Charles R. Shoemate Elected to Texaco Inc. Board of Directors.WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26--Texaco Inc. announced today that Charles R. Shoemate, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bestfoods, has been elected to the company's Board of Directors. His election brings the number of directors on the Texaco board to 14. Texaco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter I. Bijur commented, "Dick Shoemate is a knowledgeable, respected business leader. As Chairman of a global consumer foods company, he understands the challenge of competing in the worldwide marketplace. We are pleased he has agreed to bring his experience and innovative thinking to our board." Shoemate, 58, was elected Chief Executive Officer of Bestfoods in August 1990 and was elected Chairman the following month. He joined the company in 1962 and progressed through a variety of positions in manufacturing, finance and business management within the consumer foods and corn refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar businesses. Shoemate was elected Vice President of the corporation in 1983 and, in 1986, became President of the Corn Refining Division. He was elected to the Board of Directors at the same time he was named President of Bestfoods in 1988. Born in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. , Shoemate was graduated from Western Illinois University For another university which uses the abbreviation "WIU", see Webber International University Athletics
BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in 1962. In 1973, he received an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago. Shoemate is a director of Cigna Corporation, International Paper Company and is Chairman of The Conference Board. He is a member of the Business Roundtable Business Roundtable (BRT), an association consisting of the chief executive officers of major U.S. corporations that was founded in 1972 through the merger of the three preexisting business organizations. and the Committee for Economic Development. Additional Texaco information is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.texaco.com. |
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