James Tompkins (jtompkin@kennesaw.edu) is a founding member of Kennesaw State University’s Corporate Governance Center (http://coles.kennesaw.edu/CGC) where he has served as director of Board Advisory Services since 1999. He is also a professor of finance at Kennesaw State University, serves on the board of trustees for Life University, and is the founder of Board Evaluation Services (http://boardevaluationservices.com/). James has worked with boards and senior management in a variety of in-depth corporate governance consulting assignments since 1999. His experience includes facilitating and developing optimal governance policies and practices, designing and teaching corporate governance education seminars, serving as expert witness and assisting in expert witness preparation, designing the processes and conducting board and committee evaluations and advising on other corporate governance issues unique to the client. Tompkins has governance-consulting experience with both publicly traded and nonprofit companies as well as quasi-governmental organizations. In 2008 he served as the Corporate Governance expert witness in a major lawsuit against Enron. Tompkins has published in the area of corporate governance in academic journals and has written for NACD Directorship magazine. In 2010, NACD’s Directorship listed Tompkins a “mover and shaker” in their article on the 100 most influential leaders in corporate governance.