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Is your Board up to the challenge?

The Bvalco review process is targeted at the three main Board functions: Board decision making, Board oversight and Boardroom process. We are not management consultants.  We look at how the Board functions rather than second guess its decisions. 

Our method involves specialists from multiple disciplines and it is unique and fluid.  Our approach has designed in consultation with Chairmen, CEOs and NEDs of FTSE 250 companies, and experts from behavioural science, corporate governance specialists and risk practitioners.

The output of our review process  enables our clients to have the most challenging conversation that they have ever had about the Board’s performance and its contribution to the business. 

Because every Board is different, each Board review is bespoke designed to accommodate the specific requirements of the Board in the context of the business over which it presides.

We have high ethical standards and work with rigor.

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A BVALCO PUBLICATION

Board Performance: Reflections on Board Review

Bvalco draw on their recent experience of conducting independent external board evaluations. Bvalco have observed diverse boards of directors including organisations in the FTSE 100. Their Bvalco board reviews have highlighted six common challenges to board effectiveness. In this paper Bvalco explain these challenges, providing an informed insight into why they arise, examining in particular the board behaviours that may be at their root.

 

Read the full paper.

 

TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2013

A Boardroom Conversation with Jim Leng

Jim Leng is Non-executive Chairman of HSBC Bank Plc and also European Chairman of AEA, an American private equity partnership. He sits on the Boards of two listed companies as a Non-executive Director: Alstom SA (French Engineering company) where he chairs the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, and as Senior Independent Director of Genel Energy PLC, an oil and gas company with its principal interests in Turkey and Kurdistan.

 

Read more about Jim Leng.

 

For more information about Bvalco Boardroom Conversations click here.

 

TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2013

A Boardroom Conversation with Sir Simon Robertson

Simon has been in Investment Banking for over 50 years, at Kleinwort Benson where he became Chairman and more recently at Goldman Sachs.  He started his own company in August 2005, Simon Robertson Associates LLP, now called Robertson Robey Associates, offering corporate finance advice to a limited number of international companies.  He is also Chairman of Rolls-Royce Group plc and Deputy Chairman & Senior Independent non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc.

 

Read more about Sir Simon Robertson.

 

For more information about Bvalco Boardroom Conversations click here.

 

TUESDAY 9 APRIL 2013

A Boardroom Conversation with John McFarlane

John McFarlane is Chairman of Aviva plc. He has had a prestigious career in financial services spanning 37 years and was awared an OBE. Mr McFarlane joined us for a Boardroom Conversation on 9 April 2013 highlights of which included his fascinating ruminations on the different styles of corporate governance betwenn the UK and the southern hemisphere. Read more about John McFarlane, and for more information about Bvalco Boardroom Conversations click here.

 

 


 

 

Read Boardroom Conversations with

Sir Winfried Bischoff - 20 February 2013

 

Sir David Walker - 1 October 2012

 

Rachel Lomax - 26 June 2012

 

Sir Martin Jacomb - 13 March 2012

 

Sir David Lees - 22 February 2012

 

A summary of the Conversation with Sir David also appears in the July issue of "Governance". View a PDF version of "Governance" here.

 

Boardroom Conversations: Converse with an Acknowledged Expert and take the benefit of their experience Back to your Board

 

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