Black Box Corporation Board of Directors elects two new members.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 1995--Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BBOX) announced that William R. Newlin and Frederick C. Young have been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Messrs. Newlin and Young will fill the two seats vacated by Steven M. Friedman and James D. Halper in November 1995, following the sale by Odyssey Partners, L.P. of its position in the company. Newlin has served as president and chief executive officer of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp., a law firm, since 1980. He serves on the board of directors of Kennametal Inc. and the supervisory board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. of its German subsidiary. He is also a member of the Boards of Integra National Bank of Pittsburgh, Parker/Hunter Inc., Biological Detection Systems Inc., the Pittsburgh Technology Council, Document Services Inc. and CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). Conference Video. Young has served as vice president and chief financial officer of Black Box Corp. and has held such position since joining the company in 1991. Prior to that, he was chief financial officer of Genicom Corp. and held financial management positions with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and General Electric. Jeffery M. Boetticher, chairman and chief executive officer, commented, "William Newlin and Fred Young For the Native American physicist of the same name, see . Fred Matthews Young (died December 1993) was a Canadian politician, ordained minister and long time organizer for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). are excellent additions to our Board of Directors, and we look forward to their contributions." Black Box Corp. is a leading direct marketer and technical service provider of communication and networking equipment and solutions to businesses of all sizes, operating in over 75 countries throughout the world. CONTACT: Black Box Corporation, Pittsburgh Fred C. Young, 412/873-6788 Fax: 412/873-6784 or Kekst and Company, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Dawn Dover/Wendi Kopsick, 212/593-2655 |
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