Ira D. Hall

Former Treasurer
Texaco Inc.
Chair, Executive Leadership Council

Ira D. Hall was appointed to a two-year term as Chair of the Executive Leadership Council in October 2000. He began his career in corporate America in 1976 as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. Following the recent merger of Texaco Inc. and the Chevron Corporation, Hall retired as treasurer of Texaco Inc. Throughout his career he has held leadership positions in corporate America, public service, and education.

After leaving Morgan Stanley, Hall became Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance, at L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, Inc., and then joined IBM where he served as Director of Corporate Business Development; Treasurer, IBM US; Director of International Operations; Controller of IBM World Trade Corporation; and Chair and CEO of IBM World Trade Insurance Company.

Hall earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA in Marketing from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. At age 26, he became the youngest trustee of Stanford's Board of Trustees. He currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Council of Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

As a Presidential appointee with U.S. Senate confirmation approval, he served as governor of the U.S. Postal Service where he chaired its audit committee and the national advisory board of the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board whose members included the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and the Chair of the Federal Reserve Board.

In 1968, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hall helped organize, as founding executive director, the Stanford Mi-Peninsula Urban Coalition with William Hewlett and David Packard.

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