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Arnold Donald

Arnold Donald is the current global President and Chief Executive Officer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation headquartered in New York.

Before joining the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in 2006, Mr. Donald founded Merisant Company whose products include the sweeteners Equal and Canderel. He held the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from its inception in 2000 through June of 2003, and continued to serve as Chairman of the Board through 2005.

Previously, Mr. Donald was a senior executive at Monsanto Company in St. Louis. In more than 20 years at Monsanto, his responsibilities included serving as President of Monsanto’s Agricultural Company and later as a Senior Corporate Vice President, officer of the corporation, and a key member of the company's Life Sciences Leadership team, including strategic roles in corporate expansion, globalization, and technology initiatives.

A native of New Orleans, Mr. Donald received a BA degree from Carleton College, a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Among many honors, Mr. Donald has been named "Executive of the Year" by Black Enterprise magazine, and one of Fortune magazine's "50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America." He also has an extensive history of involvement in local, national, and international organizations, both professional and civic, including appointments by Presidents Clinton and Bush to the Presidents Export Council helping to shape international trade policy for the U. S.

His other Board Memberships include Carnival Corporation, Carnival plc, Crown Holdings, Inc., The Laclede Group, Inc., Oil-Dri Corporation of America, The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and Carleton College in Northfield, MN.

Peter Einstein

Peter Einstein is a senior media executive with strong leadership, communication and entrepreneurial skills. He has focused his career on start-up company situations which have resulted in operational/profitable success on a domestic and international basis, and has achieved success in multi-cultural/multi-language situations providing both vision and leadership to companies in these environments.

Currently Mr. Einstein is the founder and managing partner of Einstein Media Capital Partners (EMCP) a UK and Dubai, UAE based private equity firm specializing in advisory and investment in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector. Less than one year old EMCP has already gained notoriety for identifying and developing deal flow in the TMT sector primarily in the underdeveloped Middle East and North African (MENA) region. EMCP's first portfolio company GINX TV a TV channel and internet portal targeting the lucrative video gaming consumer is on a rapid global expansion including its launch in the MENA region in 2008.

Prior to EMCP Mr. Einstein was the founding President and CEO of Showtime Arabia, a direct-to-home, digital satellite pay-TV service for the Middle East/North Africa owned by Viacom, Inc and The Kuwait Investment Project Company. For 10 years, Mr. Einstein had overall responsibility for all platform strategy and operations. He oversaw the successful growth of the company from start-up to over 600 employees serving 16 territories across the Arab speaking world.

Prior to his tenure at Showtime Arabia, Mr. Einstein spent 15 years at Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks and was an original member of the team that launched MTV MUSIC TELEVISION and NICKELODEON in the US. During his tenure at MTV NETWORKS, he held posts ranging from management positions with the U.S. sales, marketing and ad sales divisions to moving overseas and developing MTV’s international expansion including becoming President and Business Director of MTV Networks Europe. In this post, he was responsible for all business and strategic areas of the company including MTV Europe, VH-1 UK and VH-1 Germany. His major strategic initiatives included the launch of VH-1 network in Germany with a later rollout of VH-1 in additional European territories, and the launch of a national advertising sales program to maximize the revenue from country specific advertising in addition to pan European.

Mr. Einstein holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Ithaca College, and an MBA in Marketing from Babson College.

He lives with his wife and two children in Dubai, UAE and is fluent in the German language.

Jeffrey A. Golman

Jeffrey A. Golman is Vice Chairman of Mesirow Financial, Inc. and head of its Investment Banking Group. Jeff is also a member of the Board of Directors and its executive committee. Prior to joining Mesirow Financial, Mr. Golman was a founding partner of GGW Management Partners, LLC, a management-oriented investment group formed in partnership with Madison Dearborn Partners, Willis Stein & Partners and The Pritzker Organization.

Before forming GGW Management Partners in 2000, Mr. Golman was a Managing Director at Lazard Frères & Co., LLC and opened its office in Chicago in 1988. He advised boards of directors, CEOs and senior management teams on a broad array of assignments and led teams in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs, restructurings, recapitalizations, leveraged transactions and equity and debt financings. Mr. Golman’s corporate finance experience includes the origination and/or execution of domestic and cross-border transactions aggregating more than $50 billion. At Lazard, he focused primarily on companies in the consumer products, diversified manufacturing and business services industries.

