CELEBRATE THE GEO AWARD WINNERS WITH GEO
Since their inception in 2002, the GEO Awards have cast a spotlight on the industry’s highest flyers and strongest performers. They have become a byword for quality, class and achievement the awards that everybody wants to win.
They highlight new and innovative approaches, outstanding examples of design, and celebrate the achievements of the businesses and individuals that are leading the way in this fast growing and vibrant industry.The GEO Awards booklets explain each category and summarizes the award-winning entries. We hope that you may gain insight, inspiration and tips from each of the winners that you can take away and apply to your daily work.
ABOUT THE WINNERS
The winners represent 14 companies across nine different industry sectors, that employ as few as 146 to more then 2.3 million employees, headquatered in eight countries.
MEET THE 2023 JUDGES
GEO Awards are judged by a panel of industry leaders representing only issuer companies or members of academia, all of whom are considered experts in their respective fields. In addition to meeting stringent criteria related to their experience, expertise and achievements, each judge agrees to dedicate their time to the rigorous judging process.
GEO is grateful to this accomplished group of professionals for the time and energy they dedicate to this process.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEAD JUDGE
Yael Elbaz-Roiter, FGE, CEP
Yael has broad experience of building and running global projects and programs. Design, implementation, communication plans, and management, for equity compensation and recognition plans.
At Teva Pharmaceuticals, Yael was responsible for managing the global recognition program for over 42K participants and the company's equity programs in over 67 countries, Shareholders database and company dividend process.
Yael’s experiences and responsibilities also includes management of affiliate transactions and the insider trading policy, proxy and financial reporting, M&A transactions, monitoring and implementation of regulatory developments worldwide, as well as administration of special equity-related projects which included but were not limited to the options exchange program, special dividend/dividend reinvestment issuance, share depository transition and stock plan system conversions.
Vastly experienced in equity plan systems and broker equity administration services, Yael also works closely with NYSE, TASE (Tel Aviv stock exchange), custodian banks and brokers worldwide and frequently speaks at equity compensation-related events.
Dr. Joseph R. Blasi
Joseph Blasi is a distinguished professor and sociologist at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University where he teaches the undergraduate and graduate courses on corporate governance. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His work includes economic sociology, the social and economic history of the corporation, and public policy, particularly broad-based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, gain sharing, and stock options in corporations, in countries, in industries, for example, with a study of Silicon Valley, and in different historical periods of American history.
He has written 13 books including Employee Ownership (Harper and Row, 1988), The New Owners with D. Kruse (HarperCollins, 1991), Kremlin Capitalism with M. Kroumova and D. Kruse (Cornell University Press, 1996), A Working Nation with various co-authors (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), In The Company of Owners with D. Kruse and A. Bernstein (Basic Books, 2003), and Shared Capitalism at Work with D. Kruse and R. Freeman (University of Chicago Press, 2010). His articles have appeared in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, and the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, among others.
Cherie Curry, FGE
Cherie is the Director of Global Equity at Hilton. She has overall management responsibilities for Hilton’s Global Equity Plans. She has a broad depth of experience in all facets of equity compensation with responsibility for strategic planning, worldwide regulatory and tax compliance in over 100 countries, global communications, vendor management, overhang, burn rate and stock plan reserve analysis.
Cherie's issuer experience includes oversight of employee stock plans in various M&A transactions, development and implementation of ESPPs, working with internal and external partners on best practices for share plan requests, new vendor implementations, insider trading compliance, accounting and valuations, and overall plan administration.
Cherie holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and has earned her CEP.