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DONALD NELSON, Chief Information Officer
Mr. Nelson, age 43, has served as our Chief Information Officer since May 2008. Mr. Nelson previously
served as Senior Vice President of Capabilities Development from July 2006. Prior to joining Vistaprint,
Mr. Nelson served as Chief Information Officer at Sapient, where he started in 1993 as a software engineer,
then later as vice president before assuming the role of Chief Information Officer in 2001. Mr. Nelson received
a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Gordon College.
NICHOLAS RUOTOLO, President, Vistaprint Europe
Mr. Ruotolo, age 47, has served as President of Vistaprint’s European business unit since November
2010. Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Ruotolo was Chief Marketing Officer of our European business
unit since September 2008. From June 2007 to September 2008, he was Senior Vice President, Sales &
Analytics and was Vice President, Analytics when he joined the company in February 2005. Before joining
Vistaprint, Mr. Ruotolo served as Vice President, Consulting Services at Enterprise Marketing Solutions, Inc.
where he managed the company’s consulting division and launched eInsights, the company’s web analytics
service. He also spent four years with the Home Shopping Network, where he held several executive positions
in marketing ultimately becoming senior vice president/general manager of HSN.com. Mr. Ruotolo began his
professional career at AT&T Labs as a business analyst supporting marketing initiatives across the company.
He went on to hold senior management positions in strategic planning and marketing at AT&T Consumer
Services. Mr. Ruotolo received a Bachelor of Science in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon
University.
ERNST J. TEUNISSEN, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Teunissen, age 45, has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since
March 2011. From October 2009 through February 2011, Mr. Teunissen served as our Vice President of
Strategy. Before joining Vistaprint, Mr. Teunissen was a founder and director of two corporate finance and
management consulting firms: Manifold Partners from May 2007 through September 2009 and ThreeStone
Ventures Limited from June 2003 through September 2009. From August 1999 to February 2003, Mr. Teunissen
served as an executive director in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in London. From February
1997 to July 1999, he was a senior associate director in Deutsche Bank’s Investment Banking Division in
London and Singapore. Mr. Teunissen holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University
of Oregon and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Nijenrode University, The Netherlands School of
Business.
There are no family relationships among any of the supervisory directors and executive officers of
Vistaprint. No arrangements or understandings exist between any supervisory director or any person nominated
for appointment as a supervisory director and any other person pursuant to which such person is to be selected
as a supervisory director or nominee for appointment as a supervisory director.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Board Structure
We have a two-tiered board structure consisting of a Supervisory Board and a Management Board. The
Supervisory Board consists of our independent, non-employee supervisory directors, and the Management
Board consists of managing directors who are also our executive officers. The principal responsibility of the
members of the Supervisory Board is to oversee the Management Board and its management of Vistaprint and,
in so doing, serve the best interests of Vistaprint and its stakeholders. The Supervisory Board is accountable to
our shareholders. The principal responsibility of the members of the Management Board is to manage
Vistaprint, which means, among other things, that it is responsible for implementing Vistaprint’s goals and
strategy, managing Vistaprint’s associated risk profile, operating Vistaprint’s business on a day-to-day basis
and addressing corporate social responsibility issues that are relevant to the enterprise. The Management Board
is accountable to the Supervisory Board and to our shareholders.
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