NACD 2011 Public Company Director of the Year
Jenne K. Britell
United Rentals, Quest Diagnostics, Crown Holdings
Jenne K. Britell
NACD’s Public Company Director of the Year and United Rentals chairman of the board, Jenne K. Britell is former GE Capital executive vice president of Global Consumer Finance and president of Global Mortgage and Commercial Banking. She is credited with the turnaround of GE Capital Mortgage Services when she served as its CEO. Her GE Capital experience spans multiple continents, with leadership positions in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. She uses this international experience in her service on the boards of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and the U.S. Russia Foundation for Entrepreneurship and the Rule of Law. Britell currently holds directorships on the boards of Quest Diagnostics and Crown Holdings, and previously served on the boards of West Pharmaceuticals, Lincoln National and Aames Investment, where she was lead director. Prior to joining GE Capital, she was chief lending officer and general manager of mortgage banking at Dime Bancorp, and is also credited with leading that firm’s mortgage business turnaround.
The NACD Directorship 100:
Governance Professionals and Institutions
B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Jon F. Hanson
HealthSouth Corp.
Jon F. Hanson
NACD B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Jon F. Hanson is known in the business community “as a quiet leader who works collaboratively with other board members and management to promote decision-making through healthy debate and collaboration,” describes one nominator. Since becoming independent chairman of HealthSouth in 2005, he is credited with working long hours behind-thescenes to rebuild the company with a new CEO, CFO and general counsel and bringing the rehabilitation facility operator back from the brink of bankruptcy following a $2.7 billion fraudulent accounting scandal surrounding its former CEO and CFOs. Hanson founded the Hampshire Real Estate Companies, which evolved from a regional real estate developer in 1976 into a fund manager with a portfolio valued at more than $2.5 billion. He serves on a number of private investment companies and banks, and is former lead director at Prudential Financial, where he still serves on the board. Hanson is chairman emeritus of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, where he served as chairman from 1994 to 2005. He is also a director of Yankee Global Enterprises, the principal owner of the New York Yankees, and Pascack Community Bank.
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