Leslie A. Brun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sarr Group, named to Corning Board of Directors
CORNING, N.Y.; JULY 18, 2018 - Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today appointed Leslie A. Brun, chairman and chief executive officer of Sarr Group, LLC to Corning's Board of Directors, effective July 18, 2018.
Brun will serve on the board's audit and compensation committees. He will hold office until Corning's annual meeting of shareholders in the spring of 2019, at which time he will stand for election to a one-year term. His appointment brings the number of Corning directors to 14.
Brun, 65, brings to the board significant financial expertise, operating and management experience, along with extensive public company directorship and committee experience. He also brings broad experience on governance issues facing large public companies. He is chairman and chief executive officer of Sarr Group, LLC, an investment holding company, and vice chairman and senior advisor of G100 Companies. Brun also serves as the chairman of the board of directors of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. and CDK Global, Inc.; as lead director and chairman of the governance committee of Merck & Co., Inc.; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is the founder and former chairman emeritus of Hamilton Lane, a private equity advisory and management firm, where he served as chief executive officer and chairman from 1991 until 2005. Brun is a former director and chairman of the board of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. and a former director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. He also served as a managing director and co-founder of the investment banking group of Fidelity Bank, and as a past vice president in the corporate finance division of E.F. Hutton & Co.
Brun received a B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a trustee/director of the University of Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
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