Our Mission
We are working to transform how boards and corporate governance professionals work by building advanced technology to elevate the work of boards.
We believe better boards
- Build more strategic companies
- Align more effectively with management on goals
- Value better human capital management
- Employ more reliable financial controls and reporting
- Generate more profits
and advance a company's commitment to
- Ethical, compliant cultures
- Embrace inclusion and celebrate diversity, free from harassment
- Safe workplaces and products
- Consideration of environmental and social impacts
Elevate group decision-making by providing
advanced technology to
transform the work of boards and their advisors
Our Team
Foresight® was built by directors, CEOs and General Counsel Below are our subject matter leaders and our Advisory Board
Charles Glick | Founder, Chair and CEO
"I've served as a CEO, a board Chair, and a General Counsel. Foresight is the tool I wished I had in each of these roles."
Charles Glick is a former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Unum Group, a Fortune 250 insurance company, with 86 lawyers in-house and annual revenues of $10 billion (NYSE: UNM). He has practiced at large law firms, including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (where he was a litigator focused on unsolicited tender offers and proxy fights, and financial litigation) and Winston & Strawn (where he focused on corporate work). He has entrepreneurial experience as one of the founding partners of Hedlund, Hanley & John, a litigation boutique, and as the Founder and Chairman of iVantage Bancorp, Inc., an internet banking company.
Charles received a J.D. degree from Yale University, where he served as Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and a B.A. degree from Indiana University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has served on over a dozen boards of directors.
Linda Giuliano | Senior Advisor
Linda is the CEO and founder of BrightWorld ESG, a consultancy firm that partners with clients to integrate principles of environmental stewardship, social, and corporate governance (ESG) principles into strategy, policies and processes to achieve measurable objectives beyond aspirational goals. Linda formerly held leadership positions at AllianceBernstein (AB) investment management. Over the span of three decades, Linda was selected to lead a variety of strategic initiatives. She was the firm’s first Head of Responsible Investing, developing the firm’s ESG strategy, and creating a framework for integrating ESG into security research, advising on ESG product design, and enhancing proxy voting and engagement policy and processes. Linda also established a first of its kind climate analysis program with Columbia University for AB investment professionals, and she led a series of other educational events on ESG for AB stakeholders.
Prior to assuming ESG responsibilities, Linda was Chief Administrative Officer of Equities, where she oversaw financial management, operational risk, technological innovation, and talent management. Before joining the Equity Management senior team, Linda’s positions at AB included serving as the first Chief Operating Officer for Alternative Investments, and the first Director of Internal Consulting.
Linda is a member of the Society for Corporate Governance, the International Corporate Governance Network, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. She earned a M.B.A. from Cornell University, a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan, and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence in Business Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Doug Chia | President of Soundboard Governance, LLC
Douglas K. Chia is the sole owner and President of Soundboard Governance LLC and Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance.
Mr. Chia was previously Executive Director of The Conference Board ESG Center and continues to contribute to The Conference Board as a Senior Fellow. He is also a Fellow at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, Advisor to Foresight BoardOps, and Advisory Board Member of PracticalESG.com.
Before joining The Conference Board, Mr. Chia served as Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson. Previously, he served as Assistant General Counsel, Corporate of Tyco International and practiced law at the global firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance in New York and Hong Kong.
Mr. Chia has held a number of central leadership positions in the corporate governance field, including Chair of the Board of the Society for Corporate Governance, President of the Stockholder Relations Society of New York, and member of the New York Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Commission. He is currently a member of the Corporate Laws Committee of the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and Ascend Pan-Asian Leaders. Mr. Chia has received numerous awards and recognitions in corporate governance and has frequently appeared in the news media, including CNN, NPR Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and The New Yorker.
Mr. Chia received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Chia is a Trustee of the Historical Society of Princeton. He lives with his wife and four children in Princeton, New Jersey.
Carol Ward | Former VP and Corporate Secretary, Mondelez International
Carol J. Ward joined Corporate Governance Partners as a Senior Advisor in January 2019. Before that, in 2006, Carol joined Kraft Foods Inc. as VP & Corporate Secretary. In October 1, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. changed its name to Mondelez International, Inc. following the spin-off of its North American grocery business as Kraft Foods Group, Inc. From 2006-2018, Carol advised the Board of Directors, senior management, and employees on corporate governance, corporate securities, SEC reporting and compliance, executive compensation and US employee benefits. She joined CIGNA Corporation in 1983 and was named Asst. Corporate Secretary in 1986, Corporate Secretary in 1992 and to the additional post of Chief Compliance Officer in 1998.
Carol is a member and former Chairman of the Society for Corporate Governance; member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the American Bar Association; and a founding member of the Advisory Board of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware. She was a long-time member and past President of the Stockholder Relations Society of New York. In 2019, Corporate Secretary Magazine recognized her with a lifetime achievement award.
Carol received her B.A. degree from Yale University and a J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law.
