Events

ANNUAL CHAIRMAN AWARDS EVENT

Celebrating Inclusive Best Practices in the Corporate Boardroom

April 2014
Mid America Club ~ Aon Building
200 East Randolph Street
Chicago, IL 60601

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Our First Annual Chairman’s Ball Was A Huge Success Thanks to Boardroom Bound Supporters!

For information about next year’s event and how you can support our efforts, contact Corporate Relations at 309.966.0013.

Boardroom Bound® celebrated its 10th Anniversary Year by honoring leaders from the private and publicly traded business sectors for establishing Diversity Best Practices in their corporate boardrooms.  Keeping with the tradition of  recognizing inclusive companies whose governance leadership is preparing next generation business leaders to deliver quality governance leadership, the First Annual Black Tie Gala honored the Chairman of the Board of Directors Rakesh Gangwal for OfficeMax’s corporate governance leadership in diversity.

Past honorees from other celebratory occasions appear below. Their positions and titles, when previously honored, are listed under the cities where the awards were presented:

 

  • PAST HONOREES
    CHICAGODeborah DeHaas

    Vice Chairman & Regional Managing Partner

    Deloitte & Touche, LLP

  • James E. Goodwin

    Chairman, Federal Signal Corporation

  • Pamela A. McElvane

    President

    P & L Group, ltd

    Publisher/Editor, Diversity/MBA Magazine

  • Lester McKeever, Jr., CPAPartner

    Washington, Pittman & McKeever, LLC

  • John W. Rowe

    Chairman, President and CEO

    Exelon Corporation

  • LOS ANGELES:Stephen F. Bollenbach

    Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

    Hilton Hotels Corporation

  • Enrique Hernandez, Jr.

    Chairman & CEO

    Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc.

  • Dan Warmenhovern

    Chief Executive Officer

    Network Appliance, Inc.

  • NEW YORKRobert B. Catell

    Chairman & CEO

    KeySpan

  • Fred J. Kleisner

    CEO

    Wyndham International, Inc.

  • James F. McCann

    Founder & CEO

    1-800-FLOWERS.COM

  • Rachelle Pachtman

    President

    Pachtman Communications

  • Betty C. Spence, Ph.D.

    President

    National Association Female Executives

  • WASHINGTON, DCGinger Conrad

    Publisher & CEO

    Minority Business Entrepreneur Magazine

  • John M. Derrick, Jr.

    Chairman

    Pepco Holdings, Inc.

  • Georgette Dixon

    SVP, National Relationships

    Wachovia

  • Bruce Nelson

    CEO, Office Depot

  • Judy B. Rosener, Ph.D.

    Author, Speaker, Business Consultant - Business

    Professor, Graduate School of Management, UCI

  • Christine M. Warnke, Ph.D.

    Senior Advisor, Governmental Affairs

    Hogan & Hartson, LLP

  • The Honorable Robert C. Byrd

    U.S. Senator

  • The Honorable Eva Clayton,

    U.S. Representative

  • The Honorable Michael E. Oxley

    U.S. Representative

  • The Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes

    U.S. Senator

  • Arthur A. Fletcher, Ph.D. (1924-2005)

    “Father of Affirmative Action”