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Jean Claude Farah is our Executive Vice President and President, Middle East, Africa, APAC, Eastern Europe and CIS. From
March 2009 to December 2013, Mr. Farah served as Senior Vice President for the Middle East and Africa region at Western Union.
Mr. Farah joined Western Union in 1999 as Marketing Manager, Middle East & North Africa. He has held a variety of progressively
responsible positions with the company, including Regional Director from March 2003 to June 2005, Regional Vice President
from June 2005 to March 2009 and Senior Vice President for the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan region. Mr. Farah started
his career in 1995 with Renault SA. Prior to joining Western Union, he was Area Manager for Orangina Pernod Ricard.
Diane Scott is our Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and was our Executive Vice President, Chief Product
and Marketing Officer in 2013. Prior to taking this position in December 2012, Ms. Scott was our Chief Marketing Officer (from
April 2011) and President, Western Union Ventures (from August 2011). Prior to April 2011, Ms. Scott was Senior Vice President,
Marketing, Americas since March 2009. From March 2008 to March 2009, Ms. Scott served as Vice President, Marketing Services,
and General Manager, Domestic Money Transfer. From March 2007 to March 2008, Ms. Scott served as Vice President, Domestic
Money Transfer and Marketing Services, and from January 2005 to March 2007, she served as Vice President and General Manager,
Domestic Money Transfer. Ms. Scott joined Western Union in 2001. Prior to joining Western Union, Ms. Scott held marketing
positions with Izodia plc, US West Communications Inc., and various advertising agencies.
J. David Thompson is our Executive Vice President, Global Operations (from November 2012) and Chief Information Officer
(from April 2012). Prior to April 2012, Mr. Thompson was Group President, Services & Support and Global CIO of Symantec
Corporation since January 2008. From February 2006 to January 2008, Mr. Thompson served as Symantec's Executive Vice
President, Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining Symantec, Mr. Thompson was Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer for Oracle Corporation from January 2005 to January 2006. From August 1995 to January 2005, he was Vice President of
Services and Chief Information Officer at PeopleSoft, Inc. Mr. Thompson is a director of CoreSite Realty Corporation.
Richard L. Williams is our Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. Mr. Williams was appointed as our
Chief Human Resources Officer in October of 2013 and previously served as Interim Chief Human Resources Officer from March
2013 to October 2013 and as Senior Vice President, Human Resources - Global Consumer Financial Services from June 2011 to
October 2013. Mr. Williams joined Western Union in November 2009 as the Vice President of Human Resources for the Americas
and Global Cards. Before joining Western Union, Mr. Williams worked for Fullerton Financial Holdings (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Temasek Holdings) as its Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East
and Africa, based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from September 2007 to October 2009. Previously, Mr. Williams spent 17 years
(May 1998 to August 2007 and August 1989 to February 1997) with American Express Company.