NOL Names ex-George W Bush Science Advisor as Director

Neptune Orient Lines Limited (NOL) appointed leading international business figure Robert Herbold to its board from February 1 and a former science and technology advisor to US President George W Bush.

Today, Mr Herbold is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University, the Heritage Foundation and the Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre.

From 1994 to 2001, Mr Herbold was executive vice president and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. After retiring in 2001, Mr Herbold worked half time for Microsoft until 2003 as Executive Vice President assisting in government, industry, and customer issues.

"Mr Herbold will bring to the NOL Board significant experience at the highest levels of major corporations and a broad range of skills in international business," said NOL chairman Cheng Wai Keung.

Before Microsoft, Mr Herbold spent 26 years at The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G). In his last five years with P&G he served as its senior vice president of marketing.

Currently, Mr Herbold is the managing director of Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on profitability. He is also an Operating Partner in the private equity firm Thoma Bravo and serves on the boards of Agilent Technologies and Vision Solutions Inc.

Mr Herbold is also currently an adjunct professor at INSEAD, originally Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires, or the European Institute of Business Administration at Fontainebleau, 40 miles south east of Paris, but now a multi-campus international graduate business school and research institution.

In 2002, Mr Herbold was appointed by US President George W Bush to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, serving until January 2009. He is the President of the Herbold Foundation, which is primarily focused on providing college scholarships to science and engineering students.

Source: schednet
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