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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Colleen Wright
March 22, 2002 Marketing Communications Account Executive
Telephone: (410) 581-4293
E-mail: colleenwright@mpt.org
MPT. This is bigger than television
Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation Board
elects new members
OWINGS MILLS, MD: At a recent meeting, the Maryland PublicBroadcasting
Foundation named two prominent Marylanders to its board: Michael J. Bayer
and Trevor Cornwell.
Michael J. Bayer is a consultant engaged in enterprise strategic planning,
mergers and acquisitions. Bayer serves as a member of the Defense Science
Board, vice chairman of the Defense Business Board, member of the Council
of Trustees of the Association of the United States Army, and member of
the Advisory Board of Analytic Services Inc. He has served as counsel
to a senior Republican representative from Ohio, deputy assistant secretary
for Congressional affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, Malcolm Baldrige's
associate deputy secretary of Commerce, counselor to the United States
Synthetic Fuels Corporation, counselor to President Bush's Commission
on Aviation Security and Terrorism and as federal inspector for the Alaska
Natural Gas Transportation System.
Trevor Cornwell is founder and chief executive officer of Skyjet, a Washington,
DC-based company providing a national, real-time reservation system for
private jets. Prior to establishing that firm in 1997, Mr. Cornwell began
a media company, Word Up! Inc., that provided English language radio programming
in Europe and represented CNN for advertising sales there. Mr. Cornwell
was founder of the nonprofit National Service League, Inc., an organization
that linked business and youth in Eastern Europe to aid the transition
to a free-market system. As part of that effort, Mr. Cornwell helped introduce
the public radio model to Eastern Europe. An alumnus of The Johns Hopkins
University, the New York native resides in Washington, DC.
The Maryland Public Broadcasting Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation
affiliated with Maryland Public Television that supports the fundraising
and promotion goals of MPT. Directed by a board consisting of two dozen
Maryland business, professional, and civic volunteers, the foundation
was established in 1981.
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