Corporate Governance Awards
Celebrating excellence

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Cipriani 25 Broadway, New York

About our awards

On Thursday, November 21, over 400 industry professionals in the governance, risk and compliance world will gather to celebrate the best of the best in GRC at the annual Corporate Secretary’s Corporate Governance Awards.

Both teams and individuals will be recognized for excellence in their industry at a prestigious gala event held at the Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City.

For our awards, individuals and companies have the opportunity to nominate themselves or others, free of charge.

More information on the categories, the selection process and a glimpse into how this fantastic evening is shaping up, can be found below. Join us to meet the companies that are consistently raising the bar and pushing the profession forward through innovation.

Categories and nominees

We're pleased to announce the nominees for this year's governance awards. Click on each category below to view the nominees or view them all as a list here. We'll unveil the winners at our awards ceremony on November 21. Congratulations to all those nominated!

Best compliance and ethics program (large cap)

This award will look at coordination of governance, compliance, ethics and risk management processes across the entire corporation (including all subsidiaries).The judges will consider the level of understanding and integration of good governance principles across all disciplines and a truly non-silo approach to achieving an ethical governance environment.

Nominees

Applied Materials
NetApp
Splunk
The Allstate Corporation
VF Corporation

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Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap)

This award will look at coordination of governance, compliance, ethics and risk management processes across the entire corporation (including all subsidiaries).The judges will consider the level of understanding and integration of good governance principles across all disciplines and a truly non-silo approach to achieving an ethical governance environment.

Nominees

Atlas Air Worldwide
Change Healthcare
Coeur Mining
Comscore

Sponsored by

Best ESG reporting

This entry should comment on the quality and robustness of ESG-related reporting. This includes exposure to environmental risk factors such as global warming, employee health and safety, foreign corrupt practices, consumer safety, social responsibility and corporate sustainability. The judges will also look at a company’s understanding of the role it plays in the community, both locally and globally.

Nominees

AT&T
IBM
Intel Corporation
PepsiCo
The AES Corporation

Sponsored by

Best overall governance for a private company

This new award will recognize the efforts made by an individual or team within a private company to formalize its governance structures as it matures in size and sophistication and/or transitions from a family-owned to a more broadly held business. Areas of consideration include: board structure and composition, financial disclosure and regulatory filings, adoption of best practices for subsidiary management and board recruitment, and all other areas of the company’s governance operations.

Nominees

Cobb EMC
Interac Corp
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

Sponsored by

Best overall corporate governance – international

The judges will be looking for the best overall governance, compliance and ethics program by an international individual, team or company. Areas of consideration include, but are not limited to: board structure, shareholder communications, regulatory filing, annual reports, sustainability development, and all other areas of the company’s governance operations.

Nominees

Intac Financial Corporation
Royal Bank of Canada
Veolia

Sponsored by

Best proxy statement (large cap)

This award will examine the completeness of legal disclosures, effectiveness of communication elements, readability, timeliness of filing, visual design elements and overall layout. Specific elements such as compensation discussion and analysis, MD&A, director profiles and ESG challenges will be given particular consideration.

Nominees

General Motors Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
IBM
Nasdaq
Prudential Financial

Sponsored by

Best proxy statement (mid-cap)

This award will examine the completeness of legal disclosures, effectiveness of communication elements, readability, timeliness of filing, visual design elements and overall layout. Specific elements such as compensation discussion and analysis, MD&A, director profiles and ESG challenges will be given particular consideration.

Nominees

Atlas Air Worldwide
Foot Locker
KBR
Korn Ferry
NorthWestern Corporation

Sponsored by

Best proxy statement (small cap)

This award will examine the completeness of legal disclosures, effectiveness of communication elements, readability, timeliness of filing, visual design elements and overall layout. Specific elements such as compensation discussion and analysis, MD&A, director profiles and ESG challenges will be given particular consideration.

Nominees

Coeur Mining
Financial Institutions
Kelly Services

Sponsored by

Best shareholder engagement

Engaging in dialogue with shareholders around governance issues has taken on new importance in the era of say-on-pay. This category, introduced in 2014, will focus on ways that companies are reaching out to proxy decision-makers, often outside of proxy season, to discuss their compensation strategy and other aspects of corporate governance. Formal programs, which may include governance roadshows, shareholder forums, independent director participation, surveys and other means of engagement, will be assessed for both qualitative and quantitative results such as strengthened relationships with institutional investors or a measurable increase in proxy voting support.

