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Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein

Evan Epstein

Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein features in-depth conversations with leading voices in corporate governance, including founders, board members, executives, investors, scholars, lawyers, and other trusted advisors. Through long-form interviews, the podcast explores the people, decisions, trends, risks, and ideas shaping today’s boardrooms. Each conversation combines practical governance insights with personal experiences, leadership lessons, and the career journeys of some of the most accomplished minds in business.

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Yesterday · 31 min
CEO Succession: What Boards Need to Get Right | Karen Francis DeGolia & Penny Herscher
Karen Francis DeGolia and Penny Herscher discuss how boards can approach CEO succession as an ongoing process, develop internal candidates, manage founder and activist dynamics, and rethink leadership needs in an era of AI and rapid change. Recorded at the inaugural Boardroom Governance Summit in Healdsburg, California, on August 27, 2026.
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September 1 · 56 min
Raffaela Rein: How AI Is Changing the Way Boards Work
Raffaela Rein, CEO and founder of BoardLens, joins Evan to discuss how AI can help board members prepare better, ask sharper questions, and engage more deeply in strategy. They also explore AI risks, private-market governance, and how AI may change the way boards work.
#219
August 25 · 52 min
Marc Huffman, CEO of OnBoard: AI Governance Inside the Board Portal
Marc Huffman, CEO of OnBoard, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss AI in the boardroom, director use of AI, and how AI may change the information gap between management and directors. This episode also marks the launch of the Boardroom Governance YouTube channel.
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August 17 · 55 min
Shannon Nash: Boards, AI Agents, and Human Judgment
Shannon Nash, COO and CFO of Vibrant Planet, Partner at Alpha, and board member at NetScout Systems, SoFi Bank, and Lazy Dog Restaurants, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss boards, AI agents, human judgment, cybersecurity, regulated and private company boards, risk resilience, escalation, and how directors can ask better questions about AI governance.
#217
August 3 · 1 hr
Sandra Gobert: European Governance in a Changing World
Sandra Gobert, Executive Director of GUBERNA, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss European corporate governance, board education, family firms, control structures, relationship agreements, state ownership, stakeholder governance, board reviews, founder control, Europe’s competitiveness, and why board dynamics matter.
#216
July 20 · 58 min
Karen Francis and Penny Herscher: The Chairs' View of a Changing World
Karen Francis and Penny Herscher return to the Boardroom Governance Podcast for a joint conversation on AI governance, the creation of The Chairs Circle as a peer forum for board and committee chairs, data center politics, CEO succession, founders versus boards, EVs, China’s rise, chips and geopolitics, and boards in a fractured world.
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July 14 · 1 hr 3 min
Mayree Clark and Linda Riefler: Leading-Edge Stewardship in the Boardroom
Mayree Clark and Linda Riefler join the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss Leading-Edge Stewardship, board effectiveness, long-term value creation, crisis decision-making, CEO relationships, founder power, private equity boards, underperforming directors, cross-border governance, and what it takes to be a great steward in the boardroom.
#214
July 6 · 1 hr 5 min
AI in the Boardroom: What Directors Need to Know Now
Marie Bafus and Wendy Grasso of Fenwick join the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss AI oversight, Caremark duties, mission-critical risk, board minutes, AI washing, disclosure, confidentiality, privilege, AI usage policies, and how boards can use AI responsibly.
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June 29 · 56 min
Terry Johnson: Sports, Gaming, and Family Business Governance
Terry Johnson, partner at WilmerHale and Co-Chair of the firm’s Sports & Gaming Practice, returns to discuss sports governance, gaming, family businesses, and family offices, including the sports investment boom, league ownership models, betting and integrity, women’s sports, and college sports revenue sharing.
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June 22 · 1 hr 15 min
Keith Giarman and Tony Abate: Private Equity Boards and the Turnaround Playbook
Keith Giarman, Managing Partner of the Private Equity Practice at DHR Global, and Tony Abate, experienced board chair, director, investor, and operating executive, join the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss private equity boards, turnaround governance, board effectiveness, board agendas, AI and board talent, underestimated governance risks, and the difference between founder-led and board-led companies.
