Juan I. Bonifacino, CFA, was previously the Head of Shareholder Advisory & Activism at Stifel, a Principal at CamberView Partners and Vice President of M&A and Proxy Contest Research at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).

Prior to Spotlight, Juan founded and led the Shareholder Advisory & Activism practice at Stifel, a leading middle market investment bank. In his role, he advised more than three dozen public companies on activism response and preparedness, corporate governance, ESG and institutional investor outreach. In 2022, Juan was named a Rising Star Dealmaker by the Global M&A Network as well as an Emerging Leader by M&A Advisor.

Previously, Juan was a Principal at CamberView Partners (now PJT CamberView), a governance advisory firm, where he advised more than twenty S&P 500 companies and counseled fifteen public companies on high-stakes proxy campaigns, including proxy contests, controversial compensation votes and other challenging shareholder proposals.

Juan previously served as a Vice President of M&A and Proxy Contest Research at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), where he evaluated and made voting recommendations on the financial and strategic implications of over one hundred proxy contests, contentious mergers, and other proposals with an immediate economic impact for institutional investor clients, including matters involving Illumina, Timken, Hess, Smithfield Foods, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, OshKosh and AOL.

Juan is a CFA charterholder and received an M.B.A. from Georgetown University where he was the valedictorian of his class, as well as a B.A. from Princeton University.