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Name |
Company |
Action |
News |
Date |
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Roy
Disney
|
Walt
Disney Co. Inc. |
Resigns
Board |
Roy
Disney resigned from the board citing serious differences of opinion
with Michael Eisner, mismanagement of ABC Prime Time, mico-management,
creative brain drain and a host of other differences. |
12/4/2003 |
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Stanley
Gold
|
Walt
Disney Co. Inc. |
Resigns
Board |
Gold
resigned shortly after Disney in a protest against Michael Eisner's
leadership. |
12/4/2003 |
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John
S. Chen
|
Walt
Disney Co. Inc. |
Resigns
Board |
Chen,
CEO and chairman of Sybase Inc., a company that makes wireless and
database software for businesses, was named after the surprise resignations
of Disney and Gold. |
12/4/2003 |
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Phillip
Condit
|
Boeing
Co. |
Resigns
Board |
Condit
resigned after his CFO was fired for cause as a result of alleged
improper hiring practices. |
12/4/2003 |
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Mike
Sears
|
Boeing
Co. |
CFO
fired for cause |
Sears
was fired for cause after allegedly hiring an airforce employee
into Boeing while she was overseeing a tender offer for a government
contract. |
12/4/2003 |
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David
P. O'Brien
|
Royal
Bank of Canada |
Elected
Chairman |
O'Brien
will be the Bank's next non-executive chairman of the board following
the retirement of Guy Saint-Pierre at the company's annual meeting
in Toronto. |
12/4/2003 |
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Guy
Saint-Pierre
|
Royal
Bank of Canada |
Resigns
Chairman, Board |
Saint-Pierre,
who is also retiring from the RBC board following the annual meeting,
has been a director since 1990 and, prior to taking the chairman's
role, was the company's lead director. |
12/4/2003 |
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Lewis
E. Platt
|
Boeing
Co. |
Elected
Chairman |
Appointed
non-executive chairman, Platt joined Hewlett-Packard in 1966 in
medical products operations and then managed various parts of HP's
computer business. He became an executive vice president in 1987
and retired in 1999 after serving seven years as chairman, CEO and
president of HP. He was the CEO of Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates
from 2000 to mid-2001. |
12/4/2003 |
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Harry
Stonecipher
|
Boeing
Co. |
Elected
President, CEO |
Stonecipher's
aerospace career spans more than 47 and CEO years from his start
at General Motors' Allison Division as a lab technician to running
McDonnell Douglas and being elected vice chairman of Boeing Co.
in 2001. In 1960, he joined General Electric's aircraft engine operations,
and progressed through a series of engineering and program positions,
ending up running the division from 1984 to 1987. |
12/4/2003 |
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Rebecca
McDonald
|
Noble
Energy |
Joins
Board |
McDonald,
president of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, previously served
in executive management positions at several major energy companies.
Her addition increases the board's size to eight members. |
11/20/2003 |
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Dr.
Lee Todd Jr.
|
Equitable
Resources |
Joined
board |
Todd,
president of the University of Kentucky, will serve on the company's
compensation committee. He replaces E. Lawrence Keyes Jr., who is
retiring effective Dec. 31. |
11/20/2003 |
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Robert
Welding
|
Federal
Signal |
Elected
President, CEO |
Welding,
formerly an executive vice presdient of Borg Warner and a group
president, replaces Joseph Ross. Ross will continue to serve as
chairman of the board. |
11/20/2003 |
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Sherrill
Hudson
|
MasTec
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Hudson
was formerly managing partner for South Florida at Deloitte &
Touche. |
11/20/2003 |
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Christopher
Williams
|
Harrah's
Entertainment |
Joins
Board |
Williams
is CEO of The Williams Capital Group and Williams Capital Management. |
11/20/2003 |
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Richard
Wallman
|
Lear
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Wallman
recently served as CFO of AlliedSignal and Honeywell International. |
11/20/2003 |
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Brenda
Lauderback
|
Wolverine
World Wide |
Joins
Board |
Lauderback,
who fills a new seat on the board, was group president for wholesale
and retail at Nine West. |
11/20/2003 |
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Mike
Fister
|
Autodesk
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Fister
is senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise
Platforms Group. |
11/20/2003 |
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J.
