About Us

We are a community of Directors who desire to find more board opportunities to help companies and their management team reach their goals.  We also desire to continue our education on privately held board issues. Our members are experienced board candidates with references and connections.  We will not permit new members without a reference from one of our selected advisors or other members.  It is important we carefully select members, not to be clubby, but to ensure quality and collegiality.

For Advisors and Companies seeking directors, we designed this community to be FREE for bonafide searches.  Members and carefully approved advisors and companies can access the database to search for candidates. Our database is secured as well as the membership community. We separated the community from the database for the protection of director discussions that would require privacy, security, and intimacy not found elsewhere.  The community is stored on a separate service, with a separate IP address from the database, are some examples of our security features.

We have a number of search criteria for each individual member, from number of boards, their committees membership and roles, along with the background in industries and company profiles. Our goal was to help searchers with specific profiles and experiences that best their needs.

Our complex and secure search engine has many privacy features.  At no time can a director see the search author's name in the project list.  At no time can the search author see the names of the directors, until both agree to connect.  We have developed enough security features to protect both sides until they are in the final stages of selection and need to connect.

Our site is designed for Company Executives who are currently on boards and those retired who were on boards to make themselves available to organizations seeking independent Directors. 

It is also designed for networking among the members to build our knowledge and experience to help our boards we are on.  We are developing a certificate program for selected directors and their internal trustees to help mitigate risks being a director or fiduciary.

It is also designed for the Business Owner, Trustee or CEO who is looking to recommend independent directors to their board. We have developed a great search tool to help boards find and select great board members.

As experienced Directors Marketplace, we understand the hesitancy many  company's face when considering inviting an independent person to their board.  For example:

"I am the founder of the company and will not give up control to outsiders"

"We just went through one of the most difficult times in my business career and I need to get our company back to its old ways before I retire"

"My trustee is or continually recommends us to add a few independent directors, but who are our best choices?"

"Our founder is now on the board, and is resisting the idea of adding an independent director.  How do we change this?"

"As a senior manager in the company, I am afraid or worried an independent director will fire me."

"What can a person who doesn't know our business help us be better, when we already have the knowledge with our employees who sit on the board?"

"I am concerned bringing in an independent director will cost the company a lot of money that we aren't spending now."

We, as directors, have felt many of these feelings or concerns ourselves and can show you the benefit of inviting us to your boards to improve your company's performance.