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J. Patrick Barrett is chairman and chief executive officer of CARPAT Investments, his private investment company. In addition, he is chairman of Syracuse Executive Air Service, Inc., an air charter service and fixed based operator, and chairman of Bennington Ironworks in Vermont. He also is chairman of the board of the Whiteface Club Companies. Formerly he was chairman and chief executive officer of Avis, Inc., the world’s second-largest car rental company. While at Avis, he organized the buyout of the company from the Beatrice Companies, and, subsequently, its sale to its employees, in what was then the largest industrial Employee Stock Ownership Program in history. Earlier in his business career, Barrett was executive vice president, chief financial officer and a director of Norton Simon, Inc., a consumer goods conglomerate whose properties included Avis, Hunt-Wesson, Max Factor, Canada Dry and Somerset Importers. Barrett assumed the Norton Simon post after a long career at Carrier Corporation, where he served in various positions, starting as assistant treasurer in 1964 and rising to president of Carrier International Corporation in 1977. During this period, he also served as vice president and chief financial officer of the parent company, Carrier Corporation. Barrett received a bachelor of science degree in Economics from Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. He serves as a trustee of Siena College and as a trustee emeritus of Syracuse University. He also serves on the board of directors of Lincoln National Corporation, a financial services company headquartered in Philadelphia, as well as its New York subsidiary, Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York, where he is chairman of its Independent Directors Committee. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of Coyne International Enterprises Corporation, Adirondack National Bank, and the Syracuse SkyChiefs Baseball Club, Inc. In 1987, Barrett was appointed by Present Ronald Reagan as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives. At President Reagan’s request, he also chaired the Vote America Program. Barrett served as a delegate to the 1988 and 2004 Republication National Conventions. In 1989, he was elected chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, a post he held until 1991. | 