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JOHN A. WILLIAMS
CSI Chairman and member of the CSI Executive Committee, John Williams was named Executive Director of CSI in 1965; President & CEO in 1968 and Chairman of the Board in 1979. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Louisville Branch for three years; is a founder and former President of the Association of Financial Technology (AFT); and former Chairman of CUBE (The Burroughs Computer Users). In 2004 he was named Distinguished Citizen by the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce. In 2006 he received the Governor's Technology Award as the individual who most deserved to be recognized as a leader in technology innovation in Kentucky. Williams was the first-ever recipient of Murray State University’s Telecommunications Systems Management Department’s Entrepreneurship Award, and the university further honored him by naming the award the John A. Williams Entrepreneurship Award. In 2009 John was the recipient of the Dr. Gene Wells Ray Telecommunications Systems Management (TSM) Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.

 

RICHARD A. ANDERSON
Elected to the Board in February 2010, Richard Anderson is a former AT&T, Inc. executive and a public service leader in the state of Georgia. His distinguished career in the telecommunications industry includes serving as Group President-Global Business Services of AT&T, Inc. and Vice Chairman and Markets of BellSouth Corporation. Anderson has also served as a director for Cingular Wireless, Chairman of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and is currently the Vice Chairman of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority. He sits on the board of advisors for Kennesaw State University and Murray State University. Mr. Anderson graduated magna cum laude from Murray State University.

 

DR. CONSTANTINE W. CURRIS
Elected to the CSI Board in 1998, Constantine Curris serves as Chairman of the CSI Audit Committee. He is President Emeritus, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, and past president of Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa; and Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. Curris is currently a member of the Murray State University Board of Regents. He has a Doctorate from the University of Kentucky; a Masters degree from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. from the University of Kentucky.

 

BASIL N. DROSSOS
Elected to the Board in March 2007, Basil Drossos is a member of the CSI Profit Sharing and Audit Committees.  He most recently served as an Executive Director of Global Purchasing for General Motors Corporation. After joining GM in 1979, Drossos has held leadership positions in general management, sales and marketing, manufacturing, purchasing and finance within GM's Latin American, European and Asian regions. He has served as a member of GM's Latin American and Asia Pacific Strategy Boards. In 2002, he was named Executive Vice-President and Representative Director of Isuzu Motors Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to GM, Drossos worked for Chrysler in Detroit, Michigan and Lima, Peru. His career began in commercial banking at the Central Trust Company in Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

 

BRUCE R. GALL
Elected to the Board in February 2003, Bruce Gall serves as Chairman of the CSI Profit Sharing Committee.  He is CEO of Dornoch Management Corporation, La Quinta, CA. and Chairman, Gold Key Solutions, Inc., a provider of software for the hotel industry. Gall founded Distributed Planning Systems Corporation (DPSC), developing systems for the banking industry that automated financial institutions' compliance with government reporting requirements. He is a graduate of Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Canada, and Ivey School of Business, London, Canada.

 

 

DAVID M. PAXTON
A member of the CSI Board of Directors since 1999, David Paxton is Chairman of the CSI Executive and Compensation Committees. Paxton currently serves as President and CEO of Paxton Media Group, Paducah, Kentucky. Past positions include Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (Chicago and New York) and J.J. B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

 

 

STEVEN A. POWLESS
President & CEO Steven Powless joined CSI in 1987 as Vice President of Corporate Development. Prior to joining, CSI Steve worked nine years in the Financial Services Division of the Unisys Corporation.  In 1989 Steve became Executive Vice President of CSI, and in 1992 he was appointed to the CSI Board of Directors. In May of 1993 Steve was named President and Chief Operating Officer of CSI.  In August 1999 Steve was named CEO of CSI, only the second person in the history of CSI to hold that position. Steve is a past President and Director for the Association for Financial Technology. He served on the Paducah Public Library Board of Trustees. He is a Board Member of Connect Kentucky, a state-wide initiative to establish broadband communications throughout the Commonwealth. Steve is a Director of Western Regional Center for Emerging Technologies in Kentucky and a member of the Emerging Technology Advisory Team for Western Kentucky Community and Technical College. He has served as Director and Treasurer of the Greater Paducah Economic Development Council and Director with the West Kentucky Technical College Foundation board. Steve is a graduate of Leadership Paducah, Leadership Kentucky and Murray State University.

  ROBERT L. WALKER
A CSI Board member since 2001, Walker serves on the CSI Executive Committee and the Compensation Committee. He is Senior VP & CFO of Western & Southern Financial Group, Cincinnati, Ohio. An attorney, he also served as CFO for National Data Corporation; and senior VP & CFO for Providian Corporation. Earlier he served as VP & General Counsel for Providian Corporation and tax counsel for The Mead Corporation. He is a graduate of Transylvania University where he serves on the Board of Trustees. He is also a graduate of the University Of Kentucky College Of Law.

 

  DR. LINDA JOHNSON VITALE 
Elected to the Board in 2006, Dr. Linda Vitale is a member of the CSI Audit Committee.  Dr. Vitale served as Professor and Chair of Information Systems at the Gordon Ford College of Business at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky. She has also served as founding President & CEO of CITE and in 2004 was an international finalist for the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year for her strategic implementation of ConnectKentucky. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Western Kentucky University and her PhD from the University of Kentucky.

 

 

TAMMY SOUDER
A CSI employee since June 1992, Tammy Souder was named Corporate Secretary in 1998 and Vice President, Corporate Administration, in July 2005. She also serves as Administrative Assistant to CSI President and CEO, Steven A Powless. She has an Associate Degree in Business Management from Paducah Community College.

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