Board of Directors
| Michael I. Roth
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Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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| | Michael I. Roth is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. He added the CEO title in January of 2005. Prior to becoming Chairman, in July 2004, Roth had been a member of Interpublic's Board since 2002. Before assuming his current role, Roth was Chairman and CEO of The MONY Group Inc. (NYSE: MNY), a financial services holding company that provides a wide range of protection, asset accumulation and retail brokerage products and services through its member companies. Under Roth's leadership, The MONY Group diversified its business mix, broadened its distribution channels and enhanced its ability to compete in today's financial services marketplace. Roth is a member of the Board of Directors for Pitney Bowes Inc., the Ad Council and the Gaylord Entertainment Company. He also participates in several civic organizations. He sits on the Leadership Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the Board of Directors of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). In addition, he is a Director of The Baruch College Fund, The Partnership for New York City and The Enterprise Foundation. A certified public accountant, Roth holds an L.L.M. degree from New York University Law School and a J.D. from Boston University Law School. He is a 1967 graduate of the City College of New York. |
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| Frank J. Borelli
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Retired Chief Financial Officer and Director, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
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Frank J. Borelli is the retired Chief Financial Officer and Director of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. He joined Marsh & McLennan Companies in 1984 as CFO, was named to the Board of Directors in 1988 and retired from his full-time position with the Company on January 1, 2001. He is now a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital, a former wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan. In that role he sits on the Board of Directors of Signal Holdings, Inc., an investee company of Trident, a private equity fund managed by Stone Point Capital. Prior to joining Marsh & McLennan, he was with Airco, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial gases, welding, carbon graphite and medical products. He joined Airco in 1980 as Senior Vice President – Finance and Administration and as a member of the Board of Directors. He also served as Group Vice President of the company’s welding and safety products division. Prior to joining Airco, Mr. Borelli was with Deloitte Haskins & Sells for twenty-four years. He became a Partner in 1968 and was Managing Director of the firm’s Northern New Jersey operations from 1976 to 1980. During his tenure with Deloitte he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and authored the firm’s first publication on audit committees. He served many of the firm’s major clients in the financial, healthcare and industrial sectors. Mr. Borelli holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Bernard M. Baruch College of City College of New York, and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1960. He is a Director of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Express Scripts, Inc. and Genworth Financial, Inc. He was a Director of United Water Resources for twenty years and a Director of Mid-Ocean Reinsurance Ltd. for five years, and either chairs now or has chaired the audit committee of each of those publicly listed and traded companies. Mr. Borelli is currently Chairman Emeritus of Nyack Hospital; Trustee of the St. Thomas Aquinas College; Chairman Emeritus of the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and a member of the Board of Rockland Paramedics, Inc. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Mr. Borelli previously held office as a National Chairman and Director of the Financial Executives Institute, and as the Vice Chairman of the Private Sector Council. He was appointed by Paul Volker to the interim Advisory Committee to improve internal procedures of auditing firms, and was a member of the FEI Task Force to improve financial management, financial reporting and corporate governance. Mr. Borelli was recently elected as the first member to the newly established “Hall of Fame” of the Financial Executives Institute International. Mr. Borelli was appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., to a Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees. The Committee published its report in the First Quarter of 1999. Mr. Borelli was the winner of CFO Magazine’s 1999 CFO Excellence Award in the Mergers & Acquisitions category and was named by Global Finance Magazine as one of the world’s superstar CFOs for the year 1997. Mr. Borelli was a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Leadership of the National Association of Corporate Directors. The Commission issued its report in November 2004.
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| Reginald K. Brack
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Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Time Inc.
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Reginald is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time, Inc. From September 1994 to June 1997, he served as Chairman of Time, Inc., and was its Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer from December 1986 until August 1994. He has been a Director of Interpublic since 1996. He is a Director of several private companies and has been a Director of a number of public companies in North America and Europe. In 2001 Reginald was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame, and in 2002 was selected as one of the nine most outstanding corporate directors by Director’s Alert. He serves as a trustee of the Center for International Understanding and EarthJustice, and is on the board of the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). He is a past Chairman of the Advertising Council. Raised in Dallas, Texas, Reginald received a B.S. degree from Washington and Lee University, and a Doctor of Letters degree in 2002. Reginald and his wife Barbara reside in Greenwich, Connecticut and Northeast Harbor, Maine. They have three grown children, Elizabeth Flock, Reginald, and Peter.
