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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.
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 the Chief Executive Officer 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 the Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a director of Ceres, Inc. He is also the Chief Executive
Officer and a director of Artal Group S.A. and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of a number of private
companies of which Artal or Invus, L.P. are shareholders.
Steven M. Altschuler. Dr. Altschuler has been a director since September 2012. Dr. Altschuler has served
and continues to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of
the leading children’s hospitals in the United States, since April 2000. Prior to assuming the role of Chief
Executive Officer, Dr. Altschuler held several positions at CHOP, including Physician-in-Chief and chief of the
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Prior to joining CHOP, Dr. Altschuler was faculty
member and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Altschuler received a B.A. in mathematics and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve
University. Dr. Altschuler is a director of Mead Johnson Nutrition Company, serves on its Compensation and
Management Development Committee and is also Chair of its Nutrition Science and Technology Committee.
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 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 and member of the
Compensation Committee of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and a number of private companies of which Artal or
Invus, L.P. are shareholders.
John F. Bard. Mr. Bard has been a director since November 2002. From 1999 to 2008, Mr. Bard was 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 and Accounting 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 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 also served as the
Acting Commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association from July 2009 to January 2010. Ms. Evans
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