VAN NUYS, CA — Superior Industries International has announced the appointment of Margaret Dano and Francisco Uranga to the company’s board of directors. Dano and Uranga succeed Raymond Brown, former senior vice president of Superior and a board member since 1972, and Jack Parkinson, a board member since 1983, who resigned from the board on Dec. 31, 2006. Dano also succeeds Parkinson on Superior’s audit committee.
Dano, 47, has served as a director of Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. since September 2000, and currently serves on both the audit committee and the governance and nominating committee. Dano was vice president, worldwide operations for Garrett Engine Boosting Systems, a division of Honeywell International, from June 2002 until her retirement from that position in 2005. She was vice president, supply chain, office products for Avery Dennison Corp. from January 1999 to April 2002, and was Avery Dennison’s vice president, corporate manufacturing and engineering from 1997 to 1999. Previously, she was vice president, operations accessories, North America, for Black & Decker Corp., and served as a program manager, product manager and plant manager for General Electric Corp. for a five-year period in the early 1990s. Dano received a BSME in mechanical-electrical engineering from the General Motors Institute.
Uranga, 43, is currently corporate vice-president and chief business operations officer for Latin America at Taiwan-based Foxconn, the largest Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) company in the world. At Foxconn, he is responsible for government relations, regulations, incentives, tax and duties, legal, customs, immigration and land and construction issues. From 1998 to 2004, he served as secretary of industrial development for the state government of Chihuahua. Previously, Uranga was deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff for Mexican Commerce and Trade Secretary Herminio Blanco, where he actively participated in implementing NAFTA and in negotiating key agreements with the Mexican government as part of the country’s trade liberalization. Earlier, Uranga was sales and marketing manager for American Industries International Corp. He earned a B.A. in business administration from the University of Texas at El Paso and a diploma in English as a Second Language from Brigham Young University.
For more information about Superior Industries, visit: http://www.supind.com.
