While much has been written about the need for diversity and transparency on Boards across America, the activity and efficacy is still shrouded in much mystery and without measurement. We should look to the world of sports as an analogous industry where multi-millionaires are judged with the utmost of objective clarity. Moneyball changed the lens of sports metrics when published in 2004 and was the genesis of a revolution of the search for meaningful stats and measurement. Market share is obviously not the same zero sum game as basketball, and there are myriad reasons why a company or organization is successful. But that is not to say we should not try to shine a light of objective transparency on the performance of Board Members. If these titans behind closed doors are influencing the corporations that affect our daily lives surely we should have some insight into that. Surely their performance has variable metrics that indicate whether they are successful are not. While they are not accountable to the average American citizen in any way, our society as a whole would clearly benefit from any additional layers of accountability. 

To that end - introducing The Boardminder Project - a ranking of Fortune 500 Board Members based on the following base indicators of success, all things broadly in the spheres of influence (otherwise why are they on the board?):

1) Corporate Stock Performance; 2) Corporate Reputation (HRP); 3) Corporate ERG Rating; 4) Individual Media Coverage

not adjusted yet for stock splits