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Brittany Timmons

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Family Council Chair

Canal Insurance

Brittany is a fourth-generation member of the family that owns Canal Insurance, an insurance company that focuses on trucking and specialty transportation. The family also owns Central Realty Holdings, a real estate investment and development firm. She is chair of the family council and is the first member of her generation to serve in that role.
Brittany also serves as the board liaison to the boards of both family companies. She works with the board chairs and CEOs of the two companies to improve communications to shareholders.

Brittany became a member of the family assembly in 2010, when the fourth generation was invited to join. In 2013, she began chairing the education committee. She joined the family council in 2016.

Before moving back to Greenville, Brittany worked in Chicago at Accenture Strategy; previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., at UBS. She earned an MBA with concentrations in finance, economics and strategic management from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

SESSIONS

Thu Jun 06, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM PDT / Fri Jun 07, 4:15 AM – 5:15 AM Your local time (1 hour)

Improving Shareholder Relations – Panelist

A board can help the CEO improve structures, systems and processes that in turn reduce strife in the family or ownership group. How, exactly, does that work? What are the lines a board shouldn’t cross? What can independent directors do to foster shareholder harmony that insiders can’t do? What are the most effective types of shareholder communications?

Takeaways:

• Independent directors can reinforce boundaries between board and family/owners’ council matters

• Independent directors can take the heat off the chairman/CEO by vetting tough decisions

• Frequent communication is key to improved shareholder relations