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Management at Motorola, Inc. He received his Master of Science degree in Management and Engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Jeffrey A. Fiarman. Mr. Fiarman has served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
since May 2006. Prior to that time, Mr. Fiarman served as our Vice President and Associate General Counsel
from July 2005 to May 2006 and as General Counsel of WeightWatchers.com since June 2000. He has also been
Secretary of WeightWatchers.com since July 2000 and Senior Vice President of WeightWatchers.com since
March 2002. Mr. Fiarman also held the position of Vice President, Business Development of
WeightWatchers.com from June 2000 to March 2002. Prior to joining WeightWatchers.com, Mr. Fiarman was an
attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, D.C. specializing in corporate and tax law, from
September 1993 to May 2000. Mr Fiarman holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Raymond Debbane. Mr. Debbane has been the Chairman of our Board of Directors since our acquisition by
Artal on September 29, 1999. Mr. Debbane is a co-founder and President of The Invus Group, LLC. Prior to
forming The Invus Group, LLC in 1985, Mr. Debbane was a manager and consultant for The Boston Consulting
Group in Paris, France. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Food
Science and Technology from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in Agricultural Sciences and
Agricultural Engineering from American University of Beirut. Mr. Debbane is a director of Artal Group S.A.,
and Ceres, Inc. and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of GoldenSource Corporation.
Philippe J. Amouyal. Mr. Amouyal has been a director since November, 2002. Mr. Amouyal is a Managing
Director of The Invus Group, LLC, a position he has held since 1999. Previously, Mr. Amouyal was a Vice
President and director of The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. in Boston, MA. He holds an M.S. in engineering
and a DEA in Management from Ecole Centrale de Paris and was a Research Fellow at the Center for Policy
Alternatives of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Amouyal is a director of GoldenSource
Corporation and Blue Buffalo Company Ltd.
John F. Bard. Mr. Bard has been a director since November, 2002. Since 1999, Mr. Bard has been a director
of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, where he served as Executive Vice President from 1999 to 2000, Senior Vice
President from 1990 to 1999, and at the same time serving as Chief Financial Officer from 1990 until his
retirement from management in 2000. He began his business career in 1963 with The Procter & Gamble
Company in financial management. He subsequently was Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and
a director of The Clorox Company and later President and a director of Tambrands, Inc., prior to joining Wrigley.
Mr. Bard holds a B.S. in business from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University
of Cincinnati. Mr. Bard also serves as a director of The Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
Marsha Johnson Evans. Ms. Evans has been a director since February 2002. Ms. Evans served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of the American Red Cross, the preeminent humanitarian organization in the United
States, from August 2002 to December 2005, and previously served as the National Executive Director of Girl
Scouts of the U.S.A. from January 1998 to July 2002. A retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy,
Ms. Evans has served as superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from 1995 to
1998 and headed the Navy’s worldwide recruiting organization from 1993 to 1995. Ms. Evans received a B.A.
from Occidental College and a Master’s Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University. Ms. Evans is currently a director of Huntsman Corporation, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Office
Depot Inc. and the Naval Academy Foundation.
Jonas M. Fajgenbaum. Mr. Fajgenbaum has been a director since our acquisition by Artal on September 29,
1999. Mr. Fajgenbaum is a Managing Director of The Invus Group, LLC, which he joined in 1996. Prior to
joining The Invus Group, LLC, Mr. Fajgenbaum was a consultant for McKinsey & Company in New York from
1994 to 1996. He graduated with a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from the
University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Fajgenbaum is a director of Elixir Medical Group and BlueMercury, Inc.
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