People News: Vernon Company Adds Executive VP Stevenson To Board Of Directors


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People News: Vernon Company Adds Executive VP Stevenson To Board Of Directors

Issue: 2009jul

Newton, Iowa-based distributor The Vernon Company (UPIC: Vernon) announced that Dan Stevenson, executive vice president, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Additionally, long-term board members and industry veterans Joe Geneser and Dean Mathews have retired from the board effective July 1.

Stevenson joined The Vernon Company in 1982, serving in senior finance and administrative management roles until 1999 when he was named executive vice president. He has served on Vernon’s board advisory committee for more than 10 years.

Geneser was elected to Vernon’s board of directors in 1971 and has served as chair of the Compensation Committee for 38 years. He enjoyed a 33-year career at Vernon Company, starting in the finance division in 1961 and retiring as president/COO in 1994. Geneser is the only non-Vernon family member to be appointed president/COO in more than 100 years. He also served as Board chair of PPAI in the late 1980s.

Mathews, a PPAI Hall of Fame member and former president of St. Paul, Minnesota-based distributor Brown & Bigelow (UPIC: BB1896) and Shedd-Brown, Inc., was elected to the Vernon Company board in 1982. He has been the Audit Committee chair since 1985. Mathews also served as chair of the PPAI Board of Directors in the 1970s.

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