Claudia Fan Munce: "The Board's Role is to Challenge Management to Think Outside of the Box."
Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Claudia Fan Munce, a recognized leader in venture capital after 30 years of service with IBM. She founded the Venture Capital Group within IBM, where she served as its Managing Director and Vice President of Corporate Development. She now serves as a venture advisor at NEA, one of the largest and most active venture capital firms, and as a board member at Best Buy, CoreLogic, the Bank of the West/BNP Paribas, the Energy Impact Acquisition (SPAC) and the National Association of Corporate Directors/Northern California. She’s also a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this podcast, we talk about corporate venture capital (CVC), board service in public and private companies, valuations, the role of the board in strategy and innovation, super-majority voting structures and founder control, cybersecurity, ESG, boardroom diversity and enhanced geopolitical risks. Special thanks to Lisa Spivey from the Northern California Chapter of the NACD for facilitating this connection with Claudia. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com