Mission
Our mission is to provide our clients and their boards with relevant, connected and dynamic intelligence about the ecosystems in which they operate globally, and, thus, empower them to make much better and informed decisions. SONEAN`s view is that in order to understand complex systems, one needs to know the ties that connect the individual entities within a system.
The social dependence of independent directors in Europe`s largest companies
Based on our extensive two year review of the largest listed 50 European companies (by market capitalization, STOXX 50), and their 445 executive as well as 476 non-executive directors (as of 1 January 2015) who represent these organizations, we have gained highly relevant insights into the social ties that connect these decision makers to over 13,000 organizations. Hereby we have gone beyond their academic (who studied with whom where) and professional links (who worked with whom previously), and followed a multiple tie approach including among others these directors` links to governments, foundations, think tanks, associations, the military, clubs, and many other organizations to uncover existing and prior ties.