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

Hosted by By Private Equity Professional

Location, or Event type: Chicago, Illinois

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

Webinar, Hosted By By Private Equity Professional


Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2025- 11:00 AM


Price: 149.95 USD


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

 
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