DONNA MISKIN:  The Overall Excellence Award is a very special honor in the Alexander Hamilton Awards. The judges recognize one company for excellence based on the cumulative impressiveness of their offerings or the uniqueness of their innovation.

And as I mentioned before, this year we had an incredible field of entries. The judges were absolutely blown away. It was really difficult to pick the winners in each of the categories. But as we did, we saw some top contenders here and our platinum sponsor, Bank of New York Mellon, will help us present this award. And I'm pleased to introduce Susan Skerritt.

Susan leads the strategy development and investment division of the Financial Markets & Treasury Services Group of the Bank of New York Mellon. The FMTS Group represents about one-third of the revenue stream of the bank and includes treasury services, corporate trusts, shareowner services, depository receipts, broker/dealer services and alternative services.