Leslie F. Seidman is an independent corporate director with over 30 years of experience in the accounting profession. Ms. Seidman serves as a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committees of General Electric Company (GE: NYSE) and Moody’s Corporation (MCO: NYSE). She is also an advisor to idaciti, Inc., a cloud-based analytical platform for structured financial and nonfinancial data, including environmental, social and governance (ESG). She recently completed two terms as a Public Governor for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Ms. Seidman is a former Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), where she also served as a member of the Board from 2003-2013. As FASB Chairman, Ms. Seidman collaborated with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and other regulators to improve financial reporting in the U.S. capital markets. She helped launch the FASB’s Private Company Council, to address concerns about the cost and complexity of accounting for small businesses. Ms. Seidman guided the FASB’s joint agenda with the International Accounting Standards Board to converge U.S. and international accounting standards. Ms. Seidman represented the U.S. in the International Forum of Accounting Standard Setters and was an Observer to the International Integrated Reporting Council. During her tenure, the FASB assumed responsibility for maintaining the U.S. GAAP XBRL (digital) taxonomy, which allows financial information to be read by humans and machines.

Previously, Ms. Seidman was an auditor with Arthur Young & Co. (now EY), a Vice President of Accounting Policy with J.P. Morgan & Co., and a financial reporting consultant. Ms. Seidman is the original author of Financial Instruments: A Comprehensive Guide to Accounting and Reporting (currently in its 17th edition from Wolters Kluwer).

Ms. Seidman is a 2020 inductee into the Accounting Hall of Fame. She has been named to the National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) Directorship 100™ twice (2020 and 2011), and was named as one of the most influential corporate directors by Women, Inc. in 2018. Previously, she was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of Management Accountants, for launching and continuing to support the Women’s Leadership Series (2015). She is a member of the NACD, Women Corporate Directors and Financial Executives International, where she previously served on the board.

Ms. Seidman earned a B.A. in English from Colgate University and a M.S. in accounting from New York University Stern School of Business. She is a CPA and is certified in cybersecurity oversight by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and in ESG oversight by Competent Boards (GCB.D).

Mr. Tierney recently retired from his position on the Board of Directors for MSCI, Inc. after a long and successful career in the financial information field. He served on the board of MSCI Inc. from 2010 until 2018, where he leveraged his experience to counsel management on the complexities of running a global information business. Before that, he was with Reed-Elsevier, where he served on the Board of Directors and Management Committee and was the CEO of its Harcourt division since 2002.

In addition, he was the CEO of Thomson Financial from 2000 to 2002 and the CEO of the Scientific, Technical, Healthcare, Business Information, Database, and select Education business of The Thomson Corporation from 1997 to 2000. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Tierney served on the Executive Committee of Knight-Ridder. He holds a B.S. in Business and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.

An avid skier, he still finds time to hit the slopes during the winter. Mr. Tierney looks forward to bringing his experience and perspective to the idaciti advisory board.

For more than eight decades Alban and his family have owned Ince, a multi-disciplinary business that itself is nearly 100 years old. Alban is Ince’s Managing Director, responsible for many initiatives, including change management.

For the last 40 years, Ince has assisted Johannesburg Stock Exchange (“JSE”) listed companies with their regulatory shareholder communication requirements.

In 2006 Ince introduced Virtual Data Rooms to the South African mergers and acquisitions market. In 2013, Ince launched iProducts, a complete electronic platform for shareholder communications.

In January 2017, after the Mauritian Regulator mandated that Issuers file their results in XBRL, Ince established itself as the major filer of XBRL in this market.

Together with partners, Ince is building a range of additional services to retail investors. Ince represents idaciti in Africa and has been accredited by CIPC, the South African Regulator, to provide iXBRL filing services to the South African market.

Even before he co-founded Lucid Software, Karl Sun had already filled his résumé with incredible accomplishments. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as an M.S. in Technology and Policy. From there, he attended Harvard Law School, earning his J.D. while also serving as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Following his graduation from Harvard, Karl worked as an attorney at both Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie LLP. He also served as a law clerk to Judge R.C. Clevenger III. In 2002, Karl jumped head first into the world of tech and joined Google. He started as Head of Patents, opening the company’s patent department, and setting the patent strategy. Three years later, he started the Google China office and led business development there.

Under Karl’s leadership, Lucid Software’s SaaS product has a firm grip on the market, with 15 million users spanning 180 countries and 700,000 new users per month. Ninety-six percent of the world’s Fortune 500 companies use Lucid chart. Clients include NASA, Tesla, Coca-Cola, Spotify, and many more.

In 2017, Karl was the recipient of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Utah Region for Business Services category. Karl was also honored as one of the 2017 Utah Business CEO of the Year.

Mike Schlanger is a business leader who focuses on developing transaction and compliance solutions to support customer regulatory requirements. Mike leads a team of experts that guide the development and sale of Toppan Merrill’s SEC compliance offerings, including its Annual Meeting and Proxy Solution program, Bridge periodic report SaaS platform and XBRL service offerings.

Mike is currently serving as the Vice Chairman of the Board of XBRL US, which he has been a Board member since 2009. He is a frequent speaker at law firms, financial industry conferences and professional associations on topics related to the SEC regulatory initiatives.

Hudson Hollister was the founder and Executive Director of the Data Coalition, a trade association representing technology and consulting firms supporting open data in government. The Data Coalition is the primary advocacy group for the implementation of the DATA Act of 2014, transforming the U.S. federal government’s spending information into standardized, open data. The Data Coalition also supports data standards to overhaul regulatory compliance, legislative mandates, and the whole landscape of government invitation. Hudson has helped to craft landmark reforms, including the DATA Act, the OPEN Government Data Act, the Financial Transparency Act, and the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Assistance Transparency (GREAT) Act.

Hudson is also the founder of the Data Foundation, a nonprofit think tank seeking to define an open future for both government and private-sector data. The Data Foundation is responsible for the leading research on open data in federal spending and regulatory compliance. The Data Foundation hosts the largest annual open data conference in the United States.

Before founding the Data Coalition and the Data Foundation, Hudson served as counsel to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives and as an attorney fellow in the Office of Interactive Disclosure at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Before his government service, he was a securities litigator in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins LLP.

Hudson earned a law degree from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from the University of St. Francis.