Videos
Proxy season trends and tips
In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, Lisa Edwards sits down with Tamara Brightwell, a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini’s DC office, to discuss the significant trends from the last proxy season and what to expect in the upcoming 2025 proxy season. Tamara provides insights into the key issues that shareholders were most vocal about, emerging trends board members should prepare for, and evolving strategies for shareholder engagement and activism.
Building an effective audit committee / External auditor relationship
External auditors inspect a company’s accounting records and decide whether financial statements are presented fairly in accordance with applicable accounting standards along with evaluating internal controls and data security. This role often dovetails with the oversight function of the board-level audit committee. In this episode, Tom Aaron, Board Member at Cincinnati Financial Corp. and AirSculpt Technologies, discusses how the relationship between external auditors and the audit committee can be effective for both parties. What should audit committees expect from their external auditors? What should external auditors expect from their audit committees… especially from the audit chair?
