Specifications include, but are not limited to: Preparation of Report on California Women Business Leaders. The contractor should obtain data on the gender composition of top management teams and boards of directors of the 400 largest California corporations for 2011. The 400 largest California companies should be identified from COMPUSTAT or a similar data source and should include all firms that are headquartered in California and that are among the 400 largest such firms in terms of market capitalization as of April 15, 2011. The contractor should obtain management and board data on the 400 largest California firms from firms’ SEC filings; specifically their annual reports (Form 10K) and proxy reports (Form DEF 14A) or from another data source that obtains data from these SEC filings. The research team should obtain data from firms’ most recent SEC filings, as of June 1st, 2011, but no earlier than June 1, 2010 (firms that did not file DEF 14A or 10K reports in the period between June 1, 2010 and June 1, 2011 should not be included in the census). The contractor should define a firms’ top management team as the firm’s five highest paid executives, which the SEC refers to as “named executive officers.�
