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On Wednesday, November 9, over 400 industry professionals in the governance, risk and compliance world gathered to celebrate the best of the best at Corporate Secretary’s annual Corporate Governance Awards 2022.
For our awards, individuals and companies can nominate themselves or others, free of charge, for aspects of GRC. More information about the categories, criteria, and judging process can be found below.
Join us to meet the companies consistently raising the bar and pushing the profession forward through innovation.
View the highlights from the 2022 awards ceremony
For our awards, individuals and companies are given the opportunity to submit written entries, free of charge, to be put forward to a panel of expert judges made up of corporate governance professionals and Corporate Secretary editorial team members.
We are delighted to announce our WINNERS of 2022! View the full list by clicking here.
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] or call +44 (0)20 8004 5339.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WINNER
Microsoft
Robinhood Markets
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
Avangrid
Bentley Systems
Bunge
Coeur Mining
JLL
WINNER
Marsh McLennan
AT&T
Cognizant
HP
IBM
PepsiCo
WINNER
Phillips 66 Company
Avangrid
Avangrid
Healthpeak Properties
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WINNER
JLL
Nasdaq
Willis Towers Watson
WINNER
Kyndryl Holdings
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Quantum Corporation
WINNER
HP
IBM
Nasdaq
WINNER
The Allstate Corporation
The Williams Companies
DXC Technology Company
Gentherm
Healthpeak Properties
Huntington Bancshares
Kyndryl Holdings
Robinhood Markets
Voya Financial
WINNER
Coeur Mining
CSG Systems International
WINNER
ICF International
Kelly Services
Virgin Orbit
Bank of America
HP
IBM
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
WINNER
DXC Technology Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WINNER
Splunk
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WINNER
JLL
Marsh McLennan
Nasdaq
Summit Materials
David McAtee, AT&T
Aya Kiy-Morrocco, Cognizant
WINNER
Theresa Molloy, Prudential Financial
Seth Gastwirth, JLL
Richard Buchband, ManpowerGroup
Chris Gaskill, Summit Materials
WINNER
Bank of America
HP
Nasdaq
Prudential Financial
WINNER
The Williams Companies
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings
WINNER
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
DXC Technology Company
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Robinhood Markets
Aya Kiy-Morrocco, Cognizant
Mary Lakey, First Horizon Corporation
Caroline Boutwell, Nasdaq
WINNER
Samantha Blons, Schlumberger
Ira Millstein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
WINNER
The judging process consists of three simple phases:
Phase one: Once the entry deadline has passed, the Corporate Secretary editorial team reviews all submissions and produces the short list
Phase two: The short-listed entries are shared with an independent judging panel made up of industry experts. The judges review each short-listed entry and select their top two picks per category
Phase three: The judges come together to discuss, debate and select the final list of winners who will go on to win an award
The judges’ votes are not made public, but their comments may be published in articles or reports after the event. Judges are not required to make comments against every submission.
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We are delighted to announce that this year’s lifetime achievement award winner is Ira Millstein.
Ira M. Millstein is a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where in addition to practicing in the areas of government regulation and antitrust law representing General Electric, Matsushita and others, he has counseled numerous boards on issues of corporate governance, including the boards of General Motors, Westinghouse, Bethlehem Steel, WellChoice (fka, Empire Blue Cross), the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Tyco International, The Walt Disney Co., the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, The Ford Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, among others.
Read more about our lifetime achievement winner here.
Prabha Sipi Bhandari
SVP, deputy general counsel & corporate secretary
AIG
*Scoring selected categories
Prabha Sipi Bhandari is SVP, Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at AIG. In this role, she oversees AIG’s NYSE and SEC compliance; capital markets and M&A transactions; Cyber/Privacy; IP; IT, Procurement and Real Estate Legal support; and Innovation, among other corporate matters. In her role as Corporate Secretary, Ms. Bhandari acts as the primary liaison to the AIG Board on Board and Board Committee-related matters.
Prior to AIG in June 2022, Ms. Bhandari was SVP and Principal Deputy General Counsel at Freddie Mac, where she supervised a team of over 125 attorneys and legal professionals who advise and support the company’s business divisions, finance, the Sustainability Office and other enterprise functions and directly managed a group of attorneys and legal professionals providing corporate securities advice and support, including in capital markets, derivatives, tax and SEC compliance / financial disclosures. Ms. Bhandari supervised the full Legal Division of more than 200 colleagues and served as Executive Sponsor of the Legal Division’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, including robust internship and fellowship programs.
