What Does a Corporate Secretary Do?
So just what does a Corporate Secretary* do, anyway? A good question, but difficult to answer! While the basic duties of the Corporate Secretary can be outlined easily, their overall responsibilities, and the fit of the role within senior management, are more difficult to explain. By reviewing state statutes and corporate by-laws, from which the powers and duties of the Corporate Secretary and other corporate officers are derived, one could conclude that the Corporate Secretary is expected to be a sort of combination of scrivener and custodian, but happily, this is not the case in practice. The Corporate Secretary in today’s world is a senior corporate officer with wide-ranging responsibilities, who serves as a focal point for communication with the board of directors, senior management and the company’s shareholders, and who occupies a key role in the administration of critical corporate matters. The Corporate Secretary is often confidant and counselor to the Chief Executive Officer a
