Corporate Secretary is announcing the short-listed nominees for its 13th Corporate Governance Awards.
The winners, which are selected by an independent panel of judges, will be announced at a special virtual event starting with pre-show online networking at 4.00 pm ET on Wednesday, November 18. The ceremony begins at 4.30 pm ET. Click here for more information.
The Corporate Governance Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) fields. This year, as every year, Corporate Secretary received submissions for a wide variety of companies and individuals, highlighting the impressive and often creative work being done by GRC professionals in areas ranging from shareholder engagement and hosting virtual AGMs to entity management and ESG reporting and compliance.
The achievements of the governance community this year are all the more remarkable because they have taken place amid the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The awards and the online event are a way to bring people together to salute that work and to catch up with colleagues and friends from across the profession.
Also on November 18, Corporate Secretary will host the virtual Corporate Secretary Forum – US, an event exclusively for GRC professionals. Topics for discussion include using lessons from the pandemic to strengthen governance, improving risk-management practices for a new normal, the evolution of ESG post-Covid-19 and the future of boards and AGMs. Click here for more information.
This year’s nominees for the Corporate Governance Awards are:
Best AGM American International Group BlackRock Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP IBM
Best compliance and ethics program (large cap) 3M Avangrid Marsh & McLennan Companies The Allstate Corporation Visa
Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap) Atlas Air Worldwide Change Healthcare Coeur Mining ManpowerGroup
Best ESG reporting AT&T IBM PepsiCo The Allstate Corporation The Travelers Companies
Best global entity management Hewlett Packard Enterprise Marsh & McLennan Companies The Boeing Company
Best governance by a cross-listed company RBC TD Bank
Best proxy statement (large cap) Bank of America Healthpeak Properties Nasdaq Prudential Financial The Allstate Corporation
Best proxy statement (mid-cap) Allegheny Technologies Coeur Mining KBR Korn Ferry Six Flags Entertainment Corporation
Best proxy statement (small cap) At Home Group Atlas Air Worldwide Columbus McKinnon Corporation e.l.f. Beauty Financial Institutions
Best shareholder engagement American International Group Bank of America Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM Nuance Communications
Best use of technology 3M Hewlett Packard Enterprise Marsh & McLennan Companies The Allstate Corporation Visa
Governance professional of the year (large cap) Rose Marie Glazer, American International Group Derek Windham, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Yafit Cohn, The Travelers Companies Beth Sasfai, Verizon Communications
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap) Adam Kokas, Atlas Air Worldwide Michael Brown, Clearway Energy Wendy Cassity, Nuance Communications Elona Kogan, Selecta Biosciences
Governance team of the year (large cap) American International Group Hewlett Packard Enterprise Marsh & McLennan Companies PepsiCo The Allstate Corporation
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap) Atlas Air Worldwide Nuance Communications Selecta Biosciences
Rising star Elizabeth Riotte, Avangrid Jon White, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Steven Chen, Zendesk
A lifetime achievement award winner will also be announced.