Susan G. Komen for the Cure's CEO Hala Moddelmog Receives First-Ever Encore Career Award for Successful Career Change

First Woman to Head Global Quick Service Restaurant Brand Now Drives World's Largest Global Breast Cancer Advocacy Organization

ATLANTA - January 23, 2008 - Hala Moddelmog, president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the global leader in the fight to end breast cancer forever, was recognized for her successful career change at BoardWalk Consulting's Fifth Anniversary Celebration in Atlanta.

Moddelmog, who became Komen for the Cure's CEO in 2006, was presented with the inaugural Encore Career Award for the most fascinating career change as recognized by BoardWalk Consulting, a company that provides executive search, governance and strategy consulting for non-profit organizations and foundations.

"It is with a great deal of pride that I receive this award," said Moddelmog. "Changing careers has not only energized me, it has given me the opportunity to give back to the community in a very meaningful way."

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin received BoardWalk Consulting's Service Above Self Award for preserving Martin Luther King's legacy in Atlanta by bringing the King Papers back to the city.

First corporate American woman to lead international quick serve restaurant brand
In 1995 Moddelmog, a breast cancer survivor, became the first woman in corporate America to lead an international quick service restaurant brand when she was named president of Church's Chicken, a division of Atlanta-based AFC Enterprises. Church's subsequently realized record sales and profit performance. Prior to joining Komen for the Cure, Moddelmog was founder and CEO of Catalytic Ventures, a private equity firm that consulted and invested in the food service industry.

"Hala Moddelmog heard the call to move from success to significance, affirming for other managers that there are challenges even more enriching than sales increases," said BoardWalk founder Sam Pettway.

Moving ahead into the coming decade
Moddelmog has led Komen in building new alliances with leading cancer organizations in order to reduce duplicated efforts and maximize resources. She has assembled a group of breast cancer thought leaders led by distinguished Dana-Farber clinician and Harvard educator, Dr. Eric P. Winer, to form Komen's new Scientific Advisory Board. Komen has implemented new grants mechanisms to speed the delivery of discoveries and breast cancer cures. In 2007, Moddelmog saw the organization make the largest grants investment in its 25-year history, more than $77 million. In addition, she led Komen leadership to make public its pledge to invest no less than $2 billion in the coming decade on research and community outreach programs. Moddelmog inaugurated Komen's global expansion into 10 foreign countries, including several in the Middle East, and in the fall of 2007, she led a delegation of breast cancer advocates from the United States to an historic meeting held in Budapest, Hungary with breast cancer advocate counterparts from 30 other countries.