The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest scouting organizations and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States,with over 1 million youth,including 176,000 female participants. The BSA was founded in 1910;about 130 million Americans have participated in its programs. Served by 477,000 adult volunteers. BSA became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.
Warner Media,LLC was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City.
Edward Earl Whitacre Jr. is the former Chairman and CEO of General Motors. He is also a former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T,previously Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC). He served as national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1998 to 2000. On September 1,2010,Whitacre stepped down as CEO,and retired as chairman of the board by the end of 2010.
F. Duane Ackerman is an American businessman. He was the last chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BellSouth Corporation.
The Chief Scout Executive is the top professional of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In most similar non-profit organizations,this is equivalent to the position of CEO,national executive director or secretary general.
David W. Dorman is an American Telecommunications executive and founding partner of Centerview Capital Technology Partners. Dorman is currently Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of CVS Health Corporation and serves on the boards of PayPal Holdings,Inc.,Yum! Brands,Inc. and the Georgia Tech Foundation. Dorman was a board member of Motorola,Inc. since 2006,was elected Non-Executive Chairman of the Board in 2008 and retired from his board position in May 2015. Dorman also was a board member of Scientific Atlanta until the company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2006.
John Watson Creighton Jr. was an American executive who served for nine years,from 1988 to 1997,as president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser,a $7 billion,publicly traded timber company. In addition to Weyerhaeuser,he also served in senior management and executive positions with United Airlines,the University of Puget Sound,the U.S. Department of the Army,and the Boy Scouts of America.
Charles H. "Chuck" Smith is an African-American businessman who is the retired President and CEO of the Fortune 500 company,AT&T West. Smith has a lifelong interest in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
Ralph de la Vega is the former Vice Chairman of AT&T Inc. and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions and AT&T International. He has previously served as President &CEO of AT&T Mobile &Business Solutions;President and CEO of AT&T Mobility;COO of Cingular Wireless;President of BellSouth Latin America Operations;and the President of Broadband and Internet Services for BellSouth. He is also the author of the 2009 book Obstacles Welcome:How to Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life. Ralph de la Vega retired December 31,2016,after a 42-year career with AT&T.
Wayne M. Perry is a retired American businessman and former national president of the Boy Scouts of America (2012–2014).
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas,Texas. It is the world's third-largest telecommunications company by revenue and the second-largest wireless carrier in the United States behind Verizon but ahead of T-Mobile.As of 2023,AT&T was ranked 13th on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations,with revenues of $122.4 billion.
Jason Alan Kilar is an American businessman. He was the CEO of WarnerMedia from May 2020 to April 2022. He was previously an Amazon executive,the founding CEO of the short-lived Vessel,and the CEO of Hulu.
Bradley D. Tilden is an American business executive. He is the retired chairman of Alaska Air Group,the parent company of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Before becoming the company's CEO in 2012,Tilden served as Alaska Airlines' president,and before that as Alaska Air Group's chief financial officer. He is a commercial pilot and holds multi-engine and instrument ratings.
Alex Gorsky is an American businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Johnson &Johnson. Gorsky stepped down as CEO of Johnson &Johnson in January 2022 and was succeeded by Joaquin Duato. He was the seventh person who served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer since it became a publicly traded company in 1944. He is a board director of Apple and JP Morgan Chase.
The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell,who obtained the first US patent for the telephone,and his father-in-law,Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Bell and Hubbard also established American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885,which acquired the Bell Telephone Company and became the primary telephone company in the United States. This company maintained an effective monopoly on local telephone service in the United States until anti-trust regulators agreed to allow AT&T to retain Western Electric and enter general trades computer manufacture and sales in return for its offer to split the Bell System by divesting itself of ownership of the Bell Operating Companies in 1982.
The National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America governs the Boy Scouts of America organization. One source reports that there were 72 members of the board in 2001.
James S. Turley is an American business executive. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Ernst &Young from 2001 to 2013. He was the National President of the Boy Scouts of America from 2018 to 2019.
Bruce Dale Broussard is an American business executive. From 2013 to 2024,Broussard served as Chief Executive Officer of Humana,a healthcare company with headquarters in Louisville,Kentucky. Prior to joining Humana,he served in several executive roles,including chief executive office of McKesson Specialty/US Oncology.
John T. Stankey is an American businessman who is the CEO of AT&T He previously was AT&T's president and COO and before that CEO of WarnerMedia. Stankey led AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV and Time Warner in 2015 and 2018,respectively. He assumed the CEO role of AT&T in July 2020,succeeding Randall L. Stephenson.
In the Boy Scouts of America,a Scout leader refers to the trained leaders of a Scout unit. Adult leaders are generally referred to as "Scouters," and the youth leaders are referred to by their position within a unit. In all Scouting units above the Cub Scout pack and units serving adolescent Scouts,leadership of the unit comprises both adult leaders (Scouters) and youth leaders (Scouts). This is a key part of the Aims and Methods of Scouting. In order to learn leadership,the youth must actually serve in leadership roles.
