Philip M. Pfeffer

Stats

Membership Data:

Actives: 58

Associates: 12

Seniority: 1

Pledges: 32

Total: 103

Service Hours: 3933.18

Rush

Rush began the week of September 8th!

Rush events included: Info Night 1 & 2, and Meet the Chapter/GG Sewing.

This semester’s Rush Chairs introduced LFS week (9/14/15-9/18/15), in which sponsors could attend either a Leadership, Fellowship, or Service event with their sponsorees.

Monday: Project Open Hand (Service) and Vampire Penguin (Fellowship)

Tuesday: Speed Dating (Fellowship)

Wednesday: Alumni Happy Hour (Leadership)

Thursday: Berkeley Cleanup Scavenger Hunt (Service)

Friday: Palate Test (Fellowship)

Namesake

Phil is the President and CEO of Treemont Capital Inc., a private equity company. His activities include specialized newspaper, book, and magazine publishing; re-purposed direct-mail processes to the Internet; web-based training, consumer electronics reverse logistics and Internet auction retailing; remanufacturing, training and wholesale distribution for the diagnostic imaging industry.

Phil served as President and Chief Operating Officer and Director and member of the Executive Committee of Random House, Inc., the world’s largest English-language general trade book publisher from 1996 until its acquisition by Bertelsmann A.G. in late 1998. Random House sales and profits increased significantly during his tenure.

Prior to joining Random House, Phil served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Ingram Distribution Group Inc. headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. From 1977 to 1996, under Phil’s leadership, total revenue of the Ingram Distribution Group Inc. profitably grew from $36 million to $11 billion. Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), one of the Ingram Distribution Group Inc. companies, is the largest worldwide distributor of microcomputer products and was taken public in 1996. The Ingram Book Group, another Ingram Distribution Group company, is the largest wholesale distributor of trade books in the world, and Ingram Entertainment, Inc. is the nation’s largest distributor of pre-recorded video cassettes, video games and DVDs.

The Ingram Distribution Group companies served more than 170,000 domestic and international accounts from 64 distribution centers. Under Phil’s leadership, the Ingram Distribution Group Inc., was twice awarded the Tennessee Governor’s Award of Excellence for service companies.

While at Ingram, Phil served as Executive Vice President, a member of the Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee of Ingram Industries, Inc. (the parent company of the Ingram Distribution Group).

He continued to serve on the Board of Directors of Ingram Micro Inc., Santa Ana, California, until his retirement in 2001. He now serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mailnet Services, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; Chairman of the Board of Essex Technology Group, Nashville, Tennessee and serves on the Board of Directors of PureWorks, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, The City Paper, Nashville, Tennessee, King Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: KG), Bristol, Tennessee, Publishing Group of America, Franklin, Tennessee, and Casual Furniture Repair and Sales, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Additionally, Phil is a member of the board of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Middle Tennessee, the Faith Family Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, the Faith Family Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee and the Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity Endowment, Independence, Missouri.

He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Chemistry in 1965 and his M.A. in Economics in 1966 from Southern Illinois University. Phil completed postgraduate studies in Economics at Vanderbilt University from 1966 – 1968 as a National Science Foundation Fellow, and holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Southern Illinois University, 1997.

Phil is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Captain in the United States Merchant Marine.

Phil and his wife Pam have been married for 39 years and they have three sons, ages 36, 26 and 21.

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GG Maniacs

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Family System

There are seven families and no big families this semester.

The small families are: Party Owl Night, Ecsta$y (XIIC), Suicide Squad, Baked Potatoes, Get My Tummy Stuffed (GMTs), Phat Assets, and Fantasea.

The small fam reps are: Christine Fang, Caroline Ba, Jerianne Lukban, Sophia Du, Allyssa Rodriguez, Yana Slabakov, and Marilyn Chan.

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