Hicks Lanier
|
SunTrust
Banks |
Joins
Board |
Lanier,
who is president of Oxford Industries, has served as a member of
the advisory board of SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, for more than 20 years. |
11/20/2003 |
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H.
Carl McCall
|
Standard
Commercial |
Joined
board |
McCall
is vice chairman of HealthPoint, a private equity firm, and a former
comptroller of New York state. |
11/20/2003 |
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John
Spiegel
|
Colonial
Properties Trust |
Joins
Board |
Spiegel,
who is vice chairman and CFO of SunTrust Banks, will serve on the
company's audit committee. |
11/20/2003 |
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Michael
Noel
|
Avista
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Noel,
who is president of his own financial consulting firm, was formerly
a CFO of Edison International. His addition increases the board
to 11 members. |
11/20/2003 |
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Robert
Bohannon
|
Certegy
Inc. |
Resigns
Board |
Bohannon,
who joined the board in June 2001, chaired the company's nominating
and governance committee and was a member of its compensation and
human resources committee. The CEO of Viad Corp. resigned to devote
time to the spinoff of its payment services business and avoid the
appearance of impropriety should the spinoff explore business opportunities
with Certegy in the future. |
11/20/2003 |
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K.
Brent Somers
|
The
Boyds Collection Ltd. |
Joined
board |
Somers
will serve as chairman of the audit committee. Last week, Boyds
named Jan L. Murley, a consumer products industry veteran, CEO and
director. Somers was most recently a senior executive vice president
and CFO of KeyCorp. |
11/6/2003 |
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Wayne
A. Budd
|
McKesson
Corp. |
Joins
Board |
Budd
is EVP and Gen Counsel of John Hancock Financial Services Inc. of
Boston; the election of Budd brings the board to nine members. |
11/6/2003
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Edward
E. Birch
|
Pacific
Capital Bancorp |
Elected
Chairman |
Birch
will succeed as chairman following the 2004 annual meeting. Dale
R. Hanst will retire from the board. Robert W. Kummer and John R.
Mackall have been nominated. Roger C. Knopf has been appointed to
replace Birch as chair of the governance and compensation committee. |
11/6/2003 |
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Joan
E. Spero
|
IBM |
Joins
Board |
Spero
is president of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. |
11/6/2003 |
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Alfredo
Trujillo, Ben M. Haverty
|
Haverty
Companies Inc. |
Joined
board |
Rawson
Haverty Sr. stepped down as director but will remain chariman emeritus.
Trujillo is president and CEO of Recall Corp., a global information
management company; and Haverty is regional manager of the company's
Georgia operations. |
11/6/2003 |
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Ronald
L. Turner
|
Imagistics
International |
Joins
Board |
Turner
is chairman, president and CEO of Ceridian Corp. |
11/6/2003 |
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H.
Brian Thompson
|
Sonus
Networks |
Joined
board |
Thompson
worked in the telecommunications industry for more than 20 years.
He currently serves as chairman of the board for Comsat. He also
heads his own private equity investment and advisory firm, Universal
Telecommunications, Inc. |
10/28/2003 |
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John
L. Miclot
|
Respironics,
Inc. |
Elected
president and CEO |
Miclot
held the position of chief strategic officer of Respironics and
previously served as president of the homecare division for 3.5
years. He succeeds Liken who has been president and CEO since 1999.
Liken will assume the newly created role of vice chairman. |
10/27/2003 |
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Gerard
Vlak, PhD
|
Axonyx,
Inc. |
Appointed
vice chair of board |
Prior
to joining the board, Vlak was former member of the executive board
of Rabobank Nederland and is a former Executive VP and CFO of ABN
AMRO Bank, USA. He currently sits on several corporate boards, including
the Rouse Company and the Board of Trustees of Bank Julius Baer
Investment Funds.
