2025 Crash Course: How to Be a Great Private Company Board Director

Are you a PE professional looking to learn how to be a great board director from the masters of the craft? Or an experienced director looking to learn new tips and hacks?

Join us for a virtual crash course on how to be a great director on a private company board, Thursday, March 27, from 11 AM to 1 PM. It's produced jointly by the leaders in private equity education, PE Professional and Private Equity Career News.

This short but exhaustive course is conducted by Jonathan Friedland, a principal at Chicago-based law firm Much Shelist PC with more than two decades of experience counseling boards of PE-backed companies, and Allan Grafman, the CEO of All Media Ventures who has served on more than 12 fiduciary boards, including those of four PE-backed companies. Together they will discuss the following:

• Board functions, and how serving on a PE-backed portfolio company board differs from serving on other kinds of company boards;
• The ins and outs of fiduciary duties: practical takeaways based on what the law says;
• How to reconcile one's fiduciary duties to the loyalty owed to the fund;
• How to run an effective board meeting and executive session;
• How to navigate the line between the board and the C-Suite;
• Ways to manage and mitigate enterprise risk;
• What to accomplish between meetings in committees;
• How to handle special situations, such as insolvency or bankruptcy filings;
• Protect thyself: an introduction to indemnification and D&O insurance.

Special Bonus: All registrants will receive a complimentary copy of a video workshop on soft skills needed to be an effective director––leadership, communication & trust

Register Now!