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Dean’s Speaker Series Brings Exciting Lineup to Kenan-Flagler Business School

CHAPEL HILL -- Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Spring 2003 Dean’s Speaker Series will feature executives from Red Hat, Newell Rubbermaid, Citigroup, Wachovia Corp. and Bloomberg; a sales management author and entrepreneur; and a Pulitzer Prize- winning, foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill series brings key movers and shakers to the business school in lectures that are free and open to the community. All lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in the McColl Building’s Maurice J. Koury Auditorium.

The series kicks off Jan. 15 with Rick Page, chairman, chief executive officer and founder of The Complex Sale Inc. and author of "Hope is Not a Strategy — The Six Keys to Winning the Complex Sale." Page is a recognized thought leader in the area of sales force effectiveness. Prior to starting The Complex Sale in 1990, he was senior vice president of sales development for Dun & Bradstreet Software. The Complex Sale has trained more than 25,000 sales people from more than 50 countries in sales and sales management. Page holds two UNC degrees: an undergraduate business administration degree and a master’s of business administration.

The remainder of the spring lineup includes:

· Feb. 6: Matthew J. Szulik, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Red Hat. Szulik has been leading early-stage technology companies into publicly traded firms for more than 20 years. In 1998, he joined Red Hat founder Bob Young in a shared vision of a collaborative approach to producing open source software. Following successful public offerings in 1999 and 2000, Red Hat developed global partnerships with Oracle, IBM, Dell, Intel and HP.

· Feb. 11: Joseph Galli Jr., president and chief executive officer, Newell Rubbermaid. Galli joined Newell Rubbermaid in January 2001. He launched his career at Black & Decker, where he quickly moved through the sales and marketing system, serving stints as both president of the U.S. and Worldwide Power Tools groups. Galli, who holds an undergraduate business administration degree from Carolina, played a pivotal role in re-engineering Black & Decker’s European, Asian and Latin American operations. Subsequent to Black & Decker, he served as chief operating officer of Amazon.com.

· Feb. 25: Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist, The New York Times (Weatherspoon Distinguished Faculty Scholar Lecture.) Friedman is a winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction and two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of the Middle East. In 1982, he became the Times’ Beirut bureau chief, and was transferred to Jerusalem in 1984 as the Israel bureau chief. In 1989, he published the National Book Award-winner, "From Beirut to Jerusalem;" it also won the Overseas Press Club Award. In 1995, he became foreign affairs columnist, and in 1999, published "The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization."

· March 4: Sallie L. Krawcheck, chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney, a division of Citigroup. In 2002, Krawcheck was named one of Fortune magazine’s "Most Powerful Women" and one of Time magazine’s "Global Business Influentials." She oversees global management of one of the four key businesses of parent company, Citigroup, with responsibility for more than 500 offices around the world, including more than 300 equity research analysts and more than 12,700 financial consultants. Previously, she was chairman and chief executive officer of research firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., where she became one of the most influential voices for research quality and integrity. She was a Morehead Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill.

· April 1: G. Kennedy Thompson, president and chief executive officer, Wachovia Corp. Thompson joined Wachovia Corp. in 1976 and has been its president and CEO since 2001. His previous positions at the company are chairman, president and chief executive officer of First Union Corp.; vice chairman of the corporation and head of Global Capital Markets; president, First Union-Florida; senior vice president and head of First Union Human Resources; and president, First-Union Georgia. He also was a Morehead Scholar at Carolina.

· April 16: Peter T. Grauer, chairman, Bloomberg L.P. A member of the Bloomberg board since October 1996, Grauer was named chairman of the global financial media company in March 2001, succeeding Michael Bloomberg. The UNC graduate was a managing director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) from 1992 to 2000 and is a founder of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and DLJ Investment Partners, which today collectively manager more than $12 billion of private equity funds.

To R.S.V.P. to any of the lectures, please call (919) 843-7787 or e-mail kfbsrsvp@kenan-flagler.unc.edu.

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