3YS Owls is a corporate governance firm and incorporated legal practice co-founded by Ainslie Cunningham and Deb Anderson following extensive careers in corporate governance, company secretarial, risk and legal roles with over 40+ years of combined experience between them predominantly from in-house roles. 3YS Owls specialise in providing a variety of services and solutions across corporate governance, company secretary, board advisory, strategy, risk and business consulting. They have a strong focus on governance - to create an ethical environment that supports an inclusive culture. Boards and leadership teams need to be cohesive, able to harness a diversity of views and foster good governance. They aim to align with clients who share the same values and their ultimate goal is to help directors and executives sleep at night knowing they have a trusted advisor that fosters good governance keeping all stakeholders happy.

3YS Owls are excited to be hosting the Governance Top 100 for the very first time in 2020.

One of Melbourne's first start-up technology companies, Computershare was grounded in the city's suburbs in 1978.

Computershare is the world's largest share registry, and has pioneered many of the securities industry's innovations to help companies build and maintain strong relationships with their investors, employees and customers. For more than 35 years, Computershare have grown rapidly in markets around the world to meet the evolving needs of their 16,000 clients.

Computershare remains a unique Australian success story, who built on their share registry business by successfully expanding into employee equity plans, stakeholder communications, corporate governance, fund services, class action administration, deposit protection and most recently, mortgage servicing.

When Computershare listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:CPU) in 1994, they had a market cap of AUD $36 million, managed around 6 million shareholder accounts and had about 50 staff. Now Computershare are a global business with a market cap in the billions, managing over 75 million shareholders, servicing 16,000 clients, with 12,000 staff across all major financial markets.

With a membership of over 7,500 company secretaries, governance leaders and risk managers from some of Australia's largest organisations, Governance Institute of Australia is the only fully independent professional association with a sole focus on governance excellence.

For 110 years, our education, research, advocacy, and support networks have provided cutting edge governance and risk management advice to Australian business leaders from all walks of life. We celebrate Australia's successes, and challenge it to be even better.

McCullough Robertson is a leading independent Australian law firm with over 90 years’ experience providing a range of legal services to our valued clients. Our large corporate practice has expertise across the resources and renewables; technology, media and telecommunications; life sciences; food and agribusiness; financial services; and not-for-profit industries.

We deliver tailored, practical advice to our clients in the small to mid-cap market, ensuring that they meet not only their regulatory obligations, but also the demands of shareholders, the community and other stakeholders. As advisers to boards, senior management, and legal/compliance teams, we advise on all legal aspects of corporate governance including directors’ duties and liabilities; shareholder and investor relations; and annual reports, AGMs and EGMs.

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nasdaq, Inc. Nasdaq's Corporate Services business empowers business leaders with technology and intelligence to innovate, grow and stay ahead of changing markets. We offer an integrated suite of market intelligence, analytics, and collaboration solutions that support investor relations and corporate governance professionals around the globe. More than 50% of the Fortune 500 use Nasdaq's board collaboration and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions and services.

Our client base spans across all industries. Our client list includes listed companies across all exchanges, including small-to-large cap ASX-listed issuers, large and small private companies, non-profit organizations, hospitals, colleges and universities. Our Australia-based team is located in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and are supported by a team across Asia-Pacific and around the world.