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2010 All-America Executive Team

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Overview | Leaderboard | 1st Place CEOs | 1st Place CFOs | 1st Place IR Professionals | Best IR Companies | Top 3 CEOs | Top 3 CFOs | Top 3 IR Professionals | Top 3 IR Companies | Methodology | View Article |


Overview

Analysts Choose America’s Top CEOs, CFOs, IR Professionals

First Solar, an alternative energy company headquartered in Phoenix, is the only company to finish in first place in every category in its industry sector on the 2010 All-America Executive Team, Institutional Investor’s exclusive ranking of the nation’s best CEOs, CFOs, investor relations professionals and IR companies.

Survey results are based on responses from buy- and sell-side equity analysts, whose votes are tabulated separately, for a total of eight categories (Best CEO as determined by the buy side, Best CEO as determined by the sell side, etc.).

Analysts on both sides say that First Solar provides the Best IR of any company in the Alternative Energy sector. In addition, they are united in their belief that First Solar has the sector’s Best CEO (Michael Ahearn*), Best CFO (Jens Meyerhoff) and Best IR Professional (Larry Polizzotto).

Three companies take top honors in seven of the eight categories in their respective sectors: Memphis-based commercial bank First Horizon National Corp. (Banks/Midcap); Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, a mining outfit headquartered in Phoenix (Metals & Mining); and office-supply retailer Staples, based in Framingham, Massachusetts (Retailing/Hardlines).

To view the complete list of companies that earned at least one first-place vote in the Best CEO, Best CFO, Best IR Professional, or Best IR Company, click on the Leaderboard tab above.

To view the top-ranked CEOs, CFOs, and IR Professionals, click on the relevant “1st Place” tab above.

Best IR Companies lists the top-ranked firms in each sector.

More-detailed results are available to subscribers only by accessing one of the “Top 3” links above.

For information on how these rankings were compiled, click on Methodology.

*Ahearn stepped down as CEO in October, after polling for the All-America Executive Team had concluded. He remains First Solar’s executive chairman.


More-detailed coverage of the 2010 All-America Executive Team can be found in the February issue of Institutional Investor. To start your subscription, click here.

For more information about these rankings, please contact Michele Bickford at mbickford@iiresearchgroup.com.



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