Star Elects New Board Member

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 03/21/2011

Star Scientific said yesterday that Richard L. Sharp had been elected to the company's board of directors. Sharp, who will serve as an independent director, is the former CEO and chairman of Circuit City Stores, an electronics retailer, and the founder of CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the US. He currently serves on the board of Crocs, in which he was a founding investor. Sharp serves on a range of philanthropic and educational boards. He is chairman emeritus of the University of Virginia Health Foundation Board, a member of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Board of Advisors, and serves on the board of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering Foundation. Meanwhile, the company announced that Leo S. Tonkin, the longest-serving member of the Star Scientific board of directors, had announced his retirement from the board effective as of March 17. Enditem