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10/27/2003 |
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Gosse
B. Bruinsma, MD
|
Axonyx,
Inc. |
Elected
president |
Bruinsma
was president of Axonyx Europe and continues as COO of Axonyx, Inc. |
10/27/2003 |
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Glenn
Lyon
|
The
Finish Line, Inc. |
Elected
president |
Lyon
joined Finish Line in September 2001 and has served as Executive
Vice President and Chief Merchandise Officer since that time. |
10/27/2003 |
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Cecil
H. Moore, Jr. |
Perot
Systems Corporation |
Joined
board |
Moore
retired from KPMG LLP in 2000 after 37 years with the firm. From January 1990 to August 1999,
he served as managing partner of the KPMG-Dallas business unit. |
10/27/2003 |
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Lewis
Hay III and Mayo A. Shattuck III
|
Capital
One Financial Corp. |
Joined
board |
Hay
is Chairman, President and CEO of FPL Group, Inc. and Shattuck is
Chairman, President and CEO of Constellation Energy Group.
They will fill two newly created seats on the Board. |
10/27/2003 |
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Thomas
J. Marino
|
Somerset
Hills Bancorp |
Joined
board |
Marino
is a CPA and the Managing Partner of J.H. Cohn LLP, one of the fifteen
largest accounting and consulting firms in the US specializing in
middle market businesses. |
10/27/2003 |
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Mark
A. Cohen |
Trans
World Entertainment Corp. |
Joined
board |
Cohen
is currently the CEO of Sears Canada Inc. |
10/27/2003 |
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Larry
D. Thompson
|
Delta
Air Lines |
Joined
board |
Thompson
most recently served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States. |
10/24/2003 |
|
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Lawrence
Rosenthal
|
Andrx
Corporation |
Elected
president |
Rosenthal
was elected president of Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and will report
directly to Andrx's CEO. |
10/24/2003 |
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Hector
Garcia-Molina, Ph.D.; Alfred R. Berkeley III; Philip Heasley; Deborah
D. Rieman, Ph.D.; and Robert J. Korzeniewski, C.P.A.
|
Kintera
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Garcia
-Molina joined Kintera as a member of its advisory board in 2001
and has served as director since 2003. Berkeley joined Kintera as
a director in 2003. Heasley joined Kintera as a director in 2003.
Rieman joined Kintera as a director in 2003. Korzeniewski joined
Kintera as a director in 2003. |
10/21/2003 |
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Jan
L. Murley
|
The
Boyds Collection, Ltd. |
Elected
CEO and joins board |
Murley
spent three years as group vice president for Hallmark Cards, which
she joined following a more than 20-year tenure at Procter &
Gamble. |
10/21/2003 |
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Phillip
M. Schneider, MBA, CPA
|
CancerVax
Corporation |
Joined
board |
Will
serve as audit committee chairman. Schneider has 22 years of experience
in the pharmaceutical industry, including 15 years of financial
management experience at IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation where
he recently retired as senior vice president and chief financial
officer. Further, he serves as a member of the board and chairman
of the audit committee for Gen-Probe, Inc. |
10/20/2003 |
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Fred
Hassan |
EDS |
Stepping
down from board position |
Effective
immediately. To focus on his responsibiities as chairman and CEO
of Schering-Plough Corporation. |
10/20/2003 |
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Ronald
A. Williams
|
Lucent
Technologies |
Joined
board |
Williams
is the president and a member of the board of directors for Aetna.
Williams will serve on the Audit and Finance Committees. |
10/20/2003 |
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J.
