A Close-Knit Group
Along with five current or former executives, McDonald's 15-member board is packed with directors who have links to the company and each other. At right, their ties and the year they joined the board
HALL ADAMS JR.
64, former CEO of Leo Burnett & Co., a McDonald's ad agency (1993)
GORDON C. GRAY
70, a Canadian mining executive; sits on another board with Stone (1982)
DONALD R. KEOUGH
71, former president of Coca-Cola Co., a major McDonald's supplier (1993)
ENRIQUE HERNANDEZ JR.
42, CEO of California-based provider of security guards (1996)
DONALD G. LUBIN
64, partner at McDonald's Chicago law firm, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal (1967)
TERRY L. SAVAGE
53 Chicago-based television and print journalist (1990)
ANDREW J. McKENNA
68, CEO of Schwarz Paper Co., a McDonald's supplier. Director of Aon Corp. (with former McDonald's CEO Fred Turner) and Dean Foods, another McDonald's supplier (1991)
ROGER W. STONE
63, CEO of Stone Container Corp., a McDonald's supplier that also owns stake in supplier of take-out bags. Jack Greenberg, president of McDonald's USA, sits on Stone board (1989)
B. BLAIR VEDDER JR.
73, former COO of agency that became McDonald's lead ad agency (1988)
ROBERT N. THURSTON
65, Former Quaker Oats executive (1974)
DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, McDONALD'S CORP.
Return to main story
| 
