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outside director investment & finance definition
A
director on a company’s board who isn’t employed by the corporation. With the
passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in 2002, a greater emphasis has been
placed on having outside directors on a company’s board of directors. It is
illegal for outside directors to sit on the boards of competing companies.
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