Teresa Briggs: Audit Committees, AI, and the Evolving Role of Corporate Directors.

Teresa Briggs: Audit Committees, AI, and the Evolving Role of Corporate Directors.

Author: Evan Epstein September 2, 2025 Duration: 54:27
Teresa Briggs serves on the boards of DocuSign, ServiceNow, Snowflake and Warby Parker. She is a member of the audit committee for each company and is the audit committee chair of ServiceNow, DocuSign, and Warby Parker. After a 37-year career with Deloitte LLP, Teresa retired in 2019. At Deloitte, she was the lead partner for some of the organization’s leading companies, including Apple Inc., and held several leadership positions including Vice Chair―West Region, San Francisco and Silicon Valley managing partner, and served on the board of directors of Deloitte USA LLP. An established thought leader, Teresa created Deloitte’s onBoarding Academy, a board readiness program, and Deloitte’s Women on Boards program which brought together over 100 female corporate directors.

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