Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation, Avanade has more certifications, Gold-level competencies and most valued professionals (MVPs) than any other Microsoft partner. Every day, our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries innovate responsibly to make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.
At BDO, our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes — for our people, our clients and our communities. Across the U.S., and in over 160 countries through our global organization, BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients. Emerging issues, material risks, increasing regulations and stakeholder demands all compete as priorities on the board’s agenda. Transparent communications and strong oversight are more important than ever to instill stakeholder confidence in a company’s long-term sustainability. The BDO Center for Corporate Governance continually delivers insights, learning and networking opportunities for the board of directors.
BoardProspects is the premier board recruitment solution for public and private companies. In 2023, more than 390 individuals were appointed to corporate boards through our innovative platform. BoardProspects offers for-profit corporations of all sizes a cost-effective way to identify, assess, and recruit board members from a prestigious community of highly-regarded and credentialed board members, c-suite executives, and thought leaders. At BoardProspects, effective board recruitment is based on the fundamental premise that a company and its stakeholders deserve to have the absolute best people possible around the boardroom table.
DDI's Executive Services team provides succession, coaching, and assessment services that help leaders succeed from their first executive role until they reach the boardroom. Our suite of services is specially designed to manage risk at the top, and help executives thrive both as individuals and as teams. Our experts have deep experience working with boards of directors, CEOs, and executive teams to create sound, data-driven succession plans.
FW Cook is an independent executive compensation consulting firm that provides objective advice to boards and management of the world’s leading companies. Our principle objective is to add value to the executive pay programs and processes of our clients. We collaborate with our clients to solve complex problems and design programs that support their business strategy and successfully link executive pay to shareholder value. Founded in 1973, we serve public, private, and tax-exempt organizations across a broad spectrum of industries. We are a market leader in board engagements among major indices. FW Cook’s offices are located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and Boston.
Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 38 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.
Teneo is a global advisory firm that works exclusively with CEOs and leaders of the world’s largest and most complex companies, providing strategic counsel across their full array of key objectives and issues. Our teams integrate the disciplines of strategic communications, investor relations, investment banking, management consulting, corporate governance and sustainability, risk, and government affairs to solve the most complex business and reputational challenges. Globally, Teneo has 43 offices with over 1,600 people and over 1,200 clients.
The Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance is a membership-based organization housed within The Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Institute focuses on the good governance of public and private companies as well as nonprofits. It strives to add value to top-level executives, current and prospective board members, investors and stakeholders through thought leadership and connecting people.
Vinson & Elkins, founded in 1917, is recognized as a premier law firm with diversified practices serving clients around the globe. Our lawyers provide strategic legal advice on our client’s most challenging and complex transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, project developments, financings, arbitrations, lawsuits, environmental matters, tax cases, intellectual property matters, restructurings/reorganizations, and regulatory proceedings. We offer an integrated team of nearly 700 skilled lawyers in 11 global locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.