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Bernard L. Schwartz

Bernard Leon Schwartz (born December 13, 1925, Brooklyn, New York) was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications for 34 years, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., and president and CEO of Globalstar Telecommunications.

Dag Mejdell

Dag Mejdell (born 28 June 1957) is a Norwegian businessperson and current Chief Executive Officer of Posten Norge, the Norwegian Postal Service as well as Chairman of the Board of ErgoGroup.

George Zoley

George C. Zoley (born February 7, 1950 in Florina, Greece) is the chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and founder of the GEO Group, which manages prisons and jails in the United States.

J. Clifford Hudson

Clifford Hudson (born 1954, Dallas) is an American business executive best known for serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp. He also serves as a trustee of the Ford Foundation and was a past chairman of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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.

Mobile Systems International

In 2006 it has been rebranded into MSI Consultancy and is headed by Sheikh Farhan Al Faisal who is the chairman of the board and CEO.

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.

Stanley Gold

He and Roy resigned to publicly campaign to oust then CEO and Chairman of the Board Michael Eisner.

Stein Erik Hagen

He is Chairman of the Board of Orkla, where he is a large owner, and holds large ownerships of Steen & Strøm, Jernia and Komplett through his family company Canica.


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Al-Khasawneh

Fayez Essa Khasawneh (Former Minister of Agriculture / Former President of Yarmouk University / Former Chairman, Board of Trustees Of The German Jordanian University) / Former President and Chairman of the Board, Aqaba Region Authority / Former Secretary General Of The Arab Thought Forum / Chairman, Board of Trustees at Yarmouk University

Angus Grossart

His many high profile positions have included: Vice Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Galleries of Scotland, 1988–97; Chairman of the Fine Art Society; and Chairman of Lyon & Turnbull, auctioneers.

Austin Eldon Knowlton

With Paul Brown, he co-founded the Cincinnati Bengals and was the largest shareholder and Chairman of the Board for twenty years.

Burl S. Watson

He became President in 1954 and was Chairman of the Board and CEO beginning in 1962, taking the place of W. Alton Jones, who died in the famous plane crash American Airlines Flight 1.

Charles Edmund Beard

Beard was elected President of Braniff Airways with Fred Jones, an original Braniff investor, as Chairman of the Board.

Chris Dorworth

He was appointed chairman of the board of trustees of Seminole Community College, by Governor Jeb Bush and re-appointed by Governor Charlie Crist.

Daniel Akerson

Akerson succeeded Edward Whitacre as CEO on September 1, 2010, and became Chairman of the Board on January 1, 2011.

Daniel Carp

Carp will serve as the next Chairman of the Board of Delta Air Lines, replacing current Chairman Gerald Grinstein.

Dennis Strigl

Strigl holds a degree in business administration from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York (where he now sits as Chairman of the Board of Trustees) and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Etienne Schneider

In 1997, he was appointed secretary general of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) until he became chairman of the board of the electricity utility Cegedel, subsequently becoming chairman and Managing Director of the German energy company, Enovos (a grid company), the creation of which is also credited to him.

Eugenio Garza Lagüera

Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa; Latin America's largest beverage corporation.

FEMSA

In 2001, José Antonio Fernández was elected as Chairman of the Board and of FEMSA.

Friðrik Klemenz Sophusson

In 2010 he was announced as the chairman of the board of directors of Íslandsbanki, one of the three major Icelandic banks.

George Magoun

George C. Magoun (1840-1893), Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

Gerstner

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (born 1942), chairman of the board and CEO of IBM

Greater Baltimore Urban League

Baltimore business executive Raymond V. Haysbert was chairman of the board of directors at the time of his death on May 24, 2010.

Harry S. Hammond

His older brother, John S. Hammond, played football at the University of Chicago, was a track and field competitor in the 1904 Summer Olympics and was credited with making ice hockey a major sport in the United States during his time as chairman of the board of the Madison Square Garden corporation.

Heinz Dürr

Dürr was chairman of the board of AEG from 1980 to 1990, and from 1991 he served as executive board chairman of Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn, Germany's state-owned railways.

Jack Bickell

In 1942, he also became the president and chairman of the board of Victory Aircraft Ltd. in Malton, Ontario, the largest airplane manufacturer in Canada.

James Alan Abrahamson

From 1992 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the board of directors of Oracle Corporation.

Jeffrey Roy

In 2010, he was elected as the Chairman of the Franklin Democratic Town Committee, co-chaired Franklin’s Anti-Bullying Task Force, served as a member of Franklin’s Horace Mann School Building Committee, and was the chairman of the Board of Directors for the non-profit Masque Theatre Co., Inc. in Milford, Massachusetts.

