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.
Subash Anbu
Field Fastener
Subash Anbu is a director and member of the nom/gov and audit and finance committees of Field Fastener. He is also VP of IT and CIO of Bemis Manufacturing Company. He served as CIO of The Manitowoc Company for 10 years and has also served as CIO for family-owned private diversified global manufacturing companies. He successfully bridges emerging technologies to core business processes as a competitive advantage to drive revenue and profit growth while taking an enterprise-wide, long-term investment mindset.
Subash serves on the board of Private Directors Association. He advises boards on digital transformation, cybersecurity and AI.
Subash has authored articles in Directors & Boards and NACD Directorship on board governance oversight of digital transformation. Subash has an Executive MBA from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business.
Keeping yourself relevant: “Directors and management must keep abreast of emerging technologies to be competitive and relevant. Boards should be inquisitively supportive of ensuring all members of management are knowledgeable at a high level on AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing, just as they are on finance, risk and ESG. Boards have a fiduciary responsibility to the company’s stakeholders, but they also need to keep in mind how their decisions impact future generations. Private companies have a longer ROI time frame than public companies, so their directors have a perceived advantage and additional duty to ensure that management is not biased toward investment solely for short-term gain.”