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COMPANY

Acquired CBS in 1995, and adopted the name CBS in 1997.

Industry:
Manufacturing

Ticker:
(defunct)

Corporate headquarters:
Monroeville, PA

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Stanley Bing Columnist 20-May-1951   Columnist for Fortune
Edward Condon Physicist 2-Mar-1902 26-Mar-1974 Quantum Mechanics
Joseph T. Doyle Business c. 1947   CFO of Foster Wheeler, 2002-03
Ernest H. Drew Business c. 1936   Former Hoechst executive
Michael H. Jordan Business 13-Jun-1936 25-May-2010 CEO of EDS, 2003-07
Paul E. Lego Business 16-May-1930   CEO of Westinghouse, 1990-93
Anthony A. Massaro Business c. 1945   CEO of Lincoln Electric Holdings, 1996-2004
Charles W. Pryor, Jr. Business c. 1944   Former Westinghouse executive
Frederic G. Reynolds Business c. 1957   CFO of CBS
Frank Shakespeare Diplomat 9-Apr-1925   US Ambassador to the Vatican, 1986-89
George Westinghouse Inventor 6-Oct-1846 12-Mar-1914 Air brake and A/C power
John B. Yasinsky Business c. 1939   CEO of OMNOVA Solutions, 1999-2000

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Frank Carlucci Government 18-Oct-1930   US Secretary of Defense, 1987-89
Barbara Hackman Franklin Government 19-Mar-1940   US Secretary of Commerce, 1992-93
Michael H. Jordan Business 13-Jun-1936 25-May-2010 CEO of EDS, 2003-07
Paul E. Lego Business 16-May-1930   CEO of Westinghouse, 1990-93
Charles W. Pryor, Jr. Business c. 1944   Former Westinghouse executive
Paula Stern Government 31-Mar-1945   Chairman, Int'l. Trade Commission, 1984-86
Hays T. Watkins, Jr. Business 26-Jan-1926   CEO of CSX, 1980-89

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Howard Aiken Physicist 8-Mar-1900 14-Mar-1973 Designer of early computers
Aristotle Balogh Business c. 1964   CTO of Yahoo!
Jon A. Boscia Business c. 1951   CEO of Lincoln National, 1998-2007
James R. Boyd Business c. 1947   VP of Ashland, 1986-2002
Paula H. J. Cholmondeley Business c. 1948   VP at Sappi Fine Paper, 2000-04
Arthur H. Compton Physicist 10-Sep-1892 15-Mar-1962 Discovered the Compton Effect
Allen B. DuMont Inventor 29-Jan-1901 14-Nov-1965 TV picture tube and TV network
Dermot Dunphy Business 15-Apr-1932   CEO of Sealed Air, 1971-99
Louise K. Goeser Business c. 1952   CEO of Ford Mexico
James Hillier Physicist 22-Aug-1915 15-Jan-2007 Electron microscope
Albert Kingsbury Engineer 23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Charles John Koch Business c. 1946   CEO of Charter One Financial, 1988-2004
Walter Kohn Chemist 9-Mar-1923   Density-functional theory
Ellen J. Kullman Business 1956   CEO of DuPont
Polykarp Kusch Physicist 26-Jan-1911 20-Mar-1993 Magnetic moment of the electron
David C. Miller Diplomat 15-Jul-1942   US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1984-86
Peter J. Perrone Business c. 1968   VP at Goldman Sachs
Stephen Timoshenko Engineer 23-Dec-1878 29-May-1972 Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Vladimir Zworykin Inventor 30-Jul-1889 29-Jul-1982 Patented color televison

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Diebold Author 8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation

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