Together with Yue Yin, Joseph is the co-founder of YYDC and serves as its President. When not working with Yin, who is also his wife, Joseph is a senior lawyer and strategic advisor with a focus on media, entertainment and the arts.

Joseph is also a member of the Board of Directors of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts NY, an organization that has provided pro bono legal services to the arts community for over 50 years.
Joseph graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Literature and earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Elaine H. Mandelbaum is General Counsel of Interactive Brokers LLC and Senior Vice President of IBG LLC, an automated global electronic broker-dealer. In her role, she is responsible for the global legal team of Interactive Brokers. Prior to that, Elaine worked for Citigroup for 21 years, most recently as Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations for Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG). Prior to starting at Citigroup, Ms. Mandelbaum was a litigation attorney at the New York office of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, and previously at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Elaine is the immediate past President of the SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society, and has served on the SIFMA C&L’s Executive Committee for over a decade. Elaine was previously Vice Chair of the FINRA National Adjudicatory Council, the appellate body for decisions rendered in FINRA disciplinary and membership proceedings. Elaine serves on the Board of Directors of the Legal Action Center and of the National Council of Jewish Women, and was the recipient of the 2015 “Woman Who Dared” Award from the NCJW.​

Elaine is a frequent speaker at PLI, SIFMA and other industry conferences on topics relating to complex securities litigation, corporate governance, internal and regulatory investigations and issues relating to women in the securities industry. She is an honors graduate of Yale College and of Harvard Law School.

Shannon Bell is a Managing Director at The Orogen Group, an operating company that makes significant long-term control and other strategic investments in financial services companies and related businesses. Ms. Bell has more than 20 years of experience in communications and has spent the majority of her career in financial services where she has developed expertise in reputation and crisis management, brand building and corporate communications. Ms. Bell started her career at APCO Associates, a global public affairs firm, where she built grassroots and grass tops campaigns for some of the country’s largest companies and trade associations. In 1997, she joined Standard & Poor’s, serving as a director of media relations for its debt ratings business. In 2000, Ms. Bell became director of public relations for Zurich Financial Services where she was responsible for directing Zurich’s corporate communications strategy in North America. She joined Citigroup in 2003 and ultimately became director of corporate communications and corporate spokesperson. At Citi, she was responsible for developing integrated communications strategies for corporate announcements including acquisitions and divestitures, capital planning, management changes and financial results. She received her B.A. from Emory University.

She was a soloist and rehearsal assistant during her tenure with Aszure Barton and Artists from 2003-2010. In 2007, she began to research her own contemporary technique practice—developing an improvisation and non-binary partnering syllabus, which she taught for two years at the Theatre de la Danse and Studio Harmonic (Paris, FR). During that same time, she joined fellow Juilliard-graduates Stephan Laks, Rachel Tess, Jermaine Spivey, Luis Rodriguez, and Isaac Spencer to form Rumpus Room Dance, based in Portland, Oregon, and Goteborg, Sweden. Together, from 2007-2010, they co-created and performed two evening length site-specific dance works and were nominated one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2010).

She has since been commissioned to create works for Visceral Dance Chicago, Springboard Danse Montréal, Northwest Dance Project (Portland), Whim W'Him (Seattle), SALT (Salt Lake City), Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts (Dallas), Groundworks Dance Theater (Cleveland), the Fine Arts Center (Greenville), the Juilliard School, Gibney Dance Company, Middle Tennessee State University, and New Dialect. She has also been featured in articles for Dance Magazine, The New York Times, Dance Teacher, and Dance Spirit.

Banning formed New Dialect in 2013, in response to Nashville’s need for a professional contemporary dance company and community-centered resource, that would allow dancers, teaching artists, and choreographers the opportunity to collaborate and contribute to the larger national dance ecology. Through her leadership of New Dialect and significant contributions to contemporary dance training, creation, and performances in the South, Banning has received several honors and awards, including a two-time nomination for the United States Artist Fellowship.

She is currently a research artist for the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron, where she is investigating new frameworks for supporting dance through NCCAkron’s Creative Administration Residency (CAR). Her essay detailing her experience starting a nonprofit dance organization, Causing a Scene: How I Helped Build the Contemporary Dance Ecosystem in My Hometown, will be published by the University of Akron Press in Spring 2024.

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