notables: former 911 commissioner and Council on Foreign Relations member Jamie Gorelick; AF General Richard Meyers (member of Defense Policy Board ~ so still active in the Pentagon); Christine Todd 'the air in NYC is fine' Whitman (also, now, a Board member of the Council on Foreign Relations); liaison to the telecoms, Chuck Lee; American Enterprise Institute member John Faraci; member of the advisory board of Dubai International Capital’s Global Strategic Equities Fund, Jean-Pierre Garnier; H. Patrick Swygert, a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s External Advisory Board
Board of Directors
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LOUIS R. CHÊNEVERT, President and Chief Operating Officer, United Technologies Corporation. Mr. Chênevert was elected President and Chief Operating Officer on March 8, 2006. He previously served as President of the Pratt & Whitney division of UTC from April 1999 through March 2006. In 2005, he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Mr. Chênevert serves on the Board of Directors of the Friends of HEC Montreal, the Board of Overseers for the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut and the Director’s Advisory Board for the Yale Cancer Center. Mr. Chênevert is 50 and has been a UTC director since 2006.
GEORGE DAVID, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Technologies Corporation. Mr. David was elected Chief Executive Officer in 1994 and Chairman in 1997. He also served as UTC’s President from 2002 to 2006 and from 1992 to 1999.
Mr. David is a board member of BP and Citigroup. He is also a member of The Business Council and The Business Roundtable, and Vice Chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Mr. David was awarded the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation in 1999 and in May 2002 France named him to its Legion of Honor. Mr. David is 65 and has been a UTC director since 1992.
JOHN V. FARACI has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Paper (paper, packaging and wood products) since 2003. Earlier in 2003 he was elected President and a director of International Paper, and previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, with additional corporate responsibility for the company’s former majority-owned New Zealand subsidiary, Carter Holt Harvey. He joined International Paper in 1974. He serves on the boards of the American Forest & Paper Association, the Grand Teton National Park Foundation and the National Park Foundation. He is a member of
The Business Roundtable, Citigroup International Advisory Board, the American Enterprise Institute and the Denison University Board of Trustees. Mr. Faraci is 58 and has been a UTC director since 2005.
JEAN-PIERRE GARNIER, Ph.D., has served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of
GlaxoSmithKline plc (pharmaceuticals) since 2000. Dr. Garnier served as Chief Executive Officer of SmithKline Beecham plc in 2000 and as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of SmithKline Beecham plc from 1996 to 2000. He served as Chairman, Pharmaceuticals, SmithKline Beecham from 1994 to 1995. Dr. Garnier is a director of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and
the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships. In 2007, he was promoted from Chevalier to Officier de la Légion d’Honneur of France. In 2006, he was named to the global list of top 20 CEOs by the Best Practice Institute. He is currently a board member of the Stanford Advisory Council on Interdisciplinary Biosciences and the Weill Cornell Medical College, serves on UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s International Business Advisory Council and is a member of the
advisory board of Dubai International Capital’s Global Strategic Equities Fund. Dr. Garnier is 60 and has been a UTC director since 1997.
JAMIE S. GORELICK is a partner at the international law firm, WilmerHale, having joined the firm in 2003. Ms. Gorelick
represents companies on regulatory, compliance, governance and enforcement issues. She has held numerous positions in the U.S. Government, serving as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, as General Counsel of the Department of Defense, as Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, and most recently as a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States. She also served as Vice Chair of
Fannie Mae from 1997 to 2003. She is currently a member of the boards of
Schlumberger, Ltd., the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, and The Urban Institute. She is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Gorelick is 57 and has been a UTC director since 2000.
CHARLES R. LEE served as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Verizon Communications (telecommunications) from April 2002 until his retirement in December 2003. He was Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications from June 2000 to March 2002. Prior to the merger of GTE Corporation and Bell Atlantic Corporation to form Verizon Communications, Mr. Lee served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GTE Corporation from 1992 to 2000. He is a director of
United States Steel Corporation, Marathon Oil Corporation, The Procter & Gamble Company and The DIRECTV Group, Inc. Mr. Lee is also a member of the Board of the American Institute for Research (AIR), Project GRAD and the Stamford Hospital Foundation. He is also a Trustee Emeritus and Presidential Councilor of Cornell University. In addition, he serves on the Board of Overseers for the Weill Cornell Medical College and is a member of The Business Council. Mr. Lee is 68 and has been a UTC director since 1994.
