Charlotte Guyman has been a director of Berkshire Hathaway since 2003 and chairs the Board's Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. She serves as a director of the start-up Landings Holdings and of Nordstrom, a fashion retailer, a trustee of Lakeside School, and an advisor for the University of Washington Brotman Baty Institute of Precision Medicine. She was a general manager with Microsoft Corporation until July 1999.