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Henry Armour is a director of LECG in the Emeryville office and is president and chief executive officer of Epoch Corporation. Dr. Armour has been engaged in retail businesses for over 30 years. He was vice president and chief operating officer of Armour Oil Company from 1977 to 1980. From 1980 to 1982 he served as manager of development strategies for the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. In 1982 he founded West Star Corporation, which operated a large chain of truck stops, convenience stores and quick service restaurants in the Pacific Northwest. He founded Epoch Corporation in 1988 to conduct similar businesses in California.
Dr. Armour served as the chairman of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) from 2001 through 2003, and previously served as vice chairman-treasurer and vice chairman-research & development at NACS as well as chairman of the Technology and Education Sessions Committees, and was a member of the Category Management and Future Study 2000 committees. He is a past president of the Washington Association of Neighborhood Stores and currently serves on its executive committee. He is a member of the United States Smokeless Tobacco Retail Advisory Council and previously served on the Philip Morris National Trade Council. He represented the convenience store industry on the Executive Committee of the Joint Industry Project on Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). He has also served as chairman of the National Advisory Group and is on the board of directors of the Convenience Store Education Council. He is currently serving on the NACS/Coca-Cola Leadership Council.
Dr. Armour has been engaged as a testifying expert and consultant for the past 5 years focusing on litigation issues relating to marketing practices in the petroleum and tobacco retail areas. He has testified on numerous occasions before Congress and state legislatures. He obtained a BA degree in economics from Stanford University in 1973. In 1974 he earned a Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics, and then returned to Stanford to earn a MBA degree in 1976 and a PhD degree in economics in 1977. | 