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Recent business experience: President and CEO of The Ford Foundation from 1979 until 1996;

Mr. Thomas was president and chief executive officer of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (a non profit community development corporation) from 1967-1977;
He served as Deputy Police Commissioner in Charge of Legal Matters for the New York City Police Department for two years, starting in 1965;
Named Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1964
Attorney for the Federal Housing And Home Finance Agency in 1963

Other directorships: Citigroup Inc. , Cummins , Inc., Lucent Technologies , Inc., Alcoa and PepsiCo, Inc.