Marc Huffman, CEO of OnBoard: AI Governance Inside the Board Portal

(0:00) Thank you to all participants of the Boardroom Governance Summit (Aug 26-27, 2026) (0:16) Intro *Boardroom Governance YouTube Channel launch. (1:45) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel. (2:31) Start of interview. (3:25) Origin Story of Marc Huffman (6:26) About OnBoard (10:35) AI Risks for SaaS and OnBoard (12:46) Directors Using AI in Shadows. His ideal board books. (17:05) Building a Better AI Policy (20:44) Agentic AI for Boards. Semantics search inside the board portal. (23:30) Recording Risks in Meetings (27:34) Improving Board Effectiveness (29:44) Public, Private, and Governance (32:50) The Private Markets Shift (37:37) AI and Board Dynamics. Empowering Independent Directors. (41:40) Semantic Search and Governance IQ Breakthrough (institutional memory). (44:15) Models, Costs, and Trust (47:26) Book that has greatly influenced his life: Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts (2003) (48:17) His mentors (49:22) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by "I'm a product of my own expectations" (49:43) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves. (50:35) The living person he most admires. Marc Huffman is the CEO of OnBoard, a global leader in digital board governance solutions, serving over 6,000 boards worldwide. You can follow Evan on social media at: Website: boardroom-governance.com X: @evanepstein LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BoardroomGovernance __ To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/ __ Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License