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William A. Owens has been a member of the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG since 2003.
Willian A. Owens was born in 1940. Effective April 1, 2006, Bill Owens is the CEO and Chairman of AEA Holdings ASIA, Hong Kong and a managing director of AEA Investors.
He is a 1962 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and a master’s degree in management from George Washington University.
Through November 15, 2005, he was CEO and Vice Chairman of Nortel. Prior to joining Nortel in 2004, Owens was CEO and chairman of Teledesic LLC and before that was the President, COO and vice chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the United States’ largest employee-owned high-technology company. Prior to joining SAIC, Owens was Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second-ranking military officer in the United States. From 1991 to 1993, Owens was the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments. Owens served as commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in 1990 and 1991 during Operation Desert Storm in Iraq. Between 1988 and 1991, Owens served as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney, the senior military position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1988, Owens was the director of the Office of Program Appraisal for the Secretary of the Navy. In 1987, he served as commander of Submarine Group Six.
He presently holds the following positions: Boards of Polycom, and AEA Investors LLC Wipro Ltd., Embarq Corp., Intelius Inc., Force 10 Networks and Unifrax Corp.
He is a member of several philanthropic boards including the Carnegie Foundation, Brookings Institution and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. | 