Bruce S. Gordon
| Bruce S. Gordon | |
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| President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | |
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In office 2005–2007 |
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| Preceded by | Dennis Courtland Hayes |
| Succeeded by | Dennis Courtland Hayes |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 15, 1946 Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Gettysburg College MIT Sloan School of Management |
Bruce Scott Gordon (born February 15, 1946) is a business executive who spent most of his career with Verizon and currently serves as a corporate director of CBS, Northrop Grumman, and Tyco International. He was selected in June 2005 to head the NAACP, a major American civil rights organization. Gordon served in that position until March 2007.
Born in Camden, New Jersey, Gordon's parents were both active in the civil rights movement. A 1968 graduate of Gettysburg College, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, and a 1988 Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) graduate of the Sloan Fellows program of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Gordon's professional career began at Bell of Pennsylvania, where he rose in corporate management to become the Head of the Retail Markets Division of Verizon upon his retirement in December 2003. Other Verizon executives have credited him with helping to promote diversity and a corporate culture based on customer service at the telecom company.
The American Advertising Federation inducted him into the Advertising Hall of Fame, the industry’s most prestigious honor, in March 2007. Ebony magazine named him one of its “100 Most Influential Black Americans and Organization Leaders” in May 2006. He was ranked #6 on Fortune magazine’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Black Executives” in July 2002. Black Enterprise magazine named him executive of the year in 1998.
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