Henry (Hank) Boerner Career Information ContinuedBefore becoming a consultant and senior advisor, Hank Boerner served as a board-appointed officer and senior communications manager for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), responsible for strategic communication with listed companies, NYSE member firms, institutional and individual investors, US and foreign media, the Congress, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Boerner was a member of the NYSE’s revamped management team pioneering broad reforms [including policy recommendations for rules for listed corporations and member firms]; these were designed to bolster investor confidence in the markets, and became important elements of the corporate governance movement of the 1980s and early 1990s. Boerner has held senior management, marketing, communications and public affairs posts with the N.Y.S. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and was a member of New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s administration over two terms. He was American Airlines’ chief “citizenship officer” during the civil rights / social unrest era of the 1960s pioneering modern corporate social responsibility and provided strategies and counsel to other major companies as they developed corporate social responsibility programs to respond to rapidly-changing events in politics, business and society. Hank Boerner is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), its Senior Roundtable, and is editor of NIRI’s professional audience publication, IR Update. He is contributing editor and corporate governance columnist of Corporate Finance Review (RIA-Thompson journal for corporate financial officers); And Contributing Editor and emerging issues commentator of Investor Relations Newsletter (Kennedy Publications). Hank Boerner is Chairman-Emeritus of the Issues Management Council (IMC), and is a board member of the global professional membership organization that advances the best practices in the issue management discipline. He also serves on the board of the National Investor Relations Institute New York Chapter. Boerner has long served as an independent arbitrator and mediator for major business disputes; is a Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association; and member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Resolution Dispute. Boerner also serves as pro bono advisor to the 600-member National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. He is a board member of the Riverhead (NY) Industrial Development Agency (IDA) and the Hallockville Museum Farm (North Fork, LI). Click here to read corporate governance columns and other commentary by Hank Boerner. Click here to read Hank Boerner's Blog -- Accountability-Matters Click here to view Video Interview - October 2007 - Cablevision System - New York: Click here to view Governance & Accountability Chairman, Hank Boerner's interview with host Dr. Harvey Passes - Comments on emergency preparedness, protecting your home and family, business and other topics and concerns. (:30 minutes) |
"...Some things, it would seem, never do change. Fraud, greed, and plain old incompetence continute to be out there, and it only takes a little bit of any of them to spoil the party for the rest of us. Two of my colleagues, Marianne Jennings and Hank Boerner, have never failed to remind all of us of this salient fact...Their intelligent, perceptive, and witty observations have, I feel, been one of the journal's real strengths. Thanks to them, few journals speak more eloquently or perceptively about ethics and corporate governance than Corporate Finance Review. It has been and remians a real pleasure to work with them both..." - Morgan Witzel, Editor-in-Chief |
