Only 3% of these companies have boards headed by a woman.

A Chairman often heads the board of directors in a large business or a football club.

The board, headed by the Governor, can be that mechanism.

She heads the board of a nonprofit group that encourages distance running among people with disabilities.

He also headed the municipal board of arbitration in debt matters, from 1935 to 1940.

New York is divided into 20 community school districts, each with local boards headed by a superintendent.

He headed the board of the Washington Hospital Center from 1959 to 1961.

Instead, he headed the board overseeing wartime oil production.

"Now with Embry heading the board, we finally had somebody inside who was a friend of the notion of student service."

Mr. Gyllenhammar is expected to head the 14-member supervisory board, which will have a voice over important financial matters.