Basics
Content Category: Human Capital
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Equilar’s Board Services data feed allows for the assessment of the quality, track record, and decision-making patterns of executives and board members. It provides a comprehensive overview of an individual’s career history, education, biography, and affiliations to other organizations.
This 360-degree view includes:
- Compensation and incentive metrics
- Career history across public, private, and non-profit companies
- Equity transactions and future liquidity events
- Relationship strength and corporate connections
- Ethnic and gender diversity
Over 200 unique data points are provided, including additional items like: age, gender, ethnicity, LinkedIn URL, educational degrees, director committee memberships, transition dates between positions, retained auditors and audit dates, and more.
Collectively this represents the next generation of ESG, in this case, Executive, Social, and Governance data that reflects the performance and effectiveness of diverse leadership.
Packaging
The Equilar Board Services data feed is split into three packages:
- Equilar People Business Intelligence, a core content set containing 11 tables
- Equilar Equity & Compensation, an optional add-on to the People Business Intelligence package containing five additional tables
- Equilar Executive & Director Relationships, an optional add-on to the People Business Intelligence package containing two additional tables
This page focuses specifically on the Equilar Executive & Director Relationships add-on package. Click the links above for details on the core People Business Intelligence feed and the supplemental Equity & Compensation package.
Package-Specific Tables
| Table Name |
Table description |
| equ_connection_path |
Connection details between two individuals |
| equ_person_connection |
A person's first-degree connections to other individuals |
Data Overview
Asset Class: Public and Private Companies
Data Frequency: Daily
Delivery Frequency: Daily
History: Varies per table. For example, the equ_connection_path table has history back as far as 1960, while the equ_person_connection table does not contain date values.
Data Methodology
Starting with a multitude of sources including regulatory filings, annual reports, leadership pages of corporate websites, as well as various forms of user-generated content, the data is then expanded through deriving metrics and applying calculations to the raw values before being further curated to ensure market-leading quality. All content is verified by public filings, corporate websites, or user-submitted data from the person represented by the user profile.
Raw data is first deconstructed into a proprietary database using machine-assisted and manual techniques and then run through an identification, de-duplication, and normalization process. Data from the various sources, including some calculated information, is then combined and normalized before being entered into the dataset files. A team of trained analysts reviews new and updated content to ensure accuracy and overall quality.
For a summary of foreign key field relationships and the detailed listing of which files are included in each package, see Equilar People Business Intelligence and Equilar Equity & Compensation.
Use Cases
Business Development and Networking
- Identify new prospects and win deals. Connect your contacts to the “world’s most connected network” and discover new business opportunities.
- Connect intelligently with your top prospects. Close more business by connecting with executives and decision makers through the power of your network. Use warm introductions to gain an edge and accelerate your business development.
The details provided above are as of August 2021.
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