Attend any corporate governance continuing education program in the U.S. and you’ll likely be told that governance is essentially the same whether you’re governing a Fortune 50 company or a startup.  Unfortunately, few of those boardroom “experts” have ever actually been involved in small, high-growth companies, so they’re unaware that governance most definitely is not one-size-fits-all.  Caroline’s thoughts on the relevance of large-cap boardroom formality and how it relates to small company boardrooms are poignant.

Long before turning 40, Caroline Tsay* had multiple large-cap senior operating roles in technology, and has also served on the boards of iconic American companies such as The Coca-Cola Company and Morningstar.  Now, nearly four years into running a software company she co-founded, there are few executives in the country who share her unique perspective about the large-cap – small-cap divide.  SCI couldn’t be happier to share some of Caroline’s thoughts.