The annual B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a director whose distinguished boardroom service throughout their career best exemplifies the characteristics modeled by the former NACD CEO for whom the award is named. Honorees are recognized for their dedication to effective leadership, their improvement of corporate governance, and the demonstrable impact they have had in their communities and throughout their boardroom service to public, private, or nonprofit entities.

As founder and Managing Director of Peter Browning Partners, LLC, a board advisory service, Peter has a wide range of experience in business, and as a director. Since 1987, he has served on the board of directors of fourteen publicly traded companies during which time he has served as Chairman and CEO, CEO, non-executive chair, lead director, and chairs of audit, compensation, and governance/nominating committees. Recent board service includes ten years at Wachovia Corporation, sixteen years at Lowes Companies, sixteen years at Nucor Corporation where he served as non-executive chairman and lead director, fourteen years at EnPro Industries, and most recently twenty years at Acuity Brands last serving as lead director. He serves as the lead director of ScanSource, Inc., and is a member of the board of directors of GMS, Inc. In January 2013, he joined the board of the private company Equilar, the leading provider of compensation and governance data, as lead independent director, stepping down in June 2022.