CoreCivic Appoints Catherine Hernandez-Blades and Alexander R. Fischer to its Board of Directors; CoreCivic Also Announces Planned Retirement of Long-Term Board Member Donna Alvarado
07 Março 2024 - 6:15PM
CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (the Company)
announced today that, effective March 15, 2024, Catherine
Hernandez-Blades and Alexander R. Fischer will be appointed as
independent members of the Company's Board of Directors, expanding
the board from ten to twelve directors, ten of whom have been
determined by the board to be independent. The company also
announced today that Donna M. Alvarado, who has served on
CoreCivic's Board of Directors since 2003, will retire from the
Board in accordance with the Company's retirement policy after the
company's 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, bringing the number
of board members at that point to eleven, including nine
independent members. Both Ms. Hernandez-Blades and Mr. Fischer are
expected to join various board committees in the future.
"We are pleased to have Catherine and Alex
join our Board of Directors," said Damon
Hininger, CoreCivic's President and Chief Executive
Officer. "Catherine brings decades of executive leadership
experience in government relations, communications, and marketing
in both the private and the public sectors. She has partnered with
the Federal government through her work at SAIC, Raytheon and
Lockheed Martin, and she has worked closely with government leaders
at the state level as well. Catherine also provides community
support as a board member at several non-profits. We are very
excited to add her valuable perspective to CoreCivic's board."
Hininger added, "We're equally excited about the
addition of Alex Fischer to our board. Alex brings diverse
business, government, and non-profit experience, including
extensive work in corporate strategy and property development. Alex
has deep knowledge of economic development from both his leadership
of the Columbus Partnership and previously as Commissioner of
Economic Development and Deputy Governor for the State of
Tennessee. Alex's strong board experience spans a publicly traded
company as well as other private and non-profit entities."
"As we welcome Catherine and Alex, I also want to
express how grateful we are to Donna Alvarado for her 21 years of
thoughtful stewardship as a CoreCivic board member," Hininger
continued. "Donna has been deeply engaged with CoreCivic and she's
provided valued and consistent counsel as we have navigated various
opportunities over the past two decades."
Ms. Hernandez-Blades, 56, formerly served as the
senior brand marketing and communications executive at SAIC, Aflac,
and Flex (formerly Flextronics), where she had responsibility for
brand, reputation, crisis, and issues management, as well as
environmental, social, and governance efforts. Previously, she held
senior management positions at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, as
well as in government, including serving by gubernatorial
appointment as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Seafood
Promotion and Marketing Board. Ms. Hernandez-Blades serves as
the U.S. representative on the Advisory Board of the World
Communications Forum Association - Davos, and as a Trustee for the
Institute of Public Relations, an industry think tank. She is a
former Chair of the Board of Operation Homefront, The Seminar, and
CASA New Orleans. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass
Communications from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, and is
a Loyola University Environmental Communications Fellow.
Mr. Fischer, 56, is the founder of Alex R. Fischer
and Company, which offers strategic advisory services on corporate
strategy, real estate development and economic development, since
2021. He is also a Partner with The New Albany Company, the master
developer for over 20,000 acres of mixed-use development. His prior
roles include serving as President and CEO of the Columbus
Partnership from 2009 to 2021 and undertaking various positions at
Battelle Memorial Institute, including Senior Vice President for
Business and Commercialization, from 2002 to 2009. Earlier, Mr.
Fischer contributed his expertise as Commissioner of Economic
Development, Deputy Governor, and Chief of Staff for the State of
Tennessee between 1997 and 2002. Mr. Fischer is an active board
member of Advanced Drainage Systems (NYSE: WMS), where he chairs
the Nominating and Governance Committee and serves on the Audit
Committee; Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where he previously
served as Chair; White Oak Partners, as Chair; Andelyn Biosciences;
and the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, also as Chair.
He previously served on the board of trustees for The Ohio State
University. Mr. Fischer holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and
Public Administration and a master's degree in Urban Planning and
Economic Development, both from the University of Tennessee.
About CoreCivicCoreCivic is a diversified,
government-solutions company with the scale and experience needed
to solve tough government challenges in flexible, cost-effective
ways. We provide a broad range of solutions to government partners
that serve the public good through high-quality corrections and
detention management, a network of residential and non-residential
alternatives to incarceration to help address America’s recidivism
crisis, and government real estate solutions. We are the nation’s
largest owner of partnership correctional, detention and
residential reentry facilities, and believe we are the largest
private owner of real estate used by government agencies in the
United States. We have been a flexible and dependable partner for
government for 40 years. Our employees are driven by a deep sense
of service, high standards of professionalism and a responsibility
to help government better the public good. Learn more at
www.corecivic.com.
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