News Release

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School will welcome three distinguished executives to campus in the next two months to give talks that are free to the public.

The lectures are part of the spring Dean’s Speaker Series; each begins at 5:30 p.m. in the McColl Building’s Maurice J. Koury Auditorium, followed by a 6:30 p.m. reception in the Kenan Center dining room.

Members of the public may RSVP by calling (919) 843-7787 or e-mailing kfbsrsvp@unc.edu.

The following guest speakers are scheduled:

· James A. Bell, chief financial officer and a 31-year veteran of the Boeing Co., on March 15.

· Carla Harris, managing director and head of equity private placements and retail capital markets at Morgan Stanley, on March 29.

· C. Michael Armstrong, retired chairman of Comcast, AT&T and Hughes Electronics Corp., on April 20.

Bell’s previous positions include senior vice president of finance and corporate controller and vice president of contracts and pricing for Boeing Space and Communications. He has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Defense on military space programs and export issues.

Bell also was director of business management of the Space Station Electric Power System at the Boeing Rocketdyne unit. Rocketdyne provides propulsion systems for space shuttles and is a worldwide leader in designing and producing rocket propulsion and space power systems.

Harris was included in Fortune’s "50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America," Black Enterprise’s "Top 50 African Americans on Wall Street" and Essence’s "50 Women Who Are Shaping the World."

In her previous position as senior member of the equity syndicate desk, Harris executed initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the largest biotechnology follow-on offering in U.S. history.

Armstrong was ranked ninth on Time’s "Digital 50," a list of the most influential people in technology for 1999. That year, Network World named him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. As chairman and chief executive officer of Hughes Electronics Corp., Armstrong helped establish Hughes as a global leader in communications satellites and launched DirecTV.

He is the former chairman of the Business Roundtable’s Homeland Security Task Force, the Federal Communications Commission’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council and the U.S.-Japan Business Council. Armstrong also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the President’s Export Council and the Telluride Foundation.

Parking will be available in the business school deck.

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Kenan-Flagler Business School contact: Kim Weaver Spurr, (919) 962-8951 or spurrk@unc.edu

News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu