Nominees announced for Corporate Governance Awards 2024

Governance Intelligence is proud to announce the shortlisted nominees for its 17th Corporate Governance Awards.

The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, will be presented at a gala ceremony in New York on Thursday, November 7. The awards 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.

The awards gala will cap two days of special governance-related events hosted by Governance Intelligence. On Wednesday, November 6, we present the Corporate Reporting Forum, at which experts will share insights on responding to the growing expectations and requirements companies face around a range of disclosures. The following day – ahead of the awards ceremony in the evening – we present the Corporate Governance Forum, where there will be an active exchange of views and practical advice on a range of best practices as governance teams and their boards look to 2025.

The Corporate Governance Awards nominees represent the excellent and challenging work being done by members of the profession on behalf of their boards and companies – and also for the benefit of investors and other stakeholders. This year’s nominees are:

Best AGM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The Kraft Heinz Company

Best board assessment program
PagerDuty
Prudential Financial

Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap)
Coeur Mining
DocGo
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings
JLL
Robinhood Markets

Best compliance and ethics program (large cap)
ARM Holdings
PepsiCo

Best director training and education program
Nasdaq
Robinhood Markets
Sallie Mae

Best ESG reporting (small cap)
Empire State Realty Trust
Fannie Mae
Lumen Technologies
The Greenbrier Companies

Best ESG reporting (mid-cap)
AMN Healthcare Services
Bath & Body Works
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings
Healthpeak Properties
JLL
Korn Ferry

Best ESG reporting (large cap)
Applied Materials
Emerson Electric Co
HP
Nasdaq
PepsiCo
Verizon

Best global entity management
HP
JLL
Nasdaq
Prudential Financial

Best governance around a corporate transaction
Bunge Global
Summit Materials
Visa

Best proxy statement (small cap)
Century Aluminum Company
Gentherm
Lumen Technologies
The Greenbrier Companies
W&T Offshore

Best proxy statement (mid-cap)
Coeur Mining
Healthpeak Properties
Leidos Holdings
Murphy Oil Corp
Regions Financial Corporation
The Clorox Company

Best proxy statement (large cap)
Booking Holdings
CVS
HP
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
The Kraft Heinz Company
Visa

Best shareholder engagement (small to mid-cap)
Lumen Technologies
Regions Financial Corporation
The Greenbrier Companies
Transocean

Best shareholder engagement (large cap)
Discover Financial Services
HP
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
The Allstate Corporation
The Kraft Heinz Company
Visa

Best use of technology
Asana
JLL
Prudential Financial
Regions Financial Corporation

Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap)
JLL – Seth Gastwirth
Leidos Holdings – Henrique Bertolo Canarim
Robinhood Markets – Christina Lai
Sallie Mae – Jeffrey Lipschutz

Governance professional of the year (large cap)
Baker Hughes – Fernando Contreras
Johnson & Johnson – Laura Giacino
Ventas – Kevin Bohl

Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap)
Bunge Global
Regions Financial Corporation
Robinhood Markets
Sallie Mae

Governance team of the year (large cap)
HP
Nasdaq
PepsiCo
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Visa

Rising star
Regions Financial Corporation – Mary Wheeler
Sallie Mae – Megan Smagala
The Kraft Heinz Company – Nicole Fritz

Awards judges
The distinguished judges for this year’s awards 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.

Information about the awards and the ceremony can be found by clicking here.