USA Football Names Retired Army General As New Board Chair
Feb 15, 2022, 5:15 PM
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 23: (L-R) Michael Singer, President and CEO of Brainscope; Paul Chapman, CEO of Quanterix; Michael Collins, PhD at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and General Peter Chiarelli, a retired United States Army General and CEO of One Mind for Research, attend a press conference announcing Brainscope, Quanterix and UPMC as three of the 16 winners of the first round of the $20M Head Health Challenge, a research grant created by the National Football League (NFL) and General Electric to better study and treat traumatic brain injuries, on January 23, 2014 in New York City. Brainscope and the 15 other winners will all receive $300,000, with a possible $500,000 more available for six winners of the second round of the challenge, which will be announced in 2015. Chiarelli acted as one of the five judges to choose the winners.
(NFL)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — USA Football has named retired U.S. Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli as its new chairman of the board.
He becomes the fourth chairman in the organization’s 20-year history and replaces another former military leader — Gen. Ray Odierno, who held the position for five years starting in 2017.
We're honored to have General Peter W. Chiarelli join the team as Chairman of the Board!
You can read more about him and our board at:https://t.co/UZ75d0H7ug pic.twitter.com/FAiAYF7j3d
— USA Football 🇺🇸🏈 (@USAFootball) February 15, 2022
Chiarelli previously served as the Army’s vice chief of staff from 2008-12 and served in the U.S. military for 40 years.
