Rich Fields

Rich Fields leads the firm's Board Effectiveness Practice and is a member of the firm's Board and CEO Advisory Partners and Family Enterprise Advisory Practices.

He is a trusted advisor to boards, corporate leaders, and investment professionals who regularly ask him to customize and deliver annual board and director assessments, enhance oversight of CEO succession planning, benchmark boards against both peers and evolving investor standards, avoid or mitigate activist vulnerabilities, and develop more productive relationships with their largest and most influential shareholders.

Rich joined the firm from King & Spalding, where he was a partner who advised companies on complex, high-stakes corporate governance issues. Before that, Rich was a partner at governance boutique Tapestry Networks, where he led the firm's programs with lead directors and the chairs of boards and board committees.

Rich is a recognized authority on corporate governance who regularly writes and speaks on critical governance and board leadership topics. He has been quoted in leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Reuters, and the Financial Times. He has authored chapters in each edition of The Handbook of Board Governance, including most recently "Evaluations that Enhance Board Effectiveness." Rich was also one of four global winners of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership's Rising Star of Corporate Governance Award in 2015 and recently was named to the National Association of Corporate Directors' Directorship100 as one of the 100 most influential leaders in corporate governance.