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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
The following table and information sets forth the names of our executive officers, their current positions
and offices with the Company, the date they first became executive officers of the Company, their current ages,
and their principal employment during the past five years.
Name Position
Date First
Became
an
Executive
Officer Age
Louis J. D’Ambrosio Chief Executive Officer and President 2011 47
Ronald D. Boire Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer and President,
Sears and Kmart Formats
2012 50
W. Bruce Johnson Executive Vice President – Off-Mall Businesses 2005* 60
Robert A. Schriesheim Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 2011 51
Dane A. Drobny Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 2010 44
William R. Harker Senior Vice President 2006 39
William K. Phelan Senior Vice President, Finance 2005* 49
Robert A. Riecker Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer 2012 47
* Became an executive officer of Holdings upon the completion of the Merger on March 24, 2005.
Mr. D’Ambrosio joined the Company as our Chief Executive Officer and President in February 2011. He
served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Avaya Inc. from July 2006 to June 2008. He also served
as a director of Avaya from November 2006 to June 2008. Mr. D’Ambrosio was previously Avaya’s Senior Vice
President and President, Global Sales and Marketing from November 2005 until July 2006. From January 2004
until November 2005, Mr. D’Ambrosio served as Avaya’s Group Vice President, Global Sales, Channels and
Marketing. From December 2002 until December 2003, Mr. D’Ambrosio was Avaya’s Group Vice President,
Avaya Global Services. Before joining Avaya, Mr. D’Ambrosio spent 16 years at International Business
Machines Corporation, where he held several executive posts and was a member of the worldwide management
committee. His roles included leading strategy for global services, sales and marketing for software, and industry
operations for Asia Pacific. Mr. D’Ambrosio currently serves as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Sensus (Bermuda 2) Ltd. and Sensus USA Inc., a clean technology company.
Mr. Boire joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer and President,
Sears and Kmart Formats in January 2012. He served from October 2009 until January 2012 as President and
Chief Executive Officer of Brookstone, a consumer products company. He served as President, U.S. Toys, North
America, for Toys “R” Us, a specialty retailer of toys and juvenile products, from July 2006 until September
2009. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Global Merchandise Manager of Best Buy Co., Inc., a
retailer of consumer electronics and related products from May 2003 to June 2006. Prior to joining Best Buy Co.,
Inc., Mr. Boire served for 17 years in a variety of increasingly senior roles at Sony Electronics Inc., a marketer of
electronic products and services.
Mr. Johnson was elected as the Company’s Executive Vice President—Off-Mall Businesses in September
2011; from February 2011 until September 2011, he served as Executive Vice President – Off-Mall Business and
Supply Chain. He served as the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer and President from February 2008 to
February 2011. He previously served as the Company’s Executive Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations
since the Merger. He joined Kmart in October 2003 as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations.
Mr. Schriesheim joined the Company as Executive Vice President in August 2011 and became Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer that same month. Prior to joining the Company, he served as the
Chief Financial Officer of Hewitt Associates, Inc., a global human resources consulting and outsourcing
company, from January 2010 to October 2010. From October 2006 to December 2009, he served as Executive
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