Prior to Freddie Mac, Ms. Bhandari was Managing Director and General Counsel of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Deutsche Bank’s US registered broker-dealer, and Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions – Legal. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2007, Ms. Bhandari was responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions at Viacom Inc. (now Paramount Global), including for CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures and BET, among others. Prior thereto, Ms. Bhandari was a corporate associate at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. She began her legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable John M. Duhé, Jr. of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Bhandari received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she served as Notes and Comments Editor of the New York University Law Review. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations.
Ms. Bhandari is a Member and Co-Chair of the Fundraising Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Chair of the Board of Directors of Teaching Beyond the Square, a Member of the Steering Committee of the Women in M&A Network, NY chapter, and a Member of the Private Sector Steering Committee of the South Asian Bar Association of New York.
Joan Conley
Board member
EJF Acquisition Corp and Tigo Energy
*Scoring selected categories
Ms. Conley has served as a Senior Advisor on Corporate Governance & ESG Programs at Nasdaq, Inc., since December 2020. In December 2020, Ms. Conley retired from her role as the Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary following nineteen years at Nasdaq, Inc., responsible for Corporate Governance Global Ethics and Corporate Compliance, and the Nasdaq Educational Foundation. Ms. Conley also served a founding Board Member of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center ( 2014 to 2020). Prior to joining Nasdaq, Inc. in 2001, Ms. Conley was the Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary) (1994 to 2001) and the Director of Human Resources (1986-1994) at NASD (now FINRA).
In 2021, Ms. Conley was elected to the Board of EJF Acquisition Corp. (Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Governance Committee) and Tigo Energy.
Ms. Conley is a member of the Society of Corporate Governance Professionals, Extraordinary Women on Boards the Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum and the Economic Club of Washington D.C. Ms. Conley received a BA in Economics from Dominican University and an MS in Industrial & Labor Relations from Loyola University of Chicago. Ms. Conley studied Economics at London School of Economics.
Lucy Fato
Executive vice president, general counsel and global head of communications and government affairs
American International Group
*Scoring selected categories
Lucy oversees AIG’s global legal, compliance and regulatory groups. She is also global head of communications and government affairs.
Prior to joining AIG, Ms Fato was managing director, head of the Americas and general counsel of Nardello & Co, a global private investigative firm, where she remains on the advisory board.
Previously, Ms Fato was executive vice president and general counsel of S&P Global. Prior to that, Ms Fato was deputy general counsel and corporate secretary at Marsh & McLennan Companies. Ms Fato began her legal career at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell where she spent 14 years, including five as a partner in the capital markets group.
Ms Fato is a member of the Department of Financial Services state insurance advisory board and a member of the Life Insurance Council of NY board of directors.
From 2018-2021, Ms Fato was included in NACD Directorship magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the boardroom community. In 2015 and 2017, she was named by Ethisphere magazine as one of the ‘Attorneys Who Matter’ for her dedication to furthering corporate ethics.
Ms Fato serves on the board of directors of Advocates for Children of New York, a non-profit organization that works to ensure a high-quality education for children who are at risk for school-based discrimination or academic failure. She also serves on the board of directors of the Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation, the board of trustees of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance and is as a member of the board of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.
Matthew Geekie
SVP, secretary and general counsel
Graybar
Matt Geekie is senior vice president, secretary and general counsel for Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical and communications products and related supply chain management and logistics services. Graybar celebrated in 2019 150 years as a company and 90 years of employee ownership. A member of Graybar’s board of directors, Geekie is responsible for corporate governance and the legal and risk management functions of the company. He also serves as Chairman of Graybar’s Canadian subsidiary.
Geekie’s broad-based legal experience includes corporate law, corporate governance, cybersecurity, commercial and securities law, 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, 2016 and 2018.
Geekie currently serves as a Member of the Board of the St. Louis Community Foundation, as Chair of its Executive and Gift Acceptance Committees, and as a Member of its Finance and Audit and Strategic Planning Committees; as a Member of the Saint Louis Zoo Association Government Relations, Investment, and Long-Range Plan Implementation Committees; as a Member of the Saint Louis Zoo’s Marlin Perkins
Society; and as a Member of the Board of The Oasis Institute and on its Executive and Finance Committees. He is also a Member of the Board of CK Power, a Member of the St. Louis/Chicago Regional FM Global Advisory Board and a Member of the Board of the Missouri Law Institute.
Stephen Giove
Co-founder, Ebullience & retired partner, Shearman & Sterling
Stephen Giove was a senior partner in the law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP for over 25 years. He advised boards and senior management teams on a wide range of governance, finance, public company and strategic matters. He co-founded the firm’s corporate governance advisory group and was the driving force behind its annual corporate governance practices survey.
