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March 2004. Prior to WeightWatchers.com, Mr. Semmelbauer was with The Boston Consulting Group in the
Consumer Goods, Technology and e-Commerce practices. Previously, Mr. Semmelbauer was in Product
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, from September
1993 to May 2000, Mr. Fiarman was an attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Washington, D.C.
specializing in corporate and tax law. 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.
Kevin Eberly. Mr. Eberly has served as our Executive Vice President, North American Operations since
May 2006. Prior to that time, from August 2004 to April 2006, Mr. Eberly was our Senior Vice President for
Corporate Solutions/Business Development, North American Operations, and he assumed the additional
responsibilities of Senior Vice President of North American Field Operations in January 2005. From March 2001
until July 2004, Mr. Eberly served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for WeightWatchers.com
as well as the Chief Marketing Officer for WeightWatchers.com. Before joining us, Mr. Eberly held a variety of
senior marketing and sales management positions with Nabisco, Inc. and Pepsico. He received a B.S. from Union
College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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.,
Ceres, Inc. and Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, 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 Lexicon
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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.
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
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