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Joyce Cacho is an experienced corporate board director who served as Global Chief Sustainability Officer of the global life science disruptor, Novus International. Her independent board director experience includes the $19B cooperative, Land O’Lakes, a F250 company where she served on the Operating, Audit, Nominating/Governance Committees. Joyce additionally served on Finance & Audit; Compliance & Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) committees of an OCC regulated bank that is a Certified B Corp with a national charter. Currently, Joyce serves as the board chair of a PE-backed, energy-bio industry technology innovator. Leveraging her executive leadership experience in corporate and investment banking, Joyce brings deep knowledge of P&L restructuring strategies, financial valuation in M&A, ESG in business strategy, and risk oversight.
Joyce Cacho is immediately qualified to serve on the following committees:
■ Finance – Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS); and, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) New York – Professional Member, designation
■ Audit
■ Nominating and Governance
■ Executive
■ Technology
■ Enterprise Risk Management
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Speakers include: Titi Cole, Mia Mends
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Speakers include: Rodger Baker