Robert E. Hallagan Chairman, National Association of Corporate Directors, Vice Chairman, Korn/Ferry International Robert E. "Bob" Hallagan became Chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors in January 2006. Mr. Hallagan is a director of ResCare, Inc., and Berkshire Life Insurance Company. He is currently Vice Chairman of Board Leadership Services, Korn/Ferry International. He was previously CEO of Heidrick & Struggles from 1991 to 1997 and vice chairman from 1997 to 2007. In 1996, Mr. Hallagan co-founded and was initial CEO of The Center for Board Leadership, a joint venture between the NACD and its Alliance Partners. The Center's mission to develop "Best Practices" for effective board leadership has been achieved through a series of Blue Ribbon Commission Reports. Topics have included Director Professionalism, CEO Succession, Corporate Strategy, Audit Committee Performance, and Board Evaluations.

Norman R. Augustine Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Norman R. Augustine is retired chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation. After spending nearly 20 years as an engineer at aerospace companies and serving as Undersecretary of the Army, he joined the Martin Marietta Corporation in 1977. Mr. Augustine became its chairman and CEO in 1988 and 1987, respectively, and then initially served as president of the Lockheed Martin Corporation upon its formation in 1995. He is a member of the board of directors of ConocoPhillips and the Black & Decker Corporation, and recently retired as the presiding director of the Procter & Gamble Company. He is a retired member of the board of trustees of Colonial Williamsburg and is a trustee emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University and a prior trustee of MIT and Princeton University. Mr. Augustine has served as chairman and principal officer of the American Red Cross and as president of the Boy Scouts of America. An active world explorer, he was chosen as one of “Fifty Great Americans” by the Library of Congress.

Peter C. Clapman Retired Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Corporate Governance TIAA-CREF Peter C. Clapman retired as senior vice president and chief counsel for TIAA-CREF in 2005 after 32 years, where he was chief investment lawyer and headed the corporate governance program. Currently he is a partner of Governance for Owners LLP, a U.K.- based investment organization which offers global investment and governance products and services to institutional investors, and he is president and CEO of its U.S. corporate governance operations. Mr. Clapman is a board member of iPass, a public company listed on NASDAQ, and a member of its governance committee. He is on the advisory boards of the Yale Center for Corporate Governance Policy and the University of Delaware Business School, and he is a member of the Stanford Law School Institutional Investor Forum, chairing its Committee on Institutional Investor Governance. He is the independent chairman of the AARP Mutual Funds Board of Trustees, and chairs its Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Clapman also is chairman of the IRRC Institute, a research organization focused on corporate governance and corporate responsibility.

Kenneth Daly President and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Daly is the president and CEO of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) since May 18, 2007. He was a KPMG partner from 1978 to 2005, when he retired from the firm to assume the role of executive director of KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute (ACI), formed by KPMG in 1999 to communicate with audit committee members and senior corporate officers in order to enhance their awareness of, commitment to, and ability to implement effective audit committee processes. Mr. Daly served as partner-in-charge, Financial Services Practice for the Mid-Atlantic Region, and partner-in-charge, National Risk Management Practice. He also started and was partner-in-charge of the firm’s national audit and advisor sales force and served on KPMG’s National Audit and Advisory Services Leadership Team. Mr. Daly received his BS degree in accounting from the University of Delaware, and has attended KPMG’s Partner Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and KPMG’s International Partner Program in Birkenstock, Switzerland. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Barbara Hackman Franklin President, Barbara Franklin Enterprises and 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce The Hon. Barbara Hackman Franklin, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, is a leading expert, adviser, and speaker on issues of corporate governance and international business affairs, with an emphasis on Asia and a focus on China. She is president and CEO of Barbara Franklin Enterprises. Ms. Franklin received the John J. McCloy Award for outstanding contributions to audit excellence and the development of best practices in governance, auditing, and financial reporting. She has been a director of fourteen public companies during her 25 years of service on corporate boards and currently serves on the boards of Aetna Inc. and The Dow Chemical Company as well as the Washington Mutual Investors Fund. NACD named her Director of the Year in 2000, and she was named an Outstanding Director in 2003 by the Outstanding Directors Exchange. She co-chaired the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Executive Compensation in 2003. Ms. Franklin is a member of the PCAOB Advisory Council and a regular commentator on the PBS Nightly Business Report.

Michele J. Hooper Managing Partner, The Directors’ Council Michele J. Hooper is managing partner and co-founder of The Directors’ Council, a firm that specializes in director recruitment, focused primarily on diversity candidates and board advisory services. Ms. Hooper serves on the boards of PPG Industries, Inc.; Warner Music Group Corporation (WMG); and AstraZeneca PLC. She chaired the audit committee of Target Corporation and was also a board member of Seagram Company Ltd. and DaVita Corporation. She is president of the NACD Chicago Chapter. Previously, Ms. Hooper served as president and CEO of Voyager Expanded Learning and of Stadtlander Drug Company, Inc. She is a board member of the Center for Disease Control Foundation and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.

