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Mr. Calbert has been with KKR for over eight years and during that time has been
directly involved with several portfolio companies. He heads the Retail industry team.
Mr. Calbert is currently on the board of directors of Toys “R” Us, Inc. and U.S. Foodservice. He
joined Randall’ s Food Markets as the Chief Financial Officer in 1994, ultimately taking the
company through a transaction with KKR in June 1997. He left Randall’ s Food Markets after the
company was sold in September 1999 and joined KKR. Mr. Calbert started his professional
career as a consultant with Arthur Andersen Worldwide, where his primary focus was on the
retail/consumer industry. He has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2007 and
served as our Chairman until December 2008. KKR’ s affiliates indirectly own a substantial
portion of our outstanding common stock through their investment in Buck Holdings, LLC and
Buck Holdings, L.P.
Mr. Agrawal joined KKR in 2006 and is a member of the Infrastructure team. He
previously was a member of KKR’ s Retail and Energy industry teams. Prior to joining KKR, he
was a Vice President with Warburg Pincus, where he participated in the execution and oversight
of a number of investments in the energy sector. Mr. Agrawal’ s prior experience also includes
Thayer Capital Partners and McKinsey & Co., where he provided strategic and M&A advice to
clients in a variety of industries. He has been a member of our Board of Directors since July
2007.
Mr. Jones has been with Goldman, Sachs & Co. since 1994. He is a managing director in
Principal Investment Area (PIA) in New York where he focuses on healthcare and consumer-
related opportunities and sits on the Global Investment Committee. Mr. Jones joined Goldman,
Sachs & Co. as an associate in the Investment Banking Division and, after two years in the
Communications and Media Department and mobility assignments in Equity Capital Markets
and in the Executive Office of Goldman Sachs International, he joined PIA in London in 1998.
He returned to New York with PIA in 2002 and became a managing director later that year. He
became a partner in 2004. Affiliates of Goldman, Sachs & Co. indirectly own a substantial
portion of our outstanding common stock through investments in Buck Holdings, L.P. Mr. Jones
is currently on the board of directors of Biomet, Inc., Education Management Corporation,
HealthMarkets, Inc. and Signature Hospital, LLC. He has been a member of our Board of
Directors since July 2007.
Mr. Dreiling joined Dollar General in January 2008 as Chief Executive Officer and a
member of our Board of Directors. He was appointed Chairman of the Board on December 2,
2008. Prior to joining Dollar General, Mr. Dreiling served as Chief Executive Officer, President
and a director of Duane Reade Holdings, Inc. and Duane Reade Inc., the largest drugstore chain
in New York City, from November 2005 until January 2008 and as Chairman of the Board of
Duane Reade from March 2007 until January 2008. Mr. Dreiling previously served as Executive
Vice President—Chief Operating Officer of Longs Drug Stores Corporation, an operator of a
chain of retail drug stores on the West Coast and Hawaii, since March 2005, after having joined
Longs in July 2003 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. From 2000 to
2003, Mr. Dreiling served as Executive Vice President—Marketing, Manufacturing and
Distribution at Safeway, Inc., a food and drug retailer. Prior to that, Mr. Dreiling served from
1998 to 2000 as President of Vons, a Southern California food and drug division of Safeway.