To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the FTSE AIM. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
To be eligible for this category companies must be a private or private equity backed company. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
To be eligible for this category, companies must be a Not for Profit or a Public Service Organisation.
The nominee must have been in their role for at least a year.
The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Director or Senior-Independent Director but the role must have duties equivalent to those of a PLC board.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
This category is open to both male and female nominees.
The Nominee must have up to 5 years' experience.
The Nominee must be a Non-Executive Director not a Chairman or Senior Independent Director.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
This award is nominated and awarded by the judging panel. The recipient of this award will be someone who:
Former President of Confederation of British Industry he is Chairman of London First, Non-Executive Director of Greencore Plc and Chancellor Teesside University. Board Member: ICC(UK), Step up to Serve & Trinity College Dublin Provost’s Council.
He has previously held senior appointments including; Chairman of Bibby Line Group, Chairman & Chief Executive of Wates Group, Executive Director of ICI Plc, Non-executive Director of Essentra Plc, Chairman CBI energy Policy Committee.
Prior to joining Wates, Paul spent 24 years with ICI PLC, holding senior / Board positions and living in the UK, Brazil, the USA and the Netherlands.
He was previously Chairman Teach First, Chairman of UK Skills Funding Agency, Director of Business in the Community, The Princes Trust (Construction Council), and Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee for The Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
Paul is an Engineering graduate from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Laws in 2018. He received The Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad in 2019.
John is Chairman of Tesco plc, Barratt Developments plc and Vice President of the CBI, where he was previously President from June 2018 – June 2020. He is Chairman of the Council at Imperial College and is also Chairman and Co-Founder of J&A Mentoring Partners Ltd.
Previously, amongst other senior roles, he was Chairman of London First and a non-executive director at Worldpay, where he was formerly Chairman. He was Chairman of Dixons Retail and later Co-Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director of Dixons Carphone. He was Chief Financial Officer and a Board Member of Deutsche Post DHL, and Chief Executive of Exel, the global supply chain company. He was also previously Chairman of Care UK Health & Social Care. He has been a non-executive director at Royal Mail, PHS Group, the Home Office Supervisory Board, National Grid, Wolseley, Hamleys, 3i and Connell.
His early career was spent with Lever Brothers, Bristol-Myers Company and Fine Fare. John is a graduate and now a Regent of the University of Edinburgh.
Sophie is Global COO of Morgan Stanley’s Shared Services and Banking Operations. Prior to that, she was EMEA COO of Morgan Stanley’s Legal and Compliance Division. Previously, as Head of Group Treasury (Legal) at Virgin Money, she led execution of corporate finance activity, including a lead role on the flotation of Virgin Money and other deals in excess of £13billion. Prior to this, she was a Senior Associate at global firm Baker McKenzie, advising clients such as Nike, The Body Shop and Alliance Boots.
As a campaigner for inclusion and diversity, Sophie is a Strategic Advisor to Morgan Stanley’s African and Caribbean Business Alliance, a member of The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and Ambassador of the 30% Club.
As an entrepreneur she is Founder Chair of The Network of Networks – Race Equity and Co-founder and Chair of Judges of the Black British Business Awards. She has featured in publications including Management Today, Brummell, the Financial Times and Sunday Times and is a recipient of many business awards. Sophie is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and has served on several philanthropic boards, including Sentebale, founded by the Duke of Sussex, then Prince Harry, to support children affected by HIV/ AIDS in Africa. In 2018 she was recognised by HM Queen Elizabeth II for her exemplary contribution to the Commonwealth.
Sheryl founded Boudicca from Equiniti in November 2011 to provide specialist shareholder engagement advice to corporates within the realms of progressive proxy solicitation, corporate governance and stewardship. Boudicca looks to address the growing demand on companies and investors to act responsibly, particularly when exercising proxy votes for AGMs, EGMs, M&A and shareholder activism. In May 2018, Boudicca became part of Equiniti Group plc, the FTSE 250 multinational specialist technology outsourcer, and it continues to build on its already stellar portfolio of campaigns that now number more than 500. In leading Boudicca, Sheryl draws on extensive experience of 20 years’, during which she has overseen shareholder engagement campaigns across all industries and markets, with a particular focus on proxy solicitation for complex mergers and acquisitions, activist situations, and corporate actions. Successes include the Xstrata-Glencore merger, rebuttal of activist Nat Rothschild at Bumi plc (later ARMS), and work for US hedge fund, Elliott Advisors. Her cadre of clients include small-cap firms through to large-cap companies such as Barclays, BG Group, GKN, Persimmon, Severn Trent, Sky and Tesco. Her substantial career spans analytical, operational and developmental roles in the UK and Canada for proxy firms.
