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Boards: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities is a four-part series that addresses what it takes to position yourself as a valuable Board Advisor.
This session focuses on the value of advisory board structures for start-up businesses and how the less formal nature of advisory board services provides tangible benefits to newly-launched companies not yet ready for a traditional board of directors.
Learn how board advisors can help ventures avoid early-stage failure caused by gaps between concept and market acceptance; plus what compensation set-ups can be put in place that work for cash-constrained start-ups as well as for advisors who want to help a new venture succeed and get compensated for the win.
Discussions will include the sharing of real-life experiences on how advisory boards took start-up businesses to the next level and prepared them for funding rounds and successful exits.
Moderated by Mark Hamill, Chair of the Virtual Advisory Board and Owner of The Naked Headhunter, our lead speaker is James Chung, Co-founder of StratoDem Analytics, topics covered include:
The role and function of advisory boards (setting advisor profiles)
Access to expertise and talent for start-ups in the form of advisors
How advisors can deliver valuable insights and shore up gaps when niche expertise is needed
Regulatory and compensation guidelines for advisory boards
Managing relations between advisors and start-up founders (governance documents)
Risks related to advisory board (advisor) selection
HAE Members: FREE
Non-members: $20
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About James Chung
James is a co-founder of StratoDem Analytics, an Altus Group company. StratoDem Analytics is a data science platform that generates economic, demographic and performance forecasting and analytics for the real estate asset class. James is also the president of Reach Advisors, a strategy, research and predictive analytics firm that spun out StratoDem Analytics.
About Mark Hamill
Mark is a thought leader in talent acquisition focused on C-suite roles, CEO succession, and Board development. He represents Ackermann International as NED, serves as YPO UK chapter chair, and is CEO of his own company, The Naked Headhunter. He also co-founded the Virtual Advisory Board (VAB). Mark is passionate about people and loves connecting CEOs to Board talent who can help solve problems. He believes that building your professional network is the best way to find your next role. Mark builds boards both in the real world and for the Metaverse. He is firmly committed to CEO Fitness and the collaborative work of Transition Tribes.
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