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Ford Joins Tyson BoardNEW YORK - Nov 7/05 - SNS -- Scott Ford, president and chief executive officer of ALLTEL, has been named to the board of directors of Tyson Foods, Inc. He becomes Tyson’s tenth director and the fifth independent or outside member of the board. He has also been appointed to serve on the board’s audit committee. Ford joined ALLTEL in 1996, becoming President in 1997 and CEO in 2002. Prior to joining ALLTEL, he worked at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in New York and for Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. He currently serves on the Boards of the Little Rock branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
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