nonexecutive director

noun

1. a director of a commercial company who is not a full-time member of the company but is brought in to advise the other directors

Example Sentences

“When you abuse state power and freeze bank accounts and throw people in jail — the editor in chief, the chief executive, the founder — it smacks of a banana republic,” said Mark Clifford, an independent nonexecutive director of Next Digital.

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Coladangelo, a former lobbyist, became a nonexecutive director on the department’s board late last year.

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In November, he was appointed to a three-year term as a nonexecutive director of Britain’s Department for International Trade.

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“Steve Wynn is an industry giant,” Boone Wayson, nonexecutive director of the board, said in the statement announcing Wynn’s resignation.

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Mr. Bush was a nonexecutive director of St. Louis-based Engineered Support Systems, whose profits were bolstered because of the Iraq War.

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