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16 unusual facts about Board of Directors


Alliance for Lupus Research

One hundred percent of all donations from the public including donations in support of the Walk with Us to Cure Lupus program go directly to research programs because the ALR Board of directors funds all administrative and fundraising costs.

AMC AMX-GT

For the official photograph of the Board of Directors, the members posed with the second version of the concept car, this time with its hood and roof painted black.

August Delling

August Delling survived the war and went on to become a director of the firm of Huecke and Buhren.

Charles Brode

Brode was a director of the German-American Savings Bank and of the Los Angeles Soap Company.

Columbus Indiana Economic Development Board

Pat works closely with the Economic Development Board Executive Director, Executive Committee, Board of Directors, government officials and community leaders.

Fotios Katsikaris

In 2003, he was named head coach as part of a board's project to rebuild the squad with young players, after the glorious and expensive 1999-2003 period.

Gillis Bildt

He was also a shareholder and board member in the company seeking to operate a railway between Stockholm and the Vestmanland mines.

IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University is governed by a board consisting of 9 members: 5 members recruited from outside of the university form the majority of the board, 1 member is appointed by the scientific staff, 1 member is appointed by the administrative staff, and 2 members are appointed by the university students.

Joan Riddell Cook

Cook first joined JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium) in 1989 and became a member of the first Board of directors.

John M. Budd

John Marshall Budd was chairman and chief executive officer of Burlington Northern Railroad from 1970 to 1971, chairman from 1971 to 1972, and a director from 1970 to 1977.

Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah

He served as a Senator of the University of Calcutta, and was especially active in the movement to establish the University of Dhaka.

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

In order to ensure the necessary collaboration would take place, the first Board represented all of the primary stakeholders including regulators from the four states, public and privately owned utilities, energy efficiency businesses, and representatives for the four state governments.

Prahran Market

In the 1990s an independent Board was appointed to run the Market, major structural repairs and renovations to the market complex were completed, and a multi-level carpark between Elizabeth and Barry Street was added.

Putney Swope

Putney Swope, the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, is accidentally put in charge after the unexpected death of the chairman of the board: each board member actually believed that he, himself, should be elected chairman, but the bylaws of the corporation prohibit voting for oneself, so each individual member voted his secret ballot for the person that no one else would vote for: Putney Swope.

Tasneem Zehra Husain

Husain is a trustee and Board of Directors of the Alif Laila Book Bus Society, a non-profit educational institution catering primarily to under-privileged children.

Witan Pacific Investment Trust

Its portfolio is actively managed by three managers, with Witan Investment Services acting as executive manager to manage and monitor the outsourced structure and relationships and to assist the board on investment strategy and marketing.


Ab Harrewijn

This was based on an initiative of Harrewijn and fellow GreenLeft MP Paul Rosenmöller, which seeks to inform works councils of the salaries of the top levels of management and its Board of directors.

Andhra Pradesh State Wakf Board

Andhra Pradesh State Wakf Board or A.P. State Wakf Board, generally called the Muslim Wakf Board, is a constituted Board established by the 1954 Central Act to look after the exclusive affairs of Muslim Wakf properties, Wakf institutions and Muslim Marriage Records of the Muslim community of Andhra Pradesh, India.

Andrew J. Crevolin

In 1950, Andrew Crevolin was appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute and would become Chairman of its Southern California Chapter's fund drive committee for expansion of the Sister Kenny Memorial Hospital in El Monte, California.

August Christian Baumann

In 1816, when the Kongsberg Silver Mines were reopened, Baumann was elected as a member of the board of directors.

Austin-Ball A.F.B.1

Albert Ball Sr, was (or had been) on the Board of Directors of Austins, and was certainly in a position where he might have presented plans for new aircraft to the company.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

His roles included President of Central Alloy Steel from 1928 to 1930; First Vice President of Republic Steel (which had absorbed Central Steel) from 1930 to 1935; President of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company from 1935 to 1938; and then President, and later Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Steel (the largest steel company in the United States) from 1938 to 1955.

Blase Joseph Cupich

He has served on the Board of Trustees of St. Paul Seminary, as the Episcopal Advisor of the Serra Club, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Pastoral Life Center.

Brian C. Griffin

Brian C. Griffin (born 1953) is an American businessman from the Oklahoma who currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Clean Energy Systems, a private Rancho Cordova, California based energy technology innovations firm.

Bruce Power

Current members of the board of directors of Bruce Power are: Dennis Fry, Duncan Hawthorne, Michael Rolland, Bernard Michel, Alexander Pourbaix, Sean McMaster, Sean Quinn, and Preston Swafford.

Canadian Oil Sands

Current members of the board of directors are: Donald J. Lowry, Ian A. Bourne, Marcel R. Coutu, Gerald W. Grandey, Sarah E. Raiss, John K. Read, Brant G. Sangster, C.E. (Chuck) Shultz, Wesley R. Twiss and John B. Zaozirny, Q.C..

Carl Julian Sanders

He was the Co-Founder of the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies for Educational Opportunities, Inc. of Lakeland, Florida, also serving on its Board of Directors (1976-2000).

Charles W. F. Dick

While in Congress, he became one of the largest stockholders in the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and served as a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors.

Craig Stowers

Before his appointment to the Supreme Court by Governor Sean Parnell in 2009, Stowers was President of the Board of Directors of Christian Health Associates.

