The Directors to Watch: Racial & Ethnic Diversity Class of 2025 highlights 24 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Kim Harris Jones
United Rentals Inc., TrueBlue, Caesars Entertainment
Kim Harris Jones is a finance professional with over 30 years of experience. She serves on the boards of United Rentals Inc., TrueBlue and Caesars Entertainment. At United Rentals, she chairs the audit committee and serves on the compensation committee. On the TrueBlue board, she chairs the audit committee and serves on the nom/gov and information & technology committees. She is on the audit and corporate and social responsibility committees of Caesars Entertainment.
She is the president and chairman of the board of the Harris-Jones Charitable Gift Foundation and previously served on the board of Fossil Group. Earlier in her career, she served as senior VP, corporate controller and FP&A lead for Mondelēz International, Kraft Foods and Chrysler.
Challenge the abandonment of DEI programs. “One of the most significant governance challenges that boards and companies are facing relates to external decisions and pressures on DEI initiatives. Recent Supreme Court decisions and other state actions have challenged or eliminated DEI programs, giving some companies a rationale to step away from their own programs. This has been particularly true for companies that only adopted DEI programs because of civil unrest in the past few years. However, companies that truly believe in DEI have generally not wavered in their support. It's important for board members to challenge those companies that have abandoned these initiatives.”