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One of the pleasures of working closely with board members is that we have all been through numerous market cycles together. We’ve seen the frenzies and the lulls that come about as markets gyrate. So, for anyone who has noticed that the last two years in board search have been especially quiet, her...
Maggie Wilderotter, the former Chair and CEO of Frontier Communications, began an illustrious boardroom career at the age of 28. She currently chairs the board of DocuSign and is a director of Costco Wholesale, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sana Biotechnology and Lyft. Here, she joins Boardspan founde...
Recruitment – it’s part art and part science. And the success of your search for a new board member (or executive) should be measured on both the quality of your experience and your satisfaction with the results. So who you work with and how they run the search process matters, significantly. Like m...