Ralph Hasson is lead independent director and chair of the nominating and governance committee for Kerbey Lane Cafe. He also serves on the board of governors of the University of Texas Club and the board of directors of the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter; for the latter, he served as the founding chair of the Austin board of advisors. He is NACD Directorship Certified and an NACD Board Leadership Fellow.

Hasson is president of the Cybernance Risk Transfer Solutions Division for Cybernance Corp. Cybernance provides leading solutions for cyber-risk governance. He led the effort to develop an integrated offering, combining a cyber-risk transfer solution with the Cybernance platform. He holds the NACD CERT certificate in cyber-risk oversight.

Hasson previously helped to build Chorda, the first enterprise conflict-management-consulting firm, into a nationally recognized organization. Chorda developed enterprise systems for collaboration and conflict management for Halliburton, Shell, Conoco, Coors, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and GE. Several of those systems became national models.

He also launched the policy office for University of Texas (UT) System Administration, which supports the 14 institutions within the UT System. The policy office was benchmarked by Starbucks and recognized as a best practice model by leading compliance experts.

His new ideas in corporate governance and ethics oversight have been cited in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal after appearing in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Directors Monthly. He is the coauthor of Controlling the Costs of Conflict: How to Design a System for Your Organization (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998).

He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin (bachelor of arts and juris doctor) and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (master of public administration).