Mastercard Chair Merit Janow, Molina Healthcare's Dale Wolf, Board Advisor Ram Charan And CBM Founder TK Kerstetter Honored With 2024 Board Leadership Awards

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) 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:

"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

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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