BRENTWOOD, Tenn., July 11,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Merit Janow, chair of the board
at Mastercard was named "Independent Director of the Year" today
by Corporate Board Member as part of the
magazine's 6th annual Board Leadership Awards, presented
in partnership with AlixPartners.
Janow was recognized by a distinguished panel of public company
board members for her efforts leading Mastercard's CEO transition,
as well as playing a key role in Mastercard's cybersecurity
leadership to fight quantum- and AI-computing fraud,
which are essential to the success of the company. She is also a
Director at The New Economy Fund, Aptiv PLC, American Family Funds,
Inc., American Funds Insurance Series, Inc., and Capital Income
Builder.
Janow is one of three honorees this year's committee recognized
for their work this year. The others are:
Dale Wolf, Chair, Molina Healthcare, is recognized with
the Courage in the Boardroom honor for his difficult work
revitalizing the family-controlled firm, bringing in new leadership
and overseeing a near-tenfold increase in enterprise value from
approximately $2 billion in 2017 to
over $20 billion in 2023.
Ram Charan, bestselling author and advisor to boards and
CEOs, is recognized with the Greatest Impact on Corporate
Boards honor for his decades of work improving corporate governance
worldwide. During a career spanning more than 40 years, Charan has
advised executives and directors on many Fortune 500 companies,
served on the faculty of numerous business schools and authored
more than 30 books that have sold over four million copies,
including the classic Boards that Lead, considered essential
reading for new board members worldwide.
Corporate Board Member will also be presenting a Lifetime
Achievement award to TK Kerstetter, co-founder of Corporate
Board Member and creator of Inside America's Boardrooms, who has
served and helped shape the corporate governance community for more
than 25 years. He launched the Boardroom Summit 20 years ago and is
serving as this year's co-chair.
The awards will be presented in person on Sept. 16 during Corporate Board Member's
20th annual Boardroom Summit and Peer Exchange at the Marriott
Marquis in Times Square, followed by a panel discussion with Janow,
Wolf, Charan and Kerstetter. For more information or to register
for the event: https://boardmember.com/boardroomsummit/
"It's fitting to be honoring such expert leaders in the board
governance community at our 20th anniversary Boardroom
Summit," said Jamie Tassa, publisher, Corporate Board
Member. "At a time with so much change, uncertainty and challenge,
they once again show that great, involved directors are critical
players in the life and success of public companies."
Adds Joe Shalleck, managing
director, AlixPartners, who acts as a special advisor to the judges
throughout the process: "Faced with so many truly strategic
challenges—from technology to geopolitics to talent—this year's
honorees showcase the essential, painstaking work of great public
company directors. They have never been more central to the
outperformance of truly great companies."
About the Selection Committee
What makes the Board
Leadership Awards unique is that they are selected by a peer
group of exceptional, experienced public company directors. The
2024 selection committee includes: Larry Kellner, an
experienced director who accepted our Courage In The Boardroom
award in 2023 for Marriott; Ellen Kullman, Executive
Chair of Carbon and a board member at Goldman,
Amgen and Dell and our 2020 Director of the
Year; John Lundgren, Chair, Visa, director, Callaway Golf and
our 2023 Director of the Year; Lionel Nowell, lead independent director at
Bank of America and our 2022 Director of the
Year; Mike O'Neill, retired
chairman of Citigroup and our 2019
Director of the Year; Maria
Sastre, Board Member, General Mills and O'Reilly Auto
Parts; Nigel Travis, Retired Executive
Chair, Dunkin' Brands, chair, Abercrombie & Fitch and
Advance Auto Parts; Mike White, Board Member, Bank of
America Merrill Lynch, Former Board Member, Whirlpool Corp. and
Kimberly-Clark, Former Chair and CEO, DIRECTV.
About Corporate Board Member
Corporate Board Member, a
division of Chief Executive Group, has been the market leader in
board education for 20 years. The quarterly publication provides
public company board members, CEOs, general counsel and corporate
secretaries decision-making tools to address the wide range of
corporate governance, risk oversight and shareholder engagement
issues facing their boards. Corporate Board
Member further extends its thought leadership through online
resources, webinars, timely research, conferences and peer-driven
roundtables. The company maintains the most comprehensive database
of directors and officers of publicly traded companies listed with
NYSE, NYSE Amex and Nasdaq. Learn more at BoardMember.com
About AlixPartners
For more than forty years,
AlixPartners has helped businesses around the world respond quickly
and decisively to their most critical challenges—circumstances as
diverse as urgent performance improvement, accelerated
transformation, complex restructuring and risk mitigation. These
are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in
the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive
deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. But it's not what we do that
makes a difference, it's how we do it. Tackling situations when
time is of the essence is part of our DNA—so we adopt an
action-oriented approach at all times. We work in small, highly
qualified teams with specific industry and functional expertise,
and we operate at pace, moving quickly from analysis to
implementation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients
until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the
results we deliver. Our approach enables us to help our clients
confront and overcome truly future-defining challenges. We partner
with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions.
And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
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