Independent Director and Board Chair
Viamo
- Toronto, ON
- Contract
- Full-time
- Ensuring the company has an effective strategy and awareness of risks
- Advising, mentoring, and supporting the executive team
- Ensuring accountability and assessing performance
- Core governance and decision approvals
- Is a current Canadian resident (statutory requirement)
- Combines an ability to challenge and critically provoke new insights, with active listening and deeply respectful long-term relationships
- Expands the diversity of the board
- Is (or has been) a CEO or senior leader in a startup that has scaled successfully through Viamo's path and beyond (highly preferred)
- Prior board experience (highly preferred)
- Comes from or has lived experience in Viamo's operating markets. Understands the context, needs, and aspirations of Viamo's end-users
- Has substantial experience within platform business models
- Review materials, actively prepare for, and participate in four regular board meetings per year (held via video conference or in-person)
- Participate on one or more board committees
- Respond promptly to review written resolutions in between board meetings
- Mentor and assist the CEO and executive team
- Review and advise on Viamo's platform, market, and product strategy
- Through their networks, assist in recruitment searches for key senior roles
- Active participation on compensation and/or audit or impact committees
- Creation of a platform strategy advisory board
- Reviewing our product strategy
- Through their networks, assist in identifying enterprise clients
- Why are you interested in serving on Viamo's board of directors?
- What is your view of the important trends you foresee affecting mobile communication and digital connectivity in developing countries over the next 3 - 5 years? How can Viamo harness these to amplify impact?