Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY), headquartered in Minnesota, appointed Lisa Caputo (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Lisa is Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs for Citigroup Inc., and Chairman and CEO of Citi’s Women & Company. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
BankUnited, headquartered in Florida, appointed Sue Cobb to its Board of Directors. Sue, who holds a JD from the University of Miami, is a principal with Cobb Partners. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAG), headqaurtered in Massachusetts, appointed Dr. Lesley Russell to its Board of directors. Lesley is Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Cephalon. See Business Wire press reelase.
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MXB), headquartered in New York, appointed Alice Handy to its Board of Directors. Alice is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Investure. See Business Wire press release.
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:KND), headquartered in Kentucky, appointed Phyllis R. Yale to its Board of Directors. Phyllis, who holds an MBA from Harvard, is a Partner with Bain & Company, Inc. See Business Wire press release.
Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE: TPX), headquartered in Kentucky, appointed Evelyn Dilsaver to its Board of Directors. Evelyn was President and Chief Executive Officer of Charles Schwab Investment Management. See prnewswire press release.
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), headquarterd in New Jersey, appointed Carrie S. Cox to the Company’s Board of Directors. Carrie had been Executive Vice President and President of Schering-Plough's Global Pharmaceutical Business. See Business Wire press release.
Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE: MPR), headquartered in Pennsylvania, appointed Robin L. Wiessmann to the Company's Board of Directors. Robin recently concluded a term as State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. See prnewswire press release.
The Alleghany Corporation (NYSE: Y), headquartered in New York, appointed Karen Brenner to its Board of Directors. Karen is a Clinical Professor of Business at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. See Business Wire press release.
Advance Auto Parts, Inc., (NYSE: AAP), headquartered in Virginia, appointed Frances Frei (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Frances is the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV),headquartered in Minnesota, appointed Cheryl Rosner to its Board of Directors. Cheryl is a former CEO and President of TicketsNow.com Inc., a Ticketmaster company. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBG), headquartered in California, appointed Laura D’Andrea Tyson (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Laura, who holds a PhD in Economics from MIT, is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. Read more in the Business press release.
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP), headquartered in Texas, appointed Geraldine B. Laybourne to its Board of Directors. Geraldine was the Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oxygen Media. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Applied Materials, Inc., headquartered in California, appointed Susan M. James to its Board of Directors. Susan was a Partner at Ernst & Young. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
PECO, an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation based in Pennsylvania, appointed Charisse R. Lillie to its Board of Directors. Charisse, who holds a Master’s of Law from Yale Law School, is Vice President of Community Investment for Comcast Corporation and Executive Vice President of the Comcast Foundation. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Twenty women were appointed to Corporate Boards in November as reported on NewsonWomen.com, dashing our upward trend from October when 24 women were appointed, but beating last year when 18 women were appointed to Boards in November08. Susan Lyne (pictured), CEO of online luxory retailer Gilt Groupe, will join two other women on the newly formed ten member AOL Board. Other major companies putting women on Boards in November included Nike, Skilled Healthcare Group, Carter's Inc, Beneficial Mutual Bancorp, American Pacific, Sterling Bancorp, and Allstate.
New annual surveys were released in November confirming a slight decline in the number of women appointed to Boards. The marginal changes reflected in the surveys are evidence that big changes in these numbers will require a big event. We just went through a major economic meltdown and significant government interventions and that didn't result in many women being catapulted into board positions, so I'm not sure what kind of event would be needed to make major changes in board gender statistics!
