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Deb Rosenthal
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About The Event

The 2024 Blue Ribbon Commission Report highlights the urgent need for boards to enhance their governance of technology through a more defined, strategic, and proficient approach.  The report, Technology Leadership in the Boardroom: Driving Trust and Value, serves as a blueprint for board members seeking to elevate their oversight of technology while balancing innovation with the protection of stakeholder trust.

This program featured a group of experts who were involved in the creation of the report. Attendees learned strategies for responsible and courageous governance, equipping them to navigate the complexities of technology leadership in today’s rapidly evolving landscape.  This virtual event was held on May 8, 2025.

Speakers

 

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School

Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard, and the first director of the Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard’s university-wide endeavor straddling sciences, arts and the professions…

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Ryan McManus

Founder, Techtonic; Advisory Board Chair: Think Bigger Technology and Innovation Hub, Columbia Business School; Board Chair, Empower; President & Board Member. NACD New York Chapter; Board Director, Nortech Systems, Inc.

Ryan McManus

Ryan McManus is a technology entrepreneur, executive, investor, board director and advisor.  He is the founder of blockbld, the web3 investment platform; the digital transformation and business model advisory firm techtonic.io, and managing director of the venture capital firm Inflexhn Partners...

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General Partner, Playground Global; Board Director, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., NACD Northern California

Laurie Yoler (Moderator)

Laurie Yoler is an experienced board director, venture capital investor, and strategist skilled at advising companies and founders in imagining, building, and scaling disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, automation, and logistics. She is savvy in fundraising, M&A strategy and negotiations, cybersecurity oversight, and in devising complex, unconventional strategic alliances…

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Moderator

 

Diane Hessan

Chair, C Space

Diane Hessan

Diane Hessan is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator, a seasoned board director, and a nationally recognized expert on the American voter...

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NACD New England
Contact Us

Deb Rosenthal
Executive Director
NACD New England Chapter
drosenthal@nacdne.org

Larissa Ravetto
Chapter Administrator
NACD New England Chapter
lravetto@nacdne.org
781-461-2668

Find a Chapter

NACD and the NACD Chapter Network organizations (NACD) are non-partisan, nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing directors with the opportunity to discuss timely governance oversight practices. The views of the speakers and audience are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of NACD.