Robyn Bew is Director of Research for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).  Before joining NACD, Ms. Bew was a Principal at Tapestry Networks, where she ran several networks of large-cap public company board members, and was a leader of the firm’s work on bank governance and board-shareholder engagement issues. She has been a featured presenter on governance topics at conferences of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the National Retail Federation, the International Financial Risk Institute and the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Earlier in her career, Ms. Bew was a Senior Director at the Corporate Executive Board and a management consultant at Monitor Group.  

Peter Lagomarsino (left photo) and James Rowe are partners with The Mintz Group, a company that provides research and investigative services to boards, corporate counsel and their advisors. Lagomarsino manages the firm’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Rowe is executive vice president of the firm and manages the Washington, D.C., office.

The authors can be contacted at plago@mintzgroup.com and jrowe@mintzgroup.com.

Susan F. Shultz founded The Board Institute to improve and benchmark boards of directors through independent, web-based evaluation and education tools. She is the author of “The Board Book: Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company's Success” (AMACOM, 2008).

Robert Barker is managing partner of BarkerGilmore, an executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of general counsel and chief compliance officers.

The authors can be contacted at sshultz@ssaexec.com and rbarker@barkergilmore.com.

Allan Grafman is president of All Media Ventures, which monetizes brands and content for investors and companies. Idalene ‘Idie’ Kesner is dean of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and holds the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management. Both authors serve on several public and private company boards. The authors can be contacted at allangrafman@allmediaventures.com and ikesner@indiana.edu.

George Isaac is founder and president of GAI Capital Ltd. (www.georgeisaac.com). He has 30 years of experience as a family business CEO, board member, consultant and executive coach and has served on 14 boards of public and private companies ranging in size from $30 million to $1 billion. He advises clients on succession planning, board and family governance, family dynamics, operating performance improvement, and wealth realization and protection strategies. The author can be contacted at gisaac@gaicapital.com.

Eric Salzman is the managing member of SarniHaan Capital Partners, a consulting firm he established to target special situation investment opportunities and serve as an active board member at both public and private equity-owned companies. He has extensive experience as a private equity investment professional, buy-side analyst, special situations portfolio manager, and restructuring professional. Over the past six years he has served as a board member, advisory board member, and/or board observer to 12 public and private companies in a range of sectors including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, energy and industrials. He currently serves as an independent director at two public and three private companies. The author can be contacted at eric@sarnihaan.com.

Tracy Warren is a general partner of Battelle Ventures and its affiliate fund, Innovation Valley Partners, for which she focuses on investments in health and life sciences as well as emerging energy technologies. She has co-founded and serves as a board member of several life sciences companies, advises on new company formation, mentors female entrepreneurs, and provides other early stage leadership to private growth companies.