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WIGAND IS ASKED BY MOTLEY ABOUT HOW HE WAS HIRED BY BROWN & WILLIAMSON
Q. Were you formally employed by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company?
A. I was employed by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company from January 1989 until March 24th, 1993.
Q. How was it that you came to be employed by Brown & Williamson?
A. Early in 1988 I responded to an advertisement, I believe either in the New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, looking for a manager of a research function in the Mid-West. I sent my resume' in response to that advertisement. I was subsequently contacted by phone by Bill Lodenbach, who was a representative of the executive research firm of Heinman & Company. We had some preliminary discussions on the phone, at which time he asked me several questions relative to my understanding of smoking issues and did I have any adverse positions relative to tobacco. That was followed up by an interview in New York City about a month or two later. And then the sequence of events led up to my employment by Brown & Williamson in November of 1988.
Q. And what job were you to hold with Brown & Williamson, sir?
A. The job I was hired for was vice president of research and development for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.
Q. To whom did you report?
A. I reported initially to Mr. Tommy Sandefur and then subsequently reported to Mr. Earl Kohnhorst.
Q. Who is Mr. Sandefur?
A. Mr. Sandefur at that time was president and chief operating officer of Brown & Williamson.
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