Iain Dey is a senior director at the financial PR agency Smithfield, a Daniel J. Edelman company. He was previously the business editor of The Sunday Times and has served as a NED Awards judge for the past two years. Iain was named Business Journalist of the Year in 2010 for his coverage of the global financial crisis. Having spent his journalistic career analysing boardroom politics and corporate strategy, Iain now advises business on how to engage with the outside world.
Victor Dulewicz is Managing Partner of VDA Assessment & Development consultants, Visiting Professor at Southampton University School of Management and Emeritus Professor at Henley Business School where he had been Director of the Centre for Board Effectiveness. He was co-leader of a major government-funded project investigating competences for boards of directors and co-author of the IoD book Good Practice for Directors: Standards for the Board.
For over 20 years, Victor has been researching board and company performance, and leadership and, as a consultant, has advised many boards on performance and process – how effectively individual directors work together. Victor is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, a Fellow of both the British Psychological Society and the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, and a member of the Institute of Directors.
Graham has run a number of international private and public companies. Today he is CEO of Emile Woolf and Chairman of Audeliss and Durgan Monstein. He is Chairman of the Non-Executive Directors’ Association, a Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of WPO (World Presidents’ Association).
Eliza was Chair of Wellcome from 2015 to Easter 2021, having served as a Governor from 2008. Wellcome is a £30bn foundation, dedicated to improving human health, largely through the funding of scientific research.
In 2015 she became co-President of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. She served on the Council of Imperial College, London, from 2009 and was its chair 2011-15.
She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2008. She sits as an independent, crossbench peer. She has been a member of the Privileges and Conduct committee, and chaired its sub-committee on Lords’ Conduct. She has been a member of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy and is currently serving her second term on the Science and Technology select committee.
Earlier she spent 33 years in MI5, the UK’s Security Service. She led it, as Director-General, between 2002-7 and was Deputy Director General, with responsibility for operations for five years from 1997. She was educated at Benenden School and Lady Margaret Hall Oxford. She was a Reith Lecturer in 2011, and made a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter in 2014.
Steven has been a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards for 14 years.
He has been the Chief Executive of Peel Hunt for 5 years and from 2007 – 2016 he co-ran the firm as Managing Partner and Head of Equities. Steven led the management and staff buy-out of Peel Hunt from KBC bank in 2010. Prior to that he was founder member of D. E. Shaw Securities International, which later became the core of KBC Financial Products. At KBC he managed the Japanese and Asian Equity, Convertible and Derivatives operations in Tokyo. Steven joined the board of the Quoted Companies Alliance in February 2020 and has been a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards for over 10 years. Steven has an accountancy degree and holds a certificate in corporate governance from INSEAD.
Fiona is the CEO of Women on Boards UK, Advisory Board Member of Spktral (a technology company that helps organisations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process) and Chair of Hanx's Nominations Committee (FMCG start-up). She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation and Talent Management who has sat on both marketing and audit and finance committees. Fiona is also a Patron of Fight for Sight (a medical research charity) and was formerly a director for Hill Samuel Asset Management. In 2020 Fiona joined King's College London's 'Global Institute for Women's Leadership' Advisory Board.
In 2012, Fiona decided to join forces with Women on Boards Australia and launch Women on Boards UK. Women on Boards UK’s aims are simply – to encourage and support women and men applying for board roles across the Public, Private and Not for Profit Sectors. Fiona's networks advertises board roles from free and believes transparency matters.
Dame Vivian Hunt is a Senior Partner for McKinsey & Company, UK and Ireland. Vivian previously served as Managing Partner for the UK and Ireland for seven years. She has been named “the most influential black woman in Britain”, “one of the top 25 consultants in the world”, and “one of the 30 most influential people in the City of London,” she advises corporate, public, and third sector clients on topics of performance improvement, productivity growth, and leadership.
Vivian has co-authored some of McKinsey’s most influential publications. McKinsey’s Solving the United Kingdom’s productivity puzzle in a digital age, showing that both human capital and technology are at the heart of improving productivity in the United Kingdom. Her pioneering work tying diversity to strong financial performance The Power of Parity (2016), Delivering through Diversity (2018), Diversity Wins: how inclusion matters (2020). Most recently, Vivian has written including Diversity still matters, highlighting the importance of inclusion and diversity for recovery from the current crisis and COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: Assessing Jobs at Risk and the impact on people and places.
