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Joyce Cacho

Board Member
Sunrise Bank
Joyce Cacho is President, Adinura Advisory Services, LLC, a consulting company which was launched in 2012 to provide strategy and policy advice to companies targeting increasing their competitiveness through governance and innovation within the USA, and beyond. Ms. Cacho serves as an independent board member Sunrise Banks, a community bank with industry leading impact through Consumer Retail, Commercial Lending & Leasing a growing Fintech/Payments division (Committees: Finance & Audit; Compliance & BSA). She was most recently an independent director with a Fortune 200 company, Land O’Lakes, Inc. (Committees: Audit; Governance). Joyce’s Independent Board Director/Non-Executive Director work is grounded in experience as a Global Chief Sustainability Officer for a chemical company where she worked across business divisions and increased accountability in supply-chains, R&D and community engagement; National service on the USDA/USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee; Board Trustee service as the Chair, Nominating & Governance Committee of Winrock International; and, in years of launching and leading Strategic Research in Corporate and Investment Banking.

SESSIONS

The Board’s Role in Moving the Company Forward Panelist

How can a board help the owners make hard decisions (such as closing a plant or parting ways with a longtime manager or family member)? What types of board discussions lead to strategic progress? What questions can independent directors ask to help the chairman or CEO? 

Takeaways:

• Sample questions independent directors can ask a chairman to get at the tough issues

• Best practices for board discussions that get to the heart of an issue vs. talking around it

• Process for follow-up to ensure these tough issues are addressed between board meetings