SuperValu Inc. announced that Frank A. (Terry) Savage and Mathew M. Pendo have been elected to the company’s board of directors, effective April 24. Savage and Pendo were both appointed to the board as designees of Symphony Investors LLC, a Cerberus Capital Management L.P.-led investor consortium, under the terms of the tender offer agreement entered into with Symphony Investors and Cerberus in connection with SuperValu’s sale of five banners to an affiliate of Symphony Investors.

Symphony Investors owns approximately 20.9 percent of SuperValu’s outstanding common stock. Under the terms of the tender offer agreement, Symphony Investors had the right to designate replacements for Neporent and Tessler, who resigned March 6.

Savage is currently a senior advisor to Lazard Ltd. and the former vice chairman of U.S. Investment Banking at Lazard. He was the co-head of Lazard’s Restructuring Group and also served on Lazard’s deputy chairman committee. Before joining Lazard, he had served as the co-head of the restructuring practice at BT Alex. Brown Inc. and prior to that as the head of the restructuring group at UBS AG. Savage holds a degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Pendo is currently a managing director at Sandler O’Neill Partners, a boutique investment banking firm focused on the financial services industry. Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill, Pendo served as the chief investment officer for the Troubled Asset Relief Program at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from November 2010 until March 2013. Pendo previously worked as managing director investment banking at Barclay Capital, where he served as co-head of the Global Industrials Group and the U.S. Investment Banking Group. He currently sits on the board of directors of Ally Financial Inc., a bank holding company focused on the auto finance and online banking industries. Pendo holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University and received a Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Department of Treasury for his work overseeing the Treasury’s $200 billion TARP investment activities.

“Terry and Mathew each bring tremendous business and financial experience to the SuperValu Board and we are excited to have them join,” Gerald Storch, SuperValu’s non-executive chairman, said in a press release.

SuperValu’s Board determined that Savage and Pendo are each independent directors under the New York Stock Exchange listing standards. The board now has 11 members, nine of whom are independent directors under the New York Stock Exchange listing standards.