Peter
H. Coors is chairman of Coors Brewing Company and vice chairman of
Molson Coors Brewing Company. Pete
is a native of the state of Colorado. He was born on September
20, 1946, in Golden, Colorado, and remains a resident of Golden today.
He graduated
from the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., in 1965, attended
Cornell University where he received his bachelor’s
degree in industrial engineering in 1969. He earned a master’s
degree in business administration from the University of Denver in
1970. He also has received honorary doctorates from Regis University
in 1991, Wilberforce University in 1992, and Johnson & Wales University
in 1997. Pete was recently admitted to The Guild of Freedom of
the City of London.
Pete’s professional career in the brewing business follows a
Coors tradition that has spanned more than a century and five generations
of Coors family members. He has served in a number of positions
at the company. In 1993, Peter was named vice chairman and chief
executive officer for Coors Brewing Company. In 2002, he was
named Chairman, Coors Brewing Company and Chairman of Adolph Coors
Company.
Pete’s outside corporate board of director memberships include
U.S. Bancorp, Inc., H. J. Heinz Company, and Energy Corporation of
America. He is president and a trustee of the Adolph Coors Foundation
and the Castle Rock Foundation. His numerous and diverse civic
responsibilities include serving as a trustee and member of the executive
board of the Denver Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, member
of the National Western Stock Show Association executive committee,
and a member of Colorado Uplift Pete serves as a board member
of the University of Colorado Hospital. He also is a member
of the International Chapter of Young Presidents Organization.
Pete is
an avid outdoorsman. Active in wildlife conservation,
he serves on the boards of several conservation groups. Peter
also is a former national president and chairman of Ducks Unlimited,
and is a member of the National Wildlife Centennial Commission.
Pete is the son of Joseph and Holly Coors, and is a great-grandson
of Adolph Coors, who founded the Golden brewery in 1873. He and his
wife, Marilyn, have six children and two grandchildren. |
Gary
P. Fayard, chief financial officer, joined the company in 1994 as
vice president and controller. Gary was promoted to his current
position in 2003. He also currently serves on the board of
Directors of The Coca-Cola Company’s two largest public bottlers;
Coca-Cola Enterprises, and Coca-Cola FEMSA.
Mr. Fayard
also serves on the Board of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts,
and The University of Alabama Board of Visitors. He is a member
of the American Institute of CPAs. He previously has served
on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and the American
Assembly at Columbia University, as well as the Boards of the Alliance
Theater and American Kidney Foundation.
Prior
to joining the Company, Mr. Fayard served 19 years with Ernst & Young,
concluding his service there as a partner, area director of audit
services and area director of manufacturing services. |
| Patrick
Stokes, president and chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch Cos.,
Inc., a $17 billion international corporation, began his career with
the company 36 years ago in the corporate planning department. His
unique career path has since taken him from responsibility for purchasing
all of Anheuser-Busch’s raw materials and packaging to chief
executive officer of Campbell-Taggart and Eagle Snacks when those divisions
were owned by Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc., and then back to Anheuser-Busch,
Inc., the domestic beer company, as president and chief executive officer
and ultimately, to president and chief executive officer of the entire
corporation.
After graduating
with a master’s in business administration from Columbia
University in 1966, Stokes joined the corporate economics department
at Shell Oil Co. in New York. Shortly thereafter, he joined the
U.S. Army, and served at 1st Army Headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland,
for two years before signing on with Anheuser-Busch’s corporate
planning department in St. Louis in 1969.
A year later,
Stokes was promoted to senior analyst, marking the beginning of
a series of promotions. In 1972, he was named assistant to August
Busch III –
then the company’s executive vice president and general manager
– and in 1974, was named vice president – raw materials
and transportation. In 1976, he was appointed vice president materials
acquisition, assuming new responsibilities for can and bottle procurement
and malt production.
In 1982, Anheuser-Busch
acquired Campbell Taggart, a Dallas-based baking, refrigerated
dough and frozen food company. At that time, Stokes was given responsibility
for coordinating and consolidating planning and operations with
the parent company. In 1984, he was named chief operating officer,
and in 1986, he was appointed chairman of the board and president.
In 1986, he also was named chairman of the board and chief executive
officer for Eagle Snacks, consolidating food operations under his
direction. He held these positions until 1990, when he was named
president of the brewing subsidiary.
In 1990, Stokes
became president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., a position previously
held by August Busch III, who also served as chairman and president
of the brewery’s parent company. Under Stokes’ stewardship,
the company has continued to grow and achieve record sales. In
1989, the brewing unit sold 80.7 million barrels of beer and had
a market share of 42 percent. In 2004, Anheuser-Busch sold an all-time
record 103.0 million
barrels of beer domestically, marking the 27th consecutive year of
record sales. Today, the company holds 49.6 percent of the domestic
industry.
In 1999,
he also was named chairman of Anheuser-Busch International, Inc.,
making him responsible for all the company’s brewing business
on a worldwide basis. In 2000, he was given responsibility for
Anheuser-Busch’s Packaging Division, bringing together all
of the company’s manufacturing activities.
Stokes
was elected to the Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. board of directors
in 2000. In 2002, he was named president and chief executive officer
of Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc.
Stokes
is a member of Anheuser-Busch’s strategy committee, a group
of the company’s most senior executives responsible for decisions
on all major business matters. In addition to the Anheuser-Busch
Companies board, he serves on the board of U.S. Bancorp and Ameren
Corporation. He also is a board member of the following organizations:
the YMCA Metropolitan Board, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Board, St.
Louis Priory Society, Boys Hope/Girls Hope National Board and the
Boston College Board of Trustees.
In 1991,
Stokes was presented with the Boston College Award of Excellence
in Commerce. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
He earned
a bachelor’s in mathematics in 1964 from Boston College,
where he graduated magna cum laude. He earned a master’s
in business administration in finance from Columbia University
in 1966.
Stokes
and his wife live in West St. Louis County. They have three children.
Anheuser-Busch
Cos., Inc., is a diversified international corporation whose subsidiaries
include Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the world’s largest brewing
organization; Busch Entertainment Corp., a leading operator of
theme parks, and the Anheuser-Busch packaging subsidiaries, which
provide cans, lids, bottles, labels and other packaging materials
for Anheuser-Busch’s beer operations and other customers. |
