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A.D. Frazier
A.D. Frazier has spent his entire 40-year professional
career as an executive manager in the for-profit,
not-for-profit and government sectors of the U.S.
economy. He has had an unusually wide range of
experiences and is well known as a knowledgeable
professional problem-solver who has undertaken and
successfully completed a variety of challenging
assignments both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Frazier is currently serving as the Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Danka Business Systems PLC, a
leading document solutions provider, based in St.
Petersburg, Florida. He owns and operates Wolf Creek
Broadcasting, Inc., a radio broadcasting company. Mr.
Frazier served as Chairman of the Board and Chairman of
the Executive Committee of Gold Kist, Inc., an
agricultural products company (NASDAQ), until December
2006. Mr. Frazier also serves on the Board of Directors
and is a member of the Compensation Committee of Apache
Corporation, a Fortune 500 oil and gas company (NYSE,
NASDAQ), and serves on the Board of Directors and is a
member of the Technical Committee of The Pinellas
Education Foundation, a foundation that oversees all
public schools in the Pinellas County area. Mr. Frazier
served on the Board of Directors of Gevity, Inc., a
human resources management firm (NASDAQ), until May
2006. Prior to joining Danka, Mr. Frazier was with the
law firm of Balch & Bingham, LLP, Of Counsel, in the
firm's Atlanta office.
Experience
Mr. Frazier has extensive experience in the following
areas:
- Corporate and Shareholder Matters
- Contracts and
Commercial Disputes
- Executive Compensation
- Labor/Management Relations
- Financial Services Healthcare
Mr. Frazier is a trained mediator having met the
qualifications for registration with the State of
Georgia. Mr. Frazier's extensive business experience and
legal background combine to provide him with a unique
perspective on the role of the mediator and on the
mediation process.
Mr. Frazier is a member of the following professional
organizations:
- North Carolina State Bar
- American Bar Association
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Georgia Bar Association
- Atlanta Bar Association
- The Association for Conflict Resolution
Educational Background
Mr. Frazier earned both an AB and JD from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was admitted to the
North Carolina Bar in 1969 and completed Harvard
Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1981.
He spent five years as an officer in the U.S. Army
Reserve.
Work History
Caremark Rx, Inc.
In May 2002, Mr. Frazier was recruited to be the
President and Chief Operating Officer of Caremark Rx,
Inc. a Fortune 500 pharmacy benefit management company.
He managed all operational aspects of the company's
principal subsidiary, Caremark Inc., which included over
4000 staff in over a dozen locations. He assisted in
successfully positioning Caremark to acquire Advance
PCS, resulting in creation of the Nation's second
largest PBM. After the acquisition, Mr. Frazier retired
from Caremark and the Caremark Board of Directors in
2004.
Chicago Stock Exchange
In February 2001, Mr. Frazier was recruited to become
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the
Chicago Stock Exchange. He successfully guided the
Exchange through the change to penny increments in
securities pricing and the recovery of operations after
the events of September 11, 2001.
AMVESCAP
In November 1996, Mr. Frazier joined INVESCO, now an
affiliate of AMVESCAP, PLC as Executive Vice President
and a member of the Board of Directors. AMVESCAP is one
of the world's largest financial asset managers. In
April 1997, Mr. Frazier became President and Chief
Executive Officer of INVESCO, Inc. with overall
responsibility for all U .S. based institutional asset
management business consisting of over $93 billion in
assets under management and over 700 people in five
locations. He served there successfully, adding a
variety of new products and increasing both earnings and
assets under management until February, 2001.
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Prior to joining INVESCO, Mr. Frazier was for 6 years
the Chief Operating Officer and second in command of the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and was
responsible for all of the operational aspects of the
1996 Centennial Olympic Games, including Planning,
Construction, Sports, Venues, Technology,
Administration, Operations, Accreditation, International
Organizations, Games Services (tickets, food, beverage
and accommodations), Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting, and
Finance and Management Services . Staff and volunteers
at the peak numbered over 90,000 people. He also served
on ACOG's Board of Directors. The 1996 Atlanta Olympic
Games was financed with private funds. After raising and
spending over $1.7 billion, the Games closed with over
$300 million in legacy investments and a balanced
budget.
First Chicago Corp. and The First National Bank of
Chicago
Before being recruited to ACOG in 1991, Mr. Frazier was
Executive Vice President in charge of the North American
Banking Group (large corporate banking) of First Chicago
Corp. and The First National Bank of Chicago (now J .P.
Morgan Chase) having joined the corporation in 1982 as
head of strategic planning . Before leaving First
Chicago, he became a member of the Reserve City Bankers
Association.
Additional Background
Mr. Frazier began his banking career with Citizens and
Southern National Bank (now Bank of America) in Atlanta,
Georgia in 1969, holding a variety of positions and
rising to the rank of Executive Vice President.
From December, 1976 until December, 1977 while on leave
from Citizens and Southern, Mr. Frazier managed the
inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and headed the
team that reorganized the White House and the Executive
Office of the President.
During his early years in Atlanta, Mr. Frazier led a
number of community and eleemosynary projects.
Specifically, in 1980 he chaired a financial services
group which arranged commitments totaling over $50
million from local banks for inner-city mortgage loans
and was the first Chairman of Grant Park Neighborhood
Housing Services, a not-for-profit housing redevelopment
project. In 1981 he chaired Governor George Busbee’s
commission that established Georgia's Public
Telecommunications Commission, (public broadcasting),
becoming its first Chairman. From 1977 to 1981 he served
as a Presidential Appointee to the National Council on
the Humanities.
Upon returning to Atlanta in 1991, he served as a member
of the Board of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
(1992-1995), as a member of the Board of Trustees of
Lovett School (1996-1999), as a member of the Georgia
Board of Corrections (1997-2006), as Vestryman,
Treasurer, Trustee, and Lay Reader at All Saint’s
Episcopal Church, and as Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (1997-2000).
While in Chicago between 1982 and 1991, he served on the
boards of Evanston Hospital Corporation, The Museum of
Science and Industry, the Lyric Opera, public television
station WTTW, and Neighborhood Housing Services of
Chicago. Mr. Frazier instituted a feeding ministry at
Christ Episcopal Church in Winnetka, Illinois, and
chaired Chicago’s Armed Forces Day Festivities.
Over the years Mr. Frazier has lectured on a variety of
management and business strategy topics at the U.S. Army
War College, Yale University, Washington and Lee
University, Emory University and the Kellogg School of
Northwestern University. He has served on advisory
boards of the Kellogg School, Babcock School of Business
at Wake Forest University, and The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additionally, he has served on
the board of directors of Magellan Health Services,
Inc., Rock-Tenn Company, and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Mr. Frazier has received a number of awards. In 1976 he
was named one of the five outstanding Young Men of
Atlanta. From 1992-1996 Georgia Trend Magazine selected
him as one of the “100 Most Influential Persons in
Georgia”. In 1996 Piedmont College awarded him an
honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration,
and at the close of the 1996 Olympic Games, he was
awarded the Olympic Order, in gold, the highest serviced
award given by the International Olympic Committee. Mr.
Frazier donated his memorabilia from the Olympics to
Atlanta’s Capital City Club Olympic Room. The Frazier
Stage at the center of Davidson College’s Duke Family
Performing Arts Center was donated by Mr. Frazier in
2002 to honor his children, Carrie and Jim.
Mr. Frazier is currently a member of the Capital City
Club (former board member), The Piedmont Driving Club,
(both in Atlanta) The Chicago Club, the Economic Club of
Chicago and the Georgia Association of Broadcasters.
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