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| Jocelyn Carter-Miller
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President, TechEdVentures
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Jocelyn Carter-Miller is President of TechEdVentures, a community empowerment firm that educates and inspires children, families, and the broader community through the development and management of charter schools, community-based programs, and other enterprises. Using state-of-the-art business strategies, technology resources and creative partnerships, TechEdVentures provides operations management, program development, marketing, training, and community relationship building to develop the enterprises that promote community and economic renewal. TechEdVentures enterprises include Smart School Charter Middle School, Smart School Institute of Technology and Commerce (high school), Eagle Charter Academy , Community Learning Center , First Tee of Lauderhill (golf and character-building program) and Rapid Refill Ink. Prior to joining TechEdVentures, Jocelyn was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Office Depot, Inc., where she managed marketing efforts across its retail, contract, catalog and e-commerce businesses. Formerly, Jocelyn served as Motorola Corporate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer; Vice President of Latin American and Caribbean Operations, and Director of European, Middle East and African Operations for the Motorola International Networks Division; and Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for Mattel. Jocelyn has co-authored with Melissa Giovagnoli the book Networlding: Building Relationships and Opportunities for Success, published by Jossey-Bass Publishers. Jocelyn has an MBA degree from the University of Chicago, a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois and is a CPA. She serves on the Board of Directors of Principal Financial Group since 2001, Smart School Charter Middle and High Schools since 1998, and the Coral Springs Museum of Art. She is a former board member of the Association of National Advertisers, the University of Chicago Women’s Business Advisory Group, and the Urban League of Broward County.
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| Jill M. Considine
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Chairman, Butterfield Fulcrum Group Limited
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Jill M. Considine is the Chairman of Butterfield Fulcrum Group Limited, a global provider of fund administration to hedge funds and alternative investments. Ms. Considine served as Senior Advisor of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation and its subsidiaries (securities depository and clearing house) from August 2007 to May 2008, having served as Chairman since August 2006, and as both Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from January 1998 to August 2006. Prior to joining The Depository Trust Company, Ms. Considine served as the President of the New York Clearing House Association, L.L.C. from 1993 to 1998. Ms. Considine served as a Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of American Express Bank Ltd., from 1991 to 1993. Prior to that, Ms. Considine served as the New York State Superintendent of Banks from 1985 to 1991. Ms. Considine also serves as a director of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies, The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. and Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Ms. Considine recently completed a six year term as a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she served as Chairman of the Audit and Operational Risk Committee. Ms Considine is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economics Club of NY. She served on the Group of Thirty Steering Committee on global clearance and settlement and as a member and speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ms. Considine was a Presidential appointee to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations from 2003-2004. She was named Six Sigma CEO of the Year Award in 2006 and one of Crain’s New York Business 100 Most Influential Women in Business.
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| Richard A. Goldstein
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Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.
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Richard is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. He served as Business Group President of Unilever North American Foods from 1996 to June 2000 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Unilever United States, Inc. from 1989 to 1996. Prior to that time, Richard served for twenty-five years in key executive positions at Unilever, including as Business Group President of Unilever North American Foods, President and CEO of Unilever United States, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Unilever Canada Limited from 1984 to 1989. He has been a Director of Interpublic since 2001. He is also a Director of Fortune Brands, Fiduciary Trust Company International, and Continuum Health Partners.
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| H. John Greeniaus
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President, G-Force, LLC, an Investment Company
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H. John Greeniaus has been President of G-Force, LLC, an Investment Company, since 1998. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nabisco, Inc. from 1987 through 1992 and as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer until his retirement in 1997. John began his career with Procter & Gamble in Canada and subsequently worked for J. Walter Thompson and PepsiCo. before joining Nabisco in 1977. He held a number of marketing and general management positions in Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. until 1987 when “The Barbarians” (aka KKR) breached the gate and subsequently appointed him CEO. John has been a director of Interpublic since December 2001 and is also a director of Primedia Inc. In the not-for-profit sector, he is a lifetime Trustee of PBS WNET/Channel 13, and remains active with The Seeing Eye where he served as a trustee for fourteen years, and as Chairman from 2002 through 2005.
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| Mary J. Steele Guilfoile
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Chairman of MG Advisors, Inc.
