Craig T. Bouchard
Craig T. Bouchard founded Esmark with his brother Jim in 2003 with an investment of $2.4 million in a steel company in East Chicago, Indiana. From 2003 through 2008, Esmark acquired nine steel companies throughout the Midwest states, including the celebrated hostile takeover of Wheeling Pittsburgh Corporation, which made Esmark a publicly traded stock on the NASDAQ. In doing so, Esmark accomplished the first hostile reverse tender merger inWall Street history and became the 4th largest American steel company.
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James V. Koch
James V. Koch is on the Board of Visitors, Professor of Economics, and President Emeritus at Old Dominion University. He also has held teaching and research positions at Illinois State University, California State University at Los Angeles, the University of Grenoble (France), Brown University, Rhode Island College, Ball State University, the University of Hawaii, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and the University of Montana. He served as President of the University of Montana (1986-1990) and Old Dominion University (1990-2001) and was named one of the 100 most effective college presidents in the United States.
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