Douglas Conant as Chairman of Board of Trustees of Conference Board
30 Oct '07
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Douglas R. Conant, President and Chief Executive Officer of Campbell Soup Company, has been elected the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board. The outgoing chairman is Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr, Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The role of the Board of Trustees is comparable to that of a board of directors in public companies.
Vice Chairmen of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board: • Josef Ackermann, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG • Alan M. Dachs, President and CEO, Fremont Group, L.L.C. • Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr, Executive Partner, Madison Dearborn • Nandan M. Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited • Anne M. Tatlock, Director, Former Chairman and CEO, Fiduciary Trust Company International
Other Members of the Board of Trustees: • Herbert M. Allison, Jr, Chairman, President and CEO, TIAA, President and CEO, CREF • Alan J.P. Belda, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa Inc. • Patrick Cescau, Group Chief Executive, Unilever PLC • Richard T. Clark, Chairman, President & CEO, Merck & Co Inc • Ian E.L. Davis, Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company • Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr, Chief Executive Officer, PricewaterhouseCoopers • Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade, Finance and Business, Yale School of Management • Anne Golden, President and CEO, The Conference Board of Canada