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Susan Dentzer has been elected to a life membership on the Council on Foreign Relations and to the boards of directors of the International Rescue Committee and the Global Health Council.

Mac-Gray Corp. (NYSE:TUC), the nations premier provider of laundry facilities management services and energy-efficient Micro Fridge appliances to multi-unit housing locations, announced on August 3 that Christopher T. Jenny has been elected to the board of directors. Christopher is currently senior partner with the Parthenon Group, a Boston-based management consulting and investment firm that works with companies on their most critical strategy issues. He is a member of the firms board of directors and oversees the firms overall business development efforts, as well as its private equity practice.

Prior to joining Parthenon Chris was a partner with Bain & Cos., where he counseled executives on issues relating to business and growth strategy, profit improvement programs and merger integration. Most recently Chris was named by President Bush to serve on the President's Export Council, the nations premier advisory committee on international trade. He joins other top business leaders, as well as six cabinet secretaries, five U.S. senators and five members of the House of Representatives on the council. Chris lives with his wife and four children in Wayland, Massachusetts.

Jeff Kirchhoff was the subject of an article in the Concord (New Hampshire) Union-Leader newspaper. Jeff is the treasurer of Jaguar Mining Inc., a Canadian company that mines gold in Brazil whose headquarters is located in New Hampshire's capital. Jeffrey runs the company from a brick Victorian on Pleasant Street in Concord.

In the August 15 issue of Business Week magazine there is an article, "A Street-Savvy Bank Cop," which focuses on New York State overseer Diana Taylor, who is fiercely focused on protecting consumers. When Diana took over as New York State superintendent of banks two years ago, she faced plenty of skeptics. Disarmingly frank and outgoing, Diana has a solid business background. After Dartmouth she earned an M.B.A. at Columbia University and began working as an investment banker in the early 1980s. It's no surprise, then, that Diana runs the state banking office more like a business than a government department. She's cutting the budget by 10 percent, or $8 million, this year and is outsourcing a contract to automate licensing and examination procedures.

Says Diana: "We're now in a competitive situation, and we have to look toward adding value, and make it worth something to be licensed by the New York State banking department."

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