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Did a dig on Dominion yesterday, and it led to some Staple Street Capital that led to these two guys.
William E. Kennard
Executive Board Member
William E. Kennard is an Executive Board Member principally focused on the communications and media sectors and other regulated industries.
Ambassador Kennard was the United States’ Ambassador to the European Union from 2009-2013 where he worked actively to promote transatlantic trade and investment and to eliminate regulatory barriers to commerce. Before his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the EU, Ambassador Kennard was Managing Director of The Carlyle Group where he led investments in the communications and media sectors. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group, Ambassador Kennard served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). As FCC Chairman, Ambassador Kennard shaped policies that created an explosion of new wireless phones, brought the Internet to a majority of American households, and resulted in billions of dollars of investment in new broadband technologies.
Ambassador Kennard currently serves on the board of directors of AT&T (NYSE: T), Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and MetLife (NYSE: MET) and previously served on the boards of The New York Times Company, Sprint Nextel Corporation and on the boards of several companies owned by The Carlyle Group. Ambassador Kennard is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.
Scott T. Parker
Executive Board Member
Scott Parker is an Executive Board Member principally focused on the industrial and financial services sectors.
Mr. Parker is executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO) for Ryder System, Inc., a FORTUNE 500® commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions company. He is responsible for Ryder’s financial management functions including finance and audit, treasury, tax, accounting, corporate strategy, and investor relations. He is member of Ryder’s Executive Leadership Team.
Prior to this position, Mr. Parker was EVP and CFO for OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF), a leading consumer finance company, responsible for overseeing all financial operations including accounting, tax, financial planning and analysis, treasury, and investor relations.
Before joining OneMain Financial, he served as the CFO for commercial finance company CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT). Prior to CIT, he served as CFO and then chief operating officer for Cerberus Operations & Advisory Company, an affiliate of private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management. Mr. Parker also spent more than 15 years in leadership roles within the industrial and financial services businesses at General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), including CFO of GE Capital Solutions.
Mr. Parker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University.