Bruce Gordon
Former President & CEO, NAACP and Retired President, Retail Markets Group,
Verizon Communications Inc.
Elected to the Northrop Grumman Board of Directors in 2008
Gordon completed a 35-year career in the telecommunications industry in 2003, retiring as the President of the Retail Markets Group for Verizon Communications Inc. As an employee of Bell Atlantic corporation, he served as Group President of the Enterprise Business Unit, President of Consumer Services, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Vice President of Sales, and General Manager of Marketing for Pennsylvania & Delaware. He started with the company in 1968. Gordon later became the first business executive to head the National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People and led the 500,000 member organization from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure, Gordon worked to foster diversity and inclusion and to achieve greater economic equality for all Americans.
He previously served on the boards of Southern Company, Office Depot, Best Foods, Infinity Broadcasting and The Bartech Group. He is a trustee of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, The Barnes Foundation, UNICEF, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and Commission on African American Men and Boys; a member of the Executive Leadership Council; and recently chaired the Chancellor's Advisory Board on Student Motivation in the New York Public School System. He is a former trustee of Gettysburg College and Lincoln Center.
Gordon earned his bachelor of arts degree from Gettysburg College and a masters of science degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.
Bruce S. Gordon currently serves as lead director of Tyco International LTD and as a director of CBS Corporation
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