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Podcast: Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein
Episode: David Chun: "The Demand For New Directors Will Increase Exponentially Over the Next 12-24 Months."
Description: (1:40) - Start of interview(2:38) - David's "origin story"(4:49) - The founding of Equilar in 2000.The modern "corporate governance" era started after the corporate scandals of the early 2000s (Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom, etc.) and the passage of SOX in 2002. "Very few people talked about corporate governance in the 1990s"With this new focus on corporate governance, there was a lot of attention given to exec comp.(9:56) - The Board's role in setting compensation for the CEO: "It's a very tricky decision, and there is no right answer." "Compensation is a very emotional and difficult decision, with many different stakeholders involved." (11:33) - T...