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Mickey P. Foret Joins URS Board of Directors
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01/16/2005
SAN FRANCISCO--April 1, 2003--URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that Mickey P. Foret has joined its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Mr. Foret was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Northwest Airlines and Chairman and Chief Executive of Northwest Airlines Cargo, Inc., a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines that specializes in cargo transportation. From May 1998 to September 1998, Mr. Foret was a special projects officer of Northwest Airlines. He retired from Northwest in September of 2002, after having served at Northwest in a variety of corporate positions over the last 10 years.
Mr. Foret was President and Chief Operating Officer of Atlas Air, Inc. from June 1996 through September 1997. In addition, he has held senior management positions with Continental Airlines Holding, Inc. and KLH Computers, Inc.
Commenting on Mr. Foret's election to the board, Martin M. Koffel, URS Chairman and CEO, said: "Mickey has a broad range of corporate experience, which makes him an excellent addition to the URS Board of Directors. He has an impressive background in finance and accounting - including his tenure as CFO of a large and complex public company - and has served in a variety of top-level corporate positions. I am delighted to welcome Mickey as a new independent director."
Said Mr. Foret: "I'm happy to be joining the URS Board. It's an exciting time for URS, with the Company well positioned to benefit from the expansion of the federal outsourcing market, particularly in the areas of defense and homeland security. I look forward to working with the rest of the Board to build on the Company's impressive track record of strategic growth."
Mr. Foret served in the United States Air Force as a Navigation Electronics Technician from October 1966 to July 1969. He earned B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Louisiana State University.
URS Corporation offers a broad range of planning, design, program and construction management, systems integration, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, hazardous waste, industrial processing and petrochemical, general building, water/wastewater, military facilities and equipment platforms, and security projects. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 25,000 employees providing engineering services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, forest products, mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries (www.urscorp.com).