Ernest Richard

He was Director General of Shippagan Cold Storage Ltd. and after that company became a subsidiary of Connors Brothers Limited of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, he served on the Connors Board of Directors until retiring in 1985.

European Society for Trauma and Dissociation

The idea of establishing a European society for trauma and dissociation was first conceived by ESTD's past presidents Eli Somer and Remy Aquarone during their service on the board of directors of the USA-based International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) with the vision of developing the ISSTD as a United Nations-like organisation composed of continental, regional and national societies.

Fred Federspiel

Federspiel currently serves on the board of directors of BiosGroup, and is developing technology to help individuals construct a personal layer of security around data stored in the cloud.

George Leo Thomas

Thomas did chaplain work for the King County Jail, Seattle City Jail, and Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Seattle, and also served as chairman of the Board of Directors for Catholic Community Services.

Hernán Padilla

In 2009, he was appointed to represent the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on the five-member board of directors of the Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority that regulates public-private partnerships in Puerto Rico.

Husky Energy

Current members of the board of directors of Husky Energy are: Stephen Bradley, Canning Fok, Asim Ghosh, Martin Glynn, Poh Chan Koh, Eva Kwok, Stanley Kwok, Victor Li, Frederick Ma, George Magnus, Neil McGee, Colin Russel, Wayne Shaw, William Shurniak, and Frank Sixt.

J. George Mikelsons

Upon emergence from bankruptcy, Mikelson retired from ATA and its airline holdings, turning the reins of the company to a MatlinPatterson lead board of directors and former Southwest executive John G. Denison.

Jamuna Oil Company

Jamuna Oil is managed by a Board of Directors, a team of 6 executives, all of them are nominated by the Government of Bangladesh.

John G. Denison

John G. Denison was the acting CEO and Chairman of the Board of ATA Airlines and Global Aero Logistics, Inc at the time of ATA's shutdown due to financial insolvency.

John J. Welch, Jr.

After leaving government service in 1992, Welch served on the Board of Directors of a number of corporations, including MBDA-US, Verint Systems, Serco Group, Dynacs Military & Defense, Meggitt, and Wilcoxon Research.

Maria Kiwanuka

She also served as a non-Executive board member on the Board of Directors of the Aga Khan Foundation (East Africa), the Nabagereka Development Trust, Nkumba University, Uganda Development Bank and Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited.

Maurizio Chiarini

In 1999, he became the Managing Director of Agea SpA and on 28 April 2005 the Board of Directors of Hera Group appointed him CEO, a post he still holds.

Pierre Christoph Le Noir

He even worked as Director for Compagnie perpétuelle des Indes from 8 August 1736 and 7 October 1738 to 26 February 1743.

Pradeep Khosla

He is involved with iNetworks in raising a biotechnology fund called BioVentures, and is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., BioMetricore Inc., and No Fuss Inc.

Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnerships Authority

The Authority is governed by a five-member board of directors, including three appointed by the Governor, one (attorney Luis Berríos-Amadeo) selected by President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, Thomas Rivera Schatz, and another, former San Juan mayor Dr. Hernán Padilla, selected by Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Jennifer González.

SandForce

The board of directors included Carl Amdahl (General Partner at DCM and son of Gene Amdahl), Ryan Floyd (General Partner at Storm Ventures), S. "Sundi" Sundaresh (former President and CEO of Adaptec), Jackie Yang (Managing Director at TransLink Capital), and Eric Young (General Partner and co-founder at Canaan Partners).

Shanghai rubber stock market crisis

These stocks were increasing with the frantic market; at the same time, the newspapers posted a huge number of advertisements, showing the nice management of rubbers companies and good relationships with banks such as HSBC, SCB, also announcing that the famous social activists had joined into the board of directors.

Software Industry Conference

Before it was taken down, the Software Industry Conference website noted: "From 1991 through 1994 the conference was called the Summer Shareware Seminar and was held in June. In 1994, due to a conflict with Ziff-Davis, the conference name was changed to the Shareware Industry Conference and began being held in July. In 2007, the board of directors changed the name to Software Industry Conference to better reflect the needs of the industry."

Spencer Eccles

In addition to his role at First Security, Eccles has also been a director of the Union Pacific Railroad, Intermountain Health Care, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the National Chamber of Commerce, the ZCMI Corporation, the Anderson Lumber Company, Amalgamated Sugar, the Alta Ski Corporation, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, and the National Parks Foundation.

Steven Skala

Steven Michael Skala AO (born 6 October 1955 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is the Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank for Australia and New Zealand, and a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's board of directors since 6 October 2006.

Theodore Knauth

Knauth served on the Board of Directors of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation, an organization established to improve German-American relations.

Valerie L. Baldwin

Since leaving government service, Baldwin has served on the Board of Directors of DataPath, Inc., a subsidiary of Rockwell Collins.

Weyerhaeuser

The Weyerhaeuser board of directors consists of: Debra A. Cafaro, Mark Emmert, Daniel S. Fulton, John W. Kieckhefer, Wayne W. Murdy, Nicole Piasecki, Doyle R. Simons, Richard Sinkfield, D. Michael Steuert, Kim Williams, and Charles Williamson.

William D. Euille

He is also one of two alternates representing Virginia on the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.