John G. Cooper

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, but went on to serve as chairman of the Board of Claims, Ohio Industrial Commission from 1937 to 1945.

John G. Linvill

John Linvill was Chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE.

John L. Notter

Mr. Notter serves as chairman of the Board of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Joseph Grundfest

Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, Inc., chairman of the board nominating committee of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and was formerly a director of Oracle Corporation

Lyle Best

From 1991-2000 he was Chairman of the Board and Director of the Royal Alexandra HospitalRoyal Alexandra Hospital Foundation.

Medical Education for South African Blacks

The first Chairman of the Board was Donald Kennedy, then president of Stanford University and former Director of the Federal Food and Drug Administration.

NeoEdge Networks

key people = Dan Servos, CEO
Todd Kenck, CFO
Andrew Radin, CTO
Nolan Bushnell, Chairman of the Board
Steven Woods, Co-founder, Member of the Board
Michael Babiak, Co-founder, Sr.

Nicholas Scoppetta

Mr. Scoppetta is a past President and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Children's Aid Society, a not-for-profit social service agency which annually serves more than 200,000 needy children in New York City.

North American Light and Power Company

Clement Studebaker, Jr. also served as President and Chairman of the Board of the Illinois Power and Light Company (and of its subsidiary, the Illinois Traction Company), the South Bend Watch Company, and as Treasurer of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad.

Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters

Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters was founded in 1966 by veteran announcer Art Gilmore and 178 other original members, with Edgar Bergen as the founding chairman of the board.

Packard Stadium

Mr. Packard served Shepard's Citations for 51 years rising to President and chairman of the board.

Peter Gloystein

Peter Gloystein is also active in various cultural institutions: Chairman of the Board of the Association supporting the Cultural Project Hombroich, Neuss; General Manager of the Urban Planning Corporation Raumortlabor Hombroich gemeinnützige Stiftungs GmbH, Neuss; Chairman of the Friends Association of the Teatro La Fenice, Berlin and Member of the Board of the Friends Association of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf/Duisburg.

Ralph W. Aigler

He was also the chairman of the Board in Control of Athletics during the construction of Yost Fieldhouse and the Intramural Building.

Robert H. Tourtelot

He became acting Chairman of the Board when former Chairman George Nicholaw’s term on the Board expired in February 2000, and was unanimously elected CHRB Board Chairman in March 2000.

Roy Stanbrook

Neil Costa, Minister for Tourism, Public Transport and the Port, and chairman of the board of directors of the Gibraltar Port Authority, commented on his selection of Stanbrook to lead the Gibraltar Port Authority.

Skolkovo innovation center

The agreement was signed by Victor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation; Anatoly Chubais, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Rosnano; Alexander Provotorov, President and Chairman of the Management Board of Rostelecom; Igor Agamirzian, CEO of Russian Venture Company; Evgeny Babayan, Chairman of the Board, ITFY; Leonid Svatkov, CEO ITFY; Bruno Di Leo, Senior Vice President IBM; and Kirill Korniliev, Country General Manager, IBM Russia & CIS.

Subodh Karnik

On January 1, 2007, Karnik replaced the previous CEO, John G. Denison, who stepped down but is continuing on as ATA's Chairman of the Board of Directors.

The Wooster Book Company

Under the trade name “The Wooster Book Company,” its first title, a corporate history of Rubbermaid, written by retired Rubbermaid CEO and Chairman of the Board, Donald E. Noble, was released in 1996.

Todd R. Wanek

Todd R. Wanek (born 1963) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. He is the son of Ronald G. Wanek, Chairman of the Board of Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

Ulf Adelsohn

From 2001 to 2011 was he chairman of the board for SJ, the Swedish Railways,.

Valerio Zingarelli

Valerio Zingarelli is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Babelgum.

Varian Medical Systems

Guertin had been the CEO since 2006 when he replaced Richard M. Levy, who had been with Varian for 37 years and still serves as chairman of the board of directors.

Vecima Networks

Dr. Surinder Kumar is the founder of the company and is the Chairman of the Board.

West Mountain Historic District

Its "grandest" house is "Orenica", described as "a 1932 Georgian Revival style stone structure of considerable pretension" that was home of Philip Dakin Wagoner (1876-1972), chairman of the board of the Underwood Corporation.

William H. T. Bush

A former president of and director of the St. Louis-based Boatmen's Bancshares from 1978 to 1986 he is active in various St. Louis civic functions including being chairman of the Board of Trustees of Saint Louis University (1985–92), chairman of the Missouri Botanical Gardens (1991–93) and president of the Municipal Opera Association (The MUNY) (2005–06).

William L. Ball

He was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation in January 2002 .