Cardinal Health, headquartered in Ohio, appointed Carrie Cox to its Board of Directors. Carrie had been Executive Vice President and President of Global Pharmaceuticals at Schering-Plough Corp. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
DRI Corporation, headquarted in Texas, appointed Helga Houston to its Board of Directors. Helga, who holds an MBA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is a Partner of Phoenix Global Advisors, LLC. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Darkstrand Inc., headquartered in Illinois, appointed Lisa Pollina to its Board of Directors. Lisa had been Global Financial Institutions Executive for Bank of America. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Mojofiti™, headquartered in Colorado, appointed Karin Hibma to its Board of Directors. Karin is a Partner and the Managing Director and CFO of CRONAN, the design company. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
International Rectifier Corporation (NYSE: IRF), headquartered in California, appointed Barbara L. Rambo to its Board of Directors. Barbara is Chief Executive Officer at Taconic Management Services. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Gilt Groupe, Inc., the online luxory retailer headquartered in New York, appointed Michelle Peluso (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Michelle, who holds a Masters degree in Economics, Philosophy and Politics from Pembroke College at Oxford University, is the former President and CEO of Travelocity. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Internap Network Services Corporation (Nasdaq: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions headquartered in Georgia, appointed Debora J. Wilson to its Board of Directors. Debora is the former President and CEO of The Weather Channel. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
The new 2009 Female FTSE Report from Cranfield School of Management in Britain shows a decline from last year in the number of women ceo's and the number of companies with multiple women directors on their boards. Ironically, UC Davis Graduate School of Management released their new annual report on the same day showing a slight decline from last year of women holding board seats in California companies. This got me thinking. Whichever side of the ocean you’re on, the annual surveys show little or no progress by women in the corporate world. The economic crisis has people thinking about jobs and the government is thinking about healthcare. Who is thinking about the progress of women? I am for one. As an experienced executive with a background in auditing and management, I can tell you that the incremental changes measured by these annual surveys will not shine enough light on the issue. These surveys need to add another measure, like goals set in specific responses from companies for example. What are they going to try to do this next year to make it change? Without these kinds of goals and measures, annual surveys will not be able to put enough pressure on companies and are wasting an opportunity to help effect positive change. If there is no action taken as a consequence of the surveys, the status quo becomes acceptable. These surveys are one of the tools we have to effect change. While it is not the responsibility of academia to pressure corporate executives, it would be great if they could!
As I watch the economic turmoil create lots of openings for new ceos and reconstituted boards, I don’t see women being put in these jobs in any big number. It is clearly not for a lack of openings. And, if you read NewsonWomen.com, you will know that it is clearly not for a lack of qualified women or female role models. Why is it that people won’t move away from their traditional candidates for these positions? If anyone has an answer, I’d like to hear it.
NIKE, Inc. (NYSE: NKE), headquartered in Oregon, appointed Phyllis M. Wise, Ph.D., (pictured) to the Company's Board of Directors. Phyllis is Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Washington. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH), headquartered in California, appointed Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H. to the Company’s Board of Directors. Dr. Rosenstock serves as the Dean of the UCLA School of Public Health and holds appointments as Professor of Medicine and Environmental Health Sciences. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Carter’s, Inc. (NYSE: CRI), headquartered in Georgia, appointed Vanessa J. Castagna to its Board of Directors. Vanessa is the former Executive Chairwoman of Mervyn’s Department Stores. Read more about it in the Business Wire press release.
Beneficial Mutual Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNCL), the parent company of Beneficial Bank headquartered in Pennsylvania, appointed Karen D. Buchholz to its Board of Directors. Karen is Vice President of Administration for Comcast Corporation. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
American Pacific Corporation (Nasdaq: APFC), headquartered in Nevada, appointed Barbara Smith Campbell (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Barbara is President of Consensus, LLC. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), headquarterd in Georgia, appointed Lynn A. Wentworth to the Company's Board of Directors. Lynn is the former Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of BlueLinx Holdings. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Anthracite Capital, Inc. (NYSE:AHR), headquarterd in New York, appointed Kathleen M. Hagerty (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Kathleen, who holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Ecolab Inc., headquartered in Minnesota, appointed Victoria J. Reich to its Board of Directors. Victoria is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Stationers Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Sterling Bancorp (NYSE: STL), headquartered in New York, appointed Carolyn Joy Lee to its Boards of Directors. Carolyn, who holds a JD from the Columbia University, is a Partner in the New York office of Jones Day. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
