Rite Aid nominates Leonard I. Green and William J. Bratton to fill new board seats.CAMP HILL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1997--The Rite Aid board of directors Friday announced the nomination of two new members to the board: Leonard I. Green, 63, to a two-year term and William J. Bratton William Joseph 'Bill' Bratton is currently the 54th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and was formerly Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, the only person to hold both positions. , 49, to serve a three-year term. Green is senior partner of Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles-based investment firm he founded in 1989, which specializes in leveraged buyouts. Previously, he was a partner at Gibbons, Green, Van Amerongen in New York, a merchant banking firm. Green is a graduate of Cornell University and the Wharton Graduate School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . He also holds a juris doctorate from Loyola University Law School, Chicago. He is active on numerous corporate and charitable boards including Big 5 Corp., Carr-Gottstein Foods Co., Communications & Power Industries Inc., Foodmaker Inc., Horace Mann Educators Corp., The Los Angeles Music Center The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Opera, Occidental College, Los Angeles, and Culver Academies, Indiana. Bratton is vice chairman of First Security Services Corp. in Boston and president of its New York subsidiary, First Security Consulting Inc. He spent 27 years of his career in public law enforcement, capped by his appointment in 1994 as the 38th police commissioner of the city of New York. He also has served as Chief of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is "a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision" of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Police, Superintendent of the Metropolitan District Commission Police, and as both Commissioner and Superintendent of Police for the city of Boston. Bratton holds a bachelor of science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree from Boston State College Boston State College was a public university located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston. Boston State College's roots begin with the Girls High School, founded in 1852. and is a graduate of the FBI Executive Institute. He was a senior executive fellow in criminal justice at Harvard University and presently is a research fellow there. He has served as president of the Police Executive Research Forum, and holds the Boston Police Department's Schroeder Brothers Medal for valor The Medal for Valor (Russian: Медаль За Отвагу) was the highest military medal that could be awarded to a soldier of the Soviet Union for bravery on the field of battle. . General information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases is available, free of charge, through the company's News-On-Demand fax service at 800/916-7788. This information is also available through Rite Aid's Internet web site at http:\\www.RiteAid.com . CONTACT: Rite Aid Corp., Camp Hill Investors: Frank Bergonzi, 717/975-5750 Media: Sarah Datz, 717/975-5718 |
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