The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) announced that William “Bill” McCracken has been elected chair of the NACD board of directors, effective May 29, 2019. McCracken, who has been vice chair of NACD since June 2018, succeeds Dr. Karen Horn, director of Simon Property Group, who was chair of NACD’s board for the past three years.
Bill McCracken was CEO at CA Technologies from January 2010 to January 2013. He joined the CA Technologies board in 2005 and held the roles of both nonexecutive and executive chair from 2007 to 2010. Prior to joining CA Technologies, McCracken held numerous executive positions at IBM, including serving as a member of the Chairman's Worldwide Management Council. McCracken is currently the president of Executive Consulting Group LLC. He served on the board of MDU Resources Group and is a former director of IKON Office Solutions.
McCracken was named by NACD Directorship magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the boardroom in 2009, and in 2010 he was named to the NACD board. McCracken served as a member of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC) on risk governance, was co-chair of the BRC on board diversity, was a member of the BRC on talent development, and co-chair of the BRC on the board and long-term value creation. He is the New York co-chair of the Board Leadership Forum and a member and former chair of the board of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University.