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Can you define the role and responsibility of a board?

Susan Angele (KPMG’s Board Leadership)

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Susan Angele, a Senior Advisor of Board Governance and a member of KPMG’s Board Leadership Center, talks with Sarder TV correspondent, Vanessa Tyler, about the types of corporate responsibilities for a typical Board of Directors. In this discussion, Angele covers the major legal obligations of a board to both shareholders and the company. She also provides a brief overview of the kinds of tasks board members are charged with including the hiring and firing of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), risk strategy, and capital allocation.

Susan Angele
Susan Angele

Senior Advisor, Board Governance, at KPMG's Board Leadership Center, champion outstanding corporate governance to drive long term corporate value and enhance investor confidence. The Board Leadership Center includes KPMG's Audit Committee Institute, and provides thought leadership supporting Women Corporate Directors, the only global membership organization and community of women board members. I joined the Board Leadership Center after 25 years in the consumer products industry, protecting value and enabling sustainable global growth of some of the world's most famous and best-loved brands.

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About the Author

Susan Angele

Susan Angele

Senior Advisor, Board Governance, at KPMG's Board Leadership Center, champion outstanding corporate governance to drive long term corporate value and enhance investor confidence.

The Board Leadership Center includes KPMG's Audit Committee Institute, and provides thought leadership supporting Women Corporate Directors, the only global membership organization and community of women board members. I joined the Board Leadership Center after 25 years in the consumer products industry, protecting value and enabling sustainable global growth of some of the world's most famous and best-loved brands.

Interview By

Vanessa Tyler

Vanessa Tyler

Vanessa is an Emmy award winner and 6 time Emmy nominated reporter/anchor with more than two decades of broadcast journalism experience.

After graduating from Syracuse University, she started her career in one of the toughest news markets in the country at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. Along the way, she reported in Rochester, New York and Charlotte, North Carolina. In Dayton, Ohio, Vanessa was ‘the most watched’ solo weekend anchor for the CBS affiliate.

She was also an Adjunct Professor at Essex County College passing on the knowledge of the news industry to those interested in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.

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