| Mr Paul Jacobs
| Dr. Paul E. Jacobs Ph.D., has been appointed as Executive Chairman of the Board of Qualcomm Incorporated, Effective March 4, 2014. Dr. Jacobs has served as Chairman of the Board since March 2009, as a director since June 2005 and as Chief Executive Officer since July 2005. He served as Group President of Qualcomm Wireless & Internet from July 2001 to July 2005. In addition, he served as an executive vice president from February 2000 to June 2005. Dr. Jacobs was a director of A123 Systems, Inc. from November 2002 to July 2012. Dr. Jacobs holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. We believe Dr. Jacobs’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his extensive business, operational and management experience in the wireless telecommunications industry, including his current position as our Executive Chairman and his prior service as our Chief Executive Officer. His extensive knowledge of our business, products, strategic relationships and opportunities, as well as the rapidly evolving technologies and competitive environment in our industry, bring valuable insights and knowledge to our Board. |
| Mr Donald Cruickshank
| Sir Donald G. Cruickshank has served as a director since June 2005. Sir Donald has been Chairman of 7digital Group plc since June 2014. He was Chairman of Audioboo Ltd. from April 2010 to May 2014, Clinovia Group Ltd. from January 2004 to February 2007 and Formscape Group Ltd. from April 2003 to December 2006. He was a member of the Financial Reporting Council, the body in the U.K. responsible for oversight of the Accountancy and Actuarial professions and for corporate governance standards, from June 2001 to June 2007. Sir Donald has extensive experience in a number of areas, including European regulation and telecommunications. His career has included assignments at McKinsey & Co. Inc., Times Newspapers, Virgin Group plc., Wandsworth Health Authority and the National Health Service in Scotland. Sir Donald served as Chairman of the London Stock Exchange plc. from 2000 to 2003 and as Director General of the U.K.’s Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) from 1993 to 1998. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Action 2000, the U.K.’s Millennium Bug campaign. In 1998, Chancellor Gordon Brown appointed him as Chairman of the Government’s Review of the U.K. banking sector. |
| Mr Richard M. Libenson
| Mr Richard M. Libenson has been a director of the Company since October 1993. He was a founder and director of The Price Company from its formation in 1976 until October 1993 and was an executive officer of The Price Company from 1976 until October 1989. |
| Mr James D. Sinegal
| Mr James D. Sinegal is Chief Executive Officer of the Company; he was also President until February 2010. Mr Sinegal is a co-founder of Costco Wholesale Corp and has been a director since its inception. Mr Sinegal’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his roles as a co-founder of the Company and Chief Executive Officer, his extensive career in the retail industry, and his extensive knowledge of our Company’s business developed over the course of his long career here. On August 31, 2011, the Company announced Jim Sinegal’s intention to step down as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2012. As previously disclosed, James Sinegal will retire as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on December 31, 2011, but will continue his employment with the Company until February 1, 2013. |
| Mr William H. Gates
| William H. Gates has been a director of the Company since January 2003. He has been the Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since its inception. Mr. Gates serves on the Board of Regents of the University of Washington. He has served as trustee, officer and volunteer for more than two dozen Northwest organizations, including the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce and King County United Way. In 1995, he founded the Technology Alliance. From 1964 until 1994 Mr. Gates was a partner in the law firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis and predecessor firms. |
| Mr Jeffrey H. Brotman
| Mr Jeffrey H. Brotman Chairman of the Board since December 1994. Mr Brotman is a co-founder of the Company and has been a director since its inception. except from October 1993 to December 1994, when he was Vice Chairman |
| Mr Richard A. Galanti
| Mr Richard A. Galanti is a director at Costco Wholesale Corp since January 1995. Also he is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale Corp since October 1993. |
| Mr Jeffrey S. Raikes
| Mr Jeffrey S. Raikes is a director at Costco Wholesale Corp since December 2008. He has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since September 2008. Mr. Raikes held several positions with Microsoft Corporation from 1981 to 2008, including President of the Business Division from 2005 to 2008. |
| Mr W. Craig Jelinek
| Mr W. Craig Jelinek has been a director and President and Chief Operating Officer at Costco Wholesale Corp since February 2010. Mr Jelinek previously was Executive Vice President in charge of merchandising since 2004. He spent the previous twenty years in various management positions in warehouse operations. Mr Jelinek’s qualifications to serve on the Board include his extensive knowledge of our Company’s business developed over the course of his long career here, particularly in the areas of operations and merchandising. On August 31, 2011 The Board of Directors has elected Craig Jelinek, currently President and Chief Operating Officer, as President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012 |
| Mr Daniel J. Evans
| Mr Daniel J. Evans is a director at Costco Wholesale Corp since January 2003. He has served as one of the Company's directors since 1998. Governor Evans is the chairman of and has served as a consultant for Daniel J. Evans Associates Consulting, a consulting company in the State of Washington, since May 1989. Governor Evans currently serves as a director of Costco Wholesale Corporation and Archimedes Technology Group. Mr. Evans has extensive service as a director, having served on more than 14 boards of directors and served on the audit committees of many of those boards. He also served as a U.S. Senator for the State of Washington from September 1983 to January 1989 and as the Governor of the State of Washington from January 1965 to January 1977. The Board relies upon Governor Evan's extensive experience in state government and industry in guiding the Company's business strategy. Governor Evans holds a B.S. and an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Washington. |
| Leo Suggs
