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NewsBot Date: January 18, 2007 06:30:00 AM
WPO News Thomas S. Gayner Elected a Director of the Washington Post Company
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) announced today that Thomas S.
Gayner has been elected to the Board of Directors. His election
increases the Company’s Board to ten members.
Gayner is executive vice president and chief investment officer of
Markel Corporation, a publicly traded insurance holding company
headquartered in Glen Allen, VA. Markel writes specialty insurance for
three market segments: the Excess and Surplus Lines Market, the
Specialty Admitted Market and the London Insurance Market. The specialty
insurance market provides coverage for hard-to-place risks that do not
fit the underwriting criteria of standard carriers.
Since 1990, Gayner has served as president of Markel Gayner Asset
Management; he also served as a director of Markel Corporation from 1998
to 2003. Previously he had been a certified public accountant at
PricewaterhouseCoopers and a vice president of Davenport & Company of
Virginia.
Gayner received a B.S. degree in commerce in 1983 from the McIntire
School at the University of Virginia.
Gayner serves on the Board of Directors of The Davis Funds in New York
City and First Market Bank in Richmond, VA.
