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CED Distinguished Leadership Awards Celebration

Commitment To Business Stewardship & Corporate Citizenship

OCTOBER 09, 2024

NEW YORK, NY

Commitment To Business Stewardship & Corporate Citizenship

For more than a quarter century, the CED Distinguished Leadership Awards have been honoring business leaders and their companies who exemplify CED’s mission by answering the call for corporate citizenship and demonstrating a strong commitment to public policy in the nation’s interests.

The CED Annual Distinguished Leadership Awards Celebration pays special tribute to business leaders and their companies who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in very challenging times and have helped our nation and the communities where they operate navigate the many challenges before us, including: advancing equal opportunity during a time of national economic uncertainty, building a more civil and just society, and upholding a rules-based international order.

The Awards Celebration commemorates the legacy of CED’s founders, America’s leading CEOs who, during WWII, heeded the call to public service to guide the transition from a wartime economy to a prosperous peacetime economy. Today, CED is fulfilling its mission by working to help ensure the nation meets the current challenges and seizes the historic opportunities with an economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans.

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2024 Distinguished Leadership Honorees 

 

Honoree:

Nikesh Arora


CEO and Chairman
Palo Alto Networks

 

Introduced By:

Arvind Krishna


Chairman and CEO
IBM


 

Honoree:

Jenny Johnson


President and CEO
Franklin Templeton

 

Introduced By:

Mike Milken


Chairman
Milken Institute

 

 

Honoree:

Raj Subramaniam


President, CEO, and Director
FedEx Corporation

 

Introduced By:

Jane Fraser


CEO
Citi



 

Honoree:

Julie Sweet


Chair and CEO
Accenture

 

Introduced By:

Peter Zaffino


Chairman and CEO
AIG



 

Honoree:

Robert F. Smith


Founder, Chairman, and CEO
Vista Equity Partners (Vista)

 

Introduced By:

Thasunda Brown Duckett


President and CEO
TIAA



 

Honoree:

Hamdi Ulukaya


Founder and CEO of Chobani Founder of Tent Partnership for Refugees

 

Introduced By:

Michael Dowling


President and CEO
Northwell Health



Thank you to our 2024 Awards Sponsors

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 



Thank you to our 2023 Awards Sponsors

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact BTeagle@TCB.org

2024 CED Awards Committee

Co-Chairs

  • Peter Altabef
    Unisys
  • Byron Boston
    Dynex Capital, Inc.
  • Dr. Lori Esposito Murray
    Committee for Economic Development

Members

  • George Barrett
    The Overtone Group
  • Lydia Beebe  
    LIBB Advisors 
  • Thierry Betbeze 
    Dassault Falcon Jet 
  • Neri Bukspan 
    EY ret 
  • Mary Jo Cagle 
    Cone Health 
  • Lou Cornell
    WSP USA 
  • Neil de Crescenzo
    Optum Insights ret 
  • Paul Decker 
    Mathematica 
  • AnnaMaria DeSalva  
    Hill & Knowlton 
  • Dan Draper  
    S&P Dow Jones Indices 
  • Jean-Claude Dubacher 
    B. Braun of America Inc.  
  • Kate Duchene 
    RGP 
  • Janice Ellig 
    The Ellig Group 
  • Anand Eswaran 
    Veeam 
  • Miles Everson 
    MBO Partners 
  • Roger Ferguson, Jr.  
    TIAA ret 
  • Karl Fessenden 
    BrandSafway 
  • David Finkelstein 
    Annaly Capital Management 
  • Howard Fluhr 
    Segal 
  • Holly Gagnon  
    HGC Hospitality Gaming Consulting 
  • Antoinette Gawin 
    Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies 
  • Marissa Geist 
    Cielo 
  • Kathy Hannan  
    KPMG ret 
  • Diane Hansen 
    Palomar Health 
  • Tony Harrington 
    Albright Stonebridge Group LLC 
  • Jim Haynes 
    POWER Engineers 
  • Hollie Heikkinen 
    iWorker Innovations 
  • Ken Hicks  
    Academy Sports + Outdoors 
  • Laura Karet 
    Who Brew LLC 
  • Joe Kasputys 
    Economic Ventures LLC 
  • Eric Keen 
    HDR Inc. 
  • Peter Kowalczuk 
    Canon USA 
  • Reece A. Kurtenbach
    Daktronics
  • Tamara Lundgren 
    Radius Recycling 
  • Ashish Masih 
    Encore Capital Group 
  • Barry McCarthy 
    Deluxe 
  • Stan Middleman 
    Freedom Mortgage 
  • Alan Murray 
    Fortune Media 
  • Joel Myers 
    AccuWeather 
  • Camille Olson 
    Seyfarth Shaw LLP 
  • Gregg Petersmeyer 
    Points of Light 
  • Bob Pryor 
    NTT Data Services 
  • Nathan Rosenberg 
    Insigniam 
  • Peter Stoy 
    Hanger, Inc.  
  • Michael Stubblefield 
    Avantor Sciences 
  • John Thomas  
    Physicians Realty Trust 
  • Stellar Tucker 
    Truist Securities  
  • CJ Warner 
    Renewable Energy Group ret  
  • Maggie Wilderotter 
    Grand Reserve Inn 
  • Ron Williams 
    RW2 Enterprises, LLC 
  • Scott Wine 
    CNH Industrial 
  • Cliff Young 
    Ipsos 

CED Distinguished Leadership Awards Celebration

Commitment To Business Stewardship & Corporate Citizenship

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