Kenneth Glass |
FedEx
Corporation |
Joined
board
|
Glass
is president and CEO of First Tennessee National Corp. |
10/20/2003 |
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Douglas
W. Johnson
|
AFLAC
Incorporated |
Joined
board |
Johnson
will serve until the annual shareholders meeting, at which time
he will stand for election. Johnson served for more than 20 years
as an audit partner at Ernst & Young as coordinating partner
for the firm's largest American insurance client and numerous other
insurance clients; his experience includes extensive work with the
audit committees of publicly held companies. |
10/18/2003 |
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Julian
Banton |
SouthTrust
Bank |
Resigns
as CEO |
Banton
had been CEO since 1989 and was named president and COO of parent
company SouthTrust Corp. earlier this year. Banton is retiring to
spend more time with his family. Banton will be replaced by Glenn
Eubanks, now bank president and chief operating officer. |
10/16/2003 |
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Steven
C. Petruska
|
Pulte
Homes |
Elected
exec VP and COO |
Petruska
fills a position left vacant when Dugas assumed his current position
as the President and CEO in 2003. Further, Patrick J. Beirne and
Jeffrey K. Parsigian named as Regional Presidents. |
10/16/2003 |
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Victoria
F. Haynes |
PPG
Industries |
Joined
board
|
Currently
president and CEO of Research Triangle Institute. |
10/16/2003 |
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Charles
H. Noski
|
Northrop
Grumman Corp. |
Elected
VP and CFO |
Succeeding
Waugh, who is retiring after 25 years. Noski is former AT&T
executive. |
10/16/2003 |
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Robert
H. Jenkins |
AK
Steel |
Named
chairman of board |
Jenkins
is the first non-executive chairman of AK Steel in its history;
an AK Steel board member since 1996. Jenkins is former chariman
and CEO of Sundstrand Corp. |
10/16/2003 |
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James
L. Wainscott
|
AK
Steel |
Named
president, CEO and joins board |
Acting
CEO since 9/2003 |
10/16/2003 |
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Mark
Perry |
Nuvelo,
Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Perry
will replace Formela effective 10/13/2003. |
10/14/2003 |
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Stephan
F. Newhouse
|
Morgan
Stanley |
Named
president |
Effective
12/1/2003, to replace Scott (retiring after 33 years). |
10/13/2003 |
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Vincent
J. Trosino |
Vulcan
Materials Company |
Joined
board
|
Trosino
is Vice Chairman, President and COO of State Farm Automobile. |
10/13/2003 |
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Mark
Auerbach
|
Pharmaceutical
Resources, Inc. |
New
chairman |
Auerbach
;has been PRX's lead outside director since July. |
10/13/2003 |
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Susan
Wang |
Altera
Corporation |
Joined
board
|
Former
CFO of Solectron |
10/13/2003 |
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Retired
Adm. David E. Jeremiah
|
Todd
Shipyards Corp |
Joined
board |
Jeremiah
is president of Technology Strategies & Alliance Corp. |
10/13/2003 |
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Chuck
Crovitz |
QRS
Corp. |
Joined
board
|
He
had been executive vice president and chief supply chain officer
for Gap Inc. |
10/12/2003 |
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Warren
N. Lieberfarb
|
Sirius
Satellite Radio Inc. |
Joined
board |
Is
known in the home video industry as the "father of DVD." |
10/11/2003 |
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James
D. Taiclet |
American
Tower Corporation |
Named
CEO |
Will
be succeeding Dodge, who will continue as Chairman. |
10/10/2003 |
|
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Theo
Melas-Kyriazi
|
Thoratec
Corporation |
Leaving
board |
Melas-Kyriazi
is CFO at Thermo Electron. |
10/10/2003 |
|
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Neil
Dimick |
Thoratec
Corporation |
Joined
board
|
Jim
was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of American
Tower in September 2001 and has been responsible for the Company's
tower and services business since that time |
10/10/2003 |
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Charles
W. Mueller
|
Ameren
Corporation |
Stepping
down |
Consistent
with bylaws, Mueller is retiring as Chairman and CEO on 12/31/2003. |
10/10/2003 |
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Gary
L. Rainwater |
Ameren
Corporation |
Joined
board
|
Rainwater
is president and chief operating officer of Ameren. |
10/10/2003 |
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Ret.
Gen. Wesley Clark
|
Acxiom |
Leaving
board |
The
resignation is effective immediately due to growing demands as a
Democratic presidential candidate. |
10/9/2003
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Theodore
E. Martin |
C.
