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Padmanaban: Intel strictly prohibits employees from accepting equity for board advice

Purnima Padmanaban · a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board · Jan 2, 2019 · at 32:19

Purnima Padmanaban describes bringing an Intel executive onto her technical advisory board for free due to Intel's strict policy against advisory equity.

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“Intel has a very strict policy that you cannot accept anything. So after a lot of back and forth, she still wanted to be on the board and provide advice, but had to sign an agreement with Intel, and we had to sign an agreement with Intel that in no shape or form we will be compensating her with Any stock.”

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The claim, plainly

Intel maintains a strict corporate policy prohibiting its employees from receiving equity or stock compensation for serving on external advisory boards.

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Assessment

Based on public governance documents and SEC filings in effect as of September 2015 (including the January 2014 Intel Code of Conduct and executive employment agreements), Intel treated outside board and advisory roles as potential conflicts of interest requiring written disclosure and Legal department review rather than publishing an explicit, blanket prohibition against accepting equity compensation. While the case-by-case approval process often resulted in Intel requiring customized agreements waiving stock compensation (as described in the speaker's anecdote), Intel's detailed internal Outside Business Activities guidelines and HR approval stipulations are proprietary and not fully disclosed in public records, making it impossible to definitively confirm whether a universal corporate policy strictly prohibiting all equity compensation existed.

Intel's Code of Conduct (January 2014 edition) categorized serving on external advisory boards or boards of directors as potential conflicts of interest requiring disclosure and legal review, but did not publish a blanket prohibition on outside equity compensation.
Intel's public SEC filings and Corporate Governance guidelines govern board directorships and conflict-of-interest reviews, but internal HR rules regarding specific outside compensation terms remain non-public.

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