COMPANY

Official Website:
http://www.generalmills.com/

Industry:
Food

Ticker:
NYSE:GIS

Corporate headquarters:
Minneapolis, MN

Sales:
$11.6B (2006)

Employees:
28,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Y. Marc Belton	Business	c. 1959		Executive at General Mills
Stephen R. Demeritt	Business	c. 1943		Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1999-2005
Michael J. Dolan	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2001-03
Leslie M. Frécon	Business	c. 1953		LFE Capital, LLC
Julius C. Holmes	Diplomat	24-Apr-1899	15-Jul-1968	US Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65
Reatha Clark King	Business	11-Apr-1938		President of Metropolitan State, 1977-88
James A. Lawrence	Business	c. 1952		CFO of Unilever
Siri S. Marshall	Business	c. 1948		General Counsel for General Mills, 1994-2008
Kendall J. Powell	Business	c. 1954		CEO of General Mills
Gary M. Rodkin	Business	c. 1952		CEO of ConAgra
Stephen W. Sanger	Business	10-Apr-1946		CEO of General Mills, 1995-2007
Raymond G. Viault	Business	c. 1945		Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004
Mark H. Willes	Business	16-Jul-1941		CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bradbury H. Anderson	Business	c. 1949		CEO of Best Buy
Paul Danos	Educator	c. 1942		Dean, Tuck School of Business
William T. Esrey	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Sprint, 1988-2003
Raymond V. Gilmartin	Business	6-Mar-1941		CEO of Merck, 1994-2005
Judith Richards Hope	Attorney	c. 1940		Pinstripes and Pearls
Heidi G. Miller	Business	c. 1954		EVP at JP Morgan Chase
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg	Business	c. 1944		Strategic Investment Group
Steve Odland	Business	1959		CEO of Office Depot
Kendall J. Powell	Business	c. 1954		CEO of General Mills
Lois E. Quam	Business	c. 1961		Managing Director, Piper Jaffray
Michael D. Rose	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Holiday Inn, 1981-90
Robert L. Ryan	Business	c. 1943		CFO of Medtronic, 1993-2005
Stephen W. Sanger	Business	10-Apr-1946		CEO of General Mills, 1995-2007
A. Michael Spence	Economist	7-Nov-1943		Asymmetric markets
Dorothy A. Terrell	Business	12-Jun-1945		VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stephen R. Demeritt	Business	c. 1943		Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1999-2005
Robert L. Johnson	Business	8-Apr-1946		CEO of BET
James A. Lawrence	Business	c. 1952		CFO of Unilever
Raymond G. Viault	Business	c. 1945		Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004
Mark H. Willes	Business	16-Jul-1941		CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stephen Carley	Business	c. 1952		CEO, El Pollo Loco
Douglas R. Conant	Business	c. 1951		CEO of Campbell Soup
Jerry L. Ford	Business	c. 1941		Comdisco Network Services
Ann M. Fudge	Business	23-Apr-1951		CEO of Young & Rubicam
Richard Kovacevich	Business	30-Oct-1943		CEO of Wells Fargo
Robert Pirsig	Author	6-Sep-1928		Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Allen	Author	28-Dec-1945		Getting Things Done

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Larry Bird	Basketball	7-Dec-1956		Boston Celtics
Chris Evert	Tennis	21-Dec-1954		The Ice Maiden
Bruce Jenner	Track and Field	28-Oct-1949		US Olympic track and field star
Walter Payton	Football	25-Jul-1954	1-Nov-1999	Sweetness
Mary Lou Retton	Gymnastics	24-Jan-1968		Olympic gymnast
Pete Rose	Baseball	14-Apr-1941		Cincinnati Reds
Sam Snead	Golf	27-May-1912	23-May-2002	Winner of 82 PGA tournaments

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