Doug Allens replacement

David White, 40, is a Rhodes scholar who served as SAG’s general counsel from 2002 to 2006. He left the guild to co-found a consulting company. In contrast to Allen, who had a confrontational and sometimes abrasive style of leadership, White has a reputation for being low-key and conciliatory, an approach that will be sorely tested as he faces a sharply divided union.

Although he was praised by Rosenberg when he resigned in 2006, White was not popular with some of the guild president’s supporters. They perceived him as too close to former Executive Director Bob Pisano, who quit after a series of clashes with the board.

One of White’s top priorities will be to find a way to merge with AFTRA, which has been on the agenda of new directors in the past.

From the LATimes