CVS Executive VP and CFO David B. Rickard Elected to Harris Corporation Board of Directors.Business Editors/Technology Writers MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2001 Harris Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HRS) today announced that it has elected David B. Rickard to its board of directors. Mr. Rickard, 54 years old, is the executive vice president and chief financial officer of CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. Consumer Value Stores, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Prior to joining CVS in 1999, Mr. Rickard was the senior vice president and chief financial officer with RJR Nabisco, Inc., headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Before accepting the position at RJR Nabisco, Mr. Rickard held management and financial positions of increasing responsibility with S.C. Johnson, Kraft Foods, and the London-based Diageo. He earned an A.B. degree in social psychology from Cornell University in 1969, and an MBA in finance from the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. in 1971. CVS Consumer Value Stores employs 100,000 men and women at more than 4,100 retail and specialty pharmacy stores in 32 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . The company opened its first store in 1963 and has annual revenues of more than $20 billion. Harris Corporation is an international communications equipment company focused on providing product, system and service solutions that take its customers to the next level. The company provides a wide range of products and services for wireless, broadcast, network support, and government markets. Harris has sales and service facilities in more than 90 countries. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com. Editor's note: Photo available upon request. |
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