Halliburton

Aylwin B. Lewis is an African American businessman. He is formerly the Chief Executive Officer and President of Sears Holdings Corporation Sears... Holdings was created in connection with the merger of Kmart and Sears, which was completed on March 24, 2005. The company generates approximately $55 billion in annual revenues and includes approximately 3,900 full-line and specialty retail stores and related service businesses in the United States and Canada. Lewis joined Kmart as President and Chief Executive Officer on October 18, 2004 from Yum! Brands, where he was President, Chief Multi-Branding and Operating Officer. He was a 13-year veteran of YUM! Brands, and was in the restaurant industry for 26 years, beginning his career as a Restaurant General Manager and rising through the ranks to his most recent position at YUM! Lewis is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company and Halliburton. He holds the following academic degrees: BA in English , BS in hotel and restaurant management , and an MBA —all from the University of Houston. Aylwin Lewis also received a master's degree from Houston Baptist University.
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David J. Lesar, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. Trained as a Certified Public Accountant, Lesar... spent 16 years at Arthur Andersen. He had spent most of his career at Andersen, where he worked on their Halliburton account. In 1995, Lesar was hired by Halliburton as a new vice president. Three months later he had a new boss, Dick Cheney. Within a year of his arrival, Cheney had fired Tommy Knight—a 32-year Kellogg, Brown and Root veteran—and named Lesar the new CEO of KBR, in addition to his duties as CFO of Halliburton. In May 1997, Cheney elevated Lesar to President and COO. After Cheney's departure, in 2000, Lesar became CEO of Halliburton. He also serves on the board of directors at Lyondell Chemical and is also a member of the Upstream Committee of the American Petroleum Institute. The movie Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers claims that Lesar has been paid over $42,000,000.00 by Halliburton since the beginning of Iraq war. He is also on the board of directors of the American Iranian Council, an organization devoted to the normalization of American-Iranian relations.
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Nance Dicciani was president and chief executive officer of Specialty Materials, a strategic business group of Honeywell. Specialty Materials, based... in Morristown, NJ, is a global leader in providing customers with high-performance specialty materials, including fluorine products; specialty films and additives; advanced fibers and composites; intermediates; specialty chemicals; electronic materials and chemicals; and technologies and materials for petroleum refining. In 2006, Dicciani was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology . She also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the American Chemistry Council and chairs the Board Research Committee. Dicciani is also a vice president of SCI, the Society of Chemical Industry and serves on their Executive Committee. She was the 2003 Warren K. Lewis Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been ranked one of “The World's 100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes magazine for the past two years.
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