Former White House Chief of Staff – and, for those old enough to remember, luminary of the Watergate hearings – Howard Baker is one of eight very heavyweight members who will sit on Memorex Telex NV’s Supervisory Board of Directors: other members named by Memorex president Giorgio Ronchi are former congressman William Brock; chairman and chief executive officer of First Republic Bank Corp, Dallas, Albert Casey; former Olivetti and Fiat chief, Simone Fubini; chairman of the J P Morgan International Council, Robert Lindsay; former US special representative for trade negotiations, Robert Strauss; John van Vlissingen, chairman of the Noro Group board, and Eli Jacobs, senior partner of E S Jacobs, as chairman; Memorex also said that TRW co-founder Dr Simon Ramo, and former Citicorp president William Spencer, will be senior advisors.