Nominees

Atlas Air Worldwide
Bank of America
IBM
Regions Financial Corporation
The Allstate Corporation

Sponsored by

Best use of technology

The use of technology is becoming an integral part of the way corporate secretaries and other governance professionals communicate with their colleagues and with investors. Entrants should be able to show how their use of new technological tools, social media and the internet has helped to advance governance within their firm. Areas of consideration include, but are not limited to: the use of technology in board communications, shareholder engagement, company meetings, records management and information governance and the successful use of technology to facilitate transactions. The judges will also consider the accessibility of the corporate secretary, general counsel and board of directors using technology, and the quality of information distributed.

Nominees

Change Healthcare
Citizens Financial Group
Comscore
Prudential Financial
Salesforce.com

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Governance Professional of the year (large cap)

The judges will be looking for the most outstanding individual in a governance, compliance or legal function. Entrants should be able to show exceptional performance in advancing governance and compliance activities at their company. Areas of consideration include, but are not limited to: board structure, shareholder communications, regulatory filing, annual reports and all other areas of the company’s governance operations.

Nominees

Jessica Olich

AXA Equitable Holdings
Derek Windham

Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hope Mehlman

Regions Financial Corporation
Angela Hilt

The Clorox Company
Yafit Cohn

The Travelers Companies

Sponsored by

Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap)

The judges will be looking for the most outstanding individual in a governance, compliance or legal function. Entrants should be able to show exceptional performance in advancing governance and compliance activities at their company. Areas of consideration include, but are not limited to: board structure, shareholder communications, regulatory filing, annual reports and all other areas of the company’s governance operations.

Nominees

Adam Kokas

Atlas Air Worldwide
Stacie Roberts

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Anthony Foti

Foot Locker

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Governance team of the year (large cap)

The size and scope of teams involved in achieving sound governance are growing. Some companies have dozens of people working solely on compliance and governance. This award will look at the best overall governance team in the country, and what it has achieved in the past 12 months. How does the size of the team compare with the size of the company? How have team numbers changed in recent years? Who is involved and what training do they get?

Nominees

Caesars Entertainment Corporation
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HP
Marsh & McLennan Companies
PVH Corp

Sponsored by

Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap)

The size and scope of teams involved in achieving sound governance are growing. Some companies have dozens of people working solely on compliance and governance. This award will look at the best overall governance team in the country, and what it has achieved in the past 12 months. How does the size of the team compare with the size of the company? How have team numbers changed in recent years? Who is involved and what training do they get?

Nominees

Atlas Air Worldwide
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
NorthWestern Corporation

Sponsored by

Rising star

The judges will be looking for the best newcomer to a governance or compliance role. This person will have been in the profession less than five years, achieving demonstrable success in driving good governance or implementing change at his or her company, advancing academic thinking or making a significant contribution to the governance community at large.

Nominees

Anthony Foti

Foot Locker
Connor Kuratek

Marsh & McLennan Companies
Samantha Dreilinger

PVH Corp
Kevin Coleman

Regions Financial Corporation

Sponsored by

The judging process is made up of three simple phases:

Phase 1: The Corporate Secretary editorial team reviews all submissions, selects finalists in each category and sends judges those submissions.

Phase 2: Judges review submissions for finalists individually.

Phase 3: Judges come together to discuss all finalist submissions and determine the winners in each category.

The judges scores will not be shared with nominees, however, comments may be published in articles or reports after the event. The judges are not required to make comments against every submission. This year’s judging panel will be announced shortly.

Click here to view our full list of 2018 winners!

Panel of judges

Lydia Beebe
Governance expert
LIBB Advisors

Lydia Beebe is a public company director and corporate governance expert. She is a board director of Kansas City Southern, a Class A railroad company, and a member of its nominating and governance and compensation committees. She also serves on the board of Aemetis, a renewable fuels and biochemical company based in Cupertino, California. She chairs the company’s compensation, governance and nominating committee and serves on its audit committee. She previously served on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, a specialty insurance company, before its acquisition by Tokio Marine in 2015.

From 1995 to 2015, she served as corporate secretary and chief governance officer at Chevron Corporation. She was senior of counsel in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from June 2015 until July 2017, and she continues to provide governance advice to boards of directors.

Beebe is an advisory board member for the Stanford Institutional Investors’ Forum, the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. She has served on numerous non-profit boards of directors, including those for the National Judicial College, the Presidio Trust – to which she was appointed by former US president George W Bush – and the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, to which she was appointed by former governor Pete Wilson and for which she was recognized as a civil rights hero by the State of California.

Beebe is a past chair of the Society for Corporate Governance and its corporate practices committee and national conference committee, and chair of its northern California chapter. She also serves as board chair of the northern California chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and as a governor of the San Francisco Symphony.
Douglas Chia
President
Soundboard Governance and Rutgers

Douglas Chia is president of Soundboard Governance and fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance. Until June 2019, He was executive director of The Conference Board ESG Center. He continues to contribute to The Conference Board as a senior fellow.

Before joining The Conference Board in 2016, Chia served as assistant general counsel and corporate secretary of Johnson & Johnson. Previously, he served as assistant general counsel for corporate of Tyco International and practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Clifford Chance, both in New York and Hong Kong.

Chia has held a number of central leadership positions in the corporate governance field, including chair of the board of the Society for Corporate Governance, president of the Stockholder Relations Society of New York, and member of the NYSE corporate governance commission. He is a member of the corporate laws committee of the American Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Chia has received numerous awards and recognitions in corporate governance and has frequently appeared in the news media, including CNN, NPR Marketplace, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and The New Yorker.

Chia received an AB degree from Dartmouth College and a JD degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife and their four children. Chia is a trustee of the Historical Society of Princeton and the McCarter Theatre Center.
Lucy Fato
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
AIG

Lucy Fato is Executive Vice President & General Counsel of AIG where she oversees the global Legal, Compliance, Regulatory & Government Affairs departments. Prior to AIG, Lucy was Managing Director, Head of the Americas & General Counsel of Nardello & Co., a global private investigative firm, where she led the firm’s North and South American practices and served as the global General Counsel.

Previously, Lucy was Executive Vice President & General Counsel of McGraw Hill Financial (now known as S&P Global). Prior to that, Lucy was Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at Marsh & McLennan Companies. Lucy began her legal career at Davis Polk & Wardwell where she spent 14 years, including five as a partner in the capital markets group.

In 2009, Lucy was inducted into the YWCA-NYC Academy of Women Leaders. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance (RIPA), a non-profit organization that works with the City of New York and local communities to maintain the park for the wellbeing of all New Yorkers. In 2015, she was RIPA’s business honoree and was named by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the “2015 Attorneys Who Matter” for her dedication to furthering corporate ethics.
Matt Geekie
Senior vice president, secretary & general counsel
Graybar

Matt Geekie is senior vice president, secretary and general counsel for Graybar, a distributor of electrical and communications products and related supply chain management and logistics services. Geekie is responsible for corporate governance and the legal and risk management functions of the company and is a member of Graybar’s board of directors. He also serves as chair of Graybar’s Canadian subsidiary.

Geekie started his career as a trial lawyer at St Louis firm Moser & Marsalek, before moving in-house to Siegel-Robert and later Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin (now Husch Blackwell). From there, he was appointed assistant general counsel at Emerson, and then served as general counsel and secretary at XTRA Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. He joined Graybar in 2008 as deputy general counsel and was elected to his current position later that year.

Geekie’s broad-based legal experience includes corporate law, corporate governance, commercial and securities law, Sarbanes-Oxley, ethics, intellectual property, product liability, export/import law and risk management. Under his leadership, Graybar achieved national recognition for excellence in corporate governance in 2015 and 2016.

Geekie is a native of St Louis and received both his law degree and undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University. He serves as board chair of The Oasis Institute and sits on its executive and finance committees. He is also chairman of the board of the St Louis Community Foundation, chair of its executive and gift acceptance committee and a member of its finance and audit committee, and serves as a member of the St Louis Zoo Association board and its government relations, investment, finance and major gifts committees.
Carol Strickland
Board Director
Trireme Energy Holdings, Inc.

Carol Strickland serves as a director of Trireme Energy Holdings, Inc., the holding company for Terra Firma’s U.S. renewable energy assets, and is a member of its nominating and remuneration committee.

