Peter Gleason: "We Look at Board Directorships as a Profession with Accountability and Expectations."

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Peter Gleason, the President and CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Peter is a recognized expert on board leadership and corporate governance issues. Before joining NACD, Peter was a management consultant with both Ernst & Young and Pritchett & Associates. Prior, he served as Vice President and Director of U.S. Research for Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). In this podcast, we talk about the origin and mission of NACD, its board certification process and the Future of the American Board Report. We also address the evolution of U.S. public company governance in the last 30 years, ESG, the increasing polarization of governance, universal proxy cards and large institutional investors passing through voting power to their beneficial owners. In addition, we tackle private company governance, dual-class shares and other issues relevant for corporate directors as we closed on 2022. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com