Friday, February 6, 2009

Board of Directors

Officers Age

Franklin Crail (67) Chairman of Board, President, CEO since (1981)
Bryan Merryman (48) CFO, COO, Treasurer, Director (1997)
Edward Dudley (45) Senior VP Sales & Marketing (1997)
Gregory Pope (42) Senior VP Development (2001)
Donna Coupe (43) VP Franchise Support & Training (2008)
Jeremy Kinney (31) VP Finance (2008)
Jay Haws (59) VP Creative (1991)
William Jobson (53) CIO (2001)
Virginia Perez (71) Corporate Secretary (1997)

Directors

The first two officers are Directors then there are three others:
Clyde Engle (66) 2000
Gerald Kien (77) 1995
Lee Mortenson (73) 1987

As you can see from the list this company does not change its Board of Directors to often. In the By-Laws it states that they can have no fewer than 3 and no more than 9.
The Directors are voted on every year, but they have no limit on how long they can serve, as long as they are doing a good job they sit on the Board forever.

I researched their competition "The Hershey Company" last year and I found the same problem with them. No women or diversity of the Board, just a bunch of older men. This is a problem, diversity brings new ideas and creativeness to the company.

The information came from RMCF home page.

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