Bishakha Datta, 02/11/2012 17:08:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
This doesn't seem too unreasonable in itself, but it is somewhat surprising
that you didn't readjust the board's composition accordingly. The
justification for having unelected seats is to ensure that the board has
people with specific skills or backgrounds, and my impression was that
getting someone with accounting experience to serve as treasurer was part
of that.
And that accounting experience is still very much needed on the Board - to
head the Audit Committee and to oversee the treasurer.
This seems quite a weak answer to Benjamin's point: if the experience of
an "expert" board member is relevant/needed only for one committee which
can consist also of non-board members (who in principle can also head
it), then the board may well decide to restrict his/her partecipation to
that committee, to take advantage of that experience where it's most
effective and free a board position to allow further diversification and
expansion of board member experiences.
Nemo
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