Tiffany & Co. - Committee Composition

Committee Composition

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Michael J. Kowalski
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tiffany & Co. Mr. Kowalski, 56, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tiffany & Co. He succeeded William R. Chaney as Chairman at the end of fiscal year 2002 and as Chief Executive Officer in February 1999. Prior to his appointment as President in January 1996, he was an Executive Vice President of Tiffany & Co., a position he had held since March 1992. Mr. Kowalski also served as Tiffany & Co.'s Chief Operating Officer from January 1997 until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer. He became a director of Tiffany & Co. in January 1995. Mr. Kowalski also serves on the board of The Bank of New York Mellon. The Bank of New York Mellon is Tiffany's principal banking relationship, serving as Administrative Agent and a lender under a Revolving Credit Facility and as trustee of Tiffany's Employee Pension Plan, and as the trustee and an investment manager for Tiffany's employee pension plan; and Mellon Investor Services LLC serves as the Company's transfer agent and registrar
William R. Chaney
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Chaney, 74, is the former Chairman of the Board. He resigned that office effective January 31, 2003. Mr. Chaney joined Tiffany in January 1980 as a member of the Board and was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tiffany & Co. in August 1984. He resigned as Chief Executive Officer effective February 1, 1999. Prior to joining Tiffany, he served as an executive officer of Avon Products, Inc.
Rose Marie Bravo
Ms. Bravo, 57, became a director of Tiffany & Co. in October 1997 when she was selected by the Board to fill a newly created directorship. Ms. Bravo previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Burberry Limited from 1997 until 2006 and as President of Saks Fifth Avenue from 1992 to 1997. Prior to Saks, Ms. Bravo held a series of merchandising jobs at Macy's culminating in the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer role at I. Magnin which was a division of R. H. Macy & Co. Ms. Bravo serves on the Board of Directors of Estee Lauder Companies Inc.
Gary E. Costley
Co-founder and Managing Director of C&G Capital and Management , LLC Dr. Costley, 64, was first elected to the Board in May 2007. He is a co-founder and managing director of C&G Capital and Management, LLC, which provides capital and management to health, medical and nutritional products and services companies. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Multifoods Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer food and food service products from November 1997 until June 2004. Dr. Costley was Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University from 1995 until 1997. Dr. Costley held numerous positions at the Kellogg Company from 1970 until June 1994. His most recent position was President of Kellogg North America. He is a director of three other public companies: The Principal Financial Group, Covance Inc. and Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.
Lawrence K. Fish
Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland America and Chairman of Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Fish, 63, is Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland America and Chairman of Citizens Financial Group, Inc. ("Citizens"). He has served in that role since 2005, and before that as President and Chief Executive Officer, from 1992, of Citizens. Mr. Fish is a member of the Board of Trustees of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He serves on the boards of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Textron and The Brookings Institution.
Abby F. Kohnstamm
President and Founder of Abby F. Kohnstamm & Associates, Inc. Ms. Kohnstamm, 54, is the President and founder of Abby F. Kohnstamm & Associates, Inc., a marketing and consulting firm. Prior to establishing her company, Ms. Kohnstamm served as Senior Vice President, Marketing of IBM Corporation from 1993 through 2005. In that capacity, she had overall responsibility for all aspects of marketing across IBM. Ms. Kohnstamm remains an executive consultant to IBM. In addition, Ms. Kohnstamm held a number of senior marketing positions at American Express from 1979 through 1993. Ms. Kohnstamm also serves on the Board of Directors of the Progressive Corporation and the Board of Trustees of Tufts University where she is also a member of its Executive Committee. She became a director of Tiffany & Co. in July 2001, when she was selected by the Board to replace a retiring director.
Charles K. Marquis
Senior Advisor to Investcorp International, Inc. Mr. Marquis, 65, is a Senior Advisor to Investcorp International, Inc. From 1974 through 1998, he was a partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher L.L.P. He was elected a director of Tiffany & Co. in 1984. Mr. Marquis also serves as a director and nominating/corporate governance chair of CSK Auto Corporation.
Peter W. May
President and Founding Partner of Trian Partners Mr. May, 65, is President and founding partner of Trian Partners, a New York-based investment management firm launched in November 2005. Mr