Lloyd Austin Fast Facts
Personal
Birth place: Mobile, Alabama
Father: Lloyd James Austin Jr., postal worker
Mother: Aletia Taylor Austin, homemaker
Marriage: Charlene Denise (Banner) Austin (early 1980s-present)
Children: Reginald Hill (stepson); Christopher Hill (stepson)
Education: United States Military Academy, B.S., 1975; Auburn University, M.E., counselor education, 1986; Webster University, M.A., management and leadership, 1989; War Army College (1996-1997 attended)
Military service: US Army, 1975-2016, four-star general
Other Facts
The first African American to serve as vice chief of staff of the Army.
The first African American to lead US Central Command.
The first African American to lead an Army corps in combat.
Neil Mitchill, former chief financial officer at East Hartford-based Pratt & Whitney, has been appointed CFO of Pratt’s parent company, Raytheon Technologies Corp.
In a statement, company officials said Mitchill, who most recently served as corporate vice president of financial planning and analysis at Raytheon Technologies, will replace Anthony “Toby” O’Brien, who stepped down last week.
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Raytheon Technologies’ corporate pension fund is the latest of a bevy of retirement plans to sue Allianz over alleged mismanagement of certain structured product investments.
Raytheon s complaint, filed on Friday, alleges that it lost about 75 percent of its $375 million investment with Allianz losses that “far exceed” what it would have lost if Allianz “prudently” managed the investment strategy.
Raytheon joins several other pension funds that have already sued Allianz over the alleged mismanagement, including the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National Employee Benefits Committee, the Teamster Members Retirement Plan, and Lehigh University, among several others.
“As we set out at the time, the Structured Alpha portfolio sustained losses during the severe market rout in late February and March,” an Allianz spokesperson said via email Tuesday. “While the losses were disappointing, the allegations made by Raytheon Technologies Corporation Pension A