Gwendolyn S. King President, GK Associates/Podium Prose LLC Gwendolyn S. King is president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau and speechwriting service, in Washington, D.C. Prior to launching that company, Mrs. King was senior vice president of Corporate and Public Affairs for PECO Energy Company from 1992 until her retirement in February 1998. She served as the 11th Commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1989 to 1992. She is a director of Lockheed Martin Corporation (Management Development and Compensation Committee Chair); Monsanto Company (Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility Committee Chair); and Marsh and McLennan Companies. Mrs. King is a trustee of the Council for Excellence in Government and an advisory director of the National Adoption Center. She is a director emeritus of Countrywide Financial Corporation and a founding partner of The Directors’ Council. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of New Haven and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Reatha Clark King Former President and Board Chair, General Mills Foundation Dr. Reatha Clark King is former president and board chair of the General Mills Foundation and currently serves as a senior advisor of the Council of Foundations. Prior to joining General Mills, she served for 11 years as president of Metropolitan State University in the Twin Cities, and prior to that position, she was associate dean at York College of the City University of New York. A chemist by training, Dr. King began her professional life as a research chemist at the National Bureau of Standards. She has served on corporate boards for 29 years and currently serves on the boards of Exxon Mobil Corporation and Lenox Group Inc. She is a former board member of Wells Fargo Company, Minnesota Mutual Companies, and the H. B. Fuller Company. In addition, she currently serves on the boards of the International Trachoma Initiative, the Occupational Therapy Foundation, and is a Life Trustee of the University of Chicago. She has fourteen honorary doctorate degrees and has been awarded numerous civic, business and humanitarian awards, including NACD’s 2004 Director of the Year.

Richard H. Koppes Richard H. Koppes is the former deputy executive officer and general counsel of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the United States with over $240 billion in assets. He is currently Of Counsel to the international law firm of Jones Day and serves as co-director of the Executive Education Programs at Stanford Law School. Mr. Koppes is a director of Apria Healthcare Group Inc., and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (formerly ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.). He is the founder, past president, and current administrative officer of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA) and serves on the boards of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC Institute). Mr. Koppes was a member of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Evaluations and of the NACD-CII Task Force on Shareholder/Director Communications.

Gregory E. Lau Executive Director, Global Compensation and Corporate Governance, General Motors Corporation Gregory E. Lau was named executive director, Global Compensation and Corporate Governance for General Motors Corporation in 1994, and was also named secretary of the directors and corporate governance committee of GM’s board. Mr. Lau is also secretary of the board’s executive compensation committee since 1982. In August 1984, he was appointed assistant treasurer of General Motors. From 1977-1987 he accepted a special assignment in Washington, D.C., as part of The Conference Board’s Congressional Assistant Program, where he was assigned to the House Rules Committee. Mr. Lau is a member and past chairman of The Conference Board’s Councils on Executive Compensation and Global Human Resources Management and a member of The Wharton School’s executive education advisory board. He is a former member of the board of directors of WorldatWork, General International Limited, and GMAC Insurance Holdings, Inc.

Steven Lazarus Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners Steven Lazarus is founder and a managing director of ARCH Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital partnership focused on science and advanced technologies from universities, national laboratories, and corporate research organizations. From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Lazarus served as president and CEO of ARCH Development Corporation and associate dean of the Graduate School of Business of The University of Chicago. Previously Mr. Lazarus was group vice president of the Health Care Services Group of Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc., now Baxter Healthcare, Inc., where he also had been senior vice president for technology. From 1972 to 1974, Mr. Lazarus served in Washington, D.C., as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East-West Trade and was the founder and first director of the Bureau of East-West Trade. He is a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, retiring with the rank of captain in 1973. Mr. Lazarus is a director of Rand Corporation and retired in 2004 from the board of Amgen Inc., having served as a director for 17 years.

Ira M. Millstein Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Dean, NACD Corporate Directors Institute Ira M. Millstein is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. In addition to practicing in the areas of government regulation and antitrust law, he has counseled numerous boards on issues of corporate governance, including the boards of General Motors, Westinghouse, Bethlehem Steel, WellChoice (fka, Empire Blue Cross), the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Tyco International, The Walt Disney Co., and the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Mr. Millstein is a member of the board of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center and previously served as pro bono counsel to the board of directors of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. He chairs the New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform. An Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Mr. Millstein is the Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance and the Eugene F. Williams Jr. Visiting Professor in Competitive Enterprise and Strategy at the Yale School of Management, which has renamed its Corporate Governance Center the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. He is former governance counsel to the board of NACD, and dean of the NACD Corporate Directors Institute. In 1996 he chaired NACD’s landmark Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Professionalism.

E. Norman Veasey Former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court E. Norman Veasey is the former chief justice of Delaware, having stepped down from the Delaware Supreme Court in May 2004, after serving for 12 years as the top judicial officer and administrator of that state’s judicial branch. Currently, he is a senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and serves as a strategic adviser to the firm’s roster of prominent global clients on a wide range of issues related to mergers & acquisitions, restructuring and litigation, and corporate governance issues involving the responsibilities of corporate directors in complex financial transactions and crisis management. As a judge, he was awarded the Order of the First State by Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, the highest honor for meritorious service by the state’s governor. Justice Veasey was president of the Conference of Chief Justices, chair of the board of the National Center for State Courts, and chair of the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (Ethics 2000), and the Committee on Corporate Laws of the ABA Section of Business Law. He chaired the 2005 NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Liability.

Roger B. Vincent President, Springwell Corporation Roger B. Vincent is president of Springwell Corporation, a corporate finance advisory firm in New York and chairman of the board of the ING Mutual Funds. He also serves as a director of UGI Corporation and chairman of its audit committee. He is chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors, New York Chapter. Previously he served as a director of AmeriGas; Petrolane, Inc.; the GCG Trust; and Tatham Offshore. Prior to founding Springwell, Mr. Vincent was a managing director and partner of Bankers Trust Company. He was an appointee of President Reagan on the Industry Sector Advisory Committee for Services. Mr. Vincent is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School.

William J. White Professor, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University William J. White is currently a Professor at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, and a trustee on the University's board. He also serves on the boards of Reader’s Digest Association, Intermatic Company, and Forest One Inc. Prior to joining Northwestern, Mr. White served for eight years as Chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell, and has previously served on the boards of Proquest Company, Packaging Dynamics, Harris Bank Corporation, Material Sciences Corporation, and the Chicago Stock Exchange.