Dennis Chookaszian | Former CEO of CNA Insurance Companies
Dennis Chookaszian was Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies from 1992 until 1999. He is currently a director of the CME Group, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade and three other exchanges, and serves on the board of Career Education Corporation, defense contractor Maxar Technologies, Inc., and Prism Technologies Group, Inc. He has served on over 13 publicly traded boards, and 50 private and non-profit boards. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at the National Association of Corporate Directors, and teaches corporate governance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, China.
Michael Helfer | Former General Counsel of Citigroup
Michael Stevens Helfer was Vice Chairman of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) from 2012 to 2014, and served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from 2003 to 2012, leading over 800 attorneys in approximately 100countries. Before joining Citigroup in 2003, Mr. Helfer was President of Strategic Investments and Chief Strategic Officer at Nationwide Insurance. Until 2000, he was a Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) in Washington, D.C., where he had practiced since 1973.
Mr. Helfer is a member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Audit Advisory Committee of the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He formerly served as Chairman of The Clearing House Association, a trade association representing 24 of the largest commercial banks which collectively employed over two million people and held more than half of all U.S. banking deposits, and was Vice Chairman of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of the Financial Services Roundtable, which represented the 100 largest financial services firms. The two trade associations merged in July 2018 to become the Bank Policy Institute. Mr. Helfer served as a Director, and Chairman of the Governance Committee, of EP Energy Corp. (NYSE:EP) from 2014 to 2017, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A. (Banamex), an indirect subsidiary of Citigroup and the second largest bank in Mexico.
He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his B.A. summa cum laude in Economics from Claremont Men’s College.
Jan Stern Reed | Former General Counsel of Walgreens/Boots Alliance
Jan Stern Reed was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a Fortune 20 company, until 2016. Before Walgreens, she was EVP for Human Resources and General Counsel for a $2.5 billion privately held manufacturer, and from 1997 to 2004 she was Chief Corporate Governance Officer and Associate General Counsel of Baxter International Inc. In 2013, she was elected as one of Corporate Counsel magazine’s “Top 100 In-House Counsel.
Ms. Reed serves on the boards of two publicly traded companies, AngioDynamics Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGO), a $300 million (revenue) medical device company, and Stepan Company (NYSE:SCL), a $2 billion (revenue) global specialty chemicals manufacturer, where she chairs the Compliance Committee. Directors & Boards magazine named her a “Director to Watch” in July 2018.
Ms. Reed received a J.D. degree at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she also is an Adjunct Professor, and earned a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Robert Mednick | Former Worldwide Managing Partner for Professionalism at Accenture/Arthur Andersen
Robert Mednick was worldwide Managing Partner of Professional and Regulatory Affairs at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) for close to a decade before retiring in mid-1998. He was also Chairman of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1996-1997, having previously served on its Auditing Standards Board, the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and the SEC Practice Section Executive Committee. Other Board service included the Rand Corporation Institute for Civil Justice and the Ray Garrett Jr Corporate and Securities Law Institute at Northwestern University Law School.
Since retirement, Mr. Mednick has served as a senior consultant to the World Bank, the founding Chairman of a Compliance Advisory Panel at the International Federation of Accountants, a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of three advisory groups to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, D.C. He has taught graduate seminars at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and at two universities in Israel.
Susan I. Permut | Former Deputy General Counsel of EMC Corporation
Susan Permut is the former Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at EMC Corporation, a $25 billion global technology company, where she worked for 23 years, until its merger with Dell Technologies. EMC’s products and services accelerated the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments store, manage, protect and analyze their information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
Susan is currently consulting and advising Boards and management of public companies on high profile corporate governance matters. She is also an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law, where she teaches corporate governance. Susan has received numerous awards and recognitions in the corporate governance field.
Susan serves on the advisory boards of both Northeastern University School of Law’s NuLawLab and Elon University School of Law. She is a member of the AJC New England Leadership Board and the Board of Advisors of the Society for Corporate Governance (Eastern New England Chapter). She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Corporate Governance (National), the Council of Institutional Investors and the Association of Corporate Counsel (Northeast Chapter) and the Board of Trustees of Dean College.
Prior to joining EMC, Susan was an attorney at Damon Corporation in Needham, MA, and practiced law at Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston and Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, CA.
Susan received a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Aulana Peters | Former U.S. S.E.C. Commissioner
Aulana L. Peters is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1984-1988). In February 2003, the Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni named her the 11th recipient of the William O. Douglas Award for significant contributions to the development of the Federal Securities Law and to the SEC and Financial Community.
Mrs. Peters has served on the Boards of Directors of several Fortune 500 companies and non-profit companies, including Northrup Grumman, John Deere & Co., 3M Corporation, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Mayo Clinic. She is a retired litigation partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and is a frequent lecturer and author on federal securities regulation and corporate governance.
From 2000 to 2002, Mrs. Peters served on the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and from 2005 to 2012, she served on the International Public Interest Oversight Board for Auditing, Education and Professional Ethics Standards. In October 2010, she was awarded the Medal of Honor by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) for distinguished service by a non-accountant to the accounting profession.
Mrs. Peters currently serves on the United States Comptroller General’s Accountability Advisory Panel and on the Advisory Board to the Public Company Accountants Oversight Board (PCAOB).
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