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The Director of the Year Awards recognizes directors who have demonstrated leadership in the boardroom and excellence in corporate governance through outstanding professionalism, ethics, dedication and achievement.

Lifetime Achievement Award - An individual over 10+ years has demonstrated meaningful contributions as a director to the companies that he/she has served and has made a recognizable mark on the Orange County Business community.

Corporate Governance - A director who has been a leader in guiding the Board and executive management in maintaining the ethics and conscience of the companies that he/she serves as well as ensuring that proper policies and procedures are in place to address concerns of risk, fraud, transparency and accountability.

Corporate Leadership and Service - A director who has exhibited leadership in the boardroom through service on more than one committees of the board and who is widely recognized as an outstanding director and a multi-faceted contributor to the boards on which he has served.

Corporate Growth and Development - A director who has made a significant contribution to corporate growth and development by bringing unique abilities or outside sources to enhance the growth, operations and profitability of the companies he has served.

Early Stage Companies - A director who has played a strategic role in creating value and growing companies from the new idea stage by contributing to the company's development through capital-raising, marketing and organizational development through the various phases and finally through the exit phase, whether that be an acquisition or a transition to a public company.

Enhancement of Economic Value - A director who has made an outstanding contribution to enhancing the economic value of the company in the course of fulfilling his responsibilities to investors, employees, vendors and customers through service as a director.

Corporate Citizenship - Recognizes a director who in addition to service to public or private for profit corporations has made significant contributions as a director to non-profit organizations or has been instrumental in the efforts of for profit companies to give back to their communities.

Chairman's Award - An individual who has made outstanding and sustaining contributions to the growth and development of the Orange County business community.