Podcast #103 | Alicia Syrett: "The Chair Should Focus the Agenda Primarily on Strategic Discussions."

In episode #103 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Alicia Syrett, the Chair of Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC) and founder of Madam Chair group (www.madam-chair.com), an organization with 200+ female Chairs and Lead Directors of publicly traded companies. She is also the CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early-stage investments that she founded in 2011.

Among other topics, they discuss:

👉 Distinctions between serving on private and public boards.
👉 The origin and mission of the Madam Chair group.
👉 The role of the board in strategy and innovation.
👉 ESG, the anti-ESG backlash, and sustainability.
👉 Board education.

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