Past honorees of the NYBGH award include Eugene McGrath, CEO of Con Edison, John Biggs, chairman, president, and CEO of TIAA-CREF, Frederick Salerno, vice chairman and CFO of Verizon, and Alair Townsend, publisher of Crain's New York Business.
This past year, Cushman & Wakefield provided pro bono real estate expertise to the NYBGH in the negotiations for a new lease arrangement with the organization's current landlord.
At the time of sample selection, there were 103 corporate members of the ILC and 267 member organizations in the
NYBGH. An overlap of seventeen (17) companies, which were members of both organizations, reduced the initial population size from 370 to 353 companies.