Corporate Secretary is delighted to announce the short-listed nominees for its 16th Corporate Governance Awards.
The winners, selected by an independent panel of judges, will be announced at a gala ceremony in New York on Wednesday, November 8. The gala caps two days of special governance-related events hosted by Corporate Secretary: the M&A Forum on November 7 and the Corporate Secretary Forum on November 8.
The awards recognize companies’ and individuals’ outstanding achievements in governance, risk and compliance. Submissions were made by and on behalf of a large number of companies and individuals for their impressive work in areas such as assessing boards, hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, proxy statements, shareholder engagement and corporate transactions.
The nominees represent some of the finest work being done by members of the profession and are a credit to their companies and stakeholders.
This year’s nominees for Corporate Secretary’s Corporate Governance Awards are:
Best AGM Hewlett Packard Enterprise Robinhood Markets
Best board assessment program JLL Prudential Financial Splunk The Williams Companies
Best compliance and ethics program Avangrid Middlesex Water Company PepsiCo Visa
Best ESG reporting (small cap) Fannie Mae Kimball Electronics Lumen Technologies
Best ESG reporting (mid-cap) AMN Healthcare HASI Healthpeak Properties JLL Korn Ferry The Huntington National Bank
Best ESG reporting (large cap) Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP Nasdaq PepsiCo Uber Technologies Verizon
Best global entity management American International Group HP JLL Prudential Financial Salesforce
Best governance around a corporate transaction American International Group HP
Best proxy statement (small cap) Coeur Mining Empire State Realty Trust Kelly Services Lumen Technologies Quantum Corporation
Best proxy statement (mid-cap) Healthpeak Properties Korn Ferry Leidos The Huntington National Bank Ventas
Best proxy statement (large cap) Chevron Corporation Hewlett Packard Enterprise McDonald’s Corporation Nasdaq Regeneron Pharmaceuticals The Allstate Corporation
Best shareholder engagement (small to mid-cap) Burlington Stores Empire State Realty Trust Lumen Technologies Splunk
Best shareholder engagement (large cap) Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP PepsiCo Regeneron Pharmaceuticals The Allstate Corporation
Best use of technology American International Group JLL Prudential Financial Robinhood Markets Salesforce
Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap) Coeur Mining – Robyn Koyner* JLL – Seth Gastwirth US Foods – Stephanie Miller *Robyn Koyner left Coeur Mining in September 2023
Governance professional of the year (large cap) Activision Blizzard – Jen Brewer Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Ki Hoon Kim Prudential Financial – Maggie Palen
Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap) Blackbaud JLL Robinhood Markets Sallie Mae
Governance team of the year (large cap) Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP Nasdaq PepsiCo Prudential Financial
Outstanding work by an independent director Belden – Diane Brink CSX Corporation – Linda Riefler
Rising star Cognizant – Deepa Rao Robinhood Markets – Erika Murdock Balbuena Salesforce – Katherine Huynh
AWARDS JUDGES The distinguished judges for this year’s awards are:
– Anna Catalano, board member, Ecovyst, Frontdoor, Hexion and HF Sinclair
– Jacqueline Condron, vice president for governance and proxy voting manager, Mellon
– Joan Conley, board member, EJF Acquisition Corp and Tigo Energy
– Matthew Geekie, senior vice president, secretary and general counsel, Graybar
– Eileen Kamerick, non-executive director, 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.