GREEN BAY, Wisconsin - Peter Platten, a former Green Bay Packers Executive Committee lead director and longtime member of the Board of Directors, died on Tuesday at the age of 80, a statement issued by the Packers on Thursday said.
"I will be forever grateful to Pete. He took a big chance in hiring me, someone without Green Bay ties," Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy said of Platten directing the search process in 2007 that led to Murphy being elected President and CEO.
"I loved working with him. He had a brilliant business mind and nobody knew the history of the Packers better than him.