Taking place in New York City on November 6, the gala ceremony will be held at Cipriani 25 Broadway and is expected to be attended by 400 industry professionals from the world of governance, risk and compliance.
The ceremony will follow the Corporate Governance Forum, also on November 6, which will bring together experts to share their insights on the implications of recent market and regulatory changes on the role of governance professionals and provide a platform to share best practices before the end of the year.
Selected by an independent panel of judges, the awards celebrate outstanding achievements by the governance profession in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, sustainability reporting, entity management, use of technology, proxy statements, shareholder engagement and corporate transactions.
The full list of nominees follows:
Best AGM Hewlett Packard Enterprise Robinhood Markets
Best board assessment program IBM Prudential Financial Regions Financial Corporation
Best compliance and ethics program Arm Holdings DocGo Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Kyndryl Holdings PepsiCo Robinhood Markets
Best director training and education program MetLife Robinhood Markets Sallie Mae
Best global entity management Payoneer Prudential Financial The Huntington National Bank
Best governance around a corporate transaction Bunge Global Kyndryl Holdings Leidos Holdings VEON
Best proxy statement (small cap) Century Aluminum Empire State Realty Trust Gentherm Minerals Technologies Veracyte W&T Offshore
Best proxy statement (mid-cap) Best Buy Healthpeak Properties Korn Ferry Murphy Oil Corporation The Baldwin Insurance Group The Clorox Company
Best proxy statement (large cap) Bristol-Myers Squibb General Motors Intel Corporation PepsiCo The Williams Companies Thermo Fisher Scientific
Best shareholder engagement (small to mid-cap)
Gap Lumen Technologies Ralph Lauren
Best shareholder engagement (large cap) Chevron Corporation Fifth Third Bancorp PepsiCo Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Ventas
Best sustainability reporting (small cap) AMN Healthcare Hawaiian Electric Omnicell
Best sustainability reporting (mid-cap) Bath & Body Works Dun & Bradstreet Holdings ExlService Holdings Kadant Korn Ferry Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
Best sustainability reporting (large cap) Baker Hughes Cognizant Marsh McLennan Nasdaq Norfolk Southern The Williams Companies
Best use of technology Graybar PepsiCo Prudential Financial VEON
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap) Healthpeak Properties – Carol Samaan Liberty Media Corporation – Kate Jewell* Sallie Mae – Jeffrey Lipschutz
*Kate Jewell moved to QVC Group in June 2025
Governance professional of the year (large cap) Amgen – Andrea Robinson Baker Hughes – Fernando Contreras Booking Holdings – Vijay Iyer Cognizant – Deepa Rao Leidos Holdings – Henrique Bertolo Canarim Sempra – Robert Borthwick
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap) Bunge Global Dow ExlService Holdings
Governance team of the year (large cap) Baker Hughes Chevron Corporation Marvell Technology PepsiCo Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Robinhood Markets
Rising star Ally Financial – Dana Sanker Booking Holdings – Caitlin Kobialka Salesforce – Nina Mohammed Sallie Mae – Megan Smagala Workday – Morgan Lou
Lifetime achievement Ally Financial – Hope Mehlman
This year’s judging panel comprised:
Anna Catalan, a member of the board of directors, HF Sinclair Corporation, Frontdoor, Ecovyst and Hexion Joan Conley, board member, Tigo Energy Matt Geekie, SVP, secretary and general counsel, Graybar Eileen Kamerick, non-executive director, Associated Banc-corp, ACV Auctions, Valic Company and chairman of the board for Legg Mason Closed End Funds Alex Wisnewski, VP of proxy voting and governance, BNY Natalie Bannerman, senior reporter, Governance Intelligence Laurie Havelock, editor, Governance Intelligence.The team at Governance Intelligence would like to wish all this year’s nominees the best of luck for the Corporate Governance Awards. We look forward to seeing you in November!
More information about the awards and the ceremony can be found by clickinghere.