Vivian is on the board of several significant business groups, charitable and education bodies including the Confederation of British Industry, the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and Harvard Board of Overseers. Vivian is former Chair of British American Business and Chair of Teach First, the UK’s leading education charity. She is a Trustee of The British Museum and sits on the governing board of the Southbank Centre and the US-UK Fulbright Commission.
Vivian is an inspirational speaker and a powerful advocate for non-traditional voices in the corporate world.
In 2018, Vivian was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the economy and women in business.
Vivian is an alumna of Harvard College and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ninder's company Nachural Records still remains as the only British Asian label to have registered 9 number one chart positions in global music charts including no.5 in the US and UK charts and to have sold in every territory in the world.
His current event and media production company (The Nachural Group) is a leader in the event production and media sectors operating both nationally and internationally ( Signature Awards ) and is currently working with a number of international brands.
He has a considerable NED portfolio which includes chairmanship of The Wolverhampton Towns Fund, Board positions on the Accord Group, West Midlands 5G, West Midlands India Partnership, the West Midlands Growth Company, Wolverhampton University, The Black Country LEP, Trustee at Albion Foundation, Trustee of Victoria Academy and is a former President of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce.
Nachural have now branched into the world of publishing with the launch of their magazine – The Business Influencer which will also be supported by a podcast and you tube channel.
Scott is the Head of Audit & Assurance at BDO and also a member of the firm's Leadership Team and their Risk Committee. As well as leading the audit and assurance practice nationally, he specialises in the Natural Resources sector. Scott is often quoted as an expert on corporate governance in AIM and Small Caps and has written numerous articles on the subject . He is also a board member of the Quoted Companies Alliance and a member of the Audit & Assurance Council of the FRC.
Malcolm McKenzie is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and Head of the European Corporate Transformation Services practice in London. He has over 30 years’ experience advising senior management and boards on how to improve business performance. Malcolm has worked with Chairmen and Boards of Directors on evaluating and improving board performance, with a focus on achieving sustainable bottom-line results. His work includes developing and executing performance improvement strategies for clients across Europe and North America from a range of industries including technology, manufacturing, healthcare, media and services. Malcolm has a Certified Diploma from the ACCA, a Master’s degree from Cambridge University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from London Business School. Earlier in his career, he also qualified and practiced as a Chartered Engineer.
Anne joined Fidelity International as CEO in December 2018 from M&G Investments where she was CEO and a director of its parent company Prudential plc. Anne was appointed a Director of FIL Limited in September 2019. She has worked in the asset management industry since 1992. Anne has almost three decades of experience as an analyst, portfolio manager and CIO and is a strong proponent of ESG investing. Her career path spans many blue chip global names in the financial sector including Alliance Capital, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and Aberdeen Asset Management.
Anne is a Chartered Engineer and began her career as a research fellow at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. She is a former chair of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Practitioner Panel.
Anne was publicly recognised in the UK for her services to the voluntary sector and to the Financial Services industry by being appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 2014 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015.
Anne holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh as well as an honorary degree from Heriot-Watt University.
One of the UK’s leading executive resourcing specialists, Suki has over 17 years’ recruitment experience and an exceptional track record of delivering executive solutions across sectors and geographies.
His talent for building long-term relationships drives an expansive network of candidates and clients, and he is passionate about driving diversity and inclusion at the very top of businesses.
Suki holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Birmingham. He sits on the board of OutRight Action International in New York which drives LGBT+ rights internationally; and is a Patron for the Albert Kennedy Trust, tackling LGBT+ youth homelessness.
He was awarded an OBE in the 2019 New Year’s Honours list for Services to Diversity in Business.
Hilary is an experienced Chairman, NED, and Trustee in the Third Sector.
Starting her career in advertising and marketing, she then had a 25 year career in Executive Search, as Vice-President in global firms including Korn Ferry, and A T Kearney Executive Search. She worked at Board level, in recruitment, talent management, and Board/Leadership Assessment. Following a secondment to the Cabinet Office, she transitioned into a portfolio of roles.
She co-authored 4 reports on UK Boards (Women on FTSE 100 Boards, Chairmen, NEDs and Board Effectiveness Appraisals), and chaired two national charities: KIDS (supporting disabled children) and the Multiple Sclerosis Society, where she inspired the StopMS appeal targeted to raise £100million.
She is currently Chair of King’s College Hospital Charity, a Trustee of Leonard Cheshire, Deputy Chairman of the International Advisory Board at Cranfield School of Management, and an Associate of Step on Board.
She has spoken at conferences on women on Boards, been profiled in newspaper articles, books, and BusinessWeek International (appearing on the front cover). She has served as a main board Director at the Institute of Directors, chaired the Association of MBAs and City Women’s Network, and been on the boards of International Women’s Forum London, and the Cranfield Trust. She was also the final judge for the Woman in the City award.
Hilary is a qualified coach and mentor, working with graduates through to CEO’s, and presents on the Cranfield Non-Executive Director programme. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from UCL, an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, and an MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change from Henley Business School. Her research was into: How Coaching can help/has helped Women get to the Top. She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of UCL.
Oliver Shah is the Business Editor of The Sunday Times. He was named business journalist of the year at the 2017 Press Awards for his investigation into Sir Philip Green’s £1 sale of BHS. The judges described it as ‘the standout business story of the year’ and said that his ‘bravery [and] doggedness… brought the whole BHS affair to the public consciousness’. He was also named business journalist of the year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards. Oliver has been interviewed on Radio Four’s Today Programme, BBC News, BBC Five Live and Sky News.
He attended Reading grammar school and studied English literature at Cambridge University between 2002 and 2005. He worked for various trade magazines before completing a postgraduate qualification in newspaper journalism at City University in 2008. He then joined the London business daily City AM in 2009 and The Sunday Times in 2010.
His first book, Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street was published by Penguin in June 2018.
Alasdair is head of Equity Capital Markets at CMS specialising in corporate finance, including IPOs and secondary equity issues, public and private M&A and strategic investments as well as regularly advising on consortia and corporate joint venture arrangements. He regularly advises quoted companies, financial intermediaries and boards. In a previous life Alasdair spent several years as a director in the corporate finance team at a major telecommunications provider.
Susan's research interests focus on the lack of women in leadership and specifically on corporate boards, women's leadership behaviours and the issues involved in women developing their executive careers. Susan was Founder Director of the Cranfield International Centre for Women Leaders from 1999 to 2016 and the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Endowed Chair in Women's Leadership at Simmons College, Boston, USA from 2013-2016. She and her co-authors produce the annual Female FTSE Board Report, which she launched in 1999 and is regarded as the premier research resource on women directors in the UK and is renowned globally. She has written ten books and over one hundred articles, reports and conference papers. Her latest book “Handbook of Research on Promoting Women’s Careers” (Eds. S Vinnicombe, R.J. Burke, S. Blake-Beard and L.L. Moore) was published by Edward Elgar in 2013.
Susan receives regular recognition worldwide and was honoured in 2016 by the International Women's Forum in Washington as a woman who has "Made a Difference" in the world and become a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management in the UK. Susan was also named in the HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Susan has been presented with the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Academy of Management. She was a member of The Lord Davies Steering Committee on Women on Boards between 2010 and 2015 and is on the Advisory Board of the Sir Philip Hampton/Dame Helen Alexander Review on the lack of women in the executive pipeline and that of Sir John Parker’s Review of the lack of ethnicity on FTSE 100 boards.
Susan was awarded an OBE for her Services to Diversity in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2005 and subsequently awarded a CBE for her Services to Gender Equality in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, 2014.
The Non-Executive Director Awards were established in 2006, by Peel Hunt, to recognise the achievements of Non-Executive Directors who contribute daily to the success and growth of businesses and Not-for-Profit organisations across the UK. There are seven categories within the awards.
To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
2021
Lord Norman Blackwell Lloyds Banking Group PLC
2020
John Allan – Tesco PLC
2019
Sir Anthony Habgood – RELX Group plc
2018
Martin Scicluna – RSA Insurance Group
2017
Richard Baker – Whitbread
2016
Sir Peter Gershon CBE – National Grid
To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
2021
Barry Gibson - HomeServe PLC
2020
Ian Durant – Greggs PLC
2019
Philip Aiken – AVEVA Group plc
2018
Andrew Griffith – Just Eat
2017 - 'Quoted Company – Official List'
Derek Mapp – Huntsworth
2016 - 'Quoted Company – Official List'
Andrew Allner – Marshalls
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the FTSE AIM. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
2021
Rob Woodward - Blancco Technology Group PLC
2020
David Rasche – GB Group PLC
2019
Richard Last – Gamma Communications plc
2018
Malcolm Diamond – Flowtech Fluidpower
2017 - 'Quoted Company – AIM'
Roger McDowell – Avingtrans
2016 - 'Quoted Company – AIM'
Peter Allen – Clinigen
To be eligible for this category companies must be a private or private equity backed company. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
*YET TO ADD IN PREVIOUS WINNERS*
2021
Lord Norman Blackwell Lloyds Banking Group PLC
2020
John Allan – Tesco PLC
2019
Sir Anthony Habgood – RELX Group plc
2018
Martin Scicluna – RSA Insurance Group
2017
Richard Baker – Whitbread
2016
Sir Peter Gershon CBE – National Grid
To be eligible for this category, companies must be a Not for Profit or a Public Service Organisation.
The nominee must have been in their role for at least a year and it is not appropriate for a Trustee(s) to be nominated.
The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Director or Senior-Independent Director but the role must have duties equivalent to those of a PLC board.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
*YET TO ADD IN PREVIOUS WINNERS*
2021
Lord Norman Blackwell Lloyds Banking Group PLC
2020
John Allan – Tesco PLC
2019
Sir Anthony Habgood – RELX Group plc
2018
Martin Scicluna – RSA Insurance Group
2017
Richard Baker – Whitbread
2016
Sir Peter Gershon CBE – National Grid
This category is open to both male and female nominees.
The Nominee must have up to 5 years' experience.
The Nominee must be a Non-Executive Director not a Chairman or Senior Independent Director.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Previous Winners
*YET TO ADD IN PREVIOUS WINNERS*
2021
Lord Norman Blackwell Lloyds Banking Group PLC
2020
John Allan – Tesco PLC
2019
Sir Anthony Habgood – RELX Group plc
2018
Martin Scicluna – RSA Insurance Group
2017
Richard Baker – Whitbread
2016
Sir Peter Gershon CBE – National Grid
This award is nominated and awarded by the judging panel. The recipient of this award will be someone who:
Previous Winners
*YET TO ADD IN PREVIOUS WINNERS*
2021
Lord Norman Blackwell Lloyds Banking Group PLC
2020
John Allan – Tesco PLC
2019
Sir Anthony Habgood – RELX Group plc
2018
Martin Scicluna – RSA Insurance Group
2017
Richard Baker – Whitbread
2016
Sir Peter Gershon CBE – National Grid
To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since being on the board
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the FTSE AIM. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since being on the board
To be eligible for this category, companies must be a Not for Profit or a Public Service Organisation. The nominee must have been in their role for at least a year and it is not appropriate for a Trustee(s) to be nominated. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Director or Senior-Independent Director but the role must have duties equivalent to those of a PLC board. The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since being on the board
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the Main Market but not be a constituent of the FTSE 100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since being
on the board
To be eligible for this category companies must be a private or private equity backed company. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The longform (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since beingon the board
This category is open to both male and female nominees. The Nominee must have up to 5 years' experience. The Nominee must be a Non-Executive Director not a Chairman or Senior Independent Director.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
how the nominee has made significant contribution to the organisation’s strategy
how the nominee has impacted on the financial success of the company
how the nominee maintains high ethical standards and shows good corporate governance
any challenges the nominee has helped overcome since being on the board
This award is nominated and awarded by the judging panel. The recipient of this award will be someone who:
Is a well-respected leader who has contributed to the improvement of corporate governance.
Has a Character/Style which is special in some way; courageous, visionary, exemplary, respected, refreshingly outspoken, disarming, humble.
Has had a major influence with achievements in the Public and Not for Profit sectors.
Has a track record of creating value for shareholders and/or transforming companies.
Has enhanced reputation of Independent Non-Executive Directors and Boards.
Has served as an independent Non-Executive Director/Chair on3-5 corporate boards.
Is distinctive in achievement and impact in terms of diversity, inclusion and supporting the next generation of leaders.
Sponsored by
To be eligible for this category companies must be in the FTSE100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the Main Market but not be a constituent of the FTSE 100. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
To be eligible for this category companies must be quoted on the FTSE AIM. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
To be eligible for this category companies must be a private or private equity backed company. The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Directors or Senior-Independent Director but the nominee must have been in their role for at least a year (from September 2019). The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
To be eligible for this category, companies must be a Not for Profit or a Public Service Organisation.
The nominee must have been in their role for at least a year and it is not appropriate for a Trustee(s) to be nominated.
The individual nominee can be a Chairman, Non-Executive Director or Senior-Independent Director but the role must have duties equivalent to those of a PLC board.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
This category is open to both male and female nominees.
The Nominee must have up to 5 years' experience.
The Nominee must be a Non-Executive Director not a Chairman or Senior Independent Director.
The long form (Stage 2) must indicate:
Sponsored by
This award is nominated and awarded by the judging panel. The recipient of this award will be someone who:
Our eminent panel of judges come from a variety of sectors, including the Not-for-Profit sector.
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Our eminent panel of judges come from a variety of sectors. The 2022 NED Awards will be chaired by Paul Drechsler CBE; previous chairs include Baroness Hogg, Sir John Parker, Dame Helen Alexander and most recently Sir Roger Carr.
