Healthcare and energy companies most nominated for inaugural Corporate Secretary Awards
Sep 29, 2008
New York, September 29, 2008 – Corporate Secretary has announced the shortlist for the first-ever Corporate Secretary Magazine Awards. Healthcare and energy companies are mentioned most frequently on the shortlist, with each sector receiving eight nominations. More than 15 sectors received nominations for the awards, which recognize the leaders in governance, risk, compliance and ethics.
The winners will be announced on Tuesday, November 11, at the inaugural black-tie awards ceremony at Cipriani 23rd Street, New York. A full list of this year’s nominated companies is available below or on our website at www.corporatesecretary.com/awards.
The awards are presented in association with Jenner & Block, supported by the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics co-sponsored by BNY Mellon Shareowner Services, Broadridge, Corporation Service Company (CSC), CT, DF King & Co, Georgeson – a Computershare company, NYSE Euronext, the Altman Group and TMF.
Corporate Secretary is launching the Corporate Secretary Magazine Awards this year to ‘recognize the people behind good governance.’ The award winners will be decided by an eight-person judging panel including Norman Veasey, former chief justice of Delaware; Roel Campos, former SEC Commissioner (2002-2007); Charles Elson of the John Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware; Kenneth Bertsch, executive director and head of corporate governance at Morgan Stanley Investment Management; and several other corporate governance experts. For more information on the awards, please contact Athena Sammy at the number listed at the bottom of this release.
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Athena Sammy
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Full list of nominated companies (in alphabetical order by company name)
Corporate secretary of the year
Lydia Beebe – Chevron
Carol Ward – Kraft Foods
Mark Stachiw – MetroPCS Communications
Dannette Smith – UnitedHealth
Larry Appel – Winn-Dixie
Corporate governance team of the year
Baker Hughes
Chevron
Colgate-Palmolive
Sunoco
Wyndham Worldwide
Best approach to board member induction and training
El Paso Corporation
Manitowoc
Sprint Nextel
Time Warner
UnitedHealth
Most effective shareholder communication by a corporate secretary or GC
BorgWarner
Pfizer
Phillips-Van Heusen
Tenet Healthcare
Most innovative CSR disclosure policy
American Electric Power
Ford Motor Company
Gap
Johnson & Johnson
Motorola
Most effective compensation disclosure
Allstate
GE
MBIA
MDU Resources
Schering-Plough
Best overall governance, compliance and ethics program
Exelon
The Hartford
Microsoft
Monsanto
Pfizer
Most effective/innovative use of technology in a governance program
Citigroup
The Coca-Cola Company
Exelon
Intel
Best proxy statement
El Paso Corporation
GE
Intel
JetBlue Airways
RiskMetrics
Best corporate secretary or general counsel in an M&A transaction
Charles Sprague – Fiserv
Kimberly Hudolin – General Motors
Thomas Larkins – Honeywell
Joan Conley & Edward Knight – NASDAQ OMX
Eric Brown – Transocean
Rising star
Alan Srulowitz – CA
Larry Parsons – Freescale Semiconductor
Douglas Chia – Johnson & Johnson
Julia Farr Connolly – MHI Hospitality Corporation
Laura Lonsdale – Tyco
Lifetime achievement
Robert Monks
Stephen Norman – American Express
Peter Clapman – Galileo Global Advisors
Warren Batts – University of Chicago
Dennis Beresford – University of Georgia
Ira Millstein – Weil Gotshal & Manges
Larry Sonsini – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati