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.​

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 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.​

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.​

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.​

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 an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.​​

Before joining The Conference Board in 2016, 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 and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. 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, 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 and the McCarter Theatre Center. He lives with his wife and four children in Princeton, New Jersey.​