Enhance Your Board’s Performance

Veaco Group has decades of experience enhancing board performance.

Effective boards are those that are able to adapt to the current and future needs of their organizations and they do that by regularly evaluating their own performance. Effective boards lead to improved performance.

Veaco Group is a corporate governance advisory firm and we specialize in board evaluations and assessments of board and director effectiveness. We tailor our work to your board and your organization’s specific needs.

We offer a distinctive, practical perspective to each engagement drawing on our experience as corporate governance lawyers working with a variety of boards as governance advisors, and our previous in-house legal and corporate secretary experience working with our large public company boards implementing sound corporate governance practices. We have a proven record of enhancing board performance. We know what works.

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  • I have had the great pleasure to work with Kris and Cherie on two engagements in the past year. Both assignments were quite demanding, and they executed flawlessly on all fronts, making efficient use of our time. In my estimation, both boards as a whole and directors individually are functioning more effectively having had the benefit of the Veaco Group’s advisory work.

    Lisa Hess, Chair, Investment Committee, TIAA; Former Chair, Finance and Investment Committee, Radian Group, Inc.

  • We engaged Kris and the Veaco Group to do Board performance assessment survey for us. We had done both internal and third party assessments previously, but found the work and feedback that Kris and her team provided to be more thorough, to the point and well thought out than any that we had experienced before. Kris’ style and genuineness is very unique. She was a pleasure to work with and the full Board appreciated the observations and counsel she provided.

    Gene Batchelder, Former Independent Chairman, Occidental Petroleum Company

  • It has been a true pleasure to work with the Veaco Group on board effectiveness efforts. The assessment the Veaco Group did was comprehensive and provided us with a clear delineation of how we could improve. I particularly appreciated the detailed recommendations provided as it gave us a blueprint to follow in the years ahead. The Veaco Group’s knowledge and expertise about governance matters is extensive and I found them to go above and beyond what I’ve traditionally experienced with similar engagements.

    Jan L. Bergen, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Hershey Trust Company Board of Directors; Board of Managers, the Milton Hershey School; Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn Medicine, Lancaster General Health

  • I worked with Kris and Cherie of the Veaco Group a few years ago as Chair of a Governance Committee. They did an excellent job and did it in a way that was constructive and value added. Exceptionally knowledgeable and professional.

    Margaret (Peggy) Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial; Independent Director of a Public Board

  • Our board has had a relationship with Kris for several years and has benefited from her governance expertise in two separate engagements. Her knowledge is wide and deep, allowing us to enjoy comprehensive support. Her considerable experience as a lawyer and corporate secretary along with her many years advising a large, diverse client base yields valuable insight and solid guidance. She is accessible, reliable, thorough, practical, and flexible. And she is a pleasure to work with!

    Robin MacGillvray, Former Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee, Simpson Manufacturing Company, Inc.

  • Please know that you have left an indelible positive impact on our board from your work with us and that we will be looking for ways to partner with you again at some point!

    Jennifer A. Chatman, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Simpson Manufacturing Company, Inc.; Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley