THE LATEST: Nahas advises boards on governance and recruiting. She also works with companies on CEO succession planning, board building and finding C-suite executives. Los Angeles-based Korn Ferry employs approximately 7, 000 and serves clients in more than 50 countries. The company was named the nation&s best executive-search firm last year by Forbes and one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers by Working Mother. It also received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign's 2020 Corporate Equality Index.



BACKGROUND: A longtime Korn Ferry executive, Nahas' clients including private companies, mid-cap firms and Fortune 100 businesses in a variety of industries. She sits on the boards of DineEquity Inc. and the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. Nahas is a former chairwoman of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the 2004 recipient of the Eleanor H. Raynolds Award from the Association of Executive Search Consultants.



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