American Society of Corporate Secretaries has been renamed the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals "to validate the increased responsibilities of its members and to reflect the changing nature of the job of corporate secretary," according to a statement from the group.
"There's been a growing need in most corporations for someone to handle the challenges of corporate governance, and usually that person is the corporate secretary," Kathleen L. Gibson, society chairman and vice president, secretary and corporate governance officer at Prudential Financial, said in the statement. "Since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, most of the society's members have taken on even more work, dealing with the many compliance issues brought on by the legislation."
The society has more than 3,800 corporate attorneys and governance and business executives representing more than 3,000 organizations.
