Sally James
Sally was appointed Non-Executive Director of HFML in April 2017. Sally served as Managing Director and General Counsel of UBS Investment Bank EMEA from 2001 to 2008. Previously she held a number of senior legal roles in investment banks in London and Chicago. She has been a Non-Executive Director of Moneysupermarket.com Group plc since April 2013 and now Senior Independent Director; a Non-Executive Director of Rotork plc since May 2012 and now Senior Independent Director; and a Non-Executive Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Limited since February 2016 (now merged into Bank of America Merrill Lynch International DAC). Sally is also a Trustee of the Legal Education Foundation.
Jonathan Pines, CFA
Sergii Vitiv
Sonya Likhtman
Stephen Martin
Steven Chiavarone, CFA
Theodore W Zierden III
Ted manages a number of businesses at Federated, including Business Information Services, Investor Services, Literature Publishing and Fulfilment Services, Decision Support, Corporate Procurement, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Ted began his career at Federated in 1994.
Thomas Donahue
Tom Donahue joined the firm in 1993 as a Vice President and currently serves as the company’s Director and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Federated Hermes, Tom was in the venture capital business, and from 1983 to 1987 was employed by PNC Bank in its Investment Banking division.
Tim Youmans
Tim Youmans leads EOS North America engagement. Previously he was research director for the Strategic Investor Initiative at CECP – Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. Tim has been a research scholar at Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School’s Family Office Program. He continues to work closely with Oxford Said Business School professor Robert G Eccles. Their research including the statement of purpose, materiality, director fiduciary duty and on other topics including why companies need to start sharing their long-term strategy with investors, was featured in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the Guardian among others. He is currently on the Council of Institutional Investors Corporate Governance Advisory Council and the ESG advisory board of US law firm Grant & Eisenhofer. Tim has a Masters in Public Administration and is a Lucius N Littauer Fellow from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a research fellow of the British Academy’s Future Corporation Initiative. He spent 25 years in business running his own consulting firms, as executive vice president of a venture-funded start-up and running a large family office. He received an MBA from the University of Southern Maine and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the United States Coast Guard Academy. He was retired from the Coast Guard after serving both afloat and ashore in Alaska, Washington DC and Maine, and is a service-disabled military veteran.
Velika Talyarkhan
Velika Talyarkhan covers engagement in North America. She previously worked as a sustainability consultant, focussing on consumer goods, technology and industrial sectors. Velika was part of EY’s Middle East clean energy and sustainability practice, where she specialised in implementing sustainability strategy, reporting and assurance. Her international experience includes work in the oil and gas, mining, utilities and financial services sectors. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA in Sustainable Business Practices from Duquesne University.
