Corporate Governance Awards submissions deadline extended

Governance Intelligence has extended the deadline for submissions to the 17th Corporate Governance Awards until the end of Friday, August 2.

The awards will be presented at a gala ceremony in New York on Thursday, November 7. They celebrate outstanding achievements by the governance profession in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, use of technology, proxy statements, investor engagement and corporate transactions.

Submissions are also encouraged for categories that highlight work done either in close collaboration with boards or by board members themselves:

• Best board assessment program – The judges will be looking for assessment programs that are thorough, innovative and tailored to a specific board where possible. Among other things, they will also be looking at whether feedback generated by an assessment has been acted on to help improve the functioning and/or composition of the board
• Best director training and education program – The judges will be looking for evidence of a program that offers extensive, relevant, timely and tailored training and education. They will also be looking for innovation in the methods used to deliver content
• Outstanding work by an independent director – The judges will be looking for governance-related achievements by a named individual, independent director. That might be in leading an initiative to enhance bylaws or the proxy statement, to engage with shareholders (perhaps around a proxy contest) or to push the company to enhance its ESG-related efforts.

Entries can be submitted – free of charge – by corporate secretaries, general counsel, compliance officers and other governance officials at companies listed/domiciled in the US, or by vendors or service providers on behalf of their clients. Click here to learn more and start your entry!

Categories
The categories open for nomination this year are:

Best AGM
Best board assessment program
Best compliance and ethics program
Best director training and education program
Best ESG reporting
Best global entity management
Best governance around a corporate transaction
Best proxy statement (small cap, mid-cap and large cap)
Best shareholder engagement
Best use of technology
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap and large cap)
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap and large cap)
Rising star
Outstanding work by an independent director

Judges
The distinguished industry experts who will decide the winners of this years’ honors are:

• Emma Butler, manager for investment stewardship at Dimensional Fund Advisors
• Jacqueline Condron, senior vice president for proxy voting & governance at Mellon, a division of Mellon Investments Corporation
• Joan Conley, board member at EJF Acquisition Corp and Tigo Energy
• Matthew Geekie, senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at Graybar
• Eileen Kamerick, non-executive director at Associated Banc-corp, ACV Auctions, VALIC Company and Legg Mason Closed End Funds
• Ben Maiden, editor-at-large, Governance Intelligence.

Details of the awards – including information about entry guidelines and category criteria – can be found by clicking here. Entries can be submitted using an online form located here. It is free to submit an entry and professionals can nominate in multiple categories.