Governance Bites #45: effective shareholder engagement, with Kate Vennell
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In this video, Mark Banicevich asks Kate Vennell about the role of the board in promoting effective shareholder engagement. She outlines the importance of the shareholders' voice in the boardroom, and the challenges of disparate voices and goals. They discuss whether large shareholders effectively represent all shareholders, or whether their goals differ. They discuss how these lessons transfer to small companies and not-for-profits. Kate also shares the best governance advice she's received.
Kate Vennell is an experienced director, and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. She is an independent director of financial advice firm Lifetime, Board Trustee of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and Deputy Chair of both Mindful Money, and the Diabetes Foundation Aotearoa. Kate worked almost 10 years at FTSE 100 company Legal and General in the UK, which is the 10th largest investment management firm in the world by assets under management (according to Wikipedia). There her roles included Commercial Finance Director (Life Insurance), and Head of Investor Relations.
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