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of the Company in 1984 and joined the Company full-time in 1988, serving as its Chief Financial Officer before
becoming President and Chief Operating Officer in 1990. Mr. Feehan received a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree in Accounting from Texas A&M University.
Thomas A. Bessant, Jr. has been the Company’s Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer since July
1998. He joined the Company in May 1993 as Vice President – Finance and Treasurer and was elected Senior Vice
President – Chief Financial Officer in July 1997. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bessant was a Senior Manager in
the Corporate Finance Consulting Services Group of Arthur Andersen & Co., S.C. from June 1989 to April 1993. Prior
to that, Mr. Bessant was a Vice President in the Corporate Banking Division of a major money center bank where he
started his professional career in 1981. Mr. Bessant holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting
and Finance from Texas Tech University and a Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance from Vanderbilt
University.
David A. Fisher has been the Chief Executive Officer of the E-Commerce Division (which is also known as
Enova) since January 29, 2013. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Fisher was Chief Executive Officer of optionsXpress
Holdings, Inc. (“optionsXpress”) from October 2007 until The Charles Schwab Corporation acquired the business in
September 2011. Following the acquisition, Mr. Fisher served as President of optionsXpress until March 2012. Mr.
Fisher also served as the President of optionsXpress from March 2007 to October 2007 and as the Chief Financial
Officer of optionsXpress from August 2004 to March 2007. Prior to joining optionsXpress, Mr. Fisher served as Chief
Financial Officer of Potbelly Sandwich Works from February 2001 to July 2004, and before that in the roles of Chief
Financial Officer and General Counsel for Prism Financial Corporation. In addition, Mr. Fisher has served on the Board
of Directors of InnerWorkings, Inc., since November 2011 and has served on the Board of Directors of GrubHub, Inc., a
venture-backed company, since May 2012. Mr. Fisher also served on the Board of Directors of optionsXpress from
October 2007 until September 2011 and CBOE Holdings, Inc. from January 2007 until October 2011. Mr. Fisher
received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Illinois and a law degree from Northwestern
University School of Law.
J. Curtis Linscott has been Executive Vice President – General Counsel and Secretary since May 2006. He was
appointed Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in May 2005. Mr. Linscott joined the Company in
1995, serving as Associate General Counsel and Vice President – Associate General Counsel. Before joining the
Company, he was in private law practice with Kelly, Hart & Hallman, P.C. for five years. He received his law degree
from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1990 and an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Kansas State
University.
During 2013, the executive officers of the Company also included the President—Retail Services Division and
the President—E-Commerce Division. In January 2014 the President—Retail Services Division left the Company when
that position was eliminated, and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President has assumed the principal duties
and functions of that position. In addition, the Company’s President—E-Commerce Division left the Company in March
2013, and the Chief Executive Officer—E-Commerce Division has assumed the principal duties and functions of that
position.
Retail Services Segment
The Company’s retail services segment, which includes its domestic and foreign retail services locations, has
store managers who supervise each retail services location’s personnel and assure that each retail services location is
managed in accordance with Company guidelines, policies and procedures. A Market Manager or Area Coordinator,
who reports to a Regional Operations Director, oversees each store manager. Each domestic Regional Operations
Director oversees a portion of each domestic region and reports to a Region Vice President. Four Region Vice Presidents
coordinate operations and strategy in the Company’s domestic retail services locations and report to the Senior Vice
President of Operations of the Retail Services Division, who reports to the Chief Executive Officer. The Company’s
foreign retail services operation has a Regional Operations Director who reports to the Vice President and General
Manager of International Operations and is overseen by the Chief Financial Officer and ultimately the Company’s Chief
Executive Officer.