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   ABOUT US: Directors

W. Galen Weston, O.C., B.A., LL.D. (1*)
Chairman and President of the Corporation; former Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited; Chairman, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited, Brown Thomas Group Limited and Selfridges & Co. Ltd.; President, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation; Director, Associated British Foods plc; Member, Advisory Board of Columbia University.


Allan L. Leighton
Deputy Chairman of the Corporation and Selfridges & Co. Ltd., Deputy Chairman and President, Loblaw Companies Limited; Former Chairman, Royal Mail Group; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Wal-Mart Europe; former Chief Executive, Asda Stores Ltd.; Director, Loblaw Companies Limited, BskyB plc, Selfridges & Co. Ltd., Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited and Brown Thomas Group Limited.


A. Charles Baillie, O.C., B.A., M.B.A., LL.D. (2*,3)
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Dominion Bank; Director, Canadian National Railway Company and Telus Corporation; Chancellor Emeritus, Queen’s University; President, Art Gallery of Ontario’s Board of Trustees; Chair, Alberta Investment Management Company; former Chair of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.


Robert J. Dart, B.Comm, C.A.(4,5)
Director, Vice President and Former President of Wittington Investments, Limited (holding corporation); former senior tax partner, Price Waterhouse Canada; Director, Holt Renfrew., Limited and Brown Thomas Group Limited.


Peter B.M. Eby, B.Comm., M.B.A. (1,2,3*)
Former Vice-Chairman and Director, Nesbitt Burns Inc.; former Chairman, Olympic Trust; Director, Leon’s Furniture Limited, Sixty Split Corporation, R. Split II Corporation and TD Asset Management USA Funds Inc.


Anne L. Fraser, C.M., B.Sc., LL.D. (5*)
Education Consultant, University of Victoria; Associate, Faculties of Management, Education, Engineering, Law and Fine Arts, University of Calgary; President, EnerG Enterprises Inc.; Director, Pier 21 Foundation and The Victoria Foundation.


Anthony R. Graham (1,3,4*)
President and Director, Wittington Investments, Limited; President and Chief Executive Officer, Sumarria Inc.; former Vice-Chairman and Director, National Bank Financial; former Senior Executive Vice-President and Managing Director, Lévesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc.; Chairman and Director, President’s Choice Bank; Director, Loblaw Companies Limited, Brown Thomas Group Limited, Graymont Limited, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited, Power Corporation of Canada, Power Financial Corporation and Selfridges & Co. Ltd.


John S. Lacey
Chairman of the Advisory Board of Tricap Restructuring Fund, Advisor to the Chairman of the Corporation, Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Oshawa Group (a major food retailer, now part of Sobeys Inc.)


Isabelle Marcoux, B.A., LL.B. (2)
Vice-Chair, Board of Directors and Vice-President, Corporate Development, Transcontinental Inc.; Board Member, Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation and Montreal Mayor’s Foundation for Youth.


J. Robert S. Prichard, O.C., O.Ont., M.B.A., LL.M., LL.D. (3,4)
President and Chief Executive Officer and Director, Torstar Corporation; President Emeritus, University of Toronto; Director, Bank of Montreal, Onex Corporation and Toronto Community Foundation; Chairman, the Visiting Committee for Harvard Law School; Vice Chair, Canada's Science Technology and Innovation Council.


Thomas F. Rahilly, B.A., M.A, LL.B. (2,4,5)
Retired Vice-Chairman, RBC Capital Markets; Former Chair, Board of Trustees of Trinity College, University of Toronto.

NOTES
  1. Executive Committee
  2. Audit Committee
  3. Governance, Human Resource, Nominating and Compensation Committee
  4. Pension and Benefits Committee
  5. Environmental, Health and Safety Committee

    * Chair of the Committee


CORPORATE OFFICERS

W. Galen Weston, O.C.
Chairman and President


Allan L. Leighton
Deputy Chairman


Robert G. Vaux
Chief Financial Officer


Gordon A.M. Currie
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer


Louise M. Lacchin
Executive Vice President, Finance


Robert A. Balcom
Senior Vice President, General Counsel – Canada & Secretary


Roy R. Conliffe
Senior Vice President, Labour Relations


Manny DiFilippo
Senior Vice President, Risk Management and Audit Services


J. Bradley Holland
Senior Vice President, Taxation


Lucy J. Paglione
Senior Vice President, Pension and Benefits


Jeremy Roberts
Senior Vice President, Finance


Geoffrey H. Wilson
Senior Vice President, Financial Control and Investor Relations


Gabriel R. Crozzoli
Vice President, Canadian Tax


David Farnfield
Vice President, Commodities


Kirk W. Mondesire
Vice President, Systems


Lina Taglieri
Vice President, Controller


Adam Walsh
Vice President, Legal Counsel


Walter H. Kraus
Senior Director, Environmental Affairs


Swavek A. Czapinski
Assistant Treasurer



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