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City Club of Cleveland - The American Red Cross
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The American Red Cross is about more than disasters and blood. It is a critical link in an international humanitarian chain that delivers help to the world's most vulnerable people at their most difficult times. Mark Everson, who became president and CEO in May 2007, tells how he is focusing on the management and the mission of the Red Cross to strengthen its capacity to help.

The former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service now heads a $3.2 billion agency that provides almost half the nation's blood supply, responds to thousands of disasters each year, helps service men and women and their families, trains millions in lifesaving skills-and relies on donated time, money and blood to do its work.

From August 2002, until his confirmation as commissioner, Everson served as deputy director for management for the Office of Management and Budget where he provided government-wide leadership to executive branch agencies and chaired the President's Management Council, which is charged with improving overall executive branch management, including implementation of the President's Management Agenda. From August 2001 to 2002, he served as controller of the office of Federal Financial Management.

Prior to joining the Bush administration, Everson was group vice president - finance, of SC International Services, Inc. From 1988 until 1998, he was an executive with the Pechiney Group, one of France's largest industrial groups.

Everson also served in the Reagan administration from 1982 until 1988 holding several positions at the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of Justice, where he was deputy commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. While at INS, he oversaw implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, landmark legislation providing for sanctions against employers hiring undocumented aliens and granting amnesty to millions of qualifying illegal aliens.
October 19, 2007