Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

* A Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) who may also be Chairman of the Board

* Chairman of the Board – presiding officer of the corporate board of directors.

The CEO is also often the Chairman of the Board, especially in closely held corporations and also often in public corporations.

* Director or Member of the Board of Directors – high-level official with a fiduciary responsibility of overseeing the operation of a corporation and elects or removes officers of a corporation ; nominally, Directors, other than the Chairman are usually not considered to be employees of the company per se, although they may receive compensation, often including benefits ; in publicly held companies.

* Vice Chair or Vice Chairman – officer of the Board of Directors who may stand in for the Chairman in his / her absence.

One of Dijkstra's sidelines was serving as Chairman of the Board of the fictional Mathematics Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had commercialized the production of computer programs.

Ben Bernanke ( lower-right ), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on February 10, 2009.

The Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors are appointed by the President from among the sitting Governors.

On July 23, GM announced its new Board of Directors: Dan Akerson, David Bonderman, Robert D. Krebs, Patricia F. Russo and Ed Whitacre ( GM Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer ).

* Daniel Akerson – Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board of Directors

On August 12, 2010 GM announced that Whitacre would relinquish the CEO position effective September 1, 2010 and that of Chairman of the Board at the end of the year, to be replaced in those functions by current board member Dan Akerson.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of L. Welch Pogue ( 1899 – 2003 ) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old Civil Aeronautics Board.

Before announcing his run for Governor, Lynch was serving as Chairman of the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees.

He has been a member of Carlyle Group's European Advisory Board since 1998 and was appointed Chairman of Carlyle Europe in May 2001.

He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Heckmann Corporation, a water sector company, since the company's inception and serves as Chairman of the company's Compensation and Nominating & Governance Committees.

He also served as the bank's first Chairman of the Board.

On March 25, 2003, Kemp was selected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of USA Football, a national advocacy group for amateur football created by the National Football League ( NFL ) and the NFL Players Association.

In 1971, INDECO, MINDECO, and FINDECO were brought together under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation ( ZIMCO ), to create one of the largest companies in sub-Saharan Africa, with Francis Kaunda as Chairman of the Board.

Leszek Miller started his political career as an activist of the Socialist Youth Union, where he held the position of Chairman of the Plant Board, soon becoming a member of the Town Committee.

The Board consists of a Chairman appointed by the Minister and 10 other members.

In 1995, Bush, then the Governor of Texas, appointed Evans to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, serving as Chairman of the Board for the last four years.

* Welcome W. Wilson, Sr. ( born 1928 ), Chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of Houston System ( Texas )

Leo served as the Chairman of the UC Board of Regents in 1988 when the Board decided to explore building a 10th campus in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Board of Regents has the following members: Charlie Amato ( Chairman ), Donna N. Williams ( Vice Chairman ), Dr. Jaime Garza, Kevin J. Lilly, Ron Mitchell, David Montagne, Trisha Pollard, Rossanna Salazar, Michael Truncale and Ryan Bridges ( Student Regent ).

" Dobelle had 5 Chairman of the Board in 2 years and 24 members rotating through 12 seats ultimately having no Regents left who selected him as President.

Corbin J. Robertson, former UH Board of Regents member and Athletics Committee Chairman, funded its renovation in 1970, and the stadium was bought for $ 6. 8 million USD by the University of Houston.

J. J. Daniel, Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents, was instrumental in getting the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

He was reappointed to the Board of Regents in 2001, and served as Chairman of the Board of Regents from 2003-2005.

After two terms as Governor, Harris was appointed to the Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia serving for seven years, two years as Chairman.

His public service boards include the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control, The White House Fellows Foundation, The Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, The Board of Trustees of the Anne Arundel Health System, Board of Directors of The Atlantic Council and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the US Naval Academy Foundation.

Plans for an institutional campus in Houston came to fruition in 1986 under Mr. David Eller ( Chairman of the Texas A & M University System Board of Regents ) and Dr. Richard Wainerdi ( Chairman and CEO of the Texas Medical Center ).

