The Fifth Annual Director of the Year Awards
HONORING EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE BOARD

The 2011 NACD New England Director of the Year Awards Honorees.

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The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) New England Chapter has announced the honorees for its annual Director of the Year Award program, which annually recognizes outstanding leadership in the Boardroom by individual and corporate boards. The award winners will be honored at the NACD New England Director of the Year Award dinner on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at the Copley Marriott Hotel.
Join us to honor the Boardroom leaders who are either New Englanders or members of the Board of a New England-based company who have created tremendous value inside the Boardroom. We will honor recipients in the following categories. 


This year’s awards recipients are:

Lifetime Achievement

Samuel W. Bodman - Director at AES Corporation, DuPont, Hess Corporation and Weatherford International; Retired Chairman, President and CEO of Cabot Corporation; Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Secretary of Energy; Trustee of Cornell University, MIT, The Carnegie Institution for Science and others.

Public Corporate Governance

Thomas J. May, Chairman, President and CEO, NSTAR. Director of Bank of America Corporation; Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. and the Edison Electric Institute; Chair of the Stonehill College Board of Trustees; Trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Non-Profit Governance

John F. Fish, Chairman and CEO, Suffolk Construction Company Inc.; member of the board of Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Boston College and Massachusetts Competitive Partnership among others; Chairman of the Red & Blue Foundation.

Public Company Board of the Year

The TJX Companies – José B. Alvarez, Alan M. Bennett, David A. Brandon, Bernard Cammarata (chair), David T. Ching, Michael F. Hines, Amy B. Lane, Carol Meyrowitz, John F. O’Brien, Willow B. Shire, Fletcher H. Wiley

Private Company Board of the Year

The Orvis Company Inc. -- Thomas Belk, Jr., Sean M. McAvoy, Joel T. Murphy, Leigh H. Perkins (chair), Leigh H. Perkins, Jr., David D. Perkins, Michael C. Ruettgers, Dickson L. Whitney, Joseph H. Williams.

CLICK HERE for a Fact Sheet on the 2011 Awards