Packers VP Jones To Be Promoted To Team President & CEO

Bob Harlan Will Represent Team In Goodwill Matters

The Packers’ BOD unanimously approved a succession plan making Exec VP & COO JOHN JONES President in May ’06 and CEO in May ’07, according to Richard Ryman of the GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE. Packers President & CEO BOB HARLAN will become Chair & CEO in May ’06 and Chair Emeritus in May ’07, “when he will have reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.” Harlan hired Jones from the NFL league office in ’99 and the two men are “credited with conceiving the $295[M] renovation of Lambeau Field, making the stadium a year-round venue and greatly increasing the team’s income.” Jones is also a member of the NFL Stadium Committee and NFL Business Ventures (GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE, 10/13). In Milwaukee, Don Walker writes that as Chair Emeritus, Harlan will “act as the team’s goodwill ambassador by representing the franchise at community functions and working with the team’s community relations department” (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 10/13).