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Use a US publicly-traded company’s proxy statement and 10-K to answer the following questions:1. Who is the company’s current CEO? Is he or she also the Chair of the Board?
The current CEO of Boston Beer is Martin F. Roper. He is the not the Chair of the Board. That position is held by C. James Koch.
2. Who serves on the board’s Audit Committee? How many members are Financial Experts? What experience qualifies them for that designation?
Jay Margolis, Jean-Michel Valette, Pearson C. Cummin, III, and Gregg A. Tanner all serve on the Audit Committee.
All of the members have been determined to be “audit committee financial experts” by the Board defined under SEC rules.
SEC defines an audit committee financial expert as an individual
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