From 2008- 2018 when the company was sold, Strickland served as chief administrative officer of EverPower Wind Holdings, Inc., a private wind energy company with 752MW of spinning assets and a 3.5GW development pipeline. She oversaw the corporate secretarial function, HR, IT, real estate, corporate policies & procedures and insurance. Previously, Strickland was corporate secretary and chief of staff of U.S.Trust Corporation, a wealth management firm now owned by Bank of America. She also headed the U.S.Trust Foundation and CRA Committee at the bank.

Strickland is a former chair of the Society of Corporate Governance and is past chair of its national conference and budget committees and New York chapter. She is a NACD Fellow with over 40 years of experience in the corporate governance arena.

Strickland is a graduate of Skidmore College and New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations including Greenwich House, Martha Graham Dance Company, Counterpoint Theatre and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. She was inducted into the YMCA Academy of Women Achievers in 1997 and currently serves on the Skidmore College Presidents Society Advancement Council.
Paul Washington
Executive Director
The Conference Board

Paul Washington is executive director of the Conference Board ESG Center. Before joining the Conference Board, he served as senior vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary of Time Warner. He also served as chief of staff for the company’s chair and CEO after holding positions of assistant general counsel and litigation counsel.

Before working at Time Warner, Washington practiced law at Sidley & Austin and served as vice president and corporate secretary of The Dime Savings Bank of New York. A long-time active member of the Conference Board, from 2013-2014 he chaired its advisory board on corporate/investor engagement.

Washington’s career also includes extensive work in public service. He served as a law clerk for former US Supreme Court associate justices William Brennan and David Souter, and for circuit court judge David Tatel. In addition, he was the principal staffer on tax matters for former congressman Stanley Lundine and, later, his principal speechwriter when Lundine served as New York’s lieutenant governor.

Washington has served on the boards of numerous cultural, civic, and professional non-profit organizations, including the Legal Aid Society and American Folk Art Museum. He also is a former chair of the Society for Corporate Governance. He is a resident fellow at the Fordham University School of Law latter, where he has taught corporate governance for more than a decade.

On the night

Our evening of elegance – a black tie affair – will commence at 6.30 pm at Cipriani, Broadway. Please see the timeline below for further event details.

Corporate GRC professionals are also invited to join us during the day for the Corporate Secretary Think Tank.

18:30 PM
Cocktail reception

Sponsored by Boardbookit
19:30 PM
Dinner and awards ceremony
22:00 PM
Post-awards reception

Sponsored by EQ

Master of Ceremonies

David Brancaccio is host and senior editor of American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report. The program, with an audience of 11 mn people, has a mission to raise the economic intelligence of all America. Brancaccio’s reporting focuses on the future of the economy, financial and labor markets, technology and ethics.

His series about automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace, Robot-Proof Jobs, won the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious honor in business and financial journalism. Brancaccio anchored the PBS television news magazine program NOW. His feature-length documentary film Fixing the Future, about sustainable economic alternatives, appeared in theaters nationwide.

Who attends?

We have over 400 professional at our awards ceremony. Attendees are primarily nominees of our corporate governance awards for that year. View this year’s list of nominees here. Each guest is someone with an established track record and a strategic GRC role within his or her company. In addition to our nominees, 2019 attendees include:

