Podcast #64 | Keir Gumbs: "Governance Directly and Unequivocally Impacts Value."

In episode #64 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Keir Gumbs, the Chief Legal Officer of Broadridge Financial Solutions, where he oversees the legal, compliance and physical security teams.

Prior to joining Broadridge, Keir served as Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Corporate Secretary of Uber, partner at Covington & Burling and staff attorney at the SEC for six years, where, immediately prior to joining private practice in 2005, he served as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Roel C. Campos.

In this podcast, Keir and Evan talk about:

• The Holder Report and corporate governance reforms at Uber (post 2017)

• The state of corporate governance in Silicon Valley, particularly from #startup to public companies.

• Keir’s current focus at Broadridge, including proxy voting, proxy plumbing (tech & #blockchain), proxy contests, and incoming changes with the new universal proxy rules for director elections.

• Boardroom #diversity.

• The SEC’s enforcement agenda (including a discussion on the recent EY enforcement action), and

• How companies and boards need to deal with increasing politicization and polarization: "Employees, customers and investors expect you to address these issues."

You can listen to the episode directly at https://boardroom-governance.com/episodes/keir-gumbs (where you can find the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.

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