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Dinesh Paliwal, age 49, was elected as a director of the company on August 13, 2007. He began serving
as President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman on July 1, 2007. Prior to joining our company,
Mr. Paliwal served as President of Global Markets and Technology of ABB Ltd from January 2006 until
June 2007 and he served as President and CEO of ABB North America from January 2004 until June
2007. He was President and CEO of ABB Automation from October 2002 to December 2005. His
current term as a director expires at the 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler, age 82, has been a director of the company since September 1986. Ms.
Hufstedler has been in private law practice for more than 25 years. Since 1995, she has been with the law
firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP. From 1981 to 1995, Ms. Hufstedler was with the firm of Hufstedler &
Kaus. She served as Secretary of Education of the United States from 1979 to 1981 and as a judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1968 to 1979. Ms. Hufstedler is Director
Emeritus of Hewlett Packard Company. Her current term as a director expires at the 2008 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders.
Ann McLaughlin Korologos, age 65, has been a director of the company since 1995. She served as
Secretary of Labor of the United States from 1987 until 1989. Ms. Korologos is a director of AMR
Corporation (and its subsidiary, American Airlines, Inc.), Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Kellogg Company
and Vulcan Materials Company, a provider of construction aggregates. In April 2004, Ms. Korologos
was elected Chairman of the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees. She is also a Chairman Emeritus of
the Aspen Institute and previously served as a Senior Advisor to Benedetto, Gartland & Company, Inc.
from 1996 to 2005. Her current term as a director expires at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Edward H. Meyer, age 80, has been a director of the company since 1990. Mr. Meyer has served as
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Ocean Road Advisors, Inc., an
investment management company, since January 2007. Mr. Meyer also served as Chairman, Chief
Executive Officer and President of Grey Global Group, Inc., a global advertising and marketing services
company, from 1970 to 2006. Mr. Meyer also serves as a director of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. and
National CineMedia, Inc, an in-theater advertising company. His current term as a director expires at the
2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, requires our directors and executive
officers and persons who beneficially own more than 10% of the our common stock to file initial reports
of ownership and reports of changes in ownership with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Based
solely on a review of the copies of such forms furnished to us and written representations from our
directors and executive officers, we believe that all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to our
directors and executive officers were complied with during fiscal 2007, except that each of Dr. Harman,
Mr. Brown and Dr. Geiger inadvertently filed one late Form 4 related to an option grant on August 10,
2006; Mr. Schinagel filed one late Form 3 related to his appointment as an executive officer, on October
1, 2006, and one late Form 4 related to a grant of options and restricted share units on October 2, 2006;
and Blake Augsburger inadvertently filed one late Form 3 related to his appointment as an executive
officer on November 2, 2006.