RICHARD D. MCCORMICK served as Chairman of the Board of
U S WEST, Inc. (telecommunications) from June 1998 until his retirement in May 1999. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of U S WEST, Inc. from May 1992 until June 1998. He is also a director of
Wells Fargo and Company, Nortel Networks Corporation and Nortel Networks Limited. In addition, he is a former Chairman and Honorary Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, Vice Chairman of the United States Council for International Business, a trustee of the Denver Art Museum, Vice President of the Denver Art Museum Foundation and Director Emeritus of Creighton University. Mr. McCormick is 67 and has been a UTC director since 1999.
HAROLD MCGRAW III has been Chairman of the Board of
The McGraw-Hill Companies (global information services) since 1999 and President and Chief Executive Officer of McGraw-Hill since 1998. Mr. McGraw was President and Chief Operating Officer of McGraw-Hill from 1993 to 1998.
He is also a director of ConocoPhillips, Chairman of the Emergency Committee for American Trade, The Business Roundtable and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, and a member of The Business Council, the State Department’s Advisory Committee in Transformational Diplomacy and the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee for Trade, Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN). He also serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, the National Council on Economic Education, The New York Public Library, National Organization on Disability, National Academy Foundation, Partnership for New York City, the Council for Industry and Higher Education in London and Prep for Prep. Mr. McGraw is 59 and has been a UTC director since 2003.
RICHARD B. MYERS,
Ret. U.S. Air Force General, served as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2001 to 2005. He was the principal military
adviser to President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the National Security Council. Gen. Myers previously served as Vice Chairman, which included acting as Chairman of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, Vice Chairman of the Defense Acquisition Board, and member of the National Security Council Deputies Committee and the Nuclear Weapons Council. He also serves on the
boards of Aon Corporation, Deere & Company, and Northrop Grumman. Gen. Myers is the Foundation Professor of Military History at Kansas State University and holds the Colin Powell Chair for Leadership, Ethics and Character at the National Defense University. He is a
member of the Defense Policy Board and the Department of State’s Transformation Diplomacy Advisory Board. Gen. Myers is 65 and has been a UTC director since 2006.
H. PATRICK SWYGERT has served as President of Howard University since 1995. Mr. Swygert served as President of the University at Albany, State University of New York from 1990 to 1995, and as Executive Vice President of Temple University from 1987 to 1990. He also serves on the boards of Fannie Mae and The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.
Mr. Swygert is a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s External Advisory Board, the Advisory Council for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the D.C. Emancipation Commemoration Commission, the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Commission on Presidential Debates. Mr. Swygert is 64 and has been a UTC director since 2001.
ANDRÉ VILLENEUVE has been the Non-Executive Chairman of LIFFE (now part of NYSE Euronext group), the London futures and derivatives exchange, since 2003. He was an executive director of Reuters from 1989 to 2000. He was Chairman of Instinet Corp., an electronic brokerage subsidiary of Reuters, from 1990 to 1999, and Executive Chairman from 1999 to 2002. He is Chairman, City of London EU Advisory Group and a member of the UK Chancellor’s High Level Financial Services Group. Mr. Villeneuve was Chairman of Promethee, the French think tank, from 1998 to 2002 and non-executive director of Aviva PLC from 1996 to 2006. He is currently a non-executive director of IFRI (Institut Francais des Relations Internationales), International Financial Services London and EuroArbitrage. Mr. Villeneuve is 63 and has been a UTC director since 1997.
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from January 2001 through June 2003. She was Governor of the State of New Jersey from 1994 through 2001. She has served as President of The Whitman Strategy Group (environment and public policy consulting) since December 2004.
She is a director of Texas Instruments Incorporated, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. and the Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, she serves on the Steering Committee of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey,
the board of trustees of the Eisenhower Fellowships, the Governing Board of the Park City Institute, and is a member of the National Council of the National Parks Conservation Association and the
BP America Inc. External Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Center for Civic Engagement and Volunteerism Advisory Board at Raritan Valley Community College. Gov. Whitman is 61 and has been a UTC director since 2003.
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