Floyd Hall
Floyd Hall (born September 4, 1938) is an American business executive and sports team owner.
Life and career
Hall was born to a modest family in Oklahoma.[1] He left school at the age of 15.[1] He attended Southern Methodist University, but did not graduate.
Hall started working at
Hall was appointed president and CEO of
Hall was the
In 1997, Hall formed a partnership with the state of
In 2006, after the
Hall was nominated [10] on February 10, 2006, by President George W. Bush to serve on the Amtrak Reform Board for a five-year term of office. Hall was earlier appointed [11] in a recess appointment to the same position on January 4, 2006.
He is a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.[12]
Hall completed Harvard Business School's advanced management program in 1977.[13]
References
- ^ a b Fallon, Ivan (1991). Billionaire: the life and times of Sir James Goldsmith. Hutchinson. p. 407.
- ^ a b Cuff, Daniel L. "BUSINESS PEOPLE; Target Store Chairman To Head Grand Union", The New York Times, February 17, 1984. Accessed November 11, 2007. "Floyd Hall, chairman and chief executive of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation's Target discount store chain, has been named chairman and chief executive of the Grand Union supermarket chain."
- ^ "A management group has organized a leveraged". Los Angeles Times. January 13, 1988.
- ^ "La Générale occidentale revend sa filiale Grand Union à ses cadres américains". Le Monde. January 13, 1988.
- ^ "Ex-Californian Is a Surprise Choice to Head Kmart Stores : Retailing: Troubled chain turns to Floyd Hall, a former Target executive. He promises to broaden customer base". Los Angeles Times. June 6, 1995.
- ^ Gilpin, Kenneth N. "A Specialist In Rebounds To Run Kmart", The New York Times, June 6, 1995. Accessed November 11, 2007. "The Kmart Corporation said yesterday that it had hired Floyd Hall, a specialist in pumping new life into sagging retailers, as its new chairman and chief executive."
- ^ "Floyd Hall Arena". RinkAtlas. Retrieved January 29, 2018.
- ^ "Contacts". New Jersey Jackals. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ Speddon, Zach (May 5, 2017). "Al Dorso Purchases New Jersey Jackals". Ballpark Digest. August Publications. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
- ^ White House Nominations Sent to the Senate press release dated February 10, 2006
- ^ White House Personnel Announcement press release dated January 4, 2006
- ^ Wald, Matthew L. "Amtrak's Own Board Sows Alarm About System's Future", The New York Times, February 20, 2005. Accessed November 11, 2007. "Mr. Laney, a Dallas lawyer and Bush campaign donor who is a former chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, declined a request for an interview, as did the other two outside members of the board, Floyd Hall, of Montclair, N.J., a retired chairman of Kmart, and Enrique Sosa, of Miami."
- ^ "- NOMINATIONS OF ROBERT CRANDALL, FLOYD HALL, AND LOUIS THOMPSON, TO BE MEMBERS OF THE AMTRAK REFORM BOARD". www.govinfo.gov.