Private Company Director‘s Directors to Watch 2024 highlights 24 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Joy Taylor Brown
Validify, ESO, Tractor Supply Co., Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Joy Taylor Brown serves on both private and public boards, including ESO, Validify, Tractor Supply Co. and Huron Consulting Group.
Brown has been an actively engaged director since 2021. As the former chief data officer of Verizon Media, she brings a differentiated set of skills to the boardroom, with deep experience as a technology executive in the financial services, health care/life sciences, telecom and media industries. She has a successful track record leading organizations toward maximizing value, through expertise in innovative digital transformation and AI.
Collectively across public and private company boards, she serves as a member and chair of audit, nom/gov, technology & information security, compensation and finance and capital allocation committees.
Capturing the evolving technology landscape: “Technology and data have become intricately interwoven into a company’s ability to deliver differentiated value through products and services. The intricacies of accessing, integrating, transforming and exposing value for customers require technology governance expertise and awareness. As a director, it is imperative to ask the right governance questions and support the expansion of the controls framework to capture the evolving technology landscape. Focus on strategy and governance for AI as a service, software as a service, machine learning, enterprise platforms, data and analytics, driving customer outcomes with advanced technologies, digital/omnichannel e-commerce customer experiences, acquisition and disposition, cyber and operational excellence.”