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Board of Directors Information PROXY STATEMENT
13 | The Western Union Company – Proxy Statement
NOTICE OF 2015 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT
Solomon D. Trujillo
PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION, BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AND DIRECTORSHIPS
Founded Trujillo Group, LLC, and has served as chairman since 2003. Mr. Trujillo also served as the
Chief Executive Officer and as director of Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia’s largest media-
communications enterprise, from 2005 to 2009. From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Trujillo was Orange
SA’s Chief Executive Officer. Before that, Mr. Trujillo was Chairman, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Graviton, Inc. from 2001 until 2003. Mr. Trujillo previously served as a director of Target
Corporation from 1994 to 2014 and currently serves as a director of WPP plc and ProAmerica Bank.
Mr. Trujillo’s term expires in 2015.
Age 63 Director Since 2012
EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS SUPPORTING
DIRECTORSHIP POSITION ON THE COMPANY’S BOARD*
Mr. Trujillo is an international business executive with experience as a chief executive officer of global
companies in the telecommunications, media, and cable industries headquartered in the United
States, the European Union, and the Asia-Pacific region. He has global operations experience and
provides the Board with substantial international experience and expertise in the retail, technology,
media, and communications industries.
Director Nominee
Jeffrey A. Joerres
PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION, BUSINESS EXPERIENCE AND DIRECTORSHIPS
Executive Chairman of ManpowerGroup since May 2014. From 1999 to 2014, Mr. Joerres served as
CEO of ManpowerGroup and from 2001 to 2014, he served as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Joerres
joined ManpowerGroup in 1993, and served as Vice President of Marketing and Senior Vice President
European Operations and Marketing and Major Account Development. Mr. Joerres is the former
Chair and current director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago board of directors, and serves
as a director of Johnson Controls, Inc., Artisan Partners Asset Management and the Committee for
Economic Development, and is chair of the Future Workforce Committee of the Greater Milwaukee
Committee. Mr. Joerres served as a director of Artisan Funds, Inc. from 2001 to 2011.
Age 55
EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, ATTRIBUTES AND SKILLS SUPPORTING
DIRECTORSHIP POSITION ON THE COMPANY’S BOARD*
Mr. Joerres brings to the Board experience as the former chief executive officer and current executive
chairman of a large United States-based global company that delivers workforce solutions around
the world. Mr. Joerres also brings to the Board his experience as a board member of both a global
diversified industrial company and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.