Cathleen Black, 63, is president of Hearst Magazines, a division of The Hearst Corporation, a diversified communications company. She is chair of IBM’s Directors and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of IBM’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining Hearst Magazines, she was president and chief executive officer of the Newspaper Association of America from 1991 to 1996, president, then publisher, of USA TODAY from 1983 to 1991, and also executive vice president/marketing for Gannett Company, Inc. from 1985 to 1991. She is a director of The Hearst Corporation, The Coca-Cola... Company, the Advertising Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the University of Notre Dame. Ms. Black became an IBM director in 1995.
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