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KL2 2553275.3
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Item 1 on Proxy Card
At the meeting, seven Directors are to be elected to serve until their successors have been elected and qualified.
Information regarding such nominees is set forth below.
The accompanying proxy will be voted for the election of the Board’s nominees unless contrary instructions are
given. If any Board nominee is unable to serve, which is not anticipated, the persons named as proxies intend to
vote for the other Board nominees and, unless the Board of Directors reduces the number of nominees, for such
other person or persons as the Board of Directors may designate.
Each of the nominees has served as a director during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. If voting by
proxy with respect to the election of Directors, stockholders may vote in favor of all nominees, withhold their votes
as to all nominees or withhold their votes for specific nominees.
Nominees
Richard Leeds, age 48, has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since April 1995.
Mr. Leeds joined the Company in 1982. Mr. Leeds graduated from New York University in 1982 with a B.S. in
Finance. Richard Leeds is the brother of Bruce and Robert Leeds.
Bruce Leeds, age 52, has served as Vice Chairman since April 1995. Mr. Leeds served as President of
International Operations from 1990 until March 2005. Mr. Leeds joined the Company after graduating from Tufts
University in 1977 with a B.A. in Economics.
Robert Leeds, age 52, has served as Vice Chairman since April 1995. Mr. Leeds served as President of
Domestic Operations from April 1995 until March 2005. Mr. Leeds graduated from Tufts University in 1977 with a
B.S. in Computer Applications Engineering and joined the Company in the same year.
Gilbert Fiorentino, age 48, has served as a Director of the Company since May 25, 2004. Mr. Fiorentino is
President of SYX Services Inc., a subsidiary of the Company, and General Manager of the Company’s Technology
Products business. Mr. Fiorentino graduated in 1981 from the University of Miami with a B.S. degree in Economics
and graduated in 1984 from the University of Miami Law School.
Robert D. Rosenthal, age 59, has served as a Director of the Company since July 1995. He has been the lead
independent director since October 11, 2006. Mr. Rosenthal is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Long
Island Investors LLC, which he co-founded in 1983. Mr. Rosenthal is a 1971 cum laude graduate of Boston
University and a 1974 graduate of Hofstra University Law School.
Stacy S. Dick, age 51, has served as a Director of the Company since November 1995. Mr. Dick became a
Managing Director of Rothschild Inc. in January 2004 and has served as an executive of other entities controlled by
Rothschild family interests since March 2001. Mr. Dick graduated from Harvard University with an A.B. degree
magna cum laude in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Business Economics in 1983. He has served as an adjunct professor of
finance at the Stern School of Business (NYU) since 2004.
Ann R. Leven, age 67, has served as a Director of the Company since May 2001. Ms. Leven served as
Treasurer and Chief Fiscal Officer of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. from December 1990 to
October 1999. From August 1984 to December 1990, she was Chief Financial Officer of the Smithsonian
Institution. Ms. Leven has been a Director of the Delaware Investment’s Family of Mutual Funds since September
1989. From December 1999 to May 2003, Ms. Leven was a Director of Recoton Corporation. From 1975 to 1993,
Ms. Leven taught business strategy and administration at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
She received an M.B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1964.