R. Bard, Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Martin
was president and chief executive officer of Barnes Group, Inc.,
a multinational manufacturer and distributor of precision metal
parts and industrial supplies, until his retirement in December
1998. |
10/9/2003 |
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Jack
Harding and Stephen Recht
|
Marimba,
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Harding
and Recht replace outgoing board members Zingale and Sclavos. |
10/9/2003 |
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Karen
Beckwith |
CNS,
Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Beckwith
is president and CEO for Gelco Information Network, Inc. |
10/8/2003 |
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Paul
R. Charron and Les C. Vinney
|
Campbell
Soup Company |
Joined
board |
Charron
and Vinney succeed Tom Field and David Li, who are retiring from
the Board. Charron is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Liz
Claiborne. Vinney is President and Chief Executive Officer of STERIS
Corporation. |
10/8/2003 |
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Bill
Russell |
webMethods,
Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Russell,
former vice president of Hewlett Packard has held a broad range
of senior level positions during a 23 year career; his term to end
in 2006. |
10/8/2003
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Cynthia
A. Niekamp
|
Delphi
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Niekamp
is senior vice president and chief financial officer of MeadWestvaco
Corporation based in Stamford, Connecticut, where she is responsible
for all aspects of financial management and reporting as well as
corporate strategy; she will serve on Delphi's Audit Committee. |
10/8/2003 |
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Douglas
Robinson
|
Computer
Associates International, Inc. |
New
CFO |
Robinson
is senior vice president, finance, will serve in role until new
CFO is found. Robinson joined the company in 1989. Prior to joining
CA, he served as chief financial officer at Cullinet Software, Inc. |
10/8/2003 |
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Steven
C. Smith
|
Greater
Bay Bancorp |
Stepping
down |
Will
resign at year end. Smith, a CPA with almost 30 years of service
to the financial services industry, joined Cupertino National Bancorp
in 1993 and was an integral part of the formation of Greater Bay
Bancorp when Cupertino merged with Mid-Peninsula Bancorp in 1996.
Smith will retire at year end. |
10/7/2003
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Donald
Wilkinson |
Giant
Industries Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Wilkinson
is chairman of Wilkinson O'Grady & Co. Inc., a global asset
management firm in NYC and is also a member of the board of visitors
of the Virginia Military Institute and is chairman of the board
of trustees for the Darden School. |
10/7/2003 |
|
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Dennis
Wood
|
Solectron
Corporation |
Leaving
board |
Resigned
to devote time to his personal business interests. |
10/7/2003 |
|
|
Karen
Dawes |
Genaissance
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Dawes
is currently a principal at Knowledgeable Decisions, a biotech and
pharmaceutical industry consulting group. |
10/7/2003 |
|
|
Fran
Stoller and Stanley Barshay
|
Bed
Bath & Beyond Inc. |
Joined
board |
Stoller
is a Partner in the law firm of Loeb & Loeb LLP, where she serves
as Managing Partner of the firm's New York corporate practice. Barshay
is the Chairman of the Schering-Plough Consumer HealthCare Corporation
where he has responsibility for such brands as Claritin, Coppertone
and Dr. Scholls. |
10/7/2003 |
|
|
Mark
L. Perry
|
IntraBiotics
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|
Joined
board
|
Perry
is the executive vice president of operations for Gilead Sciences. |
10/7/2003 |
|
|
Karen
Edwards
|
RedEnvelope
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Edwards,
formerly a marketing executive with Yahoo! Inc., has joined the
board of the online retailer. |
10/6/2003
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|
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Daniel
Bane |
The
Ryland Group Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Bane,
CEO of Trader Joe's Co., has joined the board of the homebuilder. |
10/6/2003
|
|
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John
Rutherfurd Jr.
