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Carl Brooks was elected to Ameristar's Board of Directors in October 2006. He is a member of the Compensation Committee of the Board. He currently serves as President and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council and The Executive Leadership Foundation in Washington D.C. the nation's premier leadership organization of African-American senior executives in Fortune 500 companies. During a distinguished career of 25 years in the utility industry Brooks served as Vice President Human & Technical Resources of GPU Energy in Reading Penn. one of the nation's largest publicly traded electric utilities and as Chief Financial Officer of GENCO a wholly owned subsidiary of GPU. Brooks is a Cum Laude graduate of Hampton Institute and holds an MBA from Southern Illinois University with honors. He is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program (President Program) at Dartmouth College.
Brooks serves on the DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Diversity Council. He is Vice-Chair of both the Board of Directors of Howard University's School of Business and Hampton University's Board of Advisors. He previously served on the GPU Energy/GENCO Board. In addition he was Chairman of the GPU Diversity Action Council winning the Edison Electric Institute Award for Diversity. Brooks is a member of the American Society of Association Executives the National Black MBA Association and the National Urban League's Best Diversity Practices Study Advisory Council. He also served as the Honorary Chair of the 35th Anniversary of the School of Business Howard University and was a 2004 recipient of the EEOC's Spirit of Partnership Award. | 