brokerage Services since 1992.
 1. Adena Friedman NASDAQ  2. Catherine Bessant Bank of America Corp.  3. Robert Goldstein BlackRock  4. Jeffrey Sprecher Intercontinental Exchange  5. Lance Uggla IHS Markit |
 6. Shawn Edwards & Vlad Kliatchko Bloomberg  7. David Craig Thomson Reuters  8. Michael Spencer NEX Group  9. Don Callahan Citigroup  10. Elisha Wiesel Goldman Sachs Group |
 11. Michael Bodson Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.  12. Terrence Duffy CME Group  13. Charles Li Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing  14. Sean Belka Fidelity Investments  15. Chris Concannon CBOE Holdings |
 16. Guy Chiarello First Data Corp.  17. Steven Lieblich Citadel  18. David Rutter R3CEV  19. Blythe Masters Digital Asset Holdings  20. Alfred Spector Two Sigma Investments |
 21. Neil Katz D.E. Shaw Group  22. Lee Olesky Tradeweb Markets  23. Richard McVey MarketAxess Holdings  24. David Gledhill DBS Bank  25. Seth Merrin Liquidnet Holdings |
 26. Antoine Shagoury State Street Corp.  27. Peter Brown & Robert Mercer Renaissance Technologies  28. Lou Eccleston TMX Group  29. Peter Cherecwich Northern Trust Corp.  30. Mike Chinn S&P Global Market Intelligence |
 31. Chris Corrado London Stock Exchange Group  32. Neal Pawar AQR Capital Management  33. Gary Norcross Fidelity National Information Services  34. Steven O'Hanlon Numerix  35. Sebastián Ceria Axioma |
 36. Brian Conlon First Derivatives and Kx Systems  37. Tyler Kim MaplesFS  38. Michael Cooper BT Radianz  39. Robert Schifellite Broadridge Financial Solutions  40. Jim Minnick eVestment |