Neal J. Keating
Mr. Keating, 53, was elected President and Chief Operating Officer as well as a Director of the company, effective September 17, 2007. Effective January 1, 2008, he was serving as President and Chief Executive Officer and effective March 1, 2008 he was appointed to the additional position of Chairman. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Keating served as Chief Operating Officer at Hughes Supply, a $5.4 billion wholesale distributor that was acquired by Home Depot in 2006. Prior to that, from August 2002 to June 2004, he served as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of GKN Aerospace, a $1 billion aerospace subsidiary of GKN, plc, serving also as Executive Director on the Main Board of GKN plc and as a member of the Board of Directors of Agusta-Westland. From 1978 to July 2002, Mr. Keating served in increasingly senior positions at Rockwell International and as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockwell Collins, Commercial Systems, a $1.7 billion commercial aerospace business from 2001 through 2002.

Eileen S. Kraus
Ms. Kraus, 70, has been a Director since 1995 and currently serves as the Board’s Lead Director. She is the retired Chairman of Fleet Bank Connecticut and is a director of The Stanley Works and Rogers Corporation.

George E. Minnich
Mr. Minnich, 59, was elected a Director on June 9, 2009. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Corporation, then a $9 billion commercial and defense business, from 2005 until his retirement in 2007. Prior to that he served in several senior finance positions at United Technologies Corporation, including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Otis Elevator Company from 2001 to 2005 and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Carrier Corporation from 1996 to 2001. He also held various positions with Pricewaterhouse Coopers (then Price Waterhouse) from 1971 to 1993, serving as an Audit Partner from 1984 to 1993. He is a director of AGCO Corporation, an $8.4 billion manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment.

Richard J. Swift
Mr. Swift, 64, has been a Director since 2002. He is former Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler Ltd., a provider of design, engineering, construction, and other services. He is a director of Ingersoll-Rand Company, Ltd., Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated, Hubbell Incorporated and CVS Caremark Corporation.

Brian E. Barents
Mr. Barents, 65, has been a Director since 1996. He is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Galaxy Aerospace Corp. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Learjet, Inc. He is also a director of CAE, Inc.

Edwin A. Huston
Mr. Huston, 70, has been a Director since 2002. He is the retired Vice Chairman of Ryder System, Incorporated, an international logistics and transportation solutions company and a director of The Hackett Group (formerly Answerthink, Inc.), Tennenbaum Opportunity Fund and Unisys Corporation.

Thomas W. Rabaut
Mr. Rabaut, 60, was elected a Director effective March 1, 2008. Mr. Rabaut has served as a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, since January 2007. From June 2005 to January 2007, he was President of the Land & Armaments Operating Group of BAE Systems, a global leader in the design, development and production of military systems. From January 1994 to June 2005, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Defense Industries, Inc., which was acquired by BAE Systems in 2005. He is a director of Cytec Industries, Inc.

E. Reeves Callaway III
Mr. Callaway, 61, has been a Director since 1995. He is the Founder and President and Chief Executive Officer of The Callaway Companies, an engineering services firm.

Karen M. Garrison
Ms. Garrison, 60, has been a Director since 2006. She retired as President–Pitney Bowes Business Services, a major manufacturer of postal equipment/software and service provider, in 2004. She is a director of Standard Parking Corporation and Tenet Healthcare.

A. William Higgins
Mr. Higgins, 50, was elected a Director at the 2009 Annual Meeting. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of CIRCOR International, Inc., a global diversified manufacturing company that designs, manufactures, and supplies valves, related products and services to OEMs, processors, manufacturers, the military, and utilities that rely on fluid-control to accomplish their missions. He has served in that role since March, 2008 and prior to that held the offices of President and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of CIRCOR since 2005. Prior to joining CIRCOR, Mr. Higgins spent thirteen years in a variety of senior management positions with Honeywell International and AlliedSignal. Mr. Higgins is chairman of CIRCOR's Board of Directors.