Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE:LUK) announced today that John M.
Dalton will become Leucadia’s Controller and Chief Accounting Officer,
succeeding Barbara Lowenthal, effective on or before September 15, 2015.
Mr. Dalton, age 33, was most recently the Assistant Controller and
Director, Consolidations and Financial Reporting of TEGNA Inc./Gannett
Co., Inc. Since 2004, Mr. Dalton has held other accounting and audit
positions at TEGNA/Gannett. Mr. Dalton graduated from James Madison
University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration and
is a licensed CPA.
Teresa Gendron, Chief Financial Officer of Leucadia, stated: “I have
worked with John at TEGNA/Gannett and am very pleased he will be joining
us. We will benefit from his knowledge and experience, and we look
forward to working with John as our newest partner.”
About Leucadia
Leucadia National Corporation is a diversified holding company engaged
through its consolidated subsidiaries in a variety of businesses,
including investment banking and capital markets, beef processing,
manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and production and asset
management. The Company also owns equity interests in businesses that
are accounted for under the equity method of accounting, including a
diversified holding company, real estate, commercial mortgage banking
and servicing, telecommunication services in Italy, automobile
dealerships and development of a gold and silver mining project.
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