NACD has opened nominations for Director of the Year and the B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award. These two honors recognize outstanding corporate directors from both public companies and nonprofit organizations who exemplify the principles of director professionalism.
NACD Chair The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin presents Richard Keyser with the 2010 Public Company Director of the Year Award
Being a good director is a complex, multi-faceted task with a lot of responsibility and considerable risk. By recognizing those directors who are dedicated to the success of the companies, boards, and shareholders they serve, NACD hopes to raise the bar for all directors.
Nominees are evaluated on four key attributes: integrity, mature confidence, informed judgment and high performance standards. Winners have demonstrated these principles in a variety of ways including showing the highest personal and professional ethical standards; exhibiting openness to others’ opinions; valuing board and team performance over individual performance; personally participating in the development of future leaders; maintaining leadership in their fields of endeavor; acting in ways that have guided their company in maintaining consistent long-term profitability, pursuing significant business opportunities, improving shareholder returns, and/or dealing effectively with a crisis or other major change; and fostering an environment of constant improvement of strategic goals, performance and innovation.
To show the caliber of directors who have been recognized, the 2010 NACD winners were B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Curtis J. Crawford, PhD, director of ON Semiconductor, E.I. Dupont DeNemours, and ITT Corporation; Public Company Director of the Year Award honoree Richard Keyser, director Zebra Technologies and Principal Financial Group, chairman emeritus of W.W. Grainger; and Nonprofit Director of the Year honoree Josh Bekenstein, managing director Bain Capital, co-chair of board of New Profit, board of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, City Year, Horizons for Homeless Children and New Leaders for New Schools.
To learn more about nomination criteria or to nominate a director, visit www.NACDonline.org/DOY or email D100@NACDonline.org. Nominees will be accepted from NACD constituents—including previous award recipients, NACD chapter leaders, advisors and members. Awards will be presented at the NACD Directorship 100 Forum Awards Gala on November 8, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The deadline for nominations is May 31.