i2Inc., headquartered in Virginia, appointed Kathleen Kiernan to its Board of Directors. Kathleen is the CEO of Kiernan Group Holdings. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL), headquartered in Illinois, appointed Andrea Redmond to its Board of Directors. Andrea is an independent consultant, and had previously spent 20 years at Russell Reynolds Associates. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
AOL appointed Susan Lyne to its Board of Directors. Susan is Chief Executive Officer of the online luxury retailer Gilt Groupe, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Amicus Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FOLD), headquartered in New Jersey, appointed Margaret G. McGlynn (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Margaret, who holds an MBA in Marketing from the State University of New York at Buffalo, most recently served as President of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases for Merck & Co., Inc. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI), headquartered in Florida, appointed Victoria D. Harker to its Board of Directors. Victoria is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The AES Corporation. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Nerites Corporation, headquartered in Wisconsin, appointed Lisa D. Earnhardt to its Board of Directors. Lisa, who holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, is currently President and CEO of Sinexus, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Centrix Bank appointed Sherilyn Burnett Young to its Board of Directors. Sherilyn, who holds a JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center, is a founder and President of Rath, Young and Pignatelli. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Oneida Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: ONFC), the parent company of The Oneida Savings Bank headquartered in New York, appointed Nancy N. Ryan to its Board of Directors. Nancy is the co-owner of Nunn's Hospital Supplies, Inc. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Gateway EDI, the health care revenue cycle management (RCM) provider located in St. Louis, appointed Kathleen Earley and Peni Garber to its Board of Directors. Kathleen, who holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, is the former President and COO of TriZetto Group, Inc. Peni is a Partner at the private investment firm ABRY Partners. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
EnPro Industries, Inc. (NYSE: NPO), headquartered in North Carolina, appointed Diane C. Creel (pictured) to the company's Board of Directors. Diane is the retired Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ecovation, Inc. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
HFF, Inc. (NYSE:HF), headquartered in Pennsylvania, appointed Susan P. McGalla to its Board of Directors. Susan has held a variety of management positions with American Eagle Outfitters, and from 2007 to 2009, she was the President, CMO of AEO, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Danvers Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: DNBK), located in Massaachusetts, appointed Pamela Scott to its Board of Directors. Pamela is President and CEO of LVCC, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Parkway Properties, Inc. (NYSE: PKY), headquartered in Mississippi, appointed Brenda J. Mixson to its Board of Directors. Brenda has been with Island Capital Group LLC since its inception in July 2003 and is a senior member of Island's Real Estate Debt and Capital Markets Group. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
MarkMonitor, headquartered in California, appointed Susan Whiting (pictured) to its Board of Directors. Susan is Vice Chair of The Nielsen Company. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF), headquartered in Missouri, appointed Nancy Buese to its Board of Directors. Nancy is Chief Financial Officer at MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFCB), headquartered in Arizona, appointed Kerrii B. Anderson to its Board of Directors. Kerrii is a former Chief Executive Officer and President of Wendy's International, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL), headquartered in Minnesota, appointed Kim Williams to its Board of Directors. Kim was a Partner at Wellington Management Corp. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE:NCI), headquartered in Illinois, appointed Cynthia A. Glassman to its Board of Directors. Cynthia is an Economist who most recently served as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2006 to January 2009. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., headquartered in Massachusetts, appointed Marsha Fanucci to its Board of Directors. Marsha is a former Chief Financial Officer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), headquartered in New Jersey, appointed Anne M. Mulcahy to its Board of Directors. Anne is Chairman of Xerox Corporation. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
NXT Nutritionals Holdings, headquartered in Massachusetts, appointed Ann E. McBrien to its Board of Directors. Ann is a former Vice President of Sales at Proctor & Gamble. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
MTS Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: MTSC), headquartered in Minnesota, appointed Gail P. Steinel to its Board of Directors. Gail is a former Global Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting Division. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
MRV Communications Inc., headquartered in California, appointed Joan E. Herman to its Board of Directors. Joan is Chief Executive Officer and President of Herman and Associates LLC and former Chief Executive Officer and President of WellPoint Inc.’s Consumer Business Unit. Read more in the company press release.
CalciMedica, a biotechnology company headquartered in California, appointed Evelyn Graham to its Board of Directors. Evelyn, who holds an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut, is the former Chief Executive Officer of TorreyPines Therapeutics. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) appointed Doreen A. Toben to the Company's Board of Directors. Doreen served as Executive Vice President of Verizon Communications, Inc., until her retirement in June 2009. From April 2002 to February 2009, she served as Verizon's Chief Financial Officer. Read more in the prnewswire press release.
Recent Comments