Bio

Zach Oleksiuk is a Managing Director in Evercore’s corporate advisory business, specializing in shareholder engagement, corporate governance, ESG, and investor relations. Mr. Oleksiuk was most recently Head of the Americas for BlackRock Investment Stewardship. Mr. Oleksiuk has over 16 years of experience in corporate governance, including with BlackRock in various roles since 2006. Mr. Oleksiuk is an active thought leader in the corporate governance community and is a frequent speaker to audiences of corporate directors and executives, investors, regulators, students, and other market participants. At BlackRock, Mr. Oleksiuk led a team responsible for engagement with companies on corporate governance, activist situations, and environmental and social matters, as well as developing and executing proxy voting policies. He also led BlackRock’s participation as a founding signatory to the Investor Stewardship Group and the Framework for U.S. Stewardship and Governance. Prior to BlackRock, Mr. Oleksiuk spent five years with Institutional Shareholder Services in various roles. Mr. Oleksiuk served on the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) Standing Advisory Group from 2015 to 2017 and chaired the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) Corporate Governance Advisory Council in 2016 and 2017. He is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), where he previously chaired the Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Oleksiuk earned an MBA from the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and a BA from the Pennsylvania State University.