Non Executive Director benefits to an SME

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Non-Executive Directors are often associated with helping larger companies and the public sector, however, there is a lot more to Non – Executive Director. Non-Executive Directors are now helping smaller companies and even start-up businesses to supplement their management teams as they bring previous experience of being well-connected business people. We recently read an interesting article on ways that Non- Executive Directors can help SME and you can read this here.

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