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John E. Bryson
Director since 2000 (4 years)
Listed as a non-independent director
Age: 60
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John S. Chen
Director since January 6, 2004
Listed as an independent director
Member of Audit Committee
Age: 48 |
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February 1998 to November 1998: Co-Chief Executive Officer at Sybase |
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August 1997: Joined Sybase as Chief Operating Officer and served
as COO until February 1998 |
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March 1998 to July 1997: President of the open Enterprise Computing
Division, Siemens Nixdorf (a computer and electronics company) and
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Siemens Pyramid, a subsidiary
of Siemens Nixdorf. |
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Michael D. Eisner
Chief Executive Officer of the WDC since 1984
Director since 1984 (20 years)
Listed as a non-independent director
Member of Executive Committee
Age: 61 |
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1984 to 2004: Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Walt Disney
Company |
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Before running Disney, he was President and Chief Operating Officer
of Paramount Pictures Corp., which was then a wholly owned subsidiary
of Gulf+Western Industries, Inc. |
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Before joining Paramount in 1976, Mr. Eisner was Senior Vice President,
Prime Time Programming, for ABC Entertainment |
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Judith L. Estrin
Director since 1998 (6 years)
Listed as an independent director
Chair of Compensation Committee
Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
Age: 49 |
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Robert A. Iger
Director since 2000 (4 years)
Listed as an non-independent director
President and Chief Operating Officer of the WDC since January 2000
Age: 52 |
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Iger's tearsheet at Forbes.com |
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Previously served as President of Walt Disney International and
Chairman of the ABC Group |
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2000 Promoted to president and chief operating officer of Walt Disney
Company. |
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1999 Appointed to newly created post of chairman of the ABC Group
and president of Walt Disney International (February). |
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1996 Named president, ABC. |
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1994 Appointed president and chief operating officer of Capital
Cities/ABC. |
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1993 Elected senior vice president of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in
August. |
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1992 Appointed president of the ABC Television Network Group in
December; named Ted Harbert his successor as head of ABC Entertainment. |
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1991 Made claim that "a network" would eventually program fewer
hours, dump low-rated shows and give airtime back to affiliates; later
stated that remarks were blown out of proportion and that he wanted
to send a message to spendthrift TV producers. |
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1989 Named president of ABC Entertainment in March. |
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1988 Appointed executive vice president, ABC Network Group. |
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1987 Appointed vice president, programming, for ABC Sports and manager
and director for ABC's "Wide World of Sports". |
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1985 Named vice president in charge of program planning and development
as well as scheduling and rights acquisitions for all ABC Sports properties. |
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Held eight successive positions with ABC Sports between 1976 and
1985. |
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1976 Moved to ABC sports; directed programming for "ABC's Wide World
of Sports". |
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1974 Joined ABC as studio supervisor in New York. |
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Fred H. Langhammer
Director since 2005 (Will be officially appointed in Jan. 2005)
Listed as an independent director
Age: 60
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A director of the German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. |
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Co-Chairman of the American Institute for Contemporary German
Studies at Johns Hopkins University |
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In 1985, he became chief operating officer of Estee Lauder Japan,
and was named CEO in 2000. He stepped down from the CEO position in
June 2004 and relinquished his seat as a director. He then took the
position he currently holds as Chairman of Global Affairs. |
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He helped take Estee Lauder public and presided over explosive growth
over the past decade, including a nearly three-fold increase in its
stock price |
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Joined Estee Lauder in 1975 as president of Estee Lauder Japan |
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Langhammer started his business career in 1964 with T. Eaton Company,
owner of Eaton's, a Canadian department store chain |
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Aylwin B. Lewis
Director since January 6, 2004
Listed as an independent director
Member of Governance & Nominating Committee
Age: 49 |
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Monica C. Lozano
Director since 2000 (4 years)
Listed as an independent director
Chair of Governance & Nominating Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Age: 47 |
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Robert W. Matschullat
Director since 2002 (2 years)
Listed as an independent director
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Age: 56 |
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Prior to Clorox he was a private equity investor |
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October 1995 until June 2000: Served as Vice Chairman of the Board
of The Seagram Company Ltd |
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Prior to January 2000 he also served as Chief Financial Officer
of Seagram |
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Before Seagram, he was head of worldwide investment banking for
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated |
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He was also one of six management members of the Morgan Stanley
Group board of directors |
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George J. Mitchell
Director since 1995 (9 years)
Appointed Chairman on the Board 3/3/04
Listed as an independent director
Chair of the Executive Committee
Age: 70 |
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Mitchell's tearsheet at Forbes.com |
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Previously served as Chairman of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson
& Hand in Washington, D.C. |
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U.S. Senator from 1980 to 1995 |
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Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 |
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Served as Chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland
and the International Fact-Finding Committee on Violence in the Middle
East. |
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One of his law firms worked for Disney in 2001 & 2002. (source:
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Fr. Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.
Director since 1996 (10 years)
Listed as an independent director
Member of Compensation Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Age: 69 |
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President Emeritus of Georgetown University |
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Served as President of the Georgetown University from 1989 until
2001 |
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Georgetown University is the alma mater of one of Eisner's sons
and the recipient of over $1 million of donations from Eisner since
1989 |
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Served on the Board of the Association of Catholic Colleges and
Universities |
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Was a member of the Steering Committee of Presidents for the America
Reads initiative |
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Former member of the National Council on the Arts of the National
Endowment for the Arts |
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Past chair of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education |
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Was president of the Catholic Theological Society of America |
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O'Donovan is forbidden, as a Jesuit priest, from collecting any
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Gary L. Wilson
Director since 1985 (19 years)
Listed as a non-independent director
Member of Executive Committee
Age: 64
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