- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
The 2019 Audit Committee Transparency Barometer indicated investor confidence in audit committee effectiveness was strong (81 percent) and had increased 10 percentage points since the first report was issued in 2014.
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