Board of Directors
Board of directors.
- Target size
- 5 – 9 directors
- Term length
- 3 years, staggered
- Status
- Formation in progress
- Published
- At charter filing
What the Board does
Role of the Board.
The Board of Directors is the fiduciary steward of Elites Generation Foundation, Inc. It sets strategy, approves the annual plan and budget, hires and evaluates the Chief Executive, and guards the charter commitments that cannot be unwound by operating staff.
The Board is also the operating check on the subsidiary. A majority of the subsidiary’s board is appointed by the Foundation, so mission priorities flow downward into product and commercial decisions rather than the other way around.
Directors do not draw compensation for Board service. Reasonable expenses are reimbursed. The conflict-of-interest policy is adopted at the first meeting and signed annually thereafter.
Who sits on it
Composition we are recruiting for.
A Foundation this size sits in the five-to-nine director range. We are recruiting for a mix that spreads expertise and reduces single points of failure across the disciplines that matter most to this work.
Independent technologists.
Senior engineers and product leaders with real privacy posture, who have shipped consumer software at scale and can stress-test the architecture and the commitments.
Public-health or wellbeing expertise.
A researcher or clinician whose work touches loneliness, social health, or population wellbeing. The person who makes us read the evidence before we ship.
Community-organizing expertise.
Someone whose practice is on the ground: facilitators, youth programs, civic groups. The person who keeps the product from drifting into a dashboard.
Finance and audit.
A CFO, controller, or audit-committee veteran with nonprofit fluency. Chairs the audit committee. Reads the 990 like it is their own.
Legal and nonprofit governance.
Counsel experienced in 501(c)(3) charters, hybrid structures, and data privacy. Chairs the governance committee. Knows where the lines are.
Current status
Board formation in progress.
We are mid-recruitment. The founding Board will be announced in full at charter filing, together with the bylaws, conflict-of-interest policy, and whistleblower policy adopted at the inaugural meeting. Until then, we are publishing the process honestly rather than the names of people who have not accepted yet.
Board formation in progress
Directors. We are building a Board of five to nine directors: independent technologists, a public-health or wellbeing domain expert, a community-organizing expert, a finance and audit voice, and a legal and nonprofit expert. We will publish the full Board at charter filing.
Compensation committee
How executive pay is set.
Executive compensation is set by an independent compensation committee of the Board, using comparable data for Foundations and nonprofits of similar scope. The committee reviews pay annually and files the results through the Form 990. Founder and executive compensation is public every year, by design.
The Board follows written policies on conflicts of interest, whistleblower protection, gift acceptance, and document retention. All policies are adopted at the inaugural meeting and published on the Governance page.
The governance page has the full charter.
Bylaws, conflict-of-interest policy, whistleblower policy, and the decision rights of the Board and the subsidiary, all in one place.