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wholly owned subsidiary of Zones, Inc., from March 2003 to April 2005. Prior to its acquisition by Zones, Inc., Ms. Corley served as Chief
Executive Officer of CPCS from 1999 to 2003. Ms. Corley began her career in sales and marketing, holding various positions at IBM, Dataflex
and VisionTek. She currently serves as a board member of the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago. Ms. Corley is a graduate of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she earned a bachelor’s degree and a graduate of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of
Management where she earned a Master of Business Administration in management and strategy.
Douglas E. Eckrote serves as our Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions and Services and is responsible for our technology
specialist teams focusing on servers and storage, unified communications, security, wireless, power and cooling, networking, software licensing
and mobility solutions. He also holds responsibility for CDW Canada, Inc. Mr. Eckrote joined CDW in 1989 as an account manager.
Mr. Eckrote was appointed Director of Operations in 1996, Vice President of Operations in 1999 and Senior Vice President of Purchasing in
April 2001. In October 2001, he was named Senior Vice President of Purchasing and Operations. He was named Senior Vice President of
Operations, Services and Canada in 2006 and assumed his current role in 2009. Prior to joining CDW, Eckrote worked in outside sales for Arrow
Electronics and Cintas Uniform Company. From 2003 to 2009, Mr. Eckrote served on the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of
Illinois, completing the last two years as board chair, and served on the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America National Chapter Performance
Committee from 2009-2014. Mr. Eckrote also served on the board of directors of the Center for Enriched Living from 2002-2011, serving as
Vice President from 2004-2005, President from 2006-2008, board emeritus from 2009-2011 and currently serves as a trustee. Mr. Eckrote is a
graduate of Purdue University where he earned a bachelor’s degree and a graduate of Northwestern University’
s Kellogg School of Management
where he earned an Executive Master of Business Administration.
Christine A. Leahy serves as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary and is responsible for our legal,
corporate governance, enterprise risk management and ethics and compliance functions. She also is responsible for our international strategy and
serves on the board of directors of Kelway, a UK-based technology solutions provider in which CDW has a minority investment. Ms. Leahy
joined CDW in January 2002. Prior to that, Ms. Leahy served as a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP where she
specialized in mergers and acquisitions, strategic counseling, corporate governance and securities law. Ms. Leahy serves on the board of trustees
of Children’s Home and Aid. Ms. Leahy is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a bachelor’s degree and a graduate of Boston
College Law School where she earned her Juris Doctor. She also completed the CEO Perspective and Women’
s Director Development Programs
at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Christina V. Rother serves as our Senior Vice President of Public and Advanced Technology Sales and is responsible for managing all
aspects of our public sector and advanced technology sales forces, including sales force strategy, structure, goals, operations, revenue generation
and training and development. Ms. Rother joined CDW in 1991 as an account manager. In 2002, she was appointed Vice President for Education
and State and Local Sales. In 2005, she was chosen to lead our newly formed healthcare sales team. Beginning in 2006, Ms. Rother has held
various positions ranging from Group Vice President of CDW Government LLC, President of CDW Government LLC and Senior Vice
President of Sales. In September 2011, Ms. Rother assumed her current role as Senior Vice President of Public and Advanced Technology Sales.
Prior to joining CDW, Ms. Rother held a number of sales positions with technology companies including Laser Computers and Price
Electronics. Ms. Rother currently serves as chair of the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois. Ms. Rother is a graduate
of the University of Illinois at Chicago where she earned a bachelor’s degree.
Jonathan J. Stevens
serves as our Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Stevens joined CDW in June
2001 as Vice President-Information Technology, was named Chief Information Officer in January 2002 and Vice President-International and
Chief Information Officer from 2005 until December 2006. In January 2007, he was named Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
and assumed his current role in November 2009. Mr. Stevens is responsible for the strategic direction of our information technology.
Additionally, he holds responsibility for our distribution centers, transportation, facilities, customer relations and operational excellence
practices. Prior to joining CDW, Mr. Stevens served as regional technology director for Avanade, an international technology integration
company formed through a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture from 2000 to 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Stevens was a principal with
Microsoft Consulting Services and led an information technology group for a corporate division of AT&T/NCR. He currently serves on the
board of directors of SingleWire Software, LLC and Northeast Illinois Council: Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Stevens is a graduate of the
University of Dayton where he earned a bachelor’s degree.
Matthew A. Troka serves as our Senior Vice President of Product and Partner Management. Mr. Troka is responsible for managing our
relationships with all of our vendor partners. In addition, he directs the day-to-day operations of our purchasing department. Mr. Troka joined
CDW in 1992 as an account manager and became a sales manager in 1995. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Corporate Sales Director. From
2001 to 2004, Mr. Troka was Senior Director of Purchasing. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Troka served as Vice President of Purchasing. From 2006
to 2011, Mr. Troka was Vice President of Product and Partner Management. On March 3, 2011, Mr. Troka was elected Senior Vice President of
Product and Partner Management.
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