Mr. Golman also served as Vice President in Salomon Brothers’ Chicago Banking Group (1981-1988), focusing on mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. Before joining Salomon Brothers, he practiced law at Katten Muchin & Zavis (now KMZ Rosenman) in Chicago (1980-1981) where he specialized in corporate law and tax.

Mr. Golman is a Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Leadership Council member and a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation’s Greater Illinois Chapter. He is also a member of the University of Illinois Foundation as well as a member of the Development Council of B.U.I.L.D., Inc. (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development) a not-for-profit organization which helps at–risk youth to realize their potential and contribute to the stability, safety and well-being of our communities.

Mr. Golman is a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, a member of the Executives’ Club of Chicago and is a member of the Board of Directors of DHR International, Inc. As both a CPA and attorney, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bar Association and the Illinois Bar Associations.

He earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (1977) and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law (1980) where he graduated Order of the Coif and was an editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.

Mr. Golman lives in Highland Park with his wife, Cidney and their four children. His interests include golf and tennis; he is also an instrument-rated commercial pilot with a jet rating.

Gary Grom

Gary Grom served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Sara Lee from July 1992 to 2001. He has served as a member of Coach’s Board of Directors since June 1, 2000, the date of incorporation.

From June 1985 to June 1992, Mr. Grom held various human resource positions at Sara Lee, including Vice President of Sara Lee Packaged Meats and Executive Director of Compensation , Benefits and Manpower Planning.

Pedro Lain-Alonso

Pedro Lain-Alonso currently serves as Chairman and majority shareholder of Class Management, a group of companies developing projects in diverse fields of renewable energies and operating wind farms in production.

Mr. Lain-Alonso began his professional career in the steel industry with Forjas de Elgoibar, S.A. and Fundiciones Especiales, S.A. where he was responsible for the international markets. In 1986, he relocated to New York and became the Vice-President of Investronica Inc., the North Americas subsidiary of the Spanish company El Corte Ingles. Mr. Lain-Alonso remained in New York until 1988.

In 1988, Mr. Lain-Alonso joined AT&T España, S.A. to develop to the expansion of the company in Spain and Portugal, becoming CEO until 1998.

In 1998, he was named an Eisenhower Fellow and developed his "fellowship" in North America that same year. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Lain-Alonso served as CEO for Interoute Communications and created the world’s first VoIP Nationwide telephone operator.

Mr. Lain-Alonso joined the Board of Directors of LAESA (European Laboratory of the Amplifier of Energy), a company that develops systems for the treatment of radioactive waste, in 1999.

He obtained his Master degree in Theoretical Physics by the University of Zaragoza in 1981 with departmental honors. He also has a solid management education from INSEAD, AT&T School of Business, IESE and the University of Michigan. He obtained his Master degree in Theoretical Physics by the University of Zaragoza in 1981 with departmental honors. He also has a solid management education from INSEAD, AT&T School of Business, IESE and the University of Michigan.

Mr. Lain-Alonso has been member of the "American Business Council" (1993-1995), the Royal Society of Physics (1995-1999) and the "International Advisory Council" of the Eisenhower Foundation ((2001 – Present). He has received numerous awards and recognitions in his career including “Spaniard of the Year", by the American Club of Madrid, for his contribution to improve Spainish-North American relations.

Mr. Lain-Alonso is married and has three children.

Kathy T. Osborn

Kathleen T. Osborn is Executive Director of the Regional Business Council in St. Louis, Missouri. The RBC is a consortium of 100 CEOs representing the St. Louis region’s largest mid-cap companies. The Council's mission is to act on high impact business, civic and philanthropic initiatives in order to build a highly competitive and world-class region. Since its inception, the RBC has played a vital role in the region and is focused on numerous issues including Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, infrastructure funding, workforce development and reform of the St. Louis Public Schools system. The RBC’s commitment to the community extends to the United Way, for which it has raised over $50 million since 2002.

Phil Ruben

Phil Ruben is Partner in the Corporate Practice Group at Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, where he concentrates on representing public companies, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and both public and private equity transactions.

Mr. Ruben sits on the Executive Committee, and is the senior securities lawyer for Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC, and is also a Certified Public Accountant. He is and has been general counsel for numerous public entities.

John R. Walter

John R. Walter has served as our non-executive Chairman of the Board since May 2004.

Since December 1997, Mr. Walter has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ashlin Management Company, a private investment firm. Mr. Walter served as President and Chief Operating Officer of AT&T Corporation from October 1996 until his retirement in July 1997, and from 1989 to 1996, he served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company.