The Chairman of CHED is also the Chairperson of the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines.

Edward Benjamin Cushing ( November 22, 1862 – February 17, 1924 ) was an engineer and academic administrator who personally bankrolled the fledgling Texas A & M University while Chairman of the Board of Regents in 1912.

* Kent M. Adams, Class of 1981, Houston, Texas attorney, Past Chairman of the Board of Regents of the Texas State University System ( 2001-2007 )

Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents ’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U. S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U. C.

CACI Chairman of the Board Dr. Jack London defended the company with a book: CACI: Our Good Name.

Chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, defended the bailout by stating that a Bear Stearns ' bankruptcy would have affected the real economy and could have caused a " chaotic unwinding " of investments across the US markets.

Officials on the third day of the Fatah convention in Bethlehem unanimously accepted the proposal put forth by the chairman of the Araft Institute stating that Israel had been behind the " assassination " of the late Palestinian Authority Chairman and affirmed Fatah's request for international aid to probe the issue.

In June 1937, when Lord Mount Temple, the Chairman of the Anglo-German Fellowship, asked to see the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after meeting Hitler in a visit arranged by Ribbentrop, Robert Vansittart, the British Foreign Office's Undersecretary wrote a memo stating that :" The P. M. Minister should certainly not see Lord Mount Temple – nor should the S of S. We really must put a stop to this eternal butting in of amateurs – and Lord Mount Temple is a particularly silly one.

The Chinese continued to support them throughout the war, with Liu Shaoqi, the Chairman of the People's Republic of China, stating in 1965 that " it is our policy that we will do our best to support you.

At the five year anniversary of the GLBA in November 2004, the American Banker quoted then retiring Comptroller of the Currency John D. Hawke, Jr. and former FDIC Chairman William Seidman as stating the GLBA had been less significant than expected in not bringing about the combinations of banking, insurance, and investment banking.

Shortly thereafter, Gliebe resigned as National Chairman of the Alliance stating that he needed more time to spend with his family.

On February 21, 2007, the call came from the The Children's Investment Fund Management hedge fund which asked the Chairman of the Supervisory Board to actively investigate a merger, acquisition or breakup of ABN AMRO, stating that the current stock price didn't reflect the true value of the underlying assets.

In 1985, under FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler, a communications attorney who had served on Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign staff in 1976 and 1980, the FCC released a report stating that the doctrine hurt the public interest and violated free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman sent a scathing letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy in January 2009 stating that drug use was " pervasive " in professional wrestling .< ref >

Chairman Sir Philip Carter wrote to shareholders stating: " It should be remembered that a net £ 10m was spent last season on strengthening the squad in anticipation of our concluding a lucrative media deal which unfortunately was aborted by the media group within hours of the anticipated signing.

Former British and Irish Lions captain Gavin Hastings was subsequently appointed Chairman stating his " desire and passion to see this game and this club grow ".

Despite only appearing in one episode, Chairman Yuki is introduced into the story when the Countess receives a letter stating that the Chairman would be holding a living funeral as he was growing deathly ill and did not have much time left.

Kane however shoots her without warning upon those revelations, and the cutscene closes with the character stating the foreboding words to the player ; " Comrade Chairman, I am the future ".

After the shooting Blair telephoned the Chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission ( IPCC ) and wrote a letter to the Home Office stating that " the shooting that has just occurred at Stockwell is not to be referred to the IPCC and that they will be given no access to the scene at the present time ".

In May 2008, in response to these requests, the Chairman of the Snohomish County Council sent Allegiant Air a letter stating their opposition to the request to start air service.

The Law. com article quotes Chairman Brad Karp as stating, " The last quarter of 2009 was the busiest period in our firm's history.

He was appointed when he bought a 16. 6 % share of the club for £ 292, 000 ( he later sold a significant proportion to co-director Danny Fiszman ) At the time of Dein's purchase of the shares in Arsenal back in 1983, Peter Hill Wood Arsenal's Chairman described Dein as " crazy " to invest his money in the club stating that " to all intents and purposes it's dead money ".