| Leo H. Suggs (72) was elected as a director in 2009. Mr. Suggs has a long and distinguished career in the trucking industry that began in 1958, holding a wide range of positions that included Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Overnite Transportation Company from 1996 to 2005 and President and Chief Executive Officer of UPS Freight from 2005 to 2006. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Overnite Transportation, and as a member of its Board of Directors from November 2003 to May 2005, Mr. Suggs gained extensive knowledge of managing a union-free carrier in the LTL industry. He understands the opportunities and challenges facing the LTL industry, and has first-hand knowledge of acquisitions and merger mechanics. Mr. Suggs currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Greatwide Logistics Services, a provider of transportation and logistics management services, and on the Board of The Kenan Advantage Group, Inc., a tank truck hauler and logistics provider. We believe that Mr. Suggs is invaluable to our Board as an advisor on logistics services and LTL operations. |
| Mr Frederick Waddell
| Mr. Frederick H. Waddell is an Independent Director of AbbVie Inc. Mr. Waddell has served as the chief executive officer of Northern Trust Corporation and The Northern Trust Company since January 2008 and as chairman of the board since November 2009. He served as president from February 2006 through September 2011, and as chief operating officer from February 2006 to January 2008. Mr. Waddell served as a board member of Northern Trust from February 2006 to November 2009 prior to becoming the chairman of the board. |
| Mr Robert Cindrich
| Robert J. Cindrich, 68, was appointed to our board of directors in May 2012 after being identified as a candidate by a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and being recommended by the full committee. Mr. Cindrich currently serves as a senior advisor to the Office of the President of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). From 2004 through 2010, Mr. Cindrich was Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of UPMC. From 1994 through 2004, Mr. Cindrich served as a judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Prior to that appointment, he practiced law in both the government and private sectors, including service as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cindrich currently serves as a director of Mylan Inc. |
| Mr Mark Parrish
| Mr. Parrish has served as Chairman and CEO of Trident USA Health Services, a premier provider of mobile X-ray and laboratory services to the long-term care industry, since 2008. Earlier, commencing in 2001, he held management roles of increasing significance with Cardinal Health Inc. and its affiliates, including Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Supply Chain Services for Cardinal Health from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Parrish also serves as President of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers, an association of pharmaceutical wholesalers and pharmaceutical supply chain service companies; and senior adviser to Frazier Healthcare Ventures, a health care oriented growth equity firm. |
| Mr Randall Vanderveen
| Dr. Vanderveen has served as Dean, John Stauffer Decanal Chair, of the School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California since September 2005. From 1998 to 2005, he served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science and Professor of Pharmacy at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before which he was Assistant Dean and Associate Professor at Oregon State University, in Portland, Oregon from 1988 to 1998. |
| Mr Joseph Maroon
| Dr. Maroon is currently Professor, Heindl Scholar in Neuroscience and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, UPMC, and has held other positions at UPMC since 1998. He has also served as the team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers since 1981. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Maroon was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital, and from 1984 to 1999, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital. Dr. Maroon has earned numerous awards for his contributions to neurosurgery from various national and international neurological societies throughout his career; and his patients travel from all over the world to seek his care. |
| Mr Robert Coury
| Mr. Coury has served as Chairman of the Board of Mylan since May 2009, before which he was Vice Chairman commencing in March 2002. Since January 1, 2012, Mr. Coury has served as the Executive Chairman of Mylan. Before then he was Mylan’s Chief Executive Officer from September 2002 to December 31, 2011. Before joining Mylan, he was Chief Executive Officer and principal owner of Coury Consulting, L.P., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania corporate advisory firm that he founded in 1989. |
| Mr Rodney Piatt
| Mr. Piatt has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Mylan since May 2009. Since 1996, he has also been President and owner of Horizon Properties, a real estate and development company. Since 2003, Mr. Piatt has also served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Lincoln Manufacturing Inc., a steel and coal manufacturing company. |
| Mr Douglas Leech
| DOUGLAS J. LEECH, 57, is the former Founder, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Centra Financial Holdings, Inc. and Centra Bank, Inc. Mr. Leech is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with an inactive status. Mr. Leech has been a director of the Company since 2011. Mr. Leech has approximately 30 years of banking experience. Prior to Centra’s organization, Mr. Leech held a variety of positions at Huntington National Bank, including CEO and President of the southeast region and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Leech is also a member of Mylan Inc.’s Board of Directors and serves as the chair of Mylan’s Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, and participates on its Audit and Finance Committees. Mr. Leech is a former Chair of the West Virginia University Board of Governors, and has served on over 30 other boards ranging from major hospital systems to charitable organizations. Mr. Leech’s vision and dedication to Centra was paramount in Centra’s success and growth since its inception. |
| Ms Wendy Cameron
| Ms. Cameron has served as Director and Co-Owner of Cam Land LLC, a harness racing business in Washington, Pennsylvania, since January 2003. From 1981 to 1998, she was Vice President, Divisional Sales & Governmental Affairs, Cameron Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc. Ms. Cameron also serves as Chairman of the Washington Hospital Board of Trustees and of the Washington Hospital Executive Committee. |
