MOB FELLOWS
Modern Operators in the Boardroom

Privacy Policy

This policy describes what the fellowship collects, why, who sees it, and what a fellow or applicant may require of us.

Last updated: July 2026 · Effective on adoption

Who We Are

MOB Fellows (Modern Operators in the Boardroom) is a program of 786 Endowment Fund, Inc., a nonprofit corporation exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. We have no advertising business and no commercial interest in your data, which is the reason several of the commitments below are possible at all.

Controller
786 Endowment Fund, Inc.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation
EIN 88-0562494
382 NE 191st St, Suite 34452
Miami, FL 33179
United States
Contact
Privacy questions, access requests, and deletion requests: [email protected]
Scope
This policy covers mobfellows.org, the application, the assessment, the Fellows Directory, and every communication the fellowship sends. In this policy, “we” means 786 Endowment Fund, Inc.
The Short
Version

Four commitments, before the detail.

01
Your contact details are never published. Not in the Fellows Directory, not anywhere. They are released to a board or a search firm only when you individually consent, for a specific search.
02
We do not sell personal data, and we do not accept a fee for a placement from any party. A fellow’s information is not a product, in either direction.
03
No employer and no reference is contacted without your knowledge, and only at the stage of the process where the application says so.
04
Corporate partners receive no fellow data unless that fellow has opted in. Admissions and assessment are conducted without reference to partners or sponsors.
What We
Collect

The application is the bulk of it.

We collect what the fellowship needs to assess a candidate, teach a fellow, and represent that fellow accurately to a board. We do not collect data we have no use for.

Identity and
contact
Name, preferred name, email, telephone, city or metropolitan area, and a LinkedIn address.
Professional
record
Title, employer, years of experience, functional role, domain, sector, enterprise scale, regulatory exposure, and the scale markers you provide.
Board
history
Organizations, board type, ticker symbol where public, role, committee, status, and dates. Ticker symbols are requested precisely so that a claim can be verified against a public proxy statement rather than taken on trust.
Written
work
Your board biography and the four essays. These are read by the Admissions Committee and, if you advance, by the interview and panel assessors.
Conflicts and
obligations
Current board, advisory, investment, and consulting roles, and any company you could not serve. Conflict disclosures are held internally and are never published.
References
Names, titles, organizations, relationships, and contact details for two referees. References are contacted only if you advance to the panel stage, and only after we have told you. Providing us with a referee’s contact details means you have their permission to do so.
Employer
letter
Sitting executives provide a letter confirming their employer is aware of the application. We do not contact your employer. The letter is evidence that you have spoken to them, not an invitation for us to.
Assessment
records
Rubric scores, assessor notes, and the capstone outcome. Held for the life of the designation, because the designation depends on them.
Payment
The $150 application fee and tuition are processed by a third-party payment provider. We do not receive or store your card number.
Technical
Our host records standard server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) for security and reliability. The site sets no advertising cookies and runs no third-party trackers. If we later add analytics, this policy will say so before we do.
Why, and on
What Basis
To assess your
application
Because you asked us to consider you. Under GDPR this is the performance of a contract, or steps taken at your request prior to one.
To run the
program
Seminars, forums, convenings, mentoring, and the assessment, for those admitted. Performance of a contract.
To publish your
directory profile
Consent, and only consent. You approve the profile before it is published, and you may withdraw it at any time.
To include you
in a slate
Consent, per search. A slate names you only if you have agreed to be named for that search, and your contact details are released only then.
To publish
outcomes
The annual report is published in aggregate and does not identify individual fellows without consent. Legitimate interest.
To write
to you
Class announcements, governance briefings, and the annual report, where you asked for them. Consent, withdrawable in one click.
The Directory,
Specifically

The directory is the part of this policy worth reading twice.

On completing the program, a fellow may have a profile published in the Fellows Directory. This is how boards and search firms find the bench, and it is the mechanism by which the fellowship keeps its side of the arrangement. It is also the only place where a fellow’s information becomes public, so the terms are strict.

Published
Name, class, current or most recent role, domain, background, sectors, enterprise scale, committee readiness, board service, region, availability, and a short board value proposition.
Never
published
Contact details. Essays. Conflict disclosures. Reference details. Assessment scores. Funding path. Employer correspondence. None of it, at any time.
You approve
it first
No profile is published until you have reviewed the exact text and approved it. Silence is not approval.
Withdrawal
You may withdraw or amend your profile at any time, for any reason, without explanation, by writing to [email protected]. We act within five business days.
Release to a
board
When a board or search firm asks about you, we tell you and ask. If you decline, we do not pass on your details and we do not tell the requester why.
Who Else
Sees It
Faculty and
assessors
Sitting directors, governance counsel, and search professionals who teach, mentor, chair forums, and assess capstones see what they need for that role, and are bound by confidentiality. Assessors see your work; they do not see your funding path.
Corporate
partners
Nothing, unless you opt in. Partners fund the program. They do not buy access to fellows, they do not see applications, and they have no part in admissions or assessment.
Boards and
search firms
Your published directory profile, which is public. Your contact details only with your consent, for a named search. We accept no fee for a placement, from any party, in any direction.
Service
providers
A website host, a form processor, an email provider, and a payment processor. Each processes data on our instructions only, and none may use it for their own purposes.
Legal
Where the law requires it, or to establish or defend a legal claim.

We do not sell personal data. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. As a 501(c)(3) educational organization we have no advertising business and no commercial placement business, so there is nothing for a fellow’s data to be sold into.

How Long
We Keep It
Applications
not admitted
Retained for twenty-four months, so that a candidate who reapplies is read in the context of what they wrote before. Deleted on request, at any time, without prejudice to any future application.
Fellows
Application, assessment, and program records for the life of the designation, because the designation rests on them. A revoked or withdrawn designation does not erase the record that it was conferred.
Directory
profiles
Until withdrawn. Withdrawal removes the profile from publication.
Mailing list
Until you unsubscribe.
Your Rights

What you may require of us.

These rights are given to residents of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom by the GDPR, and to residents of California by the CCPA as amended. We extend them to every applicant and fellow regardless of where they live, because drawing that line would be indefensible in a program of twenty people.

Access
A copy of everything we hold about you, including your essays and, where it would not identify an assessor, your assessment record.
Correction
Correction of anything inaccurate.
Deletion
Deletion, subject to records we must keep for legal or financial reasons.
Withdrawal
of consent
Withdrawal of directory publication, of a slate release, or of the mailing list, at any time, without explanation.
Portability
Your data in a machine-readable form.
Objection
Objection to processing based on legitimate interest.
No
retaliation
Exercising any of these rights has no bearing on an application, an assessment, or standing in the fellowship. Not now, and not later.

Write to [email protected]. We respond within thirty days. If you are in the EEA or UK you may also complain to your national supervisory authority, though we would rather you told us first.

The Rest
Security
Access is limited to those who need it. Payment card data never reaches us. No system is perfectly secure, and we will tell you promptly if a breach affects your data rather than waiting to be asked.
International
transfers
We are based in the United States and our providers are largely US-based. If you apply from outside the United States, your data will be processed here, under appropriate safeguards.
Children
The fellowship is for senior executives. The site is not directed at anyone under eighteen, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Other sites
We link to third-party sites. We do not control them, and this policy does not cover them.
Changes
We will post any change here and update the date. If a change is material and affects fellows or applicants, we will write to them before it takes effect rather than rely on their re-reading this page.