Continuously increasing expectations and demands from shareholders, governments, regulators and other stakeholders mean that ensuring the highest level of board performance and effectiveness is a critical governance challenge for companies throughout the world today.
Achieving high-performing boards is about appointing board directors with relevant and often unique competences while ensuring the right structure and composition of the board as a whole.
Friis International assists clients in achieving high-performing boards by identifying and assessing outstanding directors. Furthermore, we assist our clients in defining the optimum structure and composition of their boards and provide advice on director compensation.
Our clients benefit from our Board Search services when looking to fill a single directorship, restructuring an existing board, or building a board from scratch. We perform Board Search assignments for our clients in both the parent company and in national and international subsidiaries.
In our search for successful directors we focus on candidates who have achieved exceptional results – generalists with strong communication and cooperation skills, who possess a highly developed strategic mindset, and who are committed to invest the time required by a board director position.
Friis International assists clients requiring critical board knowledge and skills such as special international, functional and industry expertise. The focus of every Board Search conducted by Friis International is on identifying directors who can bring decisive assets and value to the board in the context of the company’s current stage of development and its future strategic plans.
We recommend board candidates whose knowledge, expertise and human skills will complement those of the other members of the board, thus contributing to higher overall board performance and better results.
Through our network and extensive database we have superior access to and knowledge of exceptional director candidates who can make a difference and contribute to meeting the expectations of shareholders and other stakeholders.
