Patrick S. McGurn is Vice President and Director of Corporate Programs at Institutional Shareholder Services. ISS is the world’s leading provider of proxy voting services and corporate governance research, serving hundreds of institutional investor and corporate clients. ISS recommends votes on ballot issues for nearly 20,000 shareholder meetings in 80 markets across the globe each year. Prior to joining ISS in April 1996, Pat was director of the Corporate Governance Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a not-for-profit firm that provides corporate governance research to investors and corporations. He also has served as a private attorney, a congressional staff member and a department head at the Republican National Committee. He is a graduate of Duke University and the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the bar in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland and the U.S. Virgin Islands.