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R. William Ide
| Partner McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP Atlanta, GA General Counsel (Ret.) Monsanto Mr. Bill Ide focuses his practice on special investigations, corporate governance and crisis management. He is a Senior Fellow of Emory Director's Institute and of the Conference Board's Directors Institute. He presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AFC Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFCE) where he chairs the Governance Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. He is on the Advisory Board of the Corporate Accountability Project. Mr. Ide served as Senior Vive President, General Counsel and Secretary of Monsanto Corporation and sat on its management board. During this time, he served as Executive Advisor and Key Strategist to Monsanto's Chairman and CEO during a major shift in the corporate focus, business strategy and creation of new markets. Prior to his Monsanto service, he was a senior partner with the Atlanta-based law firm of Long Aldridge & Norman LLP, a predecessor firm to McKenna Long & Aldridge. He also has served as Senior Vice President and special counsel to E.F. Hutton and Prescott Ball & Turben. Furthermore, Bill served as a law clerk to Judge Griffin Bell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was President of the American Bar Association from 1993 to 1994, during which he was challenged to re-establish the organization as the spokesperson for the legal profession, to bolster relevance to members and to reverse any declining image of the legal profession with the public. Mr. Ide also undertook modernization of ABA business practices during his tenure as President. In addition, he was a founding executive committee and board of directors member of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. He was counselor to the United States Olympic Committee from 1998-2000. Bill also served on the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Arbitration Association. He was a member of the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility and is Chair of the sub-committee on corporate governance. He is a trustee of Clark Atlanta University. |
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