Corporate Secretary is announcing the short-listed nominees for its 14th Corporate Governance Awards.
The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, will be revealed at a special virtual event starting with pre-show online networking at 4.00 pm ET on Thursday, November 11. The ceremony will begin at 4.45 pm ET. Click here for more information.
Corporate Secretary’s Corporate Governance Awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the governance, risk and compliance fields. As with every year, submissions were made for a wide variety of companies and individuals for excellent work in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, proxy statements, engagement and – for the first time this year – corporate transactions.
The submissions for this year’s awards highlight the lengths to which many across the profession have gone to keep the machinery of governance turning amid an ongoing health crisis, political upheaval and economic uncertainty.
This year’s nominees for the Corporate Governance Awards are:
Best AGM Barrick Gold Corporation BlackRock Brown-Forman Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Best compliance and ethics program (large cap) Honeywell International Ingersoll Rand Uber Technologies
Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap) Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Coeur Mining Harsco Corporation Robert Half International United States Steel Corporation
Best ESG reporting (large cap) Freeport-McMoRan IBM PayPal PepsiCo Philip Morris International
Best ESG reporting (small to mid-cap) Coeur Mining Hannon Armstrong SL Green Realty Corp
Best global entity management Chevron Corporation Hewlett Packard Enterprise Tronox Holdings Willis Towers Watson
Best governance around a corporate transaction First Horizon Bank Huntington Bancshares Willis Towers Watson
Best proxy statement (large cap) Cognizant General Motors IBM Nasdaq The Allstate Corporation
Best proxy statement (mid-cap) Allegheny Technologies Coeur Mining Healthpeak Properties Hewlett Packard Enterprise Zendesk
Best proxy statement (small cap) Amyris Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Kelly Services Koppers Orion Engineered Carbons
Best shareholder engagement Bank of America Honeywell International HP IBM PepsiCo The Allstate Corporation Uber Technologies
Best use of technology Benchmark Electronics Clearwater Paper Corporation Univar Solutions
Governance professional of the year (large cap) Honeywell International – Victor Miller Marsh McLennan – Kate Brennan Uber Technologies – Keir Gumbs**Left the company in July 2021
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap) Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Derek Windham ManpowerGroup – Richard Buchband Robert Half International – Evelyn Crane-Oliver
Governance team of the year (large cap) Bank of America General Motors Honeywell International Marsh McLennan PepsiCo
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap) Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Harsco Corporation Hewlett Packard Enterprise Robert Half International Voya Financial
Rising star Amyris – Bruna Lawant First Northwest Bancorp – Allison Mahaney Nuance Communications – Justine Bensussen
Holly Gregory of Sidley Austin will also be presented at the event with this year’s lifetime achievement award.