Podcast #93 | Penny Herscher: "The Chair of the Board has to Exercise Leadership by Listening rather than by Speaking."

In episode #93 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Penny Herscher, a Silicon Valley-based tech executive and corporate director.

Penny currently serves on four public company boards: Lumentum, SGH (Smart Global), Embark Trucks and Forvia SA and two private company boards, Delphix and Modern Health. She was President & CEO of two technology companies, Simplex and FirstRain, over the last 25 years.

In this podcast, they talk about her career including her experience serving on public, private and international boards.

They also discuss many other corporate governance hot topics, including:

👉 Distinctions between serving on private venture-backed boards and public boards.
👉 Founder control and dual-class stock structures.
👉 The separation of Chair and CEO roles.
👉 The role of the board in strategy and innovation.
👉 ESG and the anti-ESG backlash.
👉 Geopolitics in the boardroom.
👉 Boardroom diversity.

You can listen to the episode directly in the Boardroom Governance Podcast website (where you can find all the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.

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