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NEW YORK, April 25, 2001—American Management
Association (AMA) has announced that William K. Slate II, president and
CEO of the American Arbitration Association, was elected chairman of the
AMA Board of Trustees during its 78th Annual Meeting. Slate succeeds Dan
R. Bannister, who served as chairman since 1998. Gordon J. Feeney, deputy
chairman, Royal Bank Financial Group, was elected vice chairman of AMA’s
Board of Trustees. Both Slate and Feeney were elected for one-year terms.
The AMA also elected two new members to the Board of Trustees. Peter W.
Bruce, senior executive vice president, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and Don E. Marsh, chairman, president and CEO, Marsh Supermarkets,
Inc., were elected to three-year terms.
Five members were re-elected to AMA’s Board of Trustees. Re-elected
for three-year terms were Richard C. Kimball, vice chairman and president
of Memorials Division, Rock of Ages; Teresa E. McCaslin, executive vice
president, human resources and information systems, ContiGroup Companies,
Inc.; Barry L. Williams, president, Williams Pacific Ventures, Inc.,and
interim president and CEO of AMA; and Gordon J. Feeney. Michael F. Pasquale,
former executive vice president and COO, Hershey Foods Corporation, was
re-elected to a one-year term.
Outgoing Chairman Dan R. Bannister, chairman of DynCorp, a multi-billion
dollar information technology and outsourcing solutions company in Reston,
Va., was elected a Life Member of AMA in recognition for his years of
service.
Also during AMA’s 78th Annual Meeting, Isay Stemp, a devoted AMA
finance course leader and developer, was honored with a Distinguished
Service Award. This is the first time a special service award has been
given to a member of the faculty.
Two retiring AMA council chairs were also recognized during the meeting:
Peggy Hofman, CEO, Fluke Capital Management Systems in Bellevue, Wash.,
and Steve A. Hudson, vice president, technology strategies, Freddie Mac,
McLean, Va.
American Management Association is the world’s leading membership-based
management development organization. It is distinguished by the quality
of its faculty of global business practitioners, the practical action-oriented
focus of its learning programs and the dynamic, interactive nature of
its courses. AMA offers a full range of business education and management
development programs for individuals and organizations in the Americas,
Asia and Europe. More than 700,000 AMA customers and members a year, including
488 of the Fortune 500 companies and many federal agencies, learn superior
business skills and best management practices through a variety of seminars,
conferences and executive forums, e-learning and self-study courses, books,
research studies, and on-site and customized learning solutions.
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