Two days into his role as new board chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Thomas Sabatino could use a cup of coffee.
It’s Tuesday morning at ACC’s annual meeting in Orlando, and Sabatino wends his way from the celebratory 30th Anniversary Lounge, down one of the long corridors at the Marriott World Center. As he walks, he talks, and by the time he reaches a hotel food court near the pool he’s recalling how he and former ACC president Frederick Krebs got stuck in a malfunctioning elevator in Rome six years ago. Sabatino, who’s the general counsel of Walgreen Co., jokingly refers to this as their “bonding moment.” Several months later, Krebs asked him to become an ACC board member.
