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Mr. Duperreault was President of AIU from 1991 to April 1994, and Chief Executive Officer of AIG
affiliates in Japan and Korea from 1989 until 1991. Mr. Duperreault serves as Chairman of the Centre
on Philanthropy, Chairman of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, and Chairman of the International
Insurance Society. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Insurance Information
Institute, and the Board of Overseers of the School of Risk Management of St. John’s University.
Bruce S. Gordon—Mr. Gordon, age 62, joined our Board in January 2003. From August 2005
through April 2007, Mr. Gordon served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP. Until
his retirement in December 2003, Mr. Gordon was the President of Retail Markets at Verizon
Communications, Inc., a provider of wireline and wireless communications. Prior to the merger of Bell
Atlantic Corporation and GTE, which formed Verizon in July 2000, Mr. Gordon fulfilled a variety of
positions at Bell Atlantic Corporation, including Group President, Vice President, Marketing and Sales,
and Vice President, Sales. Mr. Gordon graduated from Gettysburg College and received an M.S. from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Gordon also serves as a director of CBS Corporation and
Northrup Grumman Corporation. Mr. Gordon is the Lead Director of our Board and the Chair of the
Nominating and Governance Committee.
Rajiv L. Gupta—Mr. Gupta, age 63, joined our Board in March 2005. Mr. Gupta has served as
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Company, a worldwide producer of specialty
materials, from 1999 to the present. Previously, he served as Vice Chairman of Rohm and Haas
Company from 1998 to 1999, Director of the Electronic Materials business from 1996 to 1999, and Vice
President and Regional Director of the Asia-Pacific Region from 1993 to 1998. Mr. Gupta holds a B.S.
degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. in operations
research from Cornell University and an M.B.A. in finance from Drexel University. Mr. Gupta also is a
director of The Vanguard Group and will join the board of Hewlett-Packard Company in January 2009.
Mr. Gupta is the Chair of the Company’s Compensation and Human Resources Committee.
John A. Krol—Mr. Krol, age 72, joined our Board in August 2002. Mr. Krol served as the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, where he spent his
entire career until his retirement in 1998. E.I. du Pont de Nemours is a global research and technology-
based company serving worldwide markets, including food and nutrition, health care, agriculture,
fashion and apparel, home and construction, electronics and transportation. Mr. Krol also serves as a
director of ACE Limited, and the private companies Norvax, Inc. and Milliken & Company, and is on
the Advisory Board of Bechtel Corporation. Mr. Krol graduated from Tufts University where he
received a B.S. and M.S. in chemistry.
Brendan R. O’Neill—Dr. O’Neill, age 60, joined our Board in March 2003. Dr. O’Neill was Chief
Executive Officer and director of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (‘‘ICI’’), a manufacturer of
specialty products and paints, until April 2003. Dr. O’Neill joined ICI in 1998 as its Chief Operating
Officer and Director, and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 1999. Prior to Dr. O’Neill’s
career at ICI, he held numerous positions at Guinness PLC, including Chief Executive of Guinness
Brewing Worldwide Ltd, Managing Director International Region of United Distillers, and Director of
Financial Control. Dr. O’Neill also held positions at HSBC Holdings PLC, BICC PLC and the Ford
Motor Company. He has an M.A. from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the
University of East Anglia, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
(U.K.). Dr. O’Neill is a director of Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., Aegis Group Plc., Informa plc
and Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. He chairs the Audit Committees of Aegis Group Plc and
Informa plc.
William S. Stavropoulos—Dr. Stavropoulos, age 69, joined our Board in March 2007.
Dr. Stavropoulos was the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dow Chemical Company,
where his career spanned 39 years until his retirement in 2006. While at Dow, Dr. Stavropoulos served
in a variety of positions in research, marketing and general management. Dr. Stavropoulos graduated
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