Recent Honorees

2022

Susan Chiaviello DiDonato ’82
Senior Vice President, HR Advisory/Business Integrity | WPP

Gerald DiDonato ’83, PhD
Senior Director, Regulatory Sciences–CMC Biologics | Bristol Myers Squibb

Grace Vandecruze
Founder and Managing Director | Grace Global Capital LLC

2019

Mary A. Griffin
President and Chief Executive Officer | Life Insurance Council of New York, Inc.

Richard A. White
Chief Executive Officer | ShelterPoint Life Insurance Company

2018

Dolly Lenz
CEO/Founder | Dolly Lenz Real Estate LLC

Steven M. Menzies
President | Applied Underwriters, Inc.

2017

Frank Kurre
Managing Partner, Metro New York & New England | Grant Thornton LLP

2016

M. Shafik Gabr
Chairman and Managing Director | ARTOC Group for Investment and Development
Chairman | The Shafik Gabr Foundation

Pamela J. Newman
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Newman Team | Aon plc

2015

William M. O’Connor
Thompson & Knight LLP

Cheryl C. Shea
Office of the Deputy Commissioner | Training New York City Police Department

And all the men and women of the New York City Police Department

2014

Ibrahim K. Naimi
President | Saudi Petroleum International, Inc.

Edmund C. Duffy
Of Counsel | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

2013

David J. Walsh
President and Chief Executive Officer | Amalgamated Life Insurance Company
Chief Executive Officer | Alico Services Corporation

Alice Chebba Walsh
Artist, Library Advocate, and Theater Producer

His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan | Saint Vincent De Paul Award Honoree
Archbishop Emeritus of New York

2012

C. Edward (Chuck) Chaplin
President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer | MBIA Inc.

William J. Fishlinger, Esq.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | WRM America

2011

Carmen J. Lawrence
Partner and Co-Head Securities Enforcement and Regulation Practice | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Deryck A. Palmer
Senior Partner and Co-Chairman Financial Restructuring Department | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP