Campbell Soup CEO Named Chairman of The Conference Board

Campbell Soup Company CEO Douglas R. Conant has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board, replacing Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

Conant, who has been CEO of Campbell Soup since January 2001, was also elected as a director of the company at the time, and is the company’s 11^th leader in its nearly 140-year history.  Conant has brought with him to Campbell, and now to the Conference Board, 25 years experience in the food industry from three of the world’s leading companies: General Mills Inc., Kraft Foods and Nabisco.

Additionally, Conant is also a director of Applebee’s International Inc., Chairman of the board of directors of Students in Free Enterprise, a trustee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and a board member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association/Food Processors of America.

The Conference Board, which creates and distributes knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society, conducts conferences, makes forecasts and assesses trends, publishes information and analysis, and brings executives together to learn from one another.

Vice Chairmen of the Conference Board’s Board of Trustees:

• 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 and 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
• Francisco González, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BBVA
• Klaus Kleinfeld, President and Chief Operating Officer, Alcoa Inc.
• Lim Chee Onn, Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation Limited
• Padraig McManus, Chief Executive Officer, Electricity Supply Board
• Hutham S. Olayan, President and CEO, Olayan America Corporation
• Michael E. Roach, President and CEO, CGI Group Inc.
• Edward B. Rust, Jr., Chairman and CEO, State Farm Insurance Companies
• Mayo Schmidt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
• Samuel C. Scott III, Chairman, President and CEO, Corn Products International, Inc.
• Jonathan Spector, Chief Executive Officer, The Conference Board, Inc.
• Anton van Rossum, Member of the Board of Directors, Crédit Suisse Group
• G. J. (Hans) Wijers, Chairman, Board of Management, Akzo Nobel nv
• Ronald A. Williams, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Aetna Inc.
• Marjorie Yang, Chairman, Esquel Group of Companies
• Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II, Chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation