Board of directors
Board Members
The Board represents the ultimate decision-making body of FIND, with responsibilities that include approving the budget, making senior-level personnel decisions, and ensuring that FIND is making the progress needed to achieve its objectives.
The Board performs the following functions:
- Provides guidance and ultimate decision-making authority on strategic investments and activities
- Approves all operations related to the Management team, including the work plan and budget
- Oversees the progress of Foundation programs
- Selects, evaluates and replaces FIND’s executives if needed
- Ensures the integrity of FIND, the corporate accounting and financial reporting systems, and the independent audit
- Participates in fundraising efforts to increase the resources of the Foundation over time by soliciting private and public donations
- Selects new Board members
- Reviews executive compensation
In addition, the Board contributes its expertise, guidance, and authority to:
- Support public relations and communication of key messages and activities Initiate and broker relationships between FIND and other entities to contribute to FIND’s objectives
- Support fundraising activities to ensure sufficient resources to achieve FIND’s goals
- Determine the appropriate time to expand FIND’s focus from tuberculosis to other diseases
The Board is selected on the basis of criteria that include individual skills, leadership in the diagnostic field, technical/clinical expertise in relevant disease areas, a history of success in driving development, laboratory and clinical-trial expertise, knowledge of what is required to succeed in disease endemic countries, and a willingness to invest time to help FIND succeed.