Attendee Company	Attendee Title	Attendee Company	Attendee Title
The AES Corporation	Assistant Secretary	Prudential Financial	Manager, Corporate Governance
Accenture	Assistant Secretary	Splunk	Manager, Ethics & Compliance
Skadden Arps	Associate	Allstate Insurance Company	Manager, Ethics Associate
Foot Locker	Associate General Counsel	Applied Materials	Manager, Global Ethics & Compliance
Korn Ferry	Associate General Counsel	BNY Mellon	Managing Director General Counsel & Secretary
Bank of America	Associate General Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary	Society for Corporate Governance	President & Chief Executive Officer
The AES Corporation	Associate General Counsel, Securities & Governance	Atlas Air Worldwide	President & Chief Executive Officer
Center for Board Excel.	Chief Executive Officer	Edison International	Senior Attorney & Assistant Secretary
Cobb EMC	Chairman of the Board	Allstate Insurance Company	Senior Communications Consultant
Change Healthcare	Chief Compliance Officer	Splunk	Senior Corporate Counsel, Privacy & Data Protection
Interac	Chief Legal Officer, Ombudsman & Corporate Secretary	AXA Equitable Holdings	Senior Counsel
Society for Corporate Governance	Chief Operating Officer	Change Healthcare	Senior Counsel, Investigations & Anti-Corruption
Accenture	Corporate Governance Counsel	Splunk	Senior Director, Compliance & Risk
Guardian Life Insurance	Corporate Secretary	Splunk	Senior Director, Data Protection Officer
Northwestern Energy	Corporate Secretary	Kelly Services	Senior Director, Executive Compensation & Assistant Secretary
Skadden Arps	Counsel	Cisco Systems	Senior Manager, Operations
Allstate Insurance Company	Counsel, Corporate Governance	RBC	Senior Subsidiary Governance Office – USA
Bank of America	Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary	Laurel Hill Advisory Group	Senior Vice President (SVP)
Labrador	Director, Advisory & Design Services	Kelly Services	SVP, Corporate Secretary
AT&T	Director, Global CSR Reporting & Insights	RBC	SVP, US General Counsel & Global Head of Litigation
Change Healthcare	EVP & General Counsel	Society for Corporate Governance	SVP, General Counsel
Citizens Financial Group	EVP & General Counsel	Nielsen Holdings	SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Citizens Financial Group	EVP & Chief Operating Officer, Legal	The AES Corporation	SVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
AXA Equitable Holdings	EVP & Chief Legal Officer	Skillsoft Compliance	VP, GM Global Compliance Solutions
Atlas Air Worlwide	EVP & Chief Operating Officer	IBM	VP, Assistant General Counsel & Secretary
PVH	EVP, General Counsel & Secretary	AXA Equitable Holdings	VP, Assistant Secretary & Associate General Counsel
Caesars Entertainment	General Counsel	Prudential Financial	VP, Corporate Governance
Guardian Life Insurance	General Counsel	KBR	VP, Public Law & Corp Secretary
VF Corporation	Global Ethics & Compliance	Comscore	VP, Compliance
AXA Equitable Holdings	Assistant Secretary & Lead Manager	Cobb EMC	VP, Power Supply

Attendees say

"The awards are external validations for the work being done by the governance groups within companies whose work might go unseen by the average employee. Having a physical trophy is a good representation of the hard work of those teams"

Rielle Miller Gabriel, Ethics Officer & Manager, International Ethics Operations, Lockheed Martin Corporation

"It is important that the good work done by many members of the corporate governance community be highlighted, and I particularly appreciate the opportunity for recognition offered to smaller companies and rising stars"

Iain Poole, Managing Director, Argyle

"As was said by many, compliance is a critical function in today’s corporate world. Yet, those engaged in that effort receive insufficient attention. Corporate Secretary, generally, and this event in particular, shine appropriate light on not only the substance of ethics, compliance and good governance, but also put faces to the names who lead in this field"

Matthew Geekie, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Graybar Electric Company

Venue and location

The Corporate Governance Awards 2019 will be held at Cipriani 25 Broadway. Designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris in 1921, with 65 foot high ceilings, soaring marble columns and murals painted by Ezra Winter, it is truly a sight to behold. See the space come to life at this year’s gala!

Cipriani 25
25 Broadway
New York, NY 10004

ACCOMMODATION
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Make a day of it: Think Tank

Taking place on the morning of the awards ceremony, the Corporate Secretary Think Tank is an invitation-only event exclusively for senior GRC professionals.

It is free to attend and our unique format enables participants to network extensively, discuss, debate and dissect best practices and topical issues in the corporate governance world.

Listen as seasoned GRC professionals discuss in detail their successful practices
Learn key take-aways that you can implement immediately in your own practice
Network with the best of the best in GRC

What makes our format so unique?
It is far removed from the traditional conference set-up as the event consists of a series of panel sessions followed by roundtable discussions on select GRC issues. These interactive sessions are an opportunity to share experiences with and learn from other top-rated corporate governance professionals.

Visit our think tank website to find out more and sign up

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Gibson Dunn is a full-service international law firm that advises on the most significant transactions and complex litigation around the world. Our clients include most of the Fortune 100 and more than half of the Fortune 500 companies.
Gibson Dunn has one of the leading corporate governance practices in the United States. Our corporate governance capabilities are consistently acknowledged by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, the Guide to the World’s Leading Corporate Governance Lawyers and the International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers.