|
Moody's
Corp. |
New
chairman |
In
addition to his duties as CEO, Rutherfurd has been elected chairman,
succeeding Clifford Alexander Jr., who retired on Oct. 1. |
10/6/2003
|
|
|
Charles
Herington |
NII
Holdings Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Herrington,
CEO of America Online Latin America, has joined the board of the
mobile communications company. |
10/6/2003 |
|
|
Joerg
Agin, Joseph Fischer, and Warren Lieberfarb |
Digital
Theater Systems Inc. |
Joined
board |
Agin
has been appointed as the chair of the company's nominating and
corporate governance committee and will serve on the audit and compensation
committees as well. Fischer has been appointed as the chair of the
audit committee and will also serve on the nominating and corporate
governance committee. |
10/6/2003 |
|
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Rick
Valade |
Schlotzsky's
Inc. |
Stepping
down |
Valade,
the company's CFO, is leaving to pursue other interests. |
10/3/2003 |
|
|
James
Ringler |
NCR
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Ringler,
vice chairman of Illinois Tool Works Inc., has been elected to the
board of the technology company. |
10/3/2003 |
|
|
J.W.
Davis |
The
South Financial Group |
Joined
board
|
Davis,
former CEO of MountainBank, has joined the board of the South Financial
Group as part of MountainBank's merger with the company. |
10/3/2003 |
|
|
Bob
Frankenberg, Ralph Godfrey, and Archie Clemins |
Extended
Systems Inc. |
Joined
board |
Frankenberg
and Godfrey have been appointed as Class II directors to serve until
2006, and Clemins has been appointed as a Class III director to
serve a term expiring in 2004. |
10/2/2003 |
|
|
David
Burner |
Engelhard
Corp. |
Joined
board
|
Burner,
former CEO and chairman of Goodrich Corp., has been elected to the
board of the surface and materials science company. |
10/2/2003 |
|
|
John
Miclot |
Respironics
Inc. |
New
CEO |
Miclot
succeed James Liken at the CEO post; Liken will assume the newly
created role of vice chairman. |
10/2/2003 |
|
|
Warren
Lieberfarb |
SIRIUS |
Joined
board
|
Lieberfarb,
credited as the architect of the DVD, has joined the board of the
satellite radio service company. |
10/2/2003 |
|
|
Ruth
Ann Marshall |
American
Standard Companies Inc. |
Joined
board |
Marshall,
president of MasterCard North America, has been elected to the board
of the air conditioning, plumbing, and vehicle control systems manufacturer. |
10/2/2003
|
|
|
Tim
Barfield |
The
Shaw Group Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Barfield
has been named COO and will also serve on the company's board. |
10/1/2003 |
|
|
Bob
Sasser |
Dollar
Tree Stores Inc. |
New
CEO |
Sasser
has been promoted to CEO of the discount variety store chain. Macon
Brock Jr. will continue to serve as chairman. |
10/1/2003 |
|
|
Daniel
Burnham and Jack Greenberg |
First
Data Corp. |
Joined
board
|
Burnham,
chairman of the board for Raytheon, and Greenberg, the retired CEO
of McDonald's Corp., have joined the board of First Data Corp. |
10/1/2003 |
|
|
Jack
Henry |
SureBeam
Corp. |
Leaving
board |
Henry,
CEO of Sierra Blanca Ventures, is resigning from the board due to
the time demands of other business commitments. He was chairman
of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee.
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10/1/2003 |
|
|
C.
Stephen Cordial |
Somera
Communications Inc. |
New
CEO |
Cordial,
the company's CFO, has been appointed to the CEO post. He succeeds
Rick Darnaby, who is leaving the company to pursue other business
opportunities. |
9/30/2003 |
|
|
Meg
Whitman and Jim Schneider |
Gap
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Whitman,
CEO of Ebay, and Schneider, CFO of Dell, have joined the Gap board.
The company also named Bob Martin as lead independent director. |
9/30/2003 |
|
|
Bill
Wheat |
D.R.
Horton Inc. |
New
CFO/board member |
Wheat
has been promoted to CFO and elected to the board of the homebuilder. |
9/30/2003 |
|
|
Sherrill
Hudson |
SportsLine.com
Inc. |
Joined
board |
Hudson,
who retired from Deloitte & Touche last year, will serve as
chairman of the audit committee and qualifies as an audit committee
financial expert. |
9/30/2003 |
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|
Deborah
Farrington |
Collectors
Universe Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Farrington,
founder and co-chairman of StarVest Partners, a private equity fund,
has joined the board. |
9/30/2003 |
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|
J.
