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board standing committees

strategic planning committee

Bobby L. Burgner
Chair
General Electric Company

Deborah R. Bierbaum
AT&T

Susan Courson-Smith
Pfizer, Inc.

Terrence D. Frederick
Sprint

Theodore H. Ghiz, Jr.
The Coca-Cola Company

Jeffrey L. Hyde
GE Capital Corporation

Beth Ann Kendzierski
Apria Healthcare, Inc.

J. Hugh McKinnon
Covidien

Robert F. Montellione
Prudential Financial

Stephen P. Olivier
Chevron Corporation

Richard Prem
Amazon.com

John J. Pydyszewski
Johnson & Johnson

Bruce J. Reid
Microsoft Corporation

Warren D. Townsend
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Barbara Barton Weiszhaar
EDS Corporation

James Williams
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company



nominating committee

John J. Pydyszewski
Chair
Johnson & Johnson

Bobby L. Burgner
General Electric Company

Susan Courson-Smith
Pfizer, Inc.

Robert S. Hersh
Alcoa Inc.

Beth Ann Kendzierski
Apria Healthcare, Inc.

J. Hugh McKinnon
Covidien

Stephen P. Olivier
Chevron Corporation

Bruce J. Reid
Microsoft Corporation

Frances B. Sewell
Tyco International (US), Inc.

Amy Thomas Laub
Tempur-Pedic International, Inc.

R. Paul Weatherford
Sears Holding Management

Barbara Barton Weiszhaar
EDS Corporation



finance committee

Terrence D. Frederick
Chair
Sprint

Theodore H. Ghiz, Jr.
The Coca-Cola Company

Robert S. Hersh
Alcoa Inc.

Jeffrey L. Hyde
GE Capital Corporation

Jonathan A. Liss
Rohm & Haas Company

Robert F. Montellione
Prudential Financial

Rebecca Paulsen
U.S. Bancorp

John H. Stagmeier
Georgia-Pacific Corporation

Amy Thomas Laub
Tempur-Pedic International, Inc.

Warren D. Townsend
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.



membership committee

Theodore H. Ghiz, Jr.
Chair
The Coca-Cola Company

Deborah R. Bierbaum
AT&T

Jonathan A. Liss
Rohm & Haas Company

Rebecca Paulsen
U.S. Bancorp

Richard Prem
Amazon.com

Bruce J. Reid
Microsoft Corporation

Frances B. Sewell
Tyco International (US), Inc.

John H. Stagmeier
Georgia-Pacific Corporation

R. Paul Weatherford
Sears Holding Management

James Williams
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company