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    Directors Officers Questionnaires | Governance Advisory and Compliance Solutions
    Directors Officers Questionnaires | Governance Advisory and Compliance Solutions

    Digital Directors' & Officers' Questionnaires

    Transform your paper D&O questionnaires into a dynamic, data-driven process.

    Host your D&O Questionnaires in the Nasdaq EnGaugeTM platform to help ensure accuracy, promote efficiency, improve responses, streamline reviews, save time, and lower costs.

    Why Directors’ & Officers’ Questionnaires?

    Promote Governance Excellence with Digital D&O Questionnaires

    Nasdaq Governance Solutions works with boards every day to digitize D&O questionnaires. The process is streamlined from the point of gathering information to the eventual proxy disclosures. Plus, our user-friendly platform helps alleviate pain points and promotes a positive relationship between directors and administrators.

    Nasdaq Governance Solutions works with boards every day to digitize D&O questionnaires. The process is streamlined from the point of gathering information to the eventual proxy disclosures. Plus, our user-friendly platform helps alleviate pain points and promotes a positive relationship between directors and administrators.

    Why Directors' & Officers' Questionnaires?

    Promote Governance Excellence with Digital D&O Questionnaires

    Ease and Efficiency

    Save time by providing easy access for directors and officers, pre-filling question responses, and automating notifications and reminders.

    On-the-Go Availability

    D&O questionnaires are accessible from desktop and mobile devices, and progress is automatically saved as you go.

    A Dynamic Experience

    Save time for directors and officers by pre-populating information and including multi-part questions, linked documents, and pop-up windows.

    Enhanced Accuracy, Data Integrity, and Security

    Easily compare year-over-year changes and modifications to pre-filled responses—all of which are stored and protected in the Nasdaq Engauge platform.

    Nasdaq EnGauge vs. other technologies

    All the features you need to digitize your directors' and officers' questionnaires.

    Nasdaq EnGauge

    Just a few of the time-saving features offered on our platform:

    ✓ Streamline Law Firm Approved Form
    ✓ Dynamic Master Questionnaire Template
    ✓ Access from Board Portal or Secure Link
    ✓ Links to Customized Documents
    ✓ Pre-Filled Information Bulk Upload

    Other Technologies

    Competitors, including OnBoard and Diligent, lack key D&O questionnaire features.

    ✗ Streamline Law Firm Approved Form
    ✗ Dynamic Master Questionnaire Template
    ✗ Access from Board Portal or Secure Link
    ✗ Links to Customized Documents
    ✗ Pre-Filled Information Bulk Upload

    Paper-Based Processes

    Paper D&O questionnaires require manual processes.

    ✗ Streamline Law Firm Approved Form
    ✗ Dynamic Master Questionnaire Template
    ✗ Access from Board Portal or Secure Link
    ✗ Links to Customized Documents
    ✗ Pre-Filled Information Bulk Upload

    What satisfied users have gained from digital D&O questionnaires:

    Compliance

    Compliance Questionnaires

    Simplify compliance efforts, manage potential risks, improve efficiencies, and save time for administrators and respondents with robust and customizable compliance questionnaires.

    Learn about Compliance Questionnaires

    Simplify compliance efforts, manage potential risks, improve efficiencies, and save time for administrators and respondents with robust and customizable compliance questionnaires.

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    What are Directors' & Officers' Questionnaires?

    Learn about the requirements for D&Q questionnaires, what questions to ask, how to distribute them, and when to update them.

    Learn about the requirements for D&Q questionnaires, what questions to ask, how to distribute them, and when to update them.

    Digital D&O Questionnaires | 6 Reasons to Move your D&O Questionnaires to Digital

    6 Reasons to Move your D&O Questionnaires to Digital

    Learn how your company can recapture hours of valuable time for directors, officers, and administrators alike by moving to a platform like Nasdaq EnGauge.

    Learn how your company can recapture hours of valuable time for directors, officers, and administrators alike by moving to a platform like Nasdaq EnGauge.

    Key Features

    See the benefits of transitioning from paper-based to dynamic D&O questions

    Greater Accuracy

    Ensure that director biographies, equity ownership, and committee assignments always include accurate and consistent information.

    Improve Data Integrity

    Simplify the review process and improve data management with data fields matched to related sections of the D&O questionnaire.

    Optimize Submissions

    Directors and officers can only submit D&O questionnaires when they are answered in full, which leads to fewer incomplete questionnaires and less time spent chasing down updates.

    Compare Responses

    Easily see what information directors and officers have edited, showing year-over-year changes to pre-populated information with automated redlining capabilities.

    Secure Your Data

    The Nasdaq EnGauge platform encrypts customer data in transit and at rest with TLS 1.2, and only authorized users can access forms, proprietary data, and documents.

    Integrate With Our Portal

    Automatically integrate with the Nasdaq Boardvantage® board portal to reduce administrative work and make information easily accessible for legal and corporate governance professionals.

    By the numbers

    A Global Leader in D&O Questionnaires

    1000+
    Projects Completed

    $10.2
    Trillion Market Cap

    85
    Fortune 500 Clients

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    Digitally collect information from directors and officers to help ensure accuracy in disclosures, simplify compliance efforts, and manage potential risks.

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