NIRI Virtual Chapter Presents:

How to Identify What Matters Through the Noise:

Decoding Investor Requests

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

12:00pm - 1:00pm ET

In 2025, investor demands for access to senior management reached fever pitch levels and this trend is poised to continue in 2026 and beyond. What is behind the growing need for active investors to meet with your management more frequently? While each engagement brings them closer to your story, it can also result in requests for more transparency. How should access be managed in this environment? When is a call for additional transparency a necessity and when is it just “noise”? Let’s get together and discuss!

In this session you'll learn the current trends in management access and how these trends are evolving. We'll discuss why access has become more important to investors than ever before and the growing role of buy-side corporate access teams in this environment.



Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this program, attendees will have a better understanding of how to:

• Pre-qualify investors before meetings with management to ensure high quality interaction
• Apply methods to derive greater value for your company from investor meetings
• Identify what is a necessity as opposed to "noise" when investors ask for more transparency

Moderator:

Gene Rubin

President

Rivel, Inc.

Gene has been with Rivel since 2000 and now manages the overall growth of the company. At Rivel, Gene helped to create Rivel’s renowned IR best practices program, GuideLign, while overseeing approximately 800 investor perception studies and advising senior management teams and boards on strategic investor communications. Gene is also a frequent presenter and panelist at global investor relations meetings and conferences.

Prior to joining Rivel, Gene spent eight years brokering on Wall Street.

Much of Gene’s free time is devoted to School of Rock activities and his son’s rock & roll band, King Falcon. He earned a BA in International Business from Hofstra University. 

Speakers:

 Brendan Mulhern

 Vice President and Head of Investor Relations

 NRG Energy, Inc.

Brendan is Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at NRG Energy, where he leads earnings execution and engagement with the investment community.

He has eight years of investor relations experience and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

 Stacey Brodbar

 Senior Vice President, Finance & IR

 Verisk Analytics

Stacey is Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations, at Verisk, overseeing strategic financial planning, treasury, and investor communications. She serves as the company’s liaison to the investor community, as well as guides internal forecasting, budgeting, and planning processes.

Before joining Verisk in 2018, Stacey was a senior vice president at the global asset management firm AllianceBernstein, where she covered the consumer discretionary sector for the company’s

concentrated growth portfolio.

Stacey holds an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a BA from Duke University in history. She’s a member of Duke’s Alumni Admission Advisory Committee.