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Product category: Design and Development Consultancy
News Release from: Foster Wheeler
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 13 October 2005

Ganz comes onboard in legal role

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The Foster Wheeler board of directors has elected Peter J Ganz Executive Vice President and General Counsel.

The Foster Wheeler board of directors has elected Peter J Ganz Executive Vice President and General Counsel "I am delighted that Foster Wheeler has been able to attract such a talented and highly experienced individual", said Raymond J Milchovich, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

"Reporting directly to me, Peter will provide additional leadership and management to Foster Wheeler and will be responsible for the company's legal function".

"He has considerable litigation and asbestos liability management experience and will add significant value to our management team".

Ganz was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of International Specialty Products of New Jersey, and of its affiliate company, Building Materials Corporation of America (BMCA).

He also served concurrently as Chief Executive Officer, President and General Counsel of BMCA's parent, G-I Holdings (formerly GAF Corporation).

Prior to joining these corporations in 1995, Ganz was a litigator in private practice with McCarter and English in New Jersey, and with Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin and Frankel in New York.

Following law school graduation, he held a judicial clerkship with the honourable Anne E Thompson in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Ganz received an AB summa cum laude from Duke University in 1984 and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1987.

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