Francesca Ecsery is a Portfolio Non-Executive Director with 23+ years experience in both blue chip companies and start-ups in the Digital / Retail / FMCG / Leisure travel industries. She has a Special expertise in multi-platform consumer Marketing, Branding and Commercial strategies which deliver growth and profits. Currently NED in a diverse range of listed…
Andy Leeser shares his experience of the similarities and differences between NED roles, what he looks for when joining a new board, learning curves and how he stays current. Andy is an experienced Chairman and NED offering a proven track record and a rare set of insights in improving and realising equity value. He has…
Diversity breeds progress and – disregarding the fact that in 2015 this conversation should be unnecessary – women add diversity to any board they join. Simply put, women have a different set of experiences and a separate history – they bring something unique to the boards they join. According to a February 2015 study by…
An observation has revealed that a significant amount of well-trained executives have not performed well during the interview process with the nominating committee members of corporate boards. Due to the uniqueness and the specificity involved in a non-exec position, it is worth offering some advice that will increase the chances of you securing your first…
NEDonBoard: The board of directors is chosen to act on the behalf of the company’s shareholders in order to manage the daily affairs of the business. Overall, the board is held responsible regarding the shareholders and holds a yearly meeting each year whereby the directors have to give a report to them concerning the company’s…
An Inspiring Leader: Michael Treschow, Non-Executive Director of Unilever Michael Treschow is a business man from Sweden who became chairman of the board at Unilever in 2007. Since that time, he has taken on the roll of NED, working behind the scenes of the powerful company concerning policy making and planning. He formerly acted as…
What to include in your NED CV Creating a Non-Executive Director CV (NED CV) is a special type of CV focus. Most CV’s should be limited to two pages but the NED CV often runs 2-4 pages because of the unique requirements of the position. These positions have some unique qualities and require a different…
