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President Appoints Bank of America’s Gordon to NSTAC
Gordon replaces Donald J. Obert, who served on the NSTAC for over seven years. President Bush appointed to the NSTAC on July 9, 2001 – one of nine senior communications executives named to NSTAC that day. As Chief Technology Officer and a member of the bank’s management operating committee, Gordon leads teams that deliver on strategic business, technology and innovation priorities focused on producing profitable growth across the company. Gordon has direct responsibility for the following global teams:
Gordon’s combined groups include more than 28,000 teammates, span more than 35 cities in 10 countries and represent an operating budget in excess of $4 billion. He joined Bank of America in August 2004 and served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Consumer and Corporate Staff Technology until June 2008. In that role, he partnered with multiple lines of business to deliver technology solutions that achieved business growth, cost efficiency and customer satisfaction goals. He has extensive retail industry experience from leadership positions with Best Buy, West Marine Products and The Timberland Company. Gordon joined the bank from Best Buy, a consumer electronics and entertainment company with 2004 revenues of $24 billion. During his six years at Best Buy, he served as executive vice president of Supply Chain and CIO and was a member of the operating committee. He also has 10 years of consulting experience in technology and business operations, including five years with Accenture. Gordon earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Colby College in Waterville, Maine and his master’s degree in information systems from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. He currently serves on the board of directors of PACER, a national organization that works to improve the lives of children with disabilities and their parents. President Ronald Reagan created the NSTAC by Executive Order 12382 in September 1982. Composed of up to 30 industry chief executives representing the major communications and network service providers and information technology, finance, and aerospace companies, the NSTAC provides industry-based advice and expertise to the President on issues and problems related to implementing national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policy. Questions or comments concerning this site? Please contact the webmaster. |
             
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Washington
D.C. October 24, 2008 - President George W. Bush yesterday
announced his intent to appoint Marc D. Gordon, Chief Technology Officer
for Bank of America, to the President’s National Security Telecommunications
Advisory Committee (NSTAC).