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Mary J. Steele Guilfoile is the Chairman of MG Advisors, Inc., a privately-owned financial services merger and acquisition advisory and consulting services firm. Ms. Guilfoile’s professional history includes 20 years on Wall Street and another 9 years with professional service firms focused on Wall Street. A dozen of those years were spent with JP Morgan Chase and its predecessor companies, Chase Manhattan Corporation and Chemical Banking Corporation, as Executive Vice President and Corporate Treasurer, Chief Administrative Officer for its Investment Bank and various merger integration, executive management and strategic planning positions. Prior to her recent tenure (2000 –October 2002) with JPMorgan, Mary spent five years with the private investment and merger and acquisition advisory firm, The Beacon Group, as an owner/partner, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. She continues as a partner of the investment arm of that firm. Early in her career, Mary was with Coopers & Lybrand (now known as PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and Booz Allen & Hamilton, a strategic consulting firm based in New York. She has maintained her CPA license throughout her career. Ms. Guilfoile received her BS in Accounting (summa cum laude) from Boston College Carroll School of Management in 1976 and her MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1984. In 1991, Ms. Guilfoile was named to the Board of Trustees of Boston College where she currently serves on the Finance and Audit Committee. She has previously served on the Development Committee and the Executive Campaign Committee. Mary also recently co-chaired the Boston College Wall Street Council as well as the Task Force on Women and Boston College and is a founding member of The Council for Women of Boston College. Since 1999, Mary has coordinated BC Connections, a mentoring program for undergraduate female Boston College students. In September of 2001, Mary was presented with the Award for Excellence in Commerce by the Boston College Alumni Association. Ms. Guilfoile has been a member of the Board of Directors of Valley National Bancorp, a $12+ billion asset regional bank holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, since December 2003. Ms. Guilfoile is Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act Compliance committee and is a member of five other committees including the Investment, Wealth Management & Insurance Services Subsidiaries, Insurance, Pension/Savings & Investment Trustees, and Risk Management committees. Ms. Guilfoile was also a member of the Board of Directors of Viasys Healthcare Inc., a global, research-based medical technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange from November 2001 until February 2005. Ms. Guilfoile was the Chairman of the Audit Committee and served as a member of the Compensation Committee and other special committees of the Viasys Healthcare board during her tenure. In October 2007, Ms. Guilfoile joined the board of The Interpublic Group of Companies and serves on their Audit Committee.
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| William T. Kerr
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Chairman, Meredith Corporation
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William is Chairman of the Meredith Corporation. He previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2006, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 1998. With twenty-four subscription titles and more than 150 special interest publications, Meredith magazines reach a combined audience of more than 135 million readers. The company also has significant book, interactive, and integrated marketing operations. In addition, Meredith owns and operates fourteen television stations. Eight of the stations are in the top thirty-five markets, and the company’s stations reach approximately 10 percent of the nation’s households. In 1994, William was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Meredith, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day business of the company’s operating groups. At that time, he was also appointed as a member of the Meredith Board of Directors. Prior to that, William served as President of the Meredith Magazine Group and Executive Vice President of the company, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day management of all magazine operations. Before coming to Meredith in September of 1991, William was a Vice President of The New York Times Company and President of its magazine group, a position he held since 1984. Joining The Times Company in 1979, William also served as the head of its strategic planning and corporate development functions and as President of its Books and Information Group. He has also held posts with Dillon, Read & Co., and McKinsey and Company, where he specialized in financial institutions and media companies. A native of Seattle, William is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington. He earned a degree in modern history as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was a Baker Scholar. William is a member of the board of the Principal Financial Group, the Whirlpool Corporation and Arbitron, Inc. He is immediate-past Chairman of The International Federation of the Periodical Press, and serves on the board of The Business Committee for the Arts. He is also a trustee of Oxford University Press (USA) and serves on the board of Harvard Business School Publishing. William is a past Chairman and an advisory board member of the Magazine Publishers of America and in 2004 was awarded the organization’s Henry Johnson Fisher award in recognition of his lifetime achievements and service to the magazine industry.
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| David M. Thomas
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Former Chairman and CEO, IMS Health
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David is the former Chairman and CEO of IMS Health, the global leader in information and consulting solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company from November 2000 to January 2005. He was Executive Chairman from January 2005 through March 2006. Before joining IMS, David was Senior Vice President and Group Executive at IBM, responsible for its global Personal Systems Group, and served as a member of IBM’s Corporate Executive Committee, overseeing all of IBM’s worldwide business operations. From 1996 to 1998, David was General Manager, IBM Global Industries, responsible for sales and support of IBM’s top enterprise customers worldwide. Prior to 1996, David held progressively responsible executive positions at IBM, including General Manager, North America; General Manager, Asia Pacific; General Manager, AS/400 Division; President, National Distribution Division. He joined IBM in 1972 as a Marketing Representative. David holds an M.S. in Engineering and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florida. He received the University of Florida’s Distinguished Graduate Award in 1996. David serves on the Boards of Directors of Fortune Brands, Interpublic Group and on the Board of Trustees of Fidelity Investments.
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