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Governance Professionals of Canada

Governance Professionals of Canada

Supporting Sponsors

Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC) is an association focused on promoting good governance in Canada. As a principal advocate for the governance community, we offer a distinct, unified voice for governance professionals in Canada. Through timely and valuable information on recent changes and developments, GPC delivers unparalleled thought leadership through education and networking opportunities. We provide resources, best practices, tools and strategies to elevate the governance skillset, focused on an organization’s overall success, accountability and integrity. This professional association is for individuals across all industries and sectors, whose duties are principally tied to the corporate governance, ethics, risk, legal and compliance functions.
King & Spalding

King & Spalding

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King & Spalding helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices globally, we deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service.

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PWC

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PwC’s purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We seek to do this in all the services we provide – including legal.

Through our PwC global legal services network which consists of 3,700 lawyers in 97 countries outside the US, we can bring together the right mix of lawyers, consultants and financial advisers to help you develop an efficient and commercially viable solution.

The PwC global legal services network offers access to a full suite of non-U.S. legal services including (but not limited to):
• Entity governance and compliance (i.e. corporate secretarial services)
• International reorganizations
• Labor law and employment
• Global immigration
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Financial services, banking, and finance
• Tax controversy and dispute resolution
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Trewstar Corporate Board Services

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Trewstar is a search firm that cares about good corporate governance. We solely engage in board search assignments and our primary focus is on placing female candidates. Over the past six years, we have successfully completed more than 100 board placements for companies from pre-IPO to Fortune 10, spanning diverse industries across the United States.

Sponsorship opportunities

The Corporate Governance Awards first began in 2008 and are celebrated by more than 400 industry professionals every November in New York City. Recognizing the best of the best in governance, risk, compliance and ethics, these awards are looked forward to every year by corporate practitioners and service providers alike. Sponsoring a Corporate Governance Award tells your prospects you’re proud of the efforts they go through and that you support them in their endeavors. Sponsoring the awards also aligns your company name and brand with the best in the community.

What’s included in a sponsorship package?

Opportunity to present the award to the best in the industry and align yourself with excellence
Your company name engraved on the trophy next to the winner’s name that he/she takes away
Increase awareness and brand recognition with our extensive pre-event marketing campaign
Get advance notice of the nominee list before general release so you can personally congratulate them
Invite the nominees to join you at your table of 10 at the dinner and awards ceremony
Offer a special discount to your prospects and clients to attend the event that’s an evening to remember
Featured on the night on screen and on printed materials, and also in our extensive post-event marketing

We have a range of excellent sponsorship opportunities available at this year’s Corporate Governance Awards. For more information on these opportunities or any other ideas that you may wish to discuss, then contact Ian Richman at +1 212 430 6865.

Gallery

Winners of the Corporate Governance Awards – 2018

Stacie Roberts, director of corporate governance, Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, introduces the master of ceremonies

David Brancaccio, host and senior editor of American Public Media’s Marketplace Morning Report

Bridget Hughes, director of corporate governance services, Donnelley Financial Solutions (left), presents the award for Best ESG reporting to Steve Lippman, director of ESG, Microsoft

Martyn Chapman, head of strategy, board & leadership solutions, Nasdaq (far left), presents the award for Best use of technology to Katie Colendich, associate general counsel, HP (center) and team

Rose Marie Glazer, vice president, corporate secretary and deputy general counsel, AIG (left) presents the award for Best compliance and ethics officer (small to mid-cap) to Shawn Filippi vice president, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary, NW Natural

Ben Maiden, editor, Corporate Secretary

Lara Huber, director of sales and marketing, BoardBookIt presents the award for Best compliance and ethics program (large cap) to Thuy Truong, Visa

Award presenter Tiffany Wooley, chief counsel, executive compensation & governance and assistant secretary at Marsh & McLennan Companies

Chuck Garske, senior managing director, Okapi Partners (left), presents the award for Best overall governance for a private company to Matthew Geekie, SVP, secretary and general counsel, Graybar Electric

