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1MAY200917430604
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ITEM OF BUSINESS NO. 1.2 Class 1 Directors — Terms expire in 2010
(ages as of February 28, 2009)
Nominee for Ratification as Class 1 Director — Term
expires in 2010 Bradbury H. Anderson, 59, has
(age as of February 28, 2009) been a director since August 1986
and is currently our Vice Chairman
G´erard R. Vittecoq, 60, has been a and CEO. He assumed the
director since September 2008. responsibility of CEO in June 2002,
Since 2004, he has been a group having previously served as
president of Caterpillar, Inc. in President and Chief Operating
Peoria, Illinois, the world’s largest Officer since April 1991. He has
manufacturer of construction and been employed in various capacities with us since 1973.
mining equipment, diesel and In addition, he serves on the board of General
natural gas engines, and industrial Mills, Inc., as well as on the boards of the Retail
gas turbines, responsible for the company’s Europe- Industry Leaders Association, the American Film Institute,
Africa-Middle East Marketing and Operations Divisions; Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, Best Buy
Marine, Petroleum and Electric Power Divisions; and Children’s Foundation, Minnesota Public Radio and
Caterpillar Production System Division. He joined Waldorf College.
Caterpillar in 1975 and held various accounting and
finance positions within the company. From 1987 to As previously announced in January 2009,
1990, he was in charge of strategy projects and was Mr. Anderson intends to retire as CEO on June 24,
appointed director of strategy & planning in 1990. From 2009, during the 2009 regular meeting of shareholders.
1995 to 1997, he was managing director of Caterpillar He intends to complete his term as Vice Chairman of
France S.A. In 1997, he became managing director of the Board through June 2010.
Caterpillar Belgium S.A. He was elected a vice president Kathy J. Higgins Victor, 52, has
in January 2001, overseeing the Europe-Africa-Middle been a director since November
East Product Development & Operations Division. He is 1999. Since 1994, she has been
a member of the IMD (International Institute for the president of Centera
Management Development) Foundation Board, the Corporation, an executive
Evian Group: Free Trade Think Tank, and an executive development and leadership
member of the World Business Council for Sustainable coaching firm that she founded,
Development, as well as a vice president of the board which is located in Minneapolis,
of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Minnesota. From 1991 to 1994, she was the senior vice
president of human resources at Northwest Airlines, Inc.,
and prior to that held senior executive positions at The
Pillsbury Company and Burger King Corporation. She is
on the board of the University of St. Thomas.
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