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PROXY STATEMENT
6565
Board of Directors
Directors’ Biographies
Class of 2008
The following fi ve directors’ terms will expire at this year’s annual meeting. Mr. Fisher will retire from the board at
the end of his current term. Each of the other directors in this class has been nominated and is standing for elec-
tion to serve a term that will expire in 2011. See page 102 of this proxy statement for more information.
Michael L. Eskew Age 58 Director since 2008
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer, United Parcel Service, Inc.
Mr. Eskew served as chairman and chief executive offi cer of United Parcel Service, Inc., from
January 2002 until December 2007. He continues to serve on the UPS board of directors. Mr.
Eskew began his UPS career in 1972 as an industrial engineering manager and held various
positions of increasing responsibility, including time with UPS’s operations in Germany and with
UPS Airlines. In 1993, Mr. Eskew was named corporate vice president for industrial engineer-
ing. Two years later he became group vice president for engineering. In 1998, he was elected to
the UPS board of directors. In 1999, Mr. Eskew was named executive vice president and a year
later was given the additional title of vice chairman. Mr. Eskew serves as a trustee of the UPS
Foundation and as chairman of the board of trustees of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He
also serves on the boards of 3M Corporation and IBM Corporation. He has been serving under
interim election since February 2008.
George M.C. Fisher Age 67 Director since 2000
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Offi cer, Motorola, Inc. and Eastman
Kodak Company
Mr. Fisher served as chairman of the board of Eastman Kodak Company from 1993 to De-
cember 2000. He also served as chief executive offi cer from 1993 to January 2000 and as
president from 1993 to 1996. Prior to joining Kodak, he was an executive offi cer of Motorola,
Inc., serving as chairman and chief executive offi cer from 1990 to October 1993, and presi-
dent and chief executive offi cer from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Fisher is a senior advisor for Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Company, presiding director of General Motors Corporation, and a director
of Visant Corporation. He is a former chairman of PanAmSat Corporation and was chairman
of the National Academy of Engineering from 2000 to 2004.
Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D. Age 66 Director since 1995
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The University of Texas South-
western Medical Center at Dallas; Dean, Southwestern Medical School; and Regental
Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Cecil and Ida Green Center for Molecular,
Computational, and Systems Biology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Gilman has served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost of The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and dean of The University of
Texas Southwestern Medical School since 2005 and professor of pharmacology at The Uni-
versity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center since 1981. He holds the Raymond and Ellen
Willie Distinguished Chair of Molecular Neuropharmacology, the Nadine and Tom Craddick
Distinguished Chair in Medical Science, and the Atticus James Gill, M.D., Chair in Medical
Science at the university and was named a regental professor in 1995. Dr. Gilman was on
the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Medicine from 1971 to 1981 and was named
a professor of pharmacology there in 1977. He is a director of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. Dr. Gilman was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994.