CRO Magazine CEO of the Year Awards Nominees 2008
Awards to be presented at CRO Conference Sept. 10 in Chicago
CRO Magazine introduces its first CEO of the Year Awards Nominees 2008 to recognize the achievements of the all-star CEOs in Corporate Responsibility.
With the exception of the Mid Market Award, all 2008 CRO CEO of the Year Awards will be named live at the CRO Conference Oct. 29, 2008, at the Union League Club in Chicago. The Mid Market Award was named at the CRO Conference in San Francisco June 18.
These are the criteria for selection of the CRO Magazine CEO of the Year Awards Nominees 2008, established by the editorial team at CRO Magazine. All nominations for and selection of CRO CEO of the Year 2008 awardees are made solely based upon publicly available information and are solely those of the editorial team at CRO Magazine, a unit of Crossing Media LLC.
1) All Categories: CEO or Organizational Leader must personally have provided documented organizational leadership in the areas of Corporate Responsibility, GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), CSR, Sustainability or Philanthropy.
2) All Categories: CEO or Organizational Leader's Corporate Responsibility, GRC, CSR, Sustainability or Philanthropy leadership must have documentable relationship to recent significant company growth in revenues, profitability or size of community served.
3) Large Market: Must be a publicly listed company on a major national or international stock exchange ranked either on the CRO Magazine 2008 100 Best Corporate Citizens or on the 2008 SUPR Seal list with a current public CSR, Corporate Responsibility or Sustainability report published in print or listed online by Corporate Register.
4) Mid-Market: Must be a publicly listed company on a major national stock exchange with a current public CSR, Corporate Responsibility or Sustainability report published in print or listed online by Corporate Register.
5) Small Market: Must be a publicly listed company on a major national or international stock exchange.
6) Non-Profit/NGO: Must be listed on GuideStar.org.
7) Government: Organizational Leader of an official International, Federal, State or Local governmental entity. Named official’s organization must be free of official notifications of investigations into governance, procurement, spending or environmental practices for past 24 months.
8) Corporate Foundation: CEO or retired CEO of the foundation’s company must be a member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy or foundation must be endowed at $50 million minimum annual level with a significant CSR or ESG-focused investment agenda whose policies and representative investments are publicly available.
9) Social Entrepreneur: Fits one of the three social entrepreneurship venture type definitions established by the book “The Power of Unreasonable People” by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan and Klaus Schwab: type 1 (leveraged non-profit), type 2 (hybrid non-profit) or type 3 (social business).
Large Market ($1+ Billion in Revenues)
Lloyd Blankfein: CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Alexander M. Cutler, CEO, Eaton Corp.
Jeffery R. Immelt, CEO, GE
Robert W. Lane, Chairman & CEO, Deere & Co.
Andrew Liveris, CEO, Dow Chemical
Paul S. Otellini, President & CEO, Intel
Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman & CEO, IBM
Antonio Perez, CEO, Kodak
David Steiner, CEO, Waste Management
Mid Market ($100 Million-$999 Million in Revenues)
*Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce.com
Lawrence J. Blanford, CEO, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Daniel T. Hendrix, President & CEO, Interface Inc.
David Lissy, CEO, Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
Tom Werner, CEO, SunPower
* Named Award Winner at June 24, 2008, CRO Conference in San Francisco for his execution on his “1/1/1 Model” of corporate citizenship.
Small Market (<$100 Million in Revenues)
Mathew Boyle, CEO, Tech/Ops Sevcon
Raymond DeHont, CEO, Met-Pro
Neil D. Eckert, CEO, Climate Exchange PLC
William Saxeby, CEO, Landauer
Julie Smolyansky, President & CEO, Lifeway Foods
James Herbert, Chairman & CEO, Neogen
Non-Profit/Nongovernmental Organization (NGO)
Aron Cramer, President & CEO, Business for Social Responsibility
Dr. Peter Diamandis, Founder & Chairman, XPrize Foundation
Liz Maw, Executive Director, NetImpact
Charles Moore , Executive Director, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists
David Walker, CEO, Peter Peterson Foundation
Government/Regulatory
Christopher Cox, Chairman, Securities & Exchange Commission
Richard Daley, Mayor, City of Chicago
Sadhu Johnston, Chief Environmental Officer, City of Chicago
Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator, State of Connecticut
Gavin Newsome, Mayor, City of San Francisco
Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor, State of California
John Warner, U.S. Senator, State of Virginia
Corporate Foundation
Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org
Bob Corcoran, President, GE Foundation
Stanley Litow, President, IBM Foundation
Patricia Wright, President, BP Foundation
Social Entrepreneur
Michael Eckhart, President, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Jeffrey Hollander, CEO, Seventh Generation
Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
Damien Reynolds, Chairman & CEO, Kyoto Planet
Jeffrey Skoll, Founder, Skoll Foundation