Former UnumProvident CEO Harold Chandler.Former UnumProvident CEO Harold Chandler was named Tuesday as non-executive chairman of Milliken & Co., the Spartanburg, S.C.-based technology company serving the textile, chemical and carpet industries.
Chandler, who has served on board of the privately-held Milliken company for the past decade, replaces the retiring Dan Sanders.
In 2003, Chandler was ousted as head of the Chattanooga-based insurance company now known as Unum Corp. The next year, he was named chief operating officer of Universe Workplace Solutions, a Goldman Sachs Capital Partners company.
Chandler previously served as president of Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina.
Milliken is one of seven corporate boards that Chandler has served on as a director and he is also currently chairman of the board of trustees for Wofford College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971.