like the Board of Directors of USA Today aka Gannett ... the plutocrats know what's best for us people and for progress and who are the frontrunners, etc.
:sarcasm:
Gannett's Board helping to choose the Democratic Party's 08 ticket, and possibly the next CEO of the USA
Marjorie Magner
Ms. Magner, 56, was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group from August 2003 until her retirement in October 2005. She served in various roles at Citigroup, and a predecessor company, CitiFinancial (previously Commercial Credit) beginning in 1987. She is a director of
Accenture Ltd and
The Charles Schwab Corporation, and currently serves as Chairman of the Brooklyn College Foundation and as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. She has been a director since February 1, 2006.
Duncan M. McFarland
Mr. McFarland, 62, was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Wellington Management Company, LLP from 1994 until his retirement in June 2004. He served in various roles at Wellington Management Company since 1965. Mr. McFarland is a director of The Asia Pacific Fund, Inc., a closed-end registered investment company traded on the NYSE, where he is on the audit committee, and a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. He has been a director since 2004.
Karen Hastie Williams
Ms. Williams, 61, is a retired partner at the law firm of Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC. Ms. Williams is
a director of The Chubb Corporation, Continental Airlines, Inc., SunTrust Banks, Inc. and WGL Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Washington Gas Light Company. She has been a director since 1997.
James A. Johnson
Mr. Johnson, 62, is Vice Chairman of
Perseus LLC. He served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae in 1999 and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae from February 1991 through 1998.
He is a director of Target Corporation, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Temple-Inland Corporation, UnitedHealth Group, KB Home Corporation and Chairman Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has been a director since 2000.
Douglas H. McCorkindale
Mr. McCorkindale, 66, is Chairman of
Gannett. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2001 to July 2005, and President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman from June 2000 to January 2001. He has served the Company in various other executive capacities since 1971.
He is a director of The Associated Press, Continental Airlines, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, and a number of investment companies in the family of Prudential Mutual Funds. He has been a director since 1977.
Stephen P. Munn
Mr. Munn, 63, is Chairman of Carlisle Companies, Inc. He was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carlisle from 1993 to February 2001 and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1988 to 1993. He has been a director since 2001.
Louis D. Boccardi
Mr. Boccardi, 68, was President and Chief Executive Officer of
The Associated Press from 1985 until his retirement in 2003. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1994 to 2003 and Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2002. Mr. Boccardi has been a member of the Board of Visitors, the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University since 1989. He has been a director since 2003.
Craig A. Dubow
Mr. Dubow, 51, is President and Chief Executive Officer of Gannett. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Gannett Broadcasting from 2001 to 2005 and he has served the Company in various other executive capacities since 1981. Mr. Dubow is a director of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Association for Maximum Service Television, Inc., Broadcast Music, Inc., and the Television Operators Caucus. He has been a director since July 2005.
Donna E. Shalala
Ms. Shalala, 65, has served as President of the University of Miami since 2001. She was Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 2001.
Ms. Shalala is a director of UnitedHealth Group and Lennar Corporation. She has been a director since 2001.
(isn't that swell of Donna to leave the Dept of Health and Human Resources to join a Medicare Rx profiteering participant, UnitedHealth?)
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