Campbell Soup CEO named chair of Conference Board

Douglas R. Conant, president and chief executive officer of Campbell Soup Company, has been elected the new chairman of the board of trustees of The Conference Board. The outgoing chairman is Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr., CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The role of the board of trustees is comparable to that of a board of directors in public companies.

Vice chairmen of the board of trustees of The Conference Board now include:

Josef Ackermann, chairman of the management board and the group executive committee, Deutsche Bank AG
Alan M. Dachs, president and CEO, Fremont Group LLC
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr., executive partner, Madison Dearborn
Nandan M. Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited
Anne M. Tatlock, director, former chairman and CEO, Fiduciary Trust Company International

Other members of the board of trustees include:

Herbert M. Allison Jr., chairman, president and CEO, TIAA, president and CEO, CREF
Alan J.P. Belda, chairman and CEO, Alcoa Inc.
Patrick Cescau, group chief executive, Unilever PLC
Richard T. Clark, chairman, president and CEO, Merck & Company Inc.
Ian E.L. Davis, worldwide managing director, McKinsey & Company
Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr., CEO, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade, Finance and Business, Yale School of Management
Anne Golden, president and CEO, The Conference Board of Canada
Francisco González, chairman and CEO, BBVA
Klaus Kleinfeld, president and CEO, Alcoa Inc.
Lim Chee Onn, executive chairman, Keppel Corporation Limited
Padraig McManus, CEO, Electricity Supply Board
Hutham S. Olayan, president and CEO, Olayan America Corporation
Michael E. Roach, president and CEO, CGI Group Inc.
Edward B. Rust Jr., chairman and CEO, State Farm Insurance Companies
Mayo Schmidt, president and CEO, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Samuel C. Scott III, chairman, president and CEO, Corn Products International Inc.
Jonathan Spector, CEO, The Conference Board Inc.
Anton van Rossum, member of the board of directors, Crédit Suisse Group
G. J. (Hans) Wijers, chairman, board of management, Akzo Nobel nv
Ronald A. Williams, chairman of the board, CEO and president, Aetna Inc.
Marjorie Yang, chairman, Esquel Group of Companies
Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala II, chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation

About Douglas R. Conant

Douglas R. Conant was appointed president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company in January of 2001. He also was elected a director of the company at that time. Conant is Campbell's 11th leader in the company's nearly 140-year history.

Campbell is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality foods and simple meals, including soup and baked snacks, vegetable-based beverages, and premium chocolate products, with annual revenues in excess of $7.8 billion. Conant joined Campbell with 25 years of extensive food industry experience from three of the world's leading food companies: General Mills Inc., Kraft Foods and Nabisco.

Under Conant's leadership, Campbell has reversed a decline in market value and employee engagement. The company has made significant investments to improve product quality and packaging, to strengthen the effectiveness of its marketing programs, and to develop a robust innovation pipeline. Campbell also has improved its financial profile, enhanced its relationships with its customers, and consistently improved its employee engagement through investments in its organization.

Today, Campbell is delivering total shareowner returns in the top tier of the global food industry and displaying ever-improving employee engagement levels. As a result, the company is well on its way to achieving its mission of building the world's most extraordinary food company by nourishing people's lives everywhere, every day. A native of Chicago, Conant earned his bachelor of arts degree from Northwestern University and his master's degree in business administration from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.