The 2010 NACD Directorship 100 Recognizes the Most Influential People in Corporate Governance
Regulators and rule makers had the most impact on the boardroom
H. Rodgin Cohen, Edward A. Kangas, Alan G. Lafley, Carol J. Loomis, Paul A. Volcker elected to Corporate Governance Hall of Fame
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) announced the honorees today of its fourth-annual Directorship 100 – a combination of leading corporate directors, corporate governance practitioners and public policy leaders who are recognized as the most influential people in the boardroom and the corporate governance arena.
The 2010 Directorship 100 list recognizes individual corporate directors from such public companies as Accenture, AK Steel Holdings, Boston Scientific, Coca-Cola, Dreamworks Animation, Estee Lauder, Home Depot, Microsoft, Novell, Procter & Gamble, Travelers, Viacom, Xerox and Yum! Brands for their boardroom influence and leadership.
Among the 100 honorees, individuals in the "regulators and rule makers" category received the most nominations this year, revealing a shift in the type of leader exerting the most influence on corporate governance. Administration officials on the list include President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Valerie B. Jarrett. Members of Congress Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank, the eponymous authors of the financial regulation that became law, were re-elected to this year's list as was SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro.
The Directorship 100 also includes a Corporate Governance Hall of Fame, created in 2008 to recognize select individuals who, over time, have made a lasting impact on corporate governance and boardroom practice. The 2010 inductees are:
- H. Rodgin Cohen, senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell;
- Edward A. Kangas, non executive chairman of Tenet Healthcare who also serves on the boards of United Technologies, Intuit, Hovnanian Enterprises and Eclipsys;
- Alan G. Lafley, Chairman of the Board, General Electric and legendary former CEO of Procter & Gamble;
- Carol J. Loomis, senior editor-at-large of Fortune magazine whose 50-plus year in business journalism is without peer; and
- Paul A. Volcker, the former Fed chief and current head of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board who has played a central role in advocating for oversight of today's largest global financial institutions.
"The esteemed boardroom leaders on the Directorship 100 share a common characteristic as proactive agents of change in the boardroom community, shaping the future of corporate governance at a time when American business looks to restore investor confidence and restore economic growth," said NACD CEO and president Ken Daly.
NACD Directorship surveyed 15,000 public company directors and executives to arrive at the final 2010 Directorship 100 honorees. The list is published in the September 2010 issue of NACD Directorship, the official magazine of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
The Directorship 100 recognizes influencers in all spheres of corporate governance. In addition to Directors, CEOs and Regulators and Rule Makers, categories include: Governance Policy Makers; the Media; Investors; Auditors; Compensation Consultants; Executive Recruiters; Corporate Governance Advisors; Corporate Secretaries, General Counsel and Corporate Governance Officers; Professors and Strategists, and the Hall of Fame.
The complete Directorship 100 is listed by category below. For a PDF of the cover story, please email [email protected].
The 2010 NACD Directorship 100* | |
Directors | |
Dina Dublon, Microsoft, Accenture, PepsiCo | |
J. Michael Cook, Comcast, Burt's Bees, International Flavor & Fragrances | |
Curtis J. Crawford, ON Semiconductor, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, ITT | |
Raymond J. Groves, Boston Scientific | |
Bonnie G. Hill, Home Depot, AK Steel Holding, California Water Service Group, Yum! Brands | |
Mellody Hobson, DreamWorks Animation, Estee Lauder, Starbucks | |
Blythe J. McGarvie, Accenture, Pepsi Bottling Group, The Travelers Cos., Viacom, WaWa | |
Charles H. Noski, Microsoft | |
James D. Robinson III, Coca-Cola, Novell, On Deck Capital, PrimeRevenue, SkyGrid, Visiprise, Semtek | |
Maggie Wilderotter, Procter & Gamble, Xerox | |
CEOs | |
Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft | |
Warren E. Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway | |
James L. Dimon, JPMorgan Chase | |
Michael T. Duke, Wal-Mart | |
Steve Jobs, Apple | |
Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont | |
James E. Rogers, Duke Energy | |
Eric E. Schmidt, Google | |
Ivan G. Seidenberg, Verizon Communications | |
Rex W. Tillerson, Exxon Mobil | |
Regulators and Rule Makers | |
The Obama Administration: President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie B. Jarrett, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Paul A. Volcker, Kenneth Feinberg, Congress : Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank, Charles E. Schumer, Henry A. Waxman, Richard Shelby, Spencer T. Bachus, Philip N. Angelides, | |
Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary L. Schapiro, Kathleen L. Casey, Elisse B. Walter, Luis A. Aguilar, Troy A. Paredes, Henry Hu, Richard C. Ferlauto, David M. Becker, Meredith B. Cross, Brian V. Breheny. The Delaware Courts: Myron T. Steele, William B. Chandler III, Leo E. Strine Jr., Donald F. Parsons Jr., John W. Noble, J. Travis Laster, | |
Andrew Cuomo, New York Attorney General | |
Robert H. Herz, Financial Accounting Standards Board | |
Daniel L. Goelzer, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board | |
Duncan L. Niederaurer, Marshall N. Carter, Scott R. Cutler, NYSE Euronext | |
Robert Greifeld, Bruce Aust. Nasdaq OMX | |
Governance Policy Makers | |
Thomas J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce | |
Jeffrey D. Morgan, National Investor Relations Institute | |
Ann Yerger, Amy Borrus, Council of Institutional Investors | |
Paul DeNicola, Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board | |
Attorneys | |
Richard Beattie, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett | |
Robert S. Bennett, Hogan Lovells | |
Stanley D. Bernstein, Bernstein Liebhard | |
Thomas A. Cole, Sidley Austin | |
Michael J. Dowd, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd | |
Eric J. Friedman, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | |
Holly J. Gregory, Ira M. Millstein, Weil Gotshal & Manges | |
Edward D. Herlihy, Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | |
Brad S. Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | |
David H. Kistenbroker, Bruce G. Vanyo, Katten Muchin Rosenman | |
William G. McGuinness, Douglas H. Flaum, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson | |
John F. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | |
Steven B. Pfeiffer, Fulbright & Jaworski | |
Marc S. Rosenberg, Cravath, Swaine & Moore | |
Larry W. Sonsini, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati | |
Investors | |
Jack Ehnes, California State Teachers' Retirement System | |
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., Hye-Won Choi, TIAA-CREF | |
Nelson Peltz, Trian Fund Management | |
David M. Rubenstein, Arthur Levitt, Carlyle Group | |
Anne Stausboll, Anne Simpson, Joseph A. Dear, California Public Employees' Retirement System | |
Ralph V. Whitworth, David H. Batchelder, Relational Investors | |
Christianna Wood, International Corporate Governance Network | |
Auditors | |
Sharon L. Allen, Raymond Lewis, Deloitte LLP | |
Dennis M. Nally, John J. Barry, Catherine L. Bromilow, PricewaterhouseCoopers | |
James S. Turley, Beth Brooke, Ernst & Young | |
Timothy P. Flynn, John B. Veihmeyer, Henry R. Keizer, Mary Pat McCarthy, KPMG LLP | |
Recruiters | |
Julie Hembrock Daum, Thomas J. Neff, Spencer Stuart | |
George L. Davis, Justus J. O'Brien, Egon Zehnder | |
Joseph E. Griesedieck Jr., Robert E. Hallagan, Stephen P. Mader, Nels B. Olson, Korn/Ferry International | |
L. Kevin Kelly, John S. Wood, Bonnie W. Gwin, Theodore L. Dysart, Heidrick & Struggles | |
Compensation Consultants | |
Irving S. Becker, Hay Group | |
David Chun, Equilar | |
Frederic W. Cook, Frederic W. Cook & Co. | |
David N. Swinford, Pearl Meyer & Partners | |
Russell P. Fradin, Hewitt Associates | |
John J. Haley, Towers Watson | |
Steven E. Hall, Pearl Meyer, Steven Hall & Partners | |
D&O Insurers, Governance Advisors | |
Robert C. Cox, Chubb Group | |
Mark Lamendola, Travelers | |
Timothy J. O'Donnell, ACE USA | |
Daniel W. Riordan, Zurich Financial Services | |
Michael W. Smith, Chartis | |
Richard A. Bennett, The Corporate Library; Gavin Anderson, GovernanceMetrics International | |
Steve Harvey, Martha Carter, Carol Bowie, Patrick S. McGurn, ISS Governance Services | |
Robert McCormick, Glass Lewis & Co. | |
Corporate Governance Officers, Corporate Secretaries and General Counsel | |
Douglas K. Chia, Johnson & Johnson | |
Margaret M. Foran, Prudential Financial | |
A. Douglas Melamed, Intel | |
Mark Preisinger, The Coca-Cola Company | |
Amy W. Schulman, Pfizer | |
Brad Smith, Microsoft | |
Jean K. Traub, Capital One Financial | |
John Kent Walker Jr., Google | |
Paul F. Washington, Time Warner | |
Professors | |
Lucian A. Bebchuk, William W. George, Ben W. Heineman Jr., Harvard | |
John C. Coffee Jr., Columbia Law School | |
Charles M. Elson, Roger G. Coffin, University of Delaware | |
Joseph A. Grundfest, F. Daniel Siciliano, Stanford Law School | |
Strategists | |
Dominic Barton, McKinsey & Co. | |
Ram Charan, Charan Associates | |
Richard S. Levick, Levick Strategic Communications | |
David A. Nadler, Marsh & McLennan Cos. | |
Paul H. O'Neill, The Blackstone Group | |
Harvey L. Pitt, Kalorama Partners | |
Media | |
Charles Gasparino, Fox Business Network | |
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Eric Dash, Gretchen C. Morgenson, Louise Story, Joe Nocera, The New York Times | |
Alan Murray, Joann S. Lublin, The Wall Street Journal | |
Norman Pearlstine, Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg BusinessWeek | |
Becky Quick, CNBC | |
*Note: More than 100 individuals are named because some listings contain more than one person within the same company or group. | |
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