Shannon Nash: Boards, AI Agents, and Human Judgment

(0:00) About the Boardroom Governance Summit (Aug 26-27, 2026)  (0:43) Intro (2:08) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel. (2:54) Start of interview.  (3:56) Origin Story of Shannon Nash (7:00) Her pivot from Law to Finance (9:15) Her operating and finance career  (12:55) Her experience in tech (subscription businesses) and current COO and CFO role at Vibrant Planet (15:50) Her first board (UserTesting) and subsequent board career (Netscout, SoFi, Lazy Dog Restaurants, Silicon Valley Community Foundation)  (22:04) Cybersecurity Meets AI (28:47) Where are the Humans? The next wave in the agentic era (31:44) Regulated Boards and Risk (36:25) Private Board Experience (VC and PE).  (41:13) About Alpha AI, focusing on AI Governance (43:53) On her podcast No Boxes, Just Verses (46:45) Her obsession with the Acquired podcast (47:41) Her mentors (49:40) Quotes that she thinks of often or lives her life by. (51:06) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that she loves. Beat Shazam show (52:15) The living person she most admires. Shannon Nash is a qualified financial expert, attorney, and CPA with over 30 years at the intersection of technology, finance, and governance. She serves as a board member in both public and private companies. You can follow Evan on social media at:Website: boardroom-governance.comX: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: 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