June 1, 2025
NIRI: The Association for Investor Relations announced its 2024-2025 NIRI Chapter Volunteers of the Year, and Chair’s Awards of Excellence.
“Congratulations and thank you to all of this year’s award winners” said NIRI President and CEO Matthew Brusch, CAE. “The ability of NIRI to meet its important mission is a result of volunteers throughout our community generously donating their time and talent to helping each other, and to advancing the IR profession.”
The following 2024-2025 Chapter Volunteers of the Year were honored during the recent
NIRI 2025 Annual Conference, held in Boston, MA.
- NIRI Atlanta – Bill McCarthy, NIRI Atlanta Vice President
- NIRI Capital Area – Virginia Moore, Investor Relations Analyst, Leidos Holdings, Inc.
- NRI DFW – Brookii Wootton, IRC, Senior Director, Investor Relations, At Home Group Inc.
- NIRI Florida – Fabiane Goldstein, Founder Fearless Girls Group Inc.
- NIRI Houston – Megan Larson, IRC, Senior Advisor, Investor Relations, Murphy Oil Corporation
- NIRI Los Angeles – Jenn Kettnich, Vice President, Investor Relations, Mattel, Inc.
- NIRI Philadelphia – Joe Shiffler, Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications, Power Integrations, Inc.
- NIRI San Francisco – Peter Schuman, IRC, Vice President, Investor Relations, ADTRAN, Inc
- NIRI Silicon Valley – Anil Gupta, Vice President, Investor Relations, Coinbase Global, Inc.
- NIRI Twin Cities – Bernadette McCormick, NIRI Twin Cities, President
- NIRI Virtual Chapter – Rebecca Updegraph, NIRI Virtual, Professional Development Chair
NIRI Chair’s Awards of Excellence
NIRI also presented the 2024-2025 NIRI Chair’s Award of Excellence to recognize achievement in areas essential to chapter health, member service and advocacy.
The 2024-2025 Excellence in Membership Growth Award was presented to NIRI Cleveland/Northern Ohio, NIRI DFW and NIRI New York.
The 2024-2025 Excellence in Membership Retention Award was presented to NIRI Atlanta, NIRI Cleveland/Northern Ohio and NIRI New York.
The 2024-2025 Excellence in Advocacy Support Award was presented to Geoff Buscher, Director, Investor Relations, Expeditors International of Washington, Inc., who has of actively supported NIRI’s advocacy initiatives in the current and prior program years.
More information about the NIRI Fellows Program can be found at https://www.niri.org/community/fellows/.