Good News from Directors & Boards 35th Anniversary Issue

41% of new board appointments July - Sept, 2011 were women.

What can you learn from these women who joined boards in 2011?

• Aaron's Inc added Cynthia Day, SEVP and COO of Citizens
• Altera Corp added Elisha Finney, Corporate SVP and CFO Varian Medial Systems
• Ambassadors Group, Inc added Nilofer Merchant, business strategist
• Cabot Corp added Sue Rataj, retired BP executive
• Dana Holding, Corp added Virginia Kamsky, Chair and CEO Kamsky Associates
• DELL added Janet Clark EVP, Treasurer and CFO of Marathon Oil
• Delta Airlines added Shirley Franklin Chair and CEO Purpose Built Communities, Inc.
• EBay added Katie Mitic, leader of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook
• Francesca's Holdings Corp added Patricia Bender, EVP and Director of Leasing Weingarten Realty
• G-III Apparel Group added Cheryl Vitali, worldwide general manager Kiehl's
• GAP added Bella Goren, SVP and CFO AMR Corp
• Huntsman Corp added Mary C. Beckerle, CEO Huntsman Cancer Institute
• IAC/InteractiveCorp added Chelsea Clinton and Sonali DeRycker partner Accel Partners
• Immunocellular Therapeutics Ltd added Helen Kim, chief business officer NGM Biopharmaceuticals
• Interpublic Group added Dawn Hudson, vice chair Parthenon Group
• Jack in the Box added Madeleine Kleiner
• JetBlue added Ellen Jewett, managing director BMO Capital Markets
• Kensey Nash added Lisa Earnhardt, president and CEO Intersect Ent
• Kior Inc added Condoleezza Rice
• Kraton Performance Pllymers added Anna Cheng Catalano
• Magellan Health Services added Mary Sammons, former CEO and current chair RiteAid
• Marathon Oil added Linda Cook, retired exec director of Shell
• Marathon Petroleum Corp added Donna James, managing director Lardon & Associates
• Netgear added Barbara Scherer, SVP and CFO Plantronics
• Network Engines added Patricia Suelts, former CEO of LogLogic Inc
• Nordstrom added Michelle Ebanks, president Essence Communications
• Patterson Companies added Jody Feragen EVP and CFO Hormel
• Oclaro Inc added Marissa Peterson, retired EVP Sun Microsystems
• Peoples Bancorp added Susan Rector, principal SZD
• Piper Jaffray added Hope Woodhouse, former COO of Bridgewater Associates
• Radioshack added Julie Dobson, chair TeleBright
• Regions Financial Corp added Ruth Ann Marshall, retired president of Americas MasterCard
• SABA Software added Nora Denzel, SVP of Marketing
• Tupperware added Susan Cameron, former chair and CEO Reynolds American
• UPS added Candace Kendle, former chair and CEO Kendle International Inc
• VIAD added margaret Pederson, president Amerexx
• West Marine added Christiana Smith Shi, VP and COO, Nike
• Xerox added Sara Martinex Tucker former Undersecretary of Dept of Education

If you know them, send along congratulations - a great networking exercise.

Girl Scouts as a pipeline to leadership for: Jill Abramson, Exec Editor NYTimes; Drew Gilpin Faust, president, Harvard University; Lois Juliber, retired vice chair and COO, Colgate-Palmolive; Janet Napolitano, Secretary of US Dept Homeland Security and more... 

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Susan
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