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BED BATH & BEYOND PROXY STATEMENT
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Executive officers
Set forth below is information concerning our executive officers as of May 7, 2010.
Name Age Position
Warren Eisenberg 79 Co-Chairman and Director
Leonard Feinstein 73 Co-Chairman and Director
Steven H. Temares 51 Chief Executive Officer and Director
Arthur Stark 55 President and Chief Merchandising Officer
Eugene A. Castagna 44 Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Matthew Fiorilli 53 Senior Vice President – Stores
The biographies for Messrs. Eisenberg, Feinstein and Temares are set forth above under Election of Directors (Proposal 1).
Biographies for our other executive officers are as follows:
Arthur Stark has been President and Chief Merchandising Officer since 2006. Mr. Stark has served as Chief Merchandising Officer
since 1999 and was a Senior Vice President from 1999 to 2006. Mr. Stark joined the Company in 1977.
Eugene A. Castagna has been Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 2006. Mr. Castagna served as Assistant Treasurer from
2002 to 2006 and as Vice President – Finance from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Castagna is a certified public accountant and joined the
Company in 1994.
Matthew Fiorilli has been Senior Vice President – Stores since 1999. Mr. Fiorilli joined the Company in 1973.
Mr. Stark, Mr. Castagna and Mr. Fiorilli, together with certain officers who are not considered to be executive officers under
the Exchange Act, Richard C. McMahon, Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President – Corporate Operations, Allan N. Rauch, Vice
President – Legal and General Counsel, and G. William Waltzinger, Jr., Vice President – Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. – Corporate
Development and President – Harmon Stores, Inc., report to Mr. Temares and comprise the Company’s Operating Team.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The following is a discussion and analysis of our compensation programs as they apply to our executive officers named in the
Summary Compensation Table below.
Compensation Philosophy and Objectives
The Compensation Committee has developed and implemented compensation policies, plans and programs to provide competi-
tive compensation opportunities with a significant component of actual payments being dependent principally on the Company’s
performance results and on enhancements to shareholder value. The Committee considers the total compensation package
(earned or potentially available, including benefits) in establishing each element of compensation.
The policies, plans and programs are designed to meet the following objectives:
•฀Attract฀and฀retain฀highly฀qualied฀executives
•฀Be฀competitive฀with฀other฀major฀U.S.฀retail฀peer฀companies
•฀Reward฀corporate฀and฀individual฀performance
•฀Align฀the฀interests฀of฀executives฀and฀shareholders
•฀Promote฀the฀balance฀of฀annual฀and฀long-term฀results฀
The Company believes that its compensation policies, plans and programs have no material adverse effect on the Company’s
enterprise risk.