Foster Farms Fox, CalPERS Read bring executive know-how to UC Davis MBAs
Robert Fox, who has led Foster Farms and other major corporations for decades, has donated $350,000 to the University of California, Davis, to help the Graduate School of Management bring the know-how of other seasoned executives – like Russell Read of CalPERS – to its MBA programs.
The gift for the Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence Program was announced and Read, the chief investment officer at CalPERS, was introduced today (April 19) as this years executive at a management school event at the downtown Sacramento headquarters of the California Public Employees Retirement System.
Fox, a member of the management schools Deans Advisory Council, told the gathering that he wanted to give something back after he, as executive-in-residence in 2001, taught a course on corporate strategy from the perspective of the chief executive.
