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Our clients consistently
cite our ability to improve their results and effectiveness by first and
foremost listening carefully and understanding their unique context.
They tell us they find our approach to engagement to be comprehensive,
flexible, and innovative. They cite our senior level experience and
insightful, responsive, professionalism. And they note our effectiveness
in building consensus to arrive at solutions and process approaches that
effectively manage the needs of all constituents in a way that promotes
trust, respect, and ultimately, superior results.
In
addition to our internal resources, we have alliances with firms that
share our vision and commitment to the customers we serve. |
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Eleanor Bloxham
is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Value Alliance Company
and the Corporate Governance Alliance, a senior executive and Board
education, information and advisory firm. She is recognized
internationally as an authority on strategic and corporate governance and
valuation.
She is an author, speaker, and advisor to organizations on governance and
board related matters. She has provided information and advisory services
to the largest global and Fortune 500 firms and other smaller
organizations, with a focus on the kinds of information and processes
Boards, senior leaders, lenders, and investors need to do their jobs, in
their analytic, oversight and strategic capacities.
As a corporate advisor,
she helps organizations to improve their performance and their
relationships with internal and external stakeholders, working with CEOs
and Boards of Directors to help them anticipate change and establish
programs and practices that effectively manage risks, and encourage
innovation.
Ms. Bloxham has written
extensively on the topics of value and governance. She is the author of
two books,
Value-led Organizations and
Economic Value Management: Applications and Techniques (published by
John Wiley and Sons). Both books have been recommended for CEO, investor
and directors' libraries, receiving strong praise from the most prominent
governance and value authorities in the US today. Her books have been sold
on all five continents and Economic Value Management has been translated
into orthodox Chinese. In addition, she is the author of the governance
chapter of The Investor Relations Guide (published by Kennedy) and many
articles in director, business and financial
publications.
Ms. Bloxham is also the author of
Conversations that Build a Bridge of TrustTM, a video
library of over 800 taped segments and transcripts. This library of
information is equivalent to 15 full length books on Board and governance
topics. She publishes (with John M. Nash)
The Corporate Governance Alliance Digest, a publication on corporate
governance and value topics and is a regular, featured columnist for the
National Investor Relations Institute and
Accountability Central.
She has been the featured and keynote speaker at major director and
investor conferences as well as private forums of directors, CEOs, and
investors. She has also been an invited guest lecturer and speaker at
numerous universities, including among others, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon,
the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin, George
Washington University and the Ohio State University as well as numerous
public and private conferences and seminars across the globe, where she
has chaired and spoken on the topics of corporate governance, performance,
value, compensation and risk.
Ms. Bloxham is frequently called upon to provide commentary and expertise
regarding corporate governance and Board matters to the financial,
national and international
Press.
Prior to founding The Value Alliance, she headed a global practice for
KPMG and before that, spent nearly twenty years in financial services
holding executive positions at Prudential Financial Services and at Bank
One (now JP Morgan Chase), where she managed strategic, financial,
operations, technology, risk assessment and compliance functions. At
Prudential she managed domestic and international equity operations for
Prudential's general and institutional client accounts as well as its
mutual funds, and Prudential’s entry into emerging markets in Europe,
Asia, and Latin America. She also built the first-ever expert system for
securities law compliance for Prudential's investment advisor. At the
time, Prudential was the largest institutional asset manager in the US and
the tenth largest mutual fund manager. At Bank One (now JP Morgan Chase),
she implemented the first-ever economic value management performance
measurement and compensation processes at a major US bank.
She holds
an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business
(where she was a Stern Scholar). Other academic honoraries include Phi
Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Gamma Sigma. |
John
M. Nash is the Founder and President Emeritus of the National
Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a leading authority on
corporate governance. From its founding in 1977 and under his
Presidency, NACD has been a recognized model worldwide, leading the
corporate governance movement of independent directors in the US and
representing the largest Fortune 500 as well as closely held and private
companies.
Mr. Nash has served as a Board member and audit committee chair, and as
an advisor for over 600 companies and Boards, including major
international firms. He has served as Vice Chairman for The Center for
Board Leadership, a corporate governance think tank, and led seminars
attended by more than 5,000 directors. Mr. Nash is called upon by
corporations to address their corporate governance issues both in the US
and abroad. He lectures extensively on corporate governance issues
including in such countries as Australia, Canada, England, France and
Japan.
A recognized author, Mr. Nash has written and collaborated on over a
dozen corporate governance reference works. As a leading authority on
corporate governance, he was the visionary and driving force who
launched the highly successful Blue Ribbon Commission Reports that serve
as the reference work of Board practices for directors today, including
reports on: Audit Committee Practices, Performance Evaluation,
Director Professionalism, Director Compensation, Executive Compensation,
CEO Succession, Board Role-Strategic Planning and Evaluating
Board/Director Performance.
Outside the US, Mr. Nash has advised local and quasi-governmental
organizations around the world on establishing processes and programs
that promote effective corporate governance. For example, Mr. Nash has
advised The Corporate Governance Committee in Japan and Japan’s Ministry
of International Trade and Industry, and, was guest speaker on
governance at the Japan Center For International Finance, The Japan
Association of Corporate Executives, and other forums.
He has been an invited guest speaker on
governance at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development, and has consulted with the Australian Institute of Company
Directors, the Australian Investment Managers Group, and Australia’s
Independent Shareholder Services. He has been an invited guest lecturer
at several conferences sponsored by The Directors Institute of London,
the Bank of England, and La regie d’ enterprise Conditions de Succes,
has conducted governance programs for the Instituto Brasilerio de
Conseljieros DE Administraco, and the Instituto Cultural de Seguridade
Social, and conducted seminars on corporate governance for the
Association of Corporate Directors of Canada, and many other
organizations around the globe.
Prior to founding the National Association
of Corporate Directors, Mr. Nash worked on Wall Street, beginning with
Goodbody and Co. where he specialized in industrial revenue bond
financing and was responsible for over one hundred million in
underwriting. From time to time he was responsible for new public
offerings and ADRs.
After the acquisition of the municipal bond department by Merrill Lynch,
Mr. Nash formed his own company specializing in industrial offerings of
ten million and under which were underwritten by such firms as Smith
Barney, Prudential Bache, John Nuveen, Kidder Peabody, Harris Bank,
First Buffalo Corporation, First of Chicago, CitiBank and numerous
others.
Mr. Nash also published The Tax Exempt
Municipal Bond Guide For the Individual Investor, The World of Fixed
Income, The Investors Guide to Federal Agency and Treasury Securities,
and What Every Woman Investor Should Know About Fixed Income Securities.
Several million copies of each publication were purchased by just about
everyone in the municipal bond business for distribution to customers
with their firm imprint. Mr. Nash was also publisher of The Fixed Income
Journal a trade publication.
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