Directors to Watch 2014

 

Activism, as many directors have discovered, comes in many different varieties. For some, aggressive shareholders disrupting annual meetings, pushing inconvenient votes, or requesting sensitive information are at the perigee of owner empowerment. For others, activism in the digital age has taken a different form, with agitators sometimes having no stake whatsoever in the targeted company itself but rather in an ideal or a cause that affects the boardroom and often the company’s reputation.

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Scott Chase

Scott Chase manages the nomination and selection process for Directors to Watch.


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