A. Barry Rand is CEO of AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to social change and helping people 50 and older improve the quality of their lives. He has served as chairman and CEO of Avis Group Holdings, CEO of Equitant Ltd. and executive vice president of worldwide operations at Xerox Corp., where he began his career as a sales representative in 1968. He is chairman of the board of trustees of Howard University. Rand's other board memberships have included Honeywell Corp., Abbott Laboratories, Ameritech, AT&T Wireless Services, Agilent Technologies, Campbell Soup Co., the Urban Family Institute, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Garth Fagan Dance Theatre. He established the Helen Matthews Rand Endowed Scholarship, a $1.5 million program at the Howard University School of Education named in honor of his late mother, a public school principal in Washington, D.C. Rand holds a B.A. from American University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was a Sloan executive fellow.

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