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Originally Posted by jman4747
For refrence here are your FIRST BOD members. Again I think we should give them a little more of a chance than none at all.
Sheri S. McCoy - Co-Chair; Chief Executive Officer & Director, Avon Products, Inc.
Robert M. Tuttle - Co-Chair; General Partner, 1848 Associates
John E. Abele - Vice Chair; Founding Chairman, Retired, Boston Scientific Corporation
Walter P. Havenstein - Vice Chair; Chief Executive Officer, Retired, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Dean L. Kamen - Founder; President, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
Donald E. Bossi - Secretary; President, FIRST
Ursula M. Burns - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation
Dr. Paul E. Jacobs - Executive Chairman of the Board, Qualcomm Incorporated
Muhtar Kent - Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, Coca-Cola Company
John H. Lynch - Former Governor of the State of New Hampshire
Scott McKay - Chief Information Officer & Senior Vice President, Genworth Financial
Dennis A. Muilenburg - Vice Chairman, President & Chief Operating Officer, The Boeing Company
Kelly Ortberg - Chief Executive Officer & President, Rockwell Collins
Robert L. Parkinson, Jr. - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Baxter International Inc.
Steve Sanghi - President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, Microchip Technology, Inc.
Myron E. Ullman, III - Chief Executive Officer & Director, JCPenney
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It is an amazing resume of folks in the program! I hope it didn't sound like my comments were attempting to discredit these individuals that was far from the truth.
I don't think anyone can argue with the backgrounds these individuals have combined with their experience and connections they have brought to the table. I wouldn't argue that they aren't doing their best for FIRST.
But FIRST isn't a fortune 500 company or have shares traded on Wall Street. Its a non-profit run by people who view this as their second family and I'm sure for many it feels like their primary family. Its not easy when at the highest level they are going to split it down the middle and send one half of the family reunion to one destination and the other half to another. There are definitely financial implications with either plan (two championships or one) but we aren't talking about decisions that would put FIRST out of business necessarily.
I'm sure the BOD gets the mission of FIRST but do they really get what FIRST (you, me, and the teams) are all about?
Just a little food for thought.