Postings: Directors Recently Elected to Boards

PepsiCo treasurer Lionel L. Nowell, III was elected to Reynolds American’s board, and will serve on the audit committee. Nowell is also a board member of the American Electric Power Company.

Coca-Cola appointed former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman as a director of the company. Herman served as the nation’s 23rd Secretary of Labor, and was the first African-American to lead the U.S. Department of Labor. She currently serves as chief executive officer of New Ventures, and chairs the diversity advisory board of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. She also serves on the boards of Cummins, Entergy Corporation, and MGM Mirage.

BMC Software named Gary Bloom, former vice chairman and president of Symantec, to its board. Bloom has served on the boards of such publicly traded companies as Virata, Globespan Virata, Veritas, Taleo, and Symantec.

Sir Roy Anderson, former chief scientific advisor to the U.K. Ministry of Defense, was appointed a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline’s board.

The Hershey Co. is overhauling its entire board by replacing eight of its directors. Kenneth L. Wolfe will succeed current Chairman Richard H. Lenny as non-executive chairman , effective January 1. Seven new independent directors have been chosen to replace the former six who resigned at the request of the Hershey Trust. Additionally, replacements for two additional board members who resigned will be elected at the company’s annual meeting next year. Meanwhile, David J. West was elected to the board to succeed Lenny as president and CEO of the company.

Harmonic, a leading provider of high-performance video solutions, appointed Patrick Gallagher to its board. Gallagher currently serves on the board of directors at Getronics NV, a publicly traded company in the Netherlands, and is vice chairman of the board at Golden Telecom.

HealthSouth named John W. Chidsey, CFO and director of Burger King Holdings, to its board. Prior to his time at Burger King, which began in 2004, Chidsey served as chairman and CEO for two corporate divisions at Cendant Corp. He has also served as the CFO of Pepsi-Cola Eastern Europe and of PepsiCo World Trading Co.

Walter W. Driver, former chairman of King & Spalding, was appointed to the board of Equifax.

Wendell Adair, Eugene I. Davis, James B. Shein, and Bradley Scher were appointed independent directors of Atari. Davis was also named non- executive chairman, and Adair, Davis, and Shein were elected to serve on the audit committee, on which Adair will serve as chairman. Additionally, Shein will chair the compensation and governance committee.

Mary L. Cleave, a former associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, was appointed to the Sigma Space board. She is a veteran of two space shuttle flights, logging a total of more than 10 days in space.

Fannie Mae named John C. Sites, Jr., to its board, on which he will serve on the housing and community finance and risk policy and capital committees. Sites is a general partner of Rock Creek Capital Advisors.

Charlotte Russe Holding appointed Herbert Kleinberger to its board, and to the company’s audit and compensation committees.

James A. Marcum, a partner and former operating director of Tri-Artisan Capital Partners, was named to the board of Iconix Brand Group. Marcum is also a principal shareholder and has served as chairman and CSO of Enabl-u Technologies, a provider of interactive training and data management solutions.

Wendell S. Reilly and J. Powell Brown were named to the board of insurance company Brown & Brown. Reilly is currently the managing partner of Grapevine Partners of Atlanta and Brown is president of the independent insurance firm.

Micromet, a biotech company in Bethesda, Md., named Joseph P. Slattery to its nine-member board and to chair its audit committee. The former CFO for Digene Corp., he left that position following the acquisition of Digene by Qiagen.

Drug giant Pfizer named Suzanne Nora Johnson, a retired vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, and James M. Kilts, former CEO of Gillette and a current founding partner of Centerview Partners, to its board.

CarMax, the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, appointed Shira D. Goodman, executive vice president of marketing at Staples, and Ronald E. Blaylock, founder, chairman and CEO of Blaylock & Company, to its board.