The National Association of Corporate Directors recently selected Lynn Nowicki Clarke, who has served as an independent chair or director on the boards of more than a dozen family-held companies, as its Private Company Director of the Year. Clarke was named a Director to Watch by Private Company Director magazine in 2020. She is a frequent speaker on family business at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Excellence, and many Family Business Transitions and Private Company Governance Summit programs.
Clarke’s strategic, branding and operating experience spans 11 industries as a board director for several privately held companies and as CEO for Message Link, Fox Run Brands and MetroKitchen.com. She currently serves as chair of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas and director for ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages, The Vollrath Company and A. Duie Pyle Inc. She also serves as an advisor to The Feel Good Lab.