Qualified Board Candidates

These candidates are certified board candidates with their Corporate Directors International Designation (CDI.D™).

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Heather Passe

Heather’s broad leadership experience within the space sector, including technology development; market discovery and productization; business development; risk management and operations, make her uniquely valuable as an advisory board member for space technology startups who are ready to raise private funding and to accelerate.

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Milagros Altuna Sotomayor

Milagros’ extensive global HSE, ESG, and enterprise risk leadership, combined with senior executive experience across multinational mining and energy organizations, qualifies her to serve on a public company board, including Risk, ESG & Sustainability, and Safety Committees.

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Amanda Blaurock

Amanda L. Blaurock’s extensive 25-year legal career in international trade and regulatory compliance, paired with her executive leadership as a CEO and board chair, qualifies her for corporate board service, including risk and management committees.

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Laura Survant

Laura Survant’s extensive financial services audit and consulting experience and governance perspective qualify her to serve on a public board, including audit, risk, compensation, and governance and nominating committees.

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AnaMaree Barnes

AnaMaree Barnes’ extensive knowledge across the mineral extraction and manufacturing sectors brings a well-rounded perspective on commercial growth, asset development, regulatory and legislative strategy, and capital deployment, qualifying her to serve on a public company board, including strategy, risk, audit, and governance committees.

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Norma Mozée

Norma Mozée’s U.S. diplomatic and private sector business development experience in energy and information technology sectors qualify her to serve on a public board, including risk and management committees.

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Janet Fogarty

Janet Fogarty’s vast experience of chairing CEO boards for the last 27 years, strategic governance mastery, and deep institutional savvy allows public and corporate boards a skilled director, ideal for audit and nominating/governance committees.

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Sabine Flannery

Sabine Flannery’s extensive strategic business development and negotiation experience qualify her to serve on a public board.

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Jennifer Almquist

Jennifer Almquist’s extensive experience as a CPA, senior finance executive, and trusted advisor to more than 40 public and private companies on matters of capital markets strategy and compliance, disclosure, investor engagement, accounting and finance, will add value to any public or private board, and qualifies her to sit on audit and governance committees.

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Chevelle Freeman

Chevelle Freeman's extensive executive background as a CEO and business owner, over 20 years of experience across Commercial Real Estate, Technology, and Financial Services, and proven governance expertise qualify her to serve on a public or private company board, including audit, compensation, and nominating/governance committees.

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Karen Kemerling PhD

Accomplished C-Suite executive and board advisor with leadership spanning small to mid-market organizations ($5M - $500M) across technology, financial, government, and nonprofit sectors. Governance background includes more than a decade of service on nonprofit, educational, and leadership-development boards, including roles as Audit Committee Chair and Chair of a Technology Review Board.

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Elizabeth Naumovski

Elizabeth Naumovski’s extensive leadership financial services leadership and senior executive experience in marketing, communications, investor relations and compliance strategies qualify her to serve on a public board, including risk and management committees as well as nominating governance and compensation.

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Megan Kilpatrick

Megan Kilpatrick’s record of scaling and selling a digital firm, leading enterprise transformation for Fortune 500 clients, and chairing fiduciary nonprofit boards positions her to contribute to public or private company boards, particularly in governance, audit, comp, or strategy and risk committees.

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Krystal Ramsden

Krystal Ramsden’s extensive experience in mining and capital markets, combined with her understanding of geopolitical risk, qualify her to serve on the board of public or private mining and exploration companies, particularly those operating internationally, including on risk, technical and audit committees.

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Carolyn Ryan

Carolyn Ryan’s extensive global business experience including a CPG career as well as entrepreneurial ventures qualify her to serve on a public board, including risk and management committees as well as compensation.

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Laurie Kelly

Laurie Kelly’s extensive knowledge and international experience as a sustainability executive in the critical minerals and chemical manufacturing sectors gives her a unique perspective that will add value to any public board, including sustainability and risk committees.

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Karla Kimrey

Karla Kimrey’s extensive leadership in a public company and investor relations experience qualify her to serve on a public company or soon to be public company board.

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Kathy Keating

Kathy Keating is a board-certified technology executive and published author with a 30-year track record of scaling high-growth SaaS companies, pioneering commercial AI, leading cybersecurity and compliance strategy, and driving global operational excellence in product engineering.

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Laura Viehmyer

Laura Viehmyer specializes in the connection between business, finance and human capital. Her years of experience advising boards and CEOs, teaching graduate school finance and compensation, and her corporate board certification qualify her to add value to any public or private board. Laura is a great fit on compensation, finance and audit, or nominations committees.

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Georgia Smith

Georgia Smith is a seasoned fintech executive with 30 years of experience at a Fortune 500 company, recognized for her strategic leadership in accounting, finance, and operations, and celebrated as one of Maryland's "Top 50 Women Leaders" for her ability to drive business growth, mitigate risks, and develop future leaders.

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