Private Company Director’s Directors to Watch 2025 highlights 31 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Sally J. Curley
Ariel Savannah Angel Partners, Artificial Intelligence Risk Inc., MOBILion Systems Inc.
Sally J. Curley is the founder and CEO of Curley Global IR LLC, a strategic consultancy offering counsel, program development and implementation in investor relations, sustainability and governance engagement.
Sally serves as a director of Ariel Savannah Angel Partners and advisory board director of Artificial Intelligence Risk Inc. and MOBILion Systems Inc. She previously chaired the board of Human Health Project and the sustainability committee of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, where she also served as a director and member of the nom/gov committee.
For five years, she served as director of the National Investor Relations Institute, where she was heavily involved in lobbying and advocacy regarding disclosure and capital markets issues.
Believe in your gut, leverage your guideposts: “Governance takes on many forms and ‘good governance’ is ever evolving. Definitions of right and wrong rapidly change with today’s mores and legislative actions, posing an increasingly challenging environment for directors to navigate. Defining and leveraging one’s own guideposts will help with this challenge. Do you fundamentally believe in a course of action or does this go against your gut? Are you feeling pressure from other directors and have you explored why? To ensure that you practice good governance, leverage your ‘internal navigation tools’ to bring clarity to situations and to help yourself understand opposing points of view.”