Business Leaders Names New Chair and Vice Chairs

David Joos, president & CEO of CMS Energy, is the new Chair of our Board of Directors. Joos succeeds David Brandon, who stepped down as chair effective March 1, 2010. Elected as first Vice Chair of the Board is Michael Jandernoa of Perrigo Company.

Sandra Pierce, president & CEO of Charter One Bank, replaces Michael Jandernoa as a Vice Chair of the Board, joining other Vice Chairs:  Jeff Fettig, chairman & CEO of Whirlpool Corporation; William Clay Ford, Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and James Nicholson, president & CEO of PVS Chemicals, Inc.

The following individuals were elected to the Business Leaders Board of Directors:

• Robert S. Cubbin, president & CEO, Meadowbrook Insurance Group
• J. Patrick Doyle, president, Domino’s USA
• Yousif B. Ghafari, founder and chairman, Ghafari Associates, LLC
• Cathleen H. Nash, president & CEO, Citizens Republic Bancorp
• Brad Simmons, director, Office of the Executive Chairman, Ford Motor Company
• Michelle Van Dyke, regional president & CEO, Fifth Third Bank

Click here to see the full list of the Business Leaders for Michigan Board of Directors.

Detroit Renaissance Becomes Business Leaders For Michigan!

Detroit Renaissance and the Michigan Business Leadership Council announced today we are uniting behind a comprehensive plan to turn around Michigan’s economy – called the Michigan Turnaround Plan. We are also uniting to form a new organization called “Business Leaders for Michigan” to implement the plan and track results.

As an organization of CEOs of many of Michigan’s most significant employers,  we will develop, advocate and support high-impact strategies that will in the long-term make Michigan a “top ten” state and in the short-term an above average state for job and economic growth.  Much of our work will be driven by the Michigan Turnaround Plan.