His governance experience included advice with respect to board practices and structures, fiduciary duties, proxy access, anti-takeover defenses, shareholder proposals, dealing with activists, crisis management, annual board self-evaluations, and dealing with external constituencies, including shareholders, ESG-focused organizations, proxy advisory firms and regulators.
Steve ran the firm’s global corporate finance practice and served as the firm’s hiring partner. He retired from the firm in 2020. He represented nearly 100 public companies, including CVS Health, Citigroup, Viacom/CBS, Apple, Con Edison, Raytheon, Corning, Quest Diagnostics, Boston Scientific and WebMD.
After his retirement from Shearman & Sterling, Steve co-founded Ebullience Inc., a corporate governance data analytics company and Jupiter Governance Consulting, a corporate governance consulting firm.
Steve received his J.D. from the Cornell Law School and his M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He also received a B.S. in Accounting from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton.
Eileen Kamerick
Non-executive director
Associated Banc-corp, ACV Auctions, Hochschild Mining, Legg Mason Closed End Funds
Ms. Kamerick consults and lectures on corporate governance and compliance matters and is an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and has completed the NACD Director Certification exam. She previously served as CFO of such leading companies as BP Amoco Americas, Leo Burnett, Heidrick & Struggles, and Houlihan Lokey.
She began her career as a lawyer at the law firm of Skadden Arps and she holds a JD and an MBA, with honors, in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago. She holds a BA from Boston College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was valedictorian. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Associated Banc-Corp, ACV Auctions, Hochschild Mining, plc, and 23 closed end Legg Mason mutual funds. She served on the Board of Directors for ServiceMaster and IRI before both companies were purchased by private equity firms. She qualifies as an SEC financial expert and chairs three audit committees and one corporate governance and social responsibility committee.
She was profiled as a Director to Watch in 2016 by Directors and Boards magazine and in The Board Game: How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors. She was named among the Most Influential Corporate Directors for 2019 by Women Inc magazine. She also serves on the National Board of Directors of the Alzheimer’s Association.
She is a lecturer at University of Chicago Law School, Georgetown Law Center, and University of Iowa College of Law and for the NACD Battlefield to Boardroom board readiness program.
Ben Maiden
Editor-at-large
Corporate Secretary
Ben Maiden is the editor-at-large of Corporate Secretary, having joined the company in December 2016. He is based in New York. He had previously been managing editor of Compliance Reporter since January 2007, covering regulatory and compliance issues affecting broker-dealers and asset management firms. Before that, Ben was editor of International Financial Law Review and IFLR’s Americas editor, working in London and New York.
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Attendees at our awards are leading practitioners from across the US. Each participant is someone with an established track record and a strategic GRC role within their company. Some of this year’s attendees include:
Job title | Company | Job title | Company |
Associate general counsel | ManpowerGroup | Manager, corporate governance and securities | Bunge |
Attorney | The Williams Companies | Partner | K&L Gates |
Chief corporate governance officer | Huntington National Bank | Partner | Vistra |
Company secretary | Willis Towers Watson | Senior counsel | The Williams Companies |
Corporate paralegal | Splunk | Senior director, corporate legal | Splunk |
Corporate sustainability officer, Americas | JLL | Senior legal specialist | Kyndryl Holdings |
Deputy general counsel | JLL | SVP and general counsel | The Williams Companies |
Director, corporate governance | Prudential Financial | SVP, deputy general counsel & corporate secretary | AIG |
Director, environmental data analytics & reporting | Phillips 66 Company | SVP, general counsel and corporate secretary | Avangrid |
Director, ESG | AT&T | SVP, general counsel and secretary | Gentherm Incorporated |
Director, ESG program & strategy | IBM | VP & assistant corporate secretary | Kyndryl Holdings |
Director, investor relations | IBM | VP & deputy general counsel | Microsoft |
General counsel | Willis Towers Watson | VP, assistant general counsel & secretary | IBM |
General counsel and corporate secretary | JLL | VP, assistant general counsel, corporate secretary | The Williams Companies |
General counsel and secretary | ManpowerGroup | VP, compensation | Voya Financial |
General manager, ESG & sustainability | Phillips 66 Company | VP, corporate counsel and ESG | Healthpeak Properties |
Global chief sustainability officer & head of ESG | Cognizant Technology Solutions | VP, corporate governance | Prudential Financial |
Head, ESG | First Horizon Corporation | VP, deputy general counsel | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
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