(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The Baldrige Fellows, an executive development program centered on forming relationships with and learning from Baldrige National Quality Award recipient organizations and their senior executives, recently announced the 14 members of its initial class.

The first Baldrige Fellows are:

• Wayne Foraker, senior director of the Office of Institutional Assessment at University of Phoenix

• William Griffin, vice president of marketing, North America at AGCO Corp.

• Donald Haag, vice president of Midwest area, Packaging Corp. of America

• Robert Hagans, chief financial officer of AARP

• Ziad Haydar, vice president for clinical excellence and physician integration at Ascension Health

• John McCarville, senior vice president of global supply-chain and information technology at Griffith Laboratories

• Margaret McGoldrick, executive vice president and CEO of Abington Memorial Hospital

• James Metcalf, president and chief operating officer of USG Corp.

• Brad Mitchell, president of global logistics and distribution of UPS

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