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Nancy May

Nancy May

www.wgba-business.com
CEO
The Board Bench Companies
Norwalk, Connecticut

Nancy May is CEO of The Board Bench Companies which include Board Bench™, a strategic board and executive services provider that builds qualified succession pipelines of board members; the Women’s Global Business Alliance, which delivers executive diversity consulting; and Peer Counsel® which provides sophisticated roundtable programs for senior corporate executives that connects them with world business leaders to address new ways to improve business and operational performance. Each company’s products and services are focused towards giving companies those added advantages needed to build and maintain their lead in the industries within which they operate.

Nancy also serves as an advisor to CEOs and executives interested in developing and integrating new processes and programs that address ways to improve the execution of corporate strategy and bottom-line results. She has more than 20 years experience in designing, developing, and evaluating strategic and marketing opportunities utilizing new media marketing technologies for such companies as Niagara Mohawk Power Company, Prodigy Services, CompuServe, GTE, CNR Partners, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hoechst Celanese, Burlington Industries, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Electroteck International, and others.

Ms. May is responsible for developing groundbreaking opportunities in online publishing and interactive advertising for Capital Cities Communications. At J. Walter Thompson USA, she developed new business vehicles for advertising and marketing products and services for such clients as Ford Motor Company, Lincoln Mercury Merkur, Kodak, Prodigy, and Burger King. Her recommendations also resulted in the first advertising placement on home video cassettes in the early 1980’s.

In addition, she developed some of the first high-tech advertising and marketing programs for the Ford Motor Company that ranged from interactive (two-way) TV to computer marketing services integrated with traditional media options. Her work in new technology marketing has ranged from stand alone point-of-purchase and sales kiosks, interactive disk based programs, to interactive TV and online programs and services.

Ms. May has served on the Board and actively supports a number of national and regional women’s organizations including the Women’s Forum, American Women’s Economic Development Corporation—US Department of Labor, The Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, and Women in Management, among others. In 1998 she was honored by the SBA for her work and support of women as the state of Connecticut’s Women’s Business Advocate of the Year, and was invited to meet President Clinton as one of the Nation’s top business leaders.

She is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the World Affairs Forum and has served on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Southwestern Connecticut where she is chaired the Nominating Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. Ms. May also serves on the advisory counsel of NeuroSonics, Inc., and Artemis Woman, a consumer package goods company, and is also listed in Who’s Who of Global Business Leaders. She has also served on the Board of the Connecticut Venture Capital Group—Stamford. Ms. May has been a guest lecturer for business and professional organizations, National Geographic Films, and numerous University graduate school programs.