Award presenter Bill Fiske, Computershare / Georgeson

Corporate Governance Awards – 2018

Award recipient Steve Lippman, director of ESG, Microsoft

Jeff Hilk, executive vice president and chief revenue officer, Diligent presents the award for Best overall governance – international to Yvette Adiguzel associate director, international legal- Americas, Westpac

Alma Rosa Montanez, associate general counsel – securities & corporate finance, S&P Global presents the Lifetime achievement award to Paul Washington, senior vice president, deputy general counsel and secretary of Warner Media

Recording artist Latice Crawford sings at the Corporate Governance Awards – 2018

Paul Schulman, managing director, MacKenzie Partners presents the Rising star award to Connie Wu, director of corporate governance & securities, Splunk

Awards presenter Jim Diaforli, Broadridge

Awards presenter Bridget Hughes, Donnelley Financial Solutions

Larry Miller, managing director, Innisfree M&A (right) presents the award for Best shareholder engagement to Derek Windham, vice president and associate general counsel, Hewlett Packard

Ronald Schneider, director of corporate governance services, Donnelley Financial Solutions (far left) presents the Best proxy statement award (small to mid-cap) to chief legal officer & corporate secretary, Denise Jackson (center) and the AMN Healthcare Services team

Ronald Schneider, director of corporate governance services, Donnelley Financial Solutions presents the Best proxy statement award (large cap) to John Kim, securities counsel, General Motors

Awards presenter Alma Rosa Montanez, S&P Global

Chief Operating Officer, Joe Caruso, Alliance Advisors presents the award for Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap) to assistant general Counsel, corporate & governance, Courtney Kamlet of Syneos Health

Jim Diaforli, head of sales, Broadridge presents the Governance professional of the year (large cap) award to Shannon Kinney, ConocoPhillips

Tiffany Wooley, chief counsel, executive compensation & governance and assistant secretary, Marsh & McLennan Companies (left), presents the award for Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap) to EVP, general counsel and secretary at Atlas Air Worldwide, Adam Kokas

Bill Fiske, senior management director, Computershare / Georgeson, presents the award for Best governance team of the year (large cap) to John Kim, securities counsel, General Motors

Recording artist Latice Crawford and band

Opening cocktail reception sponsored by Computershare / Georgeson

Opening reception sponsored by Computershare / Georgeson

Opening cocktail reception sponsored by Computershare / Georgeson

The Chesapeake Utilities Corporation team

Post reception sponsored by EQ

After party fun!

Post party reception sponsored by EQ

Corporate Governance Awards production team

Photo studio sponsored by The Nuvo Group

2018 champagne sponsor, Morrow Sodali

Dinner dessert sponsored by Labrador

Rockawave DJ Matt Finley, sponsored by EQ

Printed materials sponsored by Argyle

Badges sponsored by Graybar

The Corporate Governance Awards – 2018

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Corporate Governance AwardsCelebrating excellence

Thursday, November 21, 2019

About our awards

Categories and nominees

Best compliance and ethics program (large cap)

Best compliance and ethics program (large cap)

Nominees

Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap)

Best compliance and ethics program (small to mid-cap)

Nominees

Best ESG reporting

Best ESG reporting

Nominees

Best overall governance for a private company

Best overall governance for a private company

Nominees

Best overall corporate governance – international

Best overall corporate governance – international

Nominees

Best proxy statement (large cap)

Best proxy statement (large cap)

Nominees

Best proxy statement (mid-cap)

Best proxy statement (mid-cap)

Nominees

Best proxy statement (small cap)

Best proxy statement (small cap)

Nominees

Best shareholder engagement

Best shareholder engagement

Nominees

Best use of technology

Best use of technology

Nominees

Governance Professional of the year (large cap)

Governance Professional of the year (large cap)

Nominees

Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap)

Governance professional of the year (small to mid-cap)

Nominees

Governance team of the year (large cap)

Governance team of the year (large cap)

Nominees

Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap)

Governance team of the year (small to mid-cap)

Nominees

Rising star

Rising star

Nominees

Click here to view our full list of 2018 winners!

Panel of judges

On the night

Master of Ceremonies

Who attends?

Attendees say

Rielle Miller Gabriel, Ethics Officer & Manager, International Ethics Operations, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Iain Poole, Managing Director, Argyle

Matthew Geekie, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Graybar Electric Company

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Make a day of it: Think Tank

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Corporate Governance Awards
Celebrating excellence