Altria Group

Michael E. Szymanczyk is the current CEO of Altria Group. Szymanczyk was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Altria Group in March 2008. He served as Chairman, Philip Morris USA from April 2002 – August 2002. Prior to that appointment, he served as President and CEO of Philip... Morris USA from November 1997 to April 2002. He was Chief Operating Officer of Philip Morris USA from July 1997 to November 1997. Michael first joined Philip Morris USA as Senior Vice President, Sales, in October 1990. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 1971. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, the University of Richmond, and the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering Foundation. Szmanczyk played varsity basketball for Indiana University, and is Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the school's Kelley School of Business.
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Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area. The population within the city limits was 204,214 in 2010, with... an estimated population of 1,258,251 for the Richmond Metropolitan Area — making it the third largest in Virginia. Geographically, Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, 108 miles south of Washington DC, 71 miles east of Charlottesville, and 54 miles west of Williamsburg. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288. The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610–1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780.
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