Thomas S. Hanemann

Outside director

Thomas Hanemann was elected as a board member in 2002. Hanemann served as True Value Company's interim president and CEO from November 2004 to June 2005. He retired from AutoZone, the Fortune 500 national chain of auto parts stores, as president and as a member of its board of directors.

Hanemann worked as a pharmacist until 1974, and then began a career in retailing and wholesaling with Super D Drugs, the drug store division of Malone & Hyde, a large New York Stock Exchange grocery wholesaler. During his tenure, he expanded the company to more than 100 stores and increased its sales to $150 million. In 1983, while serving as Super D's president, he founded Ike's Deep Discount Drug Stores, a high-volume-discount retail drug chain selling health and beauty aids at deeply discounted prices.

Hanemann holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Tennessee.