ABM Industries Incorporated Appoints Linda S. Auwers Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2003 Henrik C. Slipsager, president and chief executive officer of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ABM), today announced the appointment of Linda S. Auwers, 56, as senior vice president, general counsel & corporate secretary. In making this announcement, Slipsager said, "I am pleased to welcome Linda to ABM's executive management team and look forward to our utilizing her diverse advisory skills." With fourteen years of in-house experience at Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. in Houston, Texas, Auwers was most recently vice president, deputy general counsel and secretary, focusing on risk assessment, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. , management, securities and disclosure, licensing, trademarks, investor relations, benefits and executive compensation. A graduate of Stanford University, Auwers earned a PhD from Brandeis University after which she began her career as a Professor of American History at Temple University. After earning her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center The University of Houston Law Center—founded in 1947 as Bates College of Law—is an American Bar Association accredited law school and one of the 13 academic colleges at the University of Houston. It awards the Juris Doctor (J.D. , Auwers subsequently joined the Houston law firm of Schlanger, Cook, Cohn, Mills & Grossberg. ABM Industries Incorporated is the largest facility services contractor listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. . With annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues in excess of $2.1 billion and more than 62,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, engineering, security, lighting, elevator, mechanical and network services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across North America. The ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, ABM Engineering, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Amtech Lighting, Amtech Elevator, CommAir Mechanical and ABM Service Network. |
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