AmeriGas Partners Elects Pedro A. Ramos to Its Board of Directors
September 29 2015 - 4:45PM
Business Wire
AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APU) reported today that Pedro A.
Ramos, 50, was elected a director of AmeriGas Propane, Inc. (the
“General Partner”), the general partner of AmeriGas Partners, L.P.
(“AmeriGas”), effective September 28, 2015. Mr. Ramos currently
serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The
Philadelphia Foundation, a charitable foundation committed to
improving the quality of life in the five-county Philadelphia
region.
Lon Greenberg, Chairman of the General Partner, said, “We are
excited to welcome Pedro Ramos to our Board of Directors. Pedro is
an accomplished attorney with extensive experience navigating
complex business and government affairs matters. His leadership in
the Philadelphia region, as well as his legal and business
expertise, will be valuable assets to the General Partner and
AmeriGas.”
Prior to assuming leadership of The Philadelphia Foundation in
August 2015, Mr. Ramos served as a Partner with the law firms
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Trujillo Rodriguez &
Richards, LLC (before its merger with Schnader Harrison Segal &
Lewis LLP), Blank Rome LLP and Ballard Spahr LLP. Mr. Ramos also
served as Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia from 2005
to 2007 and as City Solicitor of the City of Philadelphia from 2004
to 2005. Additionally, Mr. Ramos served as Vice President and Chief
of Staff to the President of the University of Pennsylvania from
2002 to 2004. Mr. Ramos was formerly Chairman of the Philadelphia
School Reform Commission, a gubernatorial appointment, from 2011 to
2013. Mr. Ramos currently serves as a director of FS Investment
Corporation, a publicly traded business development company. He is
also a member of the Boards of Directors of the Ed Snider Youth
Hockey Foundation, the Philadelphia Zoo, the Independence
Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New
Jersey, and Independence Health Group.
Mr. Ramos holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from the
University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the
University of Michigan Law School. In 2014, he was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Drexel University.
About AmeriGas Partners, L.P.
AmeriGas is the nation’s largest retail propane marketer,
serving approximately two million customers in all 50 states from
over 2,000 distribution locations. UGI Corporation, through
subsidiaries, is the sole General Partner and owns 26% of the
Partnership and the public owns the remaining 74%.
Comprehensive information about AmeriGas is available on the
Internet at http://www.amerigas.com.
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