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Mr. Bottorff has served as Chairman of Council Ventures, LLC, an investment firm,
since January 2001. He previously served as Chairman of AmSouth Bancorporation, a bank
holding company, and, prior to that, as Chief Executive Officer (1991-1999) and Chairman
(1995-1999) of First American Corporation. Mr. Bottorff is a director of Ingram Industries,
Appforge, and Benefit Informatics, Inc., all privately-held entities, and serves on the Board of
Trustees of Vanderbilt University. He also serves as the Chairman of the Tennessee Education
Lottery Corp. and as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Ms. Bowles has served as Vice Chairman of Profit Investment Management, a registered
investment advisor, since January 2006. Prior to that, she served as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of The Kenwood Group, Inc., a registered investment advisor that she founded
in 1989, until its acquisition by Profit in January 2006. The Kenwood Group now operates as a
subsidiary of Profit and Ms. Bowles continues to serve as its Chairman. She previously served as
Vice President, Investor Relations of Kraft, Inc. from 1984 to 1989. Ms. Bowles is a director and
audit committee member of Black & Decker Corporation, Wisconsin Energy Corporation (and
Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas LLC, each a publicly-held subsidiary of
Wisconsin Energy). Because we consider her service on the audit committees of Wisconsin
Energy Corporation’ s family of companies to be service to one company due to the commonality
of issues considered by those committees, the Board has determined that Ms. Bowles’ service on
more than 3 total public company audit committees does not impair her ability to effectively
serve on our Audit Committee.
Mr. Dickson serves as Chairman (since 1996) and Chief Executive Officer (since 2001)
of Buford, Dickson, Harper & Sparrow, Inc., registered investment advisors. Mr. Dickson served
as President and Chief Executive Officer of Inroads, Inc., a non-profit organization supporting
minority education, from 1983 to 1993, and was subsequently granted the honorary title of
President Emeritus.
Dr. Gee has served as Chancellor of Vanderbilt University since 2000. Dr. Gee
previously served as President of Brown University from 1998 until 2000, and as President of
The Ohio State University from 1990 until 1998. Dr. Gee is a director of The Limited, Inc.,
Hasbro, Inc., Massey Energy, Inc. and Gaylord Entertainment Company.
Ms. Knuckles has served as Managing Director of Development and Corporate Relations
(since January 2006) and as Director of Development and Corporate Relations (1992-2006) for
North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. From 1988 to 1992, Ms. Knuckles was a private
investor managing several family businesses. Ms. Knuckles also served as a Corporate Vice
President both for Beatrice Foods, Inc. (1978-1986) and for The Wirthlin Group (1986-1988).
Mr. Purcell served as the Southeast Area Managing Partner of KPMG from July 1993 to
October 1998 and as the Vice Chairman in charge of National Audit Practice Operations from
October 1998 until his retirement on January 31, 2002. Mr. Purcell is a director (and chairman of
the audit committee) of Southern Company and Synovus Financial Corporation, as well as
Kaiser Permanente Health Care and Hospitals, a non-public entity. Mr. Purcell, who our Board
has determined to be independent as defined in NYSE listing requirements and in our Corporate
Governance Principles, has been designated as an audit committee financial expert.
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