Ralph Hasson, NACD.DC

Chair Emeritus

Ralph Hasson is a member of the Board of Directors of Kerbey Lane Cafe, where he serves as lead independent director and chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the University of Texas Club, and the Board of Directors of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter. He served as the founding chair of the Austin Board of Advisors for the Texas TriCities Chapter. He is NACD Directorship Certified, and is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow.

Ralph is president of the Cybernance Risk Transfer Solutions Division, developing integrated cyber-risk solutions which combine the Cybernance platform with cyber insurance.

He previously helped to build Chorda, the first enterprise conflict management-consulting firm, into a nationally recognized organization. Chorda developed enterprise systems for collaboration and conflict management for Halliburton, Shell, Conoco, Coors, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and GE. Several of those systems became national models.

Ralph also launched the Policy Office for UT System Administration, which supports the 14 institutions within the University of Texas System. The Policy Office was benchmarked by Starbucks and recognized as a best practice model by leading compliance experts.

His new ideas in corporate governance and ethics oversight have been cited in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal after appearing in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and Directors Monthly. He is the co-author of Controlling the Costs of Conflict: How to Design a System for Your Organization (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998).

Ralph is a graduate of the University of Texas (BA, JD), and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (MPA).