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June 15 · 58 min
Emily Liggett: Informed Oversight Without Operational Interference
Throughout her twenty years as a corporate director, Emily Liggett has served on 18 public, private and non-profit boards. She has served as board chair, chair of Nom/Gov committees and on Audit and Comp committees. She currently serves on the boards of Ultra Clean Technology and Materion Corporation. She also serves as Lecturer at Stanford GSB, where she teaches board leadership. We discuss board matters, CEO mistakes, AI governance, innovation, oversight, and teaching the next generation of go
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June 4 · 54 min
Greg Gretsch: Venture Capital in the AI Supercycle
Greg Gretsch, Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures, returns to the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss the AI supercycle, venture capital, SaaS disruption, startup costs, private markets, IPOs, data centers, regulation, and how boards should think about AI strategy.
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May 18 · 1 hr 2 min
Laurie Yoler: Boards at the Edge of Innovation
Laurie Yoler, venture capital investor at Playground Global, former board member at Tesla and Zoox, and a director or advisor on more than 25 boards across public companies, startups, and nonprofits, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss company building, AI governance, private markets, cybersecurity, geopolitics, and courage in the boardroom. She currently serves on the boards of Church & Dwight and the NACD Northern California Chapter.
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May 11 · 57 min
Marie Oh Huber: Governing Through Disruption
Marie Oh Huber discusses governance lessons from her leadership roles at eBay and Agilent Technologies, including shareholder activism, CEO and board dynamics, and succession planning. The conversation also explores how boards should navigate AI, geopolitical risk, energy constraints, and the broader challenges of leadership and trust in a rapidly changing business environment.
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May 4 · 59 min
Eddie Ramos: How AI Is Reshaping Investing and Boardrooms
Eddie Ramos discusses how AI, private markets, and geopolitics are reshaping investing and corporate governance. The conversation explores tokenization, audit committee oversight of AI, and why boards remain under prepared for the pace of technological change.
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April 21 · 56 min
Steven Lipin: Activism, M&A, and the Rising Stakes of Board Communication
Steve Lipin, the founder and CEO of Gladstone Place Partners, discusses how corporate governance has evolved through the lens of communications, investor relations, and crisis management. The conversation explores shareholder activism, M&A dynamics, and the growing impact of cybersecurity and AI on boardroom decision-making.
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April 7 · 48 min
Benjamin Means: The Principles of Family Business Law and Governance
Benjamin Means discusses the unique governance challenges of family-controlled companies, drawing on his book Principles of Family Business Law. The conversation explores shareholder oppression, succession planning, fiduciary duties, and how boards can navigate the overlap between family, ownership, and management.
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March 31 · 1 hr 18 min
Eric Ries: Incorruptible, and the Case for Long-Term Governance Reform
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, joins the podcast to discuss his new book Incorruptible. We explore why so many governance systems fail to support long-term thinking, the concept of "financial gravity," and what genuinely reform-minded governance could look like, from AI governance, public benefit corporations, to "mission-locked constellations."
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March 23 · 1 hr
Benjamin Edwards: The Rise of Nevada in the Reincorporation Debate
Professor Benjamin Edwards discusses the rise of Nevada in the reincorporation debate and why more companies are reconsidering Delaware. The conversation explores founder control, litigation risk, SB21, Nevada’s business courts, and what shifting incorporation choices mean for boards and investors.
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March 9 · 52 min
Joelle Emerson: Why Company Culture Is a Core Governance Issue
Joelle Emerson, CEO and co-founder of Paradigm, discusses why company culture should be treated as a core governance issue and how boards should think about leadership, AI-driven workforce change, and the evolving politics of workplace culture.

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