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Timothy M. Donahue—Mr. Donahue, age 63, joined our Board in March 2008. Prior to his
retirement, Mr. Donahue was Executive Chairman of Sprint Nextel Corporation from August 2005 to
December 2006. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nextel Communications, Inc
from 1999. He began his career with Nextel in January 1996 as President and Chief Operating Officer.
Before joining Nextel, Mr. Donahue served as Northeast Regional President for AT&T Wireless
Services operations from 1991 to 1996. Prior to that, he served as President for McCaw Cellular’s
paging division in 1986 and was named McCaw’s President for the U.S. central region in 1989. He is
also a director of the Eastman Kodak Company, Covidien Ltd. (where he is the lead director) and
NVR Inc., and non-executive chairman of the private company UCT Coatings, Inc. Mr. Donahue is a
graduate of John Carroll University, with a BA degree in English Literature. Mr. Donahue’s
qualifications to serve on the board include his extensive experience and demonstrated leadership in
the wireless communications industry, his experience in service-oriented industries and his experience as
an executive and board member of several publicly traded companies.
Brian Duperreault—Mr. Duperreault, age 64, joined our Board in March 2004. Mr. Duperreault
has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
since January 2008. Previously he served as Chairman of ACE Limited, an international provider of a
broad range of insurance and reinsurance products, from October 1994 to May 2007. He served as
Chief Executive Officer of ACE Limited from October 1994 through May 2004, and as its President
from October 1994 through November 1999. Prior to joining ACE, Mr. Duperreault had been
employed with American Insurance Group (‘‘AIG’’) since 1973 and served in various senior executive
positions with AIG and its affiliates from 1978 until September 1994, most recently as Executive Vice
President, Foreign General Insurance and, concurrently, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
American International Underwriters Inc. (‘‘AIU’’) from April 1994 to September 1994.
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 is a member of the Board of
Directors of the International Insurance Society, Centre on Philanthropy and the Insurance Information
Institute. He also serves as Chairman of both the Board of Overseers of the School of Risk
Management of St. John’s University and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Previously,
Mr. Duperreault also served as a director of the Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son, Ltd., a provider of
international financial services. Mr. Duperreault’s qualifications to serve on the board include his
extensive experience as an executive and board member of publicly traded companies, his experience in
risk management and his global business experience and leadership.
Bruce S. Gordon—Mr. Gordon, age 65, joined our Board in January 2003 and in March 2008 became
the lead Director. 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 Northrop Grumman Corporation. He also previously served as a director of Southern
Company, an electricity generating company, from 1994 to 2006. Mr. Gordon is the lead Director of our
Board and the Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Mr. Gordon’s qualifications to serve
on the board include his significant leadership experience as the head of a large non-profit, his in-depth
experience as an executive in the service- oriented communications industry and his corporate governance
experience as a director of several publicly traded companies.
Rajiv L. Gupta—Mr. Gupta, age 66, joined our Board in March 2005. Mr. Gupta served as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Company, a worldwide producer of specialty materials,
from 1999 to 2009. 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
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