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Who Sits On Texas Corporate Boards? Texas Corporate Directors: Who They Are And What They Do, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

Corporate directors play an important role in governing American business, in the capital formation process, and are key to economic growth. Texas businesses play a disproportionately important role among the states in aggregate U.S. job creation, responsible for 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began. It is the job of the board of directors to govern the corporation. Director’s duties and responsibilities include: the duty of care; duty of loyalty; and duty of good faith. The recently published Trautman’s Guide™ to Texas Corporate Directors, provides biographical data for most of the approximately 20,000 for-profit corporate directors …