Shape the next generation of technical directors.

An invitation to sitting directors, search leaders, and governance counsel to teach the first cohorts of the MOB Fellowship.

The Mandate

Boards are actively seeking expertise in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and the technical leaders who hold it rarely arrive prepared to serve as fiduciaries. The Fellowship admits twenty proven executives to each class and prepares them for board service.

Roles and Time

Five ways to serve. The smallest asks ninety minutes a year.

Lecture

Masterclass lecturer. One ninety-minute seminar a year, on a subject of the faculty member's own governance ground: translating cyber risk for the audit committee, the disclosure timeline, or the practical oversight of artificial intelligence.

Simulate

Convening and capstone panelist. One to two days at either convening: San Francisco, to sit the mock board, adjudicate the crisis tabletop, and assess the capstone; or New York, to join the boardroom sessions and the Directors Summit.

Mentor

Director mentor. One to two hours a month with a matched fellow, across Board Preparation and into the Search Year, on biography, positioning, and the candour only a serving director can offer.

Chair

Forum chair. Two hours a month chairing a confidential forum of five fellows through Board Preparation and the Search Year. Forum chairs observe each fellow closely, and most become their most credible governance reference.

Advise

Search Year advisor. Ad hoc counsel and, where warranted, introductions as fellows pursue specific board mandates.

Founding Terms

The founding cohorts are taught pro bono.

Early program economics fund placement rather than honoraria, and the faculty who establish the program hold the Founding Faculty designation permanently: named on program materials, with hosting seats at the Directors Summit and a standing voice in how the curriculum develops.

Faculty teach governance practice, and partner products are not presented in the curriculum. Capstone assessment is conducted without reference to sponsors. Fellow contact information is shared only with each fellow's consent.

Why Serve

Every board on which a faculty member sits, and every client they advise, will need governance-trained technical directors within the decade. The Founding Faculty meet that bench first, through introductions the fellows themselves consent to, and join a working community of directors, search leaders, and governance counsel.

We are seeking: sitting or recently retired public company directors, particularly audit, risk, and technology committee chairs; CISOs and chief AI officers who have moved into board service; board practice leaders at executive search firms; senior governance counsel; and former regulators.

Express interest — [email protected]

Please include your current board and committee service.