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National Aquarium Announces New Board President and Members
Bill Roberts named Chair of National Aquarium Institute and National Aquarium, Baltimore Board

(Baltimore) – May 11, 2009 - The National Aquarium announces the appointment of several new members and a slate of new officers to its Boards.

National Aquarium, Baltimore
William “Bill” Roberts was appointed Chair of the Board of the National Aquarium in Baltimore. In this role he also chairs the National Aquarium Institute Board that includes members of the Boards of the National Aquarium Foundation, the Center for Aquatic Life and Conservation (CALC), and the National Aquarium, Washington, DC.

Mr. Roberts was named Region President for Verizon Maryland and the District of Columbia in December 2007. Roberts began his career with The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (DC), now Verizon Washington DC, in 1980 as a business office manager. He has held positions in operations, human resources, marketing, public affairs, and government relations.

Mr. Roberts serves as Chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and is on the Boards of the Greater Baltimore Committee, Greater Washington Board of Trade, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Maryland Chapter of Commerce, and MedStar Health. He also serves on the Morgan State University Board of Regents.

Born and raised in Talbot County, Mr. Roberts graduated from Morgan State University and attended graduate school at Harvard University and Eastern Michigan University. He has two honorary doctorate degrees — a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and a Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Maryland University College.

Mr. Roberts is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society and has completed executive and leadership development programs at the University of Richmond (Va.)-Robins School of Business; the Institute for Public Service in Washington, D.C.; and the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C.

New members to the National Aquarium, Baltimore Board are:

• Charles A. Phillips, Jr., Senior Vice President of KCI Technologies, Inc
• K. Lee Riley, Jr., Attorney-at-Law with Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler
• W. Charles Rogers, III, Attorney with Rogers, Moore & Rogers LLP
• Rhoda Washington, Senior Regional Manager, State and Local Government Relations for Wal-Mart

National Aquarium, Washington, DC
Bill Perry retains the position of Chair of the Board of the National Aquarium, Washington, DC. The Board is pleased to welcome new members, including:

• Dr. Carole C. Baldwin, Curator of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
• Mrs. Jane W. I. Droppa
• Ms. Marianela Peralta, Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, PC
• Mr. Mark Rovner, Principal, Sea Change Strategies
• Mr. Steven W. Smith, Director, Citicorp North America, Inc.
• Ms. C. Elizabeth Wagner, Senior Advisor to the Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service

The National Aquarium is a world-class aquatic institution dedicated to environmental education and stewardship with the mission to provide transforming experiences that inspire people to enjoy, respect and protect the aquatic world. Its living collection, at venues in Baltimore and Washington, DC, includes more than 16,000 animals from more than 600 species of fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and marine mammals that live in award-winning, naturalistic habitats.
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