NACD New England Announces 2013 Director of the Year Award Recipients

The National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter (NACDNE) announced the recipients of the Seventh Annual 2013 Director of the Year Awards.

This year, NACDNE is pleased to recognize three individual board members and two boards that uphold the highest professional standards for corporate governance while maximizing shareholder and customer value. More than 40 New England directors worked collaboratively to determine the slate of Honorees. This year’s honorees include:

Lifetime Achievement in Governance: Samuel O. Thier, M.D.

Former CEO, Partners HealthCare System; Director of Charles River Laboratories; former Director of Merck & Co., Inc. and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; member of the Board of Overseers of Cornell University Weill Medical College, of Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Dean’s Advisors of Harvard School of Public Health.  

Leadership in Corporate Governance: Cathy E. Minehan

Dean of the School of Management at Simmons College, retired CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Director of VISA Inc., Partners Healthcare System, and the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company; Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital; former Director of Becton Dickinson and MITRE Corporation; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the University of Rochester Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Massachusetts Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors.

Myra H. Kraft Award for Non-Profit Leadership: Stephen G. Woodsum

Co-Founder, Summit Partners, Chair of the National Board of City Year, Director of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston; Director of Massachusetts General Hospital; member of Overseers at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Trustees of the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. Former Board Chair of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center and Buckingham Browne and Nichols School. Former Director of Jumpstart for Young Children, CIDCO, Clean Harbors, Information Builders, QMS and Superior Services.

Public Company Board of the Year: CVS Caremark

Larry J. Merlo, President and Chief Executive Officer; David W. Dorman, Non-Executive Chairman; C. David Brown II, Anne M. Finucane, Kristen E. Gibney Williams, Marian L. Heard, Jean-Pierre Millon, C.A. Lance Piccolo, Richard J. Swift and Tony L. White

Private Company Board of the Year: Polar Beverages

Ralph D. Crowley, Jr., President, CEO and Acting Chair; Christopher J. Crowley, Richard W. Anderson, Jeffery L. Dickson, Frederick W. Ferbert, Jr., Lincoln Isetta, M. Howard Jacobson, Michael S. McGrath and Carolyn C. Stimpson.

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