Us board members voted to put Dawn in that position.

The position doesn't have much additional power at all - the chair spends a little more time with the executive director and gets to set the agenda for the board meetings, but board actions still require a vote from the board.

If we felt like an employee of a specific company was abusing their position on the PSF board we would take steps to address that. Thankfully I've seen no evidence of that from anyone during my time on the board.

If anything it's the opposite: board members are very good about abstaining from votes that their employer might have an interest in.