Dan Romito is a Managing Director overseeing the Consulting & Advocacy practice at Pickering Energy Partners. Dan’s career has centered on helping capital-intensive businesses efficiently navigate the ever-evolving capital markets and global regulatory landscape. He advises private companies, public issuers, and asset managers in the Energy, Industrials, Materials, Utilities, and Healthcare sectors to optimize the delicate balance between sustainability strategies and capital discipline, pursuing quality pools of capital, employing pragmatic sustainability-related directives, and executing efficient stakeholder management strategies.Dan's career is marked by his ability to build, commercialize, and manage revenue-generating business units. Before launching the Consultancy & Advocacy practice at Pickering, he honed his skills at Nasdaq, where he specialized in building investor analytics platforms, technology solutions, and business development. His most notable achievement during his tenure at Nasdaq was the development and commercialization of Nasdaq’s Strategic Capital Intelligence offerings, a suite of services that included a proprietary investor behavioral analytics platform, the ESG Advisory Service, the Insight360 Analytics modules, the Activist Diagnostic, the Capital Deployment Scenario Analysis, the Biotech Investor Targeting platform, and the Small Cap Investor Targeting Service.His extensive publication record further underscores Dan's influence in finance and sustainability. With over fifty published writings on topics such as Energy Policy, Sustainability, Investor Behavior, Passive Ownership, and Shareholder Activism, his work has been featured in several global periodicals, including Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, CNBC, Bloomberg, Hart Energy, and Global Investor Magazine. Dan has given more than 250 presentations to policymakers, corporate boards, regulators, and investors. His presentations cover topics such as the state of the capital markets, global energy policy, fossil fuel advocacy, and sustainability strategies.Dan received a BA from the University of Chicago and an MBA in Finance from DePaul University. He sits on the IPAA Capital Markets Committee, serves as an Advisory Board Member for Marquette University's Sustainability Lab, sits on PRAGMA's Advocacy Committee, and is an adjunct professor at Marquette University, teaching Sustainable Finance.