Our nationally acclaimed Annual Aiming High Awards Luncheon, now in its 20th year showcases the most successful and influential women in the business community - positioning them as role models for all our nation’s women and girls - while also giving them, their friends and colleagues an opportunity to "pay it forward." And we honor our Men of Distinction, recognized for their leadership in championing the rights of women and girls, so that more men are encouraged to do the same.
Past Aiming High Award Recipients
2020
Tonit Calaway, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, BorgWarner Inc. Christine DeBiase, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, Brighthouse Financial, Inc.
Citi, Corporate Champion Award
2019
Lucy Fato Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Interim Head of Human Resources, American International Group Jennifer Marre Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Bank of America Pilar Ramos Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Mastercard Robert M. Kaufman Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP - The Legal Momentum Lifetime Champion Award
2018
Cathy Engelbert Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Sari Granat Executive Vice President & General Counsel, IHS Markit William E. Ford Chief Executive Officer, General Atlantic - Man of Distinction
2017
Stephanie Drescher Global Head of Business Development and Investor Relationship Management, Apollo Global Management, LLC Lisa Garcia Quiroz SVP, Cultural Investments and Chief Diversity Officer, Time Warner Inc., President, Time Warner Foundation Brad S. Karp Chair, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP – Man of Distinction
2016
Lynn R. Charytan Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Comcast Cable; and Senior Vice President and Senior Deputy General Counsel, Comcast Corporation Barbara Desoer Chief Executive Officer, Citibank, N.A. Natasha Lamb Partner, Arjuna Capital Tracey T. Travis Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. J. Michael Cook Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte – Man of Distinction
2015
Suzanne Rich Folsom General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Senior Vice President United States Steel Corporation Gina Proia Chief Communications Officer, Ally Financial Eileen Simon Chief Franchise Integrity Officer, MasterCard Linda K. Zecher President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014
Doris Meister President, U.S. Markets, Tri-State, BNY Mellon Wealth Management Amy Olli Executive Vice President and General Counsel, CA Technologies Bea Perez Chief Sustainability Officer, The Coca-Cola Company Ilene Wachs President, Horizon Casualty Services, Inc., Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Linda Zukauckas Executive Vice President and Corporate Controller, American Express Company
2013
Maliz Beams Chief Executive Officer, ING U.S. Retirement Solutions Liz Beshel Robinson Treasurer, Goldman Sachs Suni Harford Regional Head of Markets, North America, Citigroup, Inc. Ivy Thomas McKinney Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer, Xerox Kelly Tullier Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, PepsiCo
2012
Pamela Carter President, Cummins Distribution Business Jane Fraser Chief Executive Officer, Citi Private Bank Lynn Utter President and Chief Operating Officer, Knoll Office Kathy Zachem Senior Vice President, Regulatory and State Legislative Affairs, Comcast Corporation
2011
Carol Baldwin Moody SVP and Chief Risk Officer, Wilmington Trust Deborah Majoras Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, The Procter & Gamble Company Kathleen Abernathy Chief Legal Officer, Frontier Communications Sabine Chalmers Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer, Anheuser-Busch InBev Diane H. Gulyas President, DuPont Performance Polymers Jane Sherburne Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, BNY Mellon
2010
Bridget M. Healy Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, ING US Deborah Doyle McWhinney President, Citi Personal Banking and Wealth Management, Citigroup Vicki A. O’Meara Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Pitney Bowes Inc. Ellen Oran Kaden SVP, Law and Government Affairs, Campbell Soup Company
2009
Carol Lavin Bernick Executive Chairman, Alberto-Culver Bernice E. Lavin Co-Founder, Alberto-Culver, in memoriam Debra A. Cafaro Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ventas Paula B. Pretlow SVP, Capital Guardian Trust Company Amy W. Schulman Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Pfizer Margaret Maxwell Zagel National Managing Principal, Risk, Regulatory and Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Grant Thornton
2008
Bonnie Howard Chief Auditor, Citi Rosemary Nelson Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Operations, Colgate-Palmolive Louise Parent Executive Vice President and General Counsel, American Express Lynn Pike President, Capital One Banking
2007
Denise Morrison President, Campbell USA, Campbell Soup Eileen K. Murray Global Head of Operations and Technology, Morgan Stanley Kathryn A. Oberly Vice Chair and General Counsel, Ernst & Young Diane Schumaker-Krieg Managing Director, Global Head of Research, Wachovia Neli Vazquez-Rowland Chief Executive Officer, Be! Products and A Safe Haven
2006
Linda Gooden President, Lockheed Martin Information Technology Joan Guggenheimer Co-General Counsel, JP Morgan Chase Catherine Liggins Hughes Founder and Chairperson, Radio One Suzanne Nora Johnson Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Diane Schueneman Senior Vice President and Head of Global Operations and Infrastructure Services, Merrill Lynch
2005
Vivian Banta Office of the Chairman, Prudential Financial Rosemary T. Berkery Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Merrill Lynch Beth Comstock Chief Marketing Officer, GE Mary Minnick President and Chief Operating Officer, Coca-Cola Asia Group, Coca-Cola Beverly Wallace President, Financial Services Group, HCA
2004
Colleen C. Barrett President, Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary, Southwest Airlines Sallie L. Krawcheck Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Smith Barney Ellen J. Kullman Group Vice President, DuPont Safety and Protection, DuPont Esta Eiger Stecher Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Goldman Sachs Maggie Wilderotter Senior Vice President, World Wide Public Sector, Microsoft Barbara A. Yastine Chief Financial Officer, Credit Suisse First Boston
2003
Maria Elena Lagomasino Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, JP Morgan Private Bank Dawn Gould Lepore Vice Chairman of Technology, Operations, and Administration, Charles Schwab Judy Lewent Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Merck Pearl Meyer Chairman, Pearl Meyer and Partners Stephanie Mudick Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Citigroup
2002
Patricia Dunn Global Chief Executive, Barclays Global Investors Jamie Gorelick Vice Chair, Fannie Mae Anastasia Kelly Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Sears Barbara Marcus Executive Vice President, Scholastic Pamela Thomas-Graham President and Chief Executive Officer, CNBC
2001
Michele Anthony Executive Vice President, Sony Music Carole Black President and Chief Executive Officer, Lifetime Janice Brandt Vice Chair and Chief Marketing Officer, AOL Frieda Caplan Founder and Chairman, Frieda’s Wanda Denson Low Vice President and Chief Counsel, Boeing Terri Dial President and Chief Executive Officer, Wells Fargo Bank Patricia Diaz-Dennis Senior Vice President, SBC Nina DiSesa Chief Creative Officer, McCann-Erickson Nancy Evans Co-Founder, Co-Chairperson and Editor-in-Chief, iVillage Orit Gadiesh Chairman, Bain & Company Lois Juliber Chief Operating Officer, Colgate-Palmolive Jenette Kahn President and Editor-in-Chief, DC Comics Karen Katen Executive Vice President, Pfizer Barbara Krumsiek President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, Calvert Group Geraldine Laybourne Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Oxygen Media Cindi Leive Editor-in-Chief, Self Magazine Lauren B. Leichtman Founder and General Partner, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Shelly Lazarus Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Heidi Miller Vice Chairman, Marsh Sara Moss Vice President and General Counsel, Pitney Bowes Carolyn Setlow Group Senior Vice President, Roper Starch Westina Matthews Shatteen, Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner Vice Chairman, Estee Lauder Deborah Willingham Vice President of Human Resources, Microsoft Patricia Woertz President, Chevron