Corporate Secretary is delighted to announce the short-listed nominees for its 15th Corporate Governance Awards.
The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, will be revealed at a gala in-person ceremony on Wednesday, November 9 in New York. The ceremony – the first Corporate Governance Awards event to take place in person since the pandemic – will cap two days of live events hosted by Corporate Secretary: The M&A Forum on Tuesday, November 8, and the Corporate Secretary Forum on Wednesday, November 9.
The awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the governance, risk and compliance fields. Submissions were made by an array of industry participants for a large number of companies and individuals for their impressive work in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, proxy statements, engagement and corporate transactions.
As always, the submissions for this year’s awards highlight the professionalism, ingenuity and sheer hard work displayed across the profession, amid often trying circumstances.
This year’s nominees for Corporate Secretary’s Corporate Governance Awards are:
Best AGM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Microsoft
Robinhood Markets
Best compliance and ethics program
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
Avangrid
Bentley Systems
Bunge
Coeur Mining
JLL
Marsh McLennan
Best ESG reporting (small to mid-cap)
Avangrid
Coeur Mining
Healthpeak Properties
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
JLL
Best ESG reporting (large cap)
AT&T
Cognizant
HP
IBM
PepsiCo
Phillips 66 Company
Best global entity management
Nasdaq
Willis Towers Watson
Best governance around a corporate transaction
Kyndryl Holdings
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Quantum Corporation
Best proxy statement (small cap)
Coeur Mining
CSG Systems International
ICF International
Kelly Services
Virgin Orbit
Best proxy statement (mid-cap)
DXC Technology Company
Gentherm
Healthpeak Properties
Huntington Bancshares
Kyndryl Holdings
Robinhood Markets
Voya Financial
Best proxy statement (large cap)
HP
IBM
Nasdaq
The Allstate Corporation
The Williams Companies
Best shareholder engagement (small to mid-cap)
DXC Technology Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Splunk
Best shareholder engagement (large cap)
Bank of America
HP
IBM
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Best use of technology
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
JLL
Marsh McLennan
Nasdaq
Summit Materials
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap)
JLL – Seth Gastwirth
ManpowerGroup – Richard Buchband
Summit Materials – Chris Gaskill
Governance professional of the year (large cap)
AT&T – Brooke Hanson
Cognizant – Aya Kiy-Morrocco
Prudential Financial – Theresa Molloy
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap)
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
DXC Technology Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Robinhood Markets
Governance team of the year (large cap)
Bank of America
HP
Nasdaq
Prudential Financial
The Williams Companies
Rising star
Cognizant – Aya Kiy-Morrocco
First Horizon Corporation – Mary Lakey
Nasdaq – Caroline Boutwell
Schlumberger – Samantha Blons
AWARDS JUDGES
The distinguished judges for this year’s awards are:
- Prabha Sipi Bhandari, senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at American International Group (AIG)
- Joan Conley, board member at EJF Acquisition Corp and Tigo Energy and senior adviser on corporate governance and ESG programs at Nasdaq
- Lucy Fato, executive vice president, general counsel and global head of communications and government affairs at AIG (scoring selected categories)
- Matthew Geekie, senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at Graybar
- Stephen Giove, co-founder and chief content officer of Ebullience and former partner with Shearman & Sterling
- Eileen Kamerick, non-executive director at Associated Banc-corp, ACV Auctions, Hochschild Mining and Legg Mason Closed End Funds.
Information about the awards and the ceremony can be found by clicking here. Details of last year’s awards and the winners can be found in a special report by clicking here.
Ben Maiden
Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large of Governance Intelligence, an IR Media publication, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. Ben was previously managing editor of Compliance Reporter, covering regulatory and compliance...
