Home Depot elects new board member

Home Depot has named Armando Codina the 12th member of the company's board of directors.

Codina, 60, is president and CEO of Flagler Development Group, a Florida-based commercial real estate firm.

Flagler is a subsidiary of Florida East Coast Industries (FECI). FECI was acquired in July of this year by funds managed by Fortress Investment Group, a global alternative asset manager with approximately $36 billion in assets under management.

At the time of the acquisition, Codina was the largest private shareholder of FECI, having sold his 26-year-old predecessor firm, the Codina Group, to FECI in April 2006. Prior to establishing the Codina Group, Codina was president of Professional Automated Services, a firm created in 1970 to provide data processing services to physicians.

"We are extremely pleased to have a business leader and entrepreneur of the caliber of Armando Codina join our board of directors," said Frank Blake, chairman and CEO of Home Depot. "He brings enormous financial, operational and strategic expertise to the board and to our business."