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Chief Operating Officer of Golfsmith International Holdings, Inc. from September 2008 through October
2012, Executive Vice President from September 2008 through February 2012 and Chief Financial Officer
from March 2009 through July 2012. Ms. Gove previously had been a self-employed consultant since April
2006, serving clients in specialty retail and private equity. Ms. Gove was a consultant for Prentice Capital
Management, LP from April 2007 to March 2008. She was a consultant for Alvarez and Marsal Business
Consulting, L.L.C. from April 2006 to March 2007. She was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer of Zale Corporation from 2002 to March 2006 and a director of Zale Corporation from 2004 to
2006. She was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Zale Corporation from 1998 to 2002
and remained in the position of Chief Financial Officer until 2003.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications: The Board believes Ms. Gove is qualified to serve as a
director of the Company based on her experience in executive retail operations and finance roles, her
knowledge of accounting, financial reporting, and financial systems, her executive management skills, her
owner orientation, and her board experience, as well as her integrity, energy, and willingness to spend time
on and interest in AutoZone.
Earl G. Graves, Jr., 51, has been a director since 2002 and was elected Lead Director in January 2009.
He has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Black Enterprise, publisher of Black Enterprise
Magazine, since January 2006, and was President and Chief Operating Officer from 1998 to 2006.
Mr. Graves has been employed by the same company in various capacities since 1988.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications: The Board believes Mr. Graves is qualified to serve as a
director of the Company based on his business, management and strategic planning experience, his
knowledge of advertising and marketing, his owner orientation, and his board experience, as well as his
integrity, energy, and willingness to spend time on and interest in AutoZone.
Enderson Guimaraes, 54, has been a director since 2012. He is the Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo
Europe, a role he assumed in September 2012. He was President of PepsiCo Global Operations from
October 2011 to September 2012. Mr. Guimaraes previously had served as Executive Vice President of
Electrolux and Chief Executive Officer of its major appliances business in Europe, Africa and the Middle
East from January 2008 to October 2011. Prior to this, Mr. Guimaraes spent 10 years at Philips Electronics,
first as a regional marketing executive in Brazil and ultimately as Senior Vice President and head of Global
Marketing Management and general manager of the WidiWall LED display business. He also served as
CEO of Philips’ Lifestyle Incubator group, an innovation engine which created new businesses and
developed them over several years.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications: The Board believes Mr. Guimaraes is qualified to serve as a
director of the Company based on his business, management and strategic planning experience, his
knowledge of advertising, marketing and international operations, and his owner orientation as well as his
integrity, energy, and willingness to spend time on and interest in AutoZone.
J. R. Hyde, III, 70, has been a director since 1986 and was non-executive Chairman of the Board from
2005 until June 2007. He has been the President of Pittco, Inc., an investment company, since 1989 and has
been the Chairman of the Board and a director of GTx, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company since 2000.
Mr. Hyde, AutoZone’s founder, was AutoZone’s Chairman from 1986 to 1997 and its Chief Executive
Officer from 1986 to 1996. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Malone & Hyde, AutoZone’s
former parent company, until 1988. Mr. Hyde was a director of FedEx Corporation from 1977 to
September 2011.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications: The Board believes Mr. Hyde, the founder and a former
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AutoZone, is qualified to serve as a director of the Company
based on his extensive knowledge of AutoZone’s business and the automotive aftermarket industry, his
expertise in strategic business development and executive management, his owner orientation, and his
board experience as well as his integrity, energy, and willingness to spend time on and interest in
AutoZone.
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