Pen in the Spirit One More Time

Mallardi, Michael P.: - Michael P. Mallardi joined the American Broadcasting company in 1956 and then spent the next forty years both within and outside ABC in various executive positions in the media industry. He eventually became ABC's Chief Financial Officer and one of three Executive Vice Presidents. He was elected to the Board of Directors in October 1976.Upon sale of the company to Capital Cities, Inc., ten years later, he was appointed as Senior Vice President and President of Capital Cities/ABC Broadcast Group. He retired in 1996. He was a founding trustee of the J.P. Morgan Mutual funds and was on the board of EEX Corporation, an oil exploration company in Houston, Texas. He also served as director for several non-profit organization including serving as Chairman of the Bon Secours Charity-Health System.He was born in East Harlem on March 17, 1934, to an Italian immigrant father and a mother raised by immigrant parents, reared primarily in Flushing, New York. Michael received a scholarship to a Catholic military academy becoming valedictorian of his class and then matriculated at the University of Notre Dame where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He and Sylvia, his wife of 63 years, have two daughters, Karen and Stephanie and a very special granddaughter, Natalie Joan. He and his wife make their home in Ramsey, New Jersey.