<h2><span style="font-size: small;">Council of Institutional Investors Spring 2022 Conference</span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: small;">I. Introduction</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you so much for inviting me to speak today at the Council of Institutional Investors (“CII”) Spring Conference. This is my first in-person speaking engagement as Director of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”), so I am especially excited to be here with all of you. Before I begin, I would like to remind you that the views I express today are my own, and I am not speaking on behalf of the Commission or the SEC staff.<a name=" ftnref1" href="https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/jones-cii-2022-03-08?utm medium=email&utm source=govdelivery# ftn1">[1]</a></span></p>