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ScanSource Appoints New Board Member
Frank Emory brings extensive legal, economic development, and executive leadership experience to the Board GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ScanSource,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nFrank Emory brings extensive legal, economic development, and executive leadership experience to the Board\n\n GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nScanSource, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCSC), a leading provider of technology products and solutions, today announced the appointment of Frank E. Emory, Jr. to its Board of Directors, effective October 5, 2020. Mr. Emory’s appointment expands the Board to nine members.\n\nMr. Emory brings more than three decades of legal and executive leadership experience to ScanSource’s Board of Directors. Currently, he serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for Novant Health, a leading healthcare network with 15 hospitals and nearly 30,000 employees across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Mr. Emory oversees compliance, legal, external affairs, internal audit, risk management, privacy, human resources, and diversity & inclusion. Prior to joining Novant Health in 2019, Mr. Emory served as a partner with international law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP for 17 years, where he was Co-Head of the Litigation and Labor Group and managing partner of the Charlotte office. Previously, he served as partner at Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. from 1990 to 2001 and at Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas & Adkins, P.A. from 1983 to 1990.\n\nIn addition to his background in law, Mr. Emory has a significant record of economic and civic involvement. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina. He has held multiple leadership and advisory positions, including the Chair of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, President of the Mecklenburg County Bar, eight years on the North Carolina Board of Transportation, Executive Committee member of the Duke University Board of Trustees, and the first African American and youngest Chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. He received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest civilian honor, in 2001.\n\nMr. Emory graduated cum laude from Duke University where he was an Angier B. Duke Scholar and the president of the student government. He received his law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law on a Morehead Law Fellowship.\n\n“We are delighted to have Frank join our Board and bring his extensive experience as an organizational leader an...