ACG in Austin on Wed. 10/10/18: How to Get on the Board of a Middle Market Company

Since 2003, Jill has served as an Independent Board Director for Luby’s/Fuddruckers Restaurants (NYSE: LUB). She chairs the Talent Management & Administration Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee, Nominating & Governance Committee, and the Executive Compensation Committee.

She leads Jill Griffin Executive Learning whose mission is to coach talented leaders to break out of Middle Management, rise into the Executive Suite, and ultimately onto a Corporate Board.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude with Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business and is the recipient of the school’s Distinguished Alumna Award.

Jill is a Forbes.com contributor, NYSE independent Public Board Director, internationally-published Harvard “Working Knowledge” author, and a NACD Governance Fellow. She is the author of six business books. Her newest, Follow These Leaders, will release in January 2019.

Betsy co-founded Berkhemer Clayton Inc., 24 years ago, specializing in senior management Communications, Marketing, Finance and Board searches for corporations, universities and large nonprofits. 

In January 2018, Betsy became national CEO of the nonprofit public awareness campaign “2020 Women on Boards,” dedicated to achieving at least 20 percent of all public company board seats held by women by the year 2020. 

Author of the book "The Board Game – How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors," Betsy tells the stories of how 58 women directors found their first board seats. 

Betsy is a graduate of UCLA.

As an advisor to private equity and venture capital groups, Rick ‘s areas of focus include: corporate strategy, business planning, competitive analysis, M & A due diligence, KPI/metric implementation, product planning, and interim CEO management.

Rick currently serves on the boards of software firm PlumChoice based in Boston, and Private Credit Investors Corporation, an Alliance Bernstein $500M investment fund that focuses on middle market credit opportunities.

He has served on the audit (member and chair), compensation, and nominating/government committees, and has been a vital part of the “go public” process.

Rick has an undergraduate degree and MBA in Finance from Drexel University.