Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Briggs named chair of Knight board


Robert Briggs started his four-year term Tuesday as chairman of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Board of Trustees. He succeeded W. Gerald Austen, M.D., who has been a foundation trustee since 1987 and served as chairman the past 14 years.

Briggs became a Knight Foundation trustee in 2002 and served as vice chairman from 2005 until his appointment as chairman-elect in March 2009. He is president of the GAR Foundation in Akron and chairman emeritus and former CEO of the law firm Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs.
[Source: Akron Beacon Journal business briefs, Wednesday, March 17, 2010]

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