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Inside Director

A member of the board of directors who is either employed by the company or is a major shareholder. Inside directors exist to represent the interests of stakeholders in the company. See also: Outside director.
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inside director

A member of a firm's board of directors who is also employed in another capacity by that firm. An example is a chief executive officer who also sits on the board. Compare outside director.
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He remains a nominee for the board, but the role of CFO would make him an inside director.
My first corporate board positions were as an inside director on boards of banks owned by the holding company where I was an officer.
TABLE 1 Composition of Overall Boards of Directors and Audit Committees (a) (1) Overall (2) Boards of Audit Directors Committee Percentage of Directors Who Are: Insiders 22.5 1.4 Outsiders 58.4 79.6 Affiliates 19.1 19.0 Percentage of Firms that Have at Least One Member Who Is: Inside Director 99.7 4.8 CEO 99.0 1.9 Outside Director 99.0 97.9 Affiliated Director 85.5 54.3 Relative of CEO 11.3 4.3 Former Employee of Firm 51.5 12.3 Percentage of Firms that Have at Least 51% Outside Directors 73.8 86.7 Percentage of Firms that Have 100% Outside Directors 0 43.4 (a) Sample is for 803 U.S.
Despite this progress, however, we also found no increase in the number of female CEOs and a decrease in the number of female inside directors. The inside director finding is especially telling, as it suggests little promise for an increase in female CEOs given that the most common succession route is through service as an inside director.
We want to see what's inside director George Lucas' head."
They found a positive relationship between inside director proportion and the likelihood of a firm being subject to a shareholder lawsuit.
Prior to requesting the CEO's permission to corroborate his story with that of others in the organization, we asked him (there were no female CEOs in our study) to identify and describe the activity of the most involved inside director and outside director with the organization's most significant strategic decision over the study period.
said Thursday it will hold an emergency shareholders' meeting to elect Koo Kwang-mo as an inside director, to ensure group units do not experience a power vacuum due to the illness of his father and long-time Chairman Koo Bon-moo, who has been listed as in "critical condition."
However, no significant association is found between inside director equity and liquidity, a finding that is explained later.
The board of directors of Manning & Napier Inc (NYSE:MN) providers of a variety of investment solutions and consultative services, nominated Richard Goldberg to stand for election as a new inside director, at the company's annual shareholder meeting in 18th June, it stated on Wednesday.