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.
Tamar Elkeles
The Glimpse Group, GP Strategies Corporation, G3 VRM
Tamar Elkeles, Ph.D., has over 30 years in the technology, human capital and ed tech sectors, including 25 years as chief learning and talent officer at Qualcomm Technologies Inc. She has extensive experience scaling companies, leading transformations and building high-performing leadership teams.
She has been the chief human resources officer for two rapidly growing technology start-ups and the chief talent executive for a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Her governance roles include director of The Glimpse Group, GP Strategies Corporation, G3 VRM, Open Sesame and The Forbes School of Business and Technology at The University of Arizona.
Elkeles was on the board of ATD and The Conference Board's Talent & Organization Development Executives Council. She has served on nom/gov, strategy, compensation and cybersecurity committees. She has certifications from The Cyber Risk Governance Program for Public U.S. Companies and The Corporate Director Academy.
Provide all three legs of the stool. “Corporate boardrooms must adapt to new regulations and realities. They must continue to adopt best practices to increase their effectiveness. The best boards have effective new director onboarding programs, which include onboarding new directors upon their appointment, creating relationship-building opportunities before their first board meeting and assigning new directors a ‘board buddy.' They also focus beyond just company and board information; they prioritize human capital information for their new directors. Companies that provide directors with ‘all three legs of the stool' have a clear advantage that will enable them to more rapidly benefit from all directors' contributions and ultimately increase shareholder value.”