Kenneth Glass |
FedEx
Corp.
|
Joined
board |
Glass,
the CEO of First Tennessee National Corp., has been elected to the
FedEx board. |
9/29/2003
|
|
|
Thomas
R. Watjen |
UnumProvident
Corp. |
New
CEO |
Watjen,
who has been serving as the company's interim CEO since March, has
been been officially named to the post. |
9/29/2003 |
|
|
Neil
Wilkin |
Optical
Cable Corp. |
New
CEO |
Wilkin,
the company's CFO, has been promoted to CEO and chairman. Tracy
Smith, controller, will succeed Wilkin at the CFO position. |
9/26/2003 |
|
|
Thomas
Stemberg |
CarMax
Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Stemberg,
founder and executive chairman of Staples Inc., has joined the board
of the used car retailer. |
9/26/2003 |
|
|
Eddie
Pearson and John McCauley |
American
Retirement Corp. |
Joined
board |
Pearson,
CEO of DigiScript, and McCauley, an official with Vanderbilt University,
have joined the board of the senior housing and health care services
provider. |
9/25/2003 |
|
|
John
Miles |
Inamed
Corp. |
Joined
board
|
Miles,
CEO of DENTSPLY International Inc., has joined the board of the
healthcare company. |
9/25/2003 |
|
|
Paul
Varga |
Brown-Forman
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Varga,
CEO of Brown-Forman Beverages, has been elected to the board. |
9/25/2003 |
|
|
Daniel
Welsh |
InterMune
Inc. |
New
CEO
|
Welsh,
most recently CEO of Triangle Pharmaceuticals Inc., has been appointed
to the top post at InterMune and has been appointed to the board.
Interim CEO William Ringo will remain chairman. |
9/25/2003 |
|
|
Chuck
Crovitz |
QRS
Corp. |
Joined
board |
Crovitz,
a former exec with Gap Inc., has joined the QRS board. |
9/25/2003 |
|
|
Aylwin
Lewis
|
The
Walt Disney Co. |
Joined
board
|
Lewis,
an executive with Yum! Brands Inc., joins the board as an independent
director, effective January 2004. He is also a board member at Halliburton
Co. |
9/24/2003
|
|
|
Claudia
Morf
|
Jacuzzi
Brands Inc. |
Joined
board |
Morf
served as CFO of Rodale Inc. until 2002. Her appointment brings
the number of directors at Jacuzzi to 10. |
9/24/2003 |
|
|
Gary
Kunkle Jr.
|
DENTSPLY
International Inc.
|
New
CEO |
Kunkle
will take the top post when current CEO John Miles retires at the
end of the year. Miles will remain chairman of the board. |
9/24/2003 |
|
|
Daniel
Villanueva |
Fleetwood
Enterprises Inc. |
Joined
board |
Villanueva,
chairman of a private investment firm and a former NFL player, has
joined the board of the recreational vehicle maker. He fills the
seat vacated by Glenn Kummer, who is retiring. |
9/24/2003 |
|
|
Edward
Bernica |
Energy
West Inc. |
Stepping
down |
Bernica
resigned from the CEO post at the natural gas utility; John Allen,
the company's general counsel, is now the interim CEO. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
W.
Tennent Houston |
Cornerstone
Realty Income Trust Inc.
|
Joined
board |
Houston,
the managing member of Merry Land Properties LLC, has joined the
board of the REIT. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
Margaret
Preston
|
McCormick
& Co. |
Joined
board
|
Preston,
executive vice president of Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust
Co., has joined the spice maker's board. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
Mac
Tichenor Jr. and Fernando Aguirre |
Univision
Communications Inc. |
Joined
board |
Tichenor,
former CEO of Hispanic Broadcasting, has joined the board as a result
of that company's merger with Univision. Aguirre, an exec with Proctor
& Gamble, has also joined the board. Their additions bring the
board to nine members. |
9/22/2003
|
|
|
Edward Grady
|
Brooks
Automation Inc.
|
Joined
board
|
Grady,
the company's COO, has been elected to the board. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
James
McCaslin |
Maytag
Corp. |
Joined
board |
McCaslin,
the COO of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., has joined the board of the
appliance maker. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
Stephen Smith
|
The Med-Design Corp.
|
Joined
board
|
Smith,
a nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, has joined the board
of the safety needle developer. |
9/23/2003 |
|
|
James
Irish |
American
Technology Corp. |
Stepping
down |
Irish
has resigned as CEO and a director by mutual agreement with the
board of directors. |
9/22/2003 |
|
|
George
Williams |
Allied
Capital Corp. |
Leaving
board |
Williams
is retiring from the board. |
9/22/2003 |
|
|
Michael
Chesser |
Great
Plains Energy Inc. |
New
CEO |
Chesser
has been named chairman and CEO and will succeed Bernie Beaudoin,
who will retire at the end of December. |
9/22/2003 |
|
|
Christopher
Galvin |
Motorola
Inc. |
Stepping
down |
Galvin,
the grandson of the company's founder, announced that he would step
down as CEO, citing differences with the board. |
9/20/2003 |
|
|
Abe
Reichental |
3D
Systems Corp. |
New
CEO |
Reichental
has been named CEO and director of the solid imaging company. |
9/19/2003
|
|
|
Helmut
Panke and Charles Noski |
Microsoft
Corp.
|
Nominated
to board |
Microsoft
announced that it is nominating Panke, chairman of the board at
BMW, and Noski, former AT&T vice chairman, for election at its
annual meeting in November. |
9/19/2003 |
|
|
Carly
Fiorina |
Cisco
Systems Inc. |
Stepping
down |
Fiorina
will step down from the Cisco board in November. According to Cisco,
Fiorina chose not to stand for re-election. |
9/18/2003 |
|
|
James
Wainscott |
AK
Steel Corp. |
Interim
CEO |
Wainscott,
the company's CFO, has been appointed interim CEO in the wake of
resignations by CEO Richard Wardrop Jr. and president John Hritz.
The board has begun a search for a permanent CEO. |
9/18/2003 |
|
|
Thomas
Middelhoff |
The
New York Times Co. |
Joined
board |
Middlehoff
is head of Europe for corporate investment at Investcorp and joins
the board of the media company. |
9/18/2003
|
|
|
Kim
Robak |
Fiserv
Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Robak,
the former lieutenant governor of Nebraska, has joined the Fiserv
board. |
9/18/2003 |
|
|
Steven
Rowley |
Centex
Construction Products Inc.
|
New
CEO
|
Rowley,
the company's COO, has been promoted to CEO and has been elected
to the board. |
9/18/2003
|
|
|
Cynthia
Feldman |
Hanger
Orthopedic Group Inc. |
Joined
board
|
Feldman,
a former partner with KPMG, has been elected to the board of Hanger,
a provider of orthotic and prosthetic patient care services. |
9/18/2003
|
|
|
David
Young/Barry Phelps |
Somera
Communications Inc. |
Joined
board/new chairman |
Young,
the audit committee chairman of Financial Executives International,
has joined the board of Somera, a provider of network equipment
asset management solutions. In separate news, Phelps, a director
since 1999, has been named chairman of the board. |
9/18/2003
|
|
|
Kevin
Hunt and David Skarie |
Ralcorp
Holdings Inc. |
Co-CEOs
|
Hunt
and Skarie have been named co-CEOs of the company, replacing Joe
Micheletto, who will retire as CEO but will remain a director. |
9/18/2003 |
|
|
John
Rossi |
Omnivision
Technologies Inc. |
New
CFO |
Rossi,
a board member, succeeds retiring CFO H. Gene McCown. |
9/17/2003 |
|
|
Ronald
Sugar |
Northrop
Grumman Corp. |
New
chairman |
Sugar,
the CEO, will serve as chairman when the current chairman, Kent
Kresa, steps down on Oct. 1. |
9/17/2003 |
|
|
Trevor
Fetter |
Tenet
Healthcare |
New
CEO |
Fetter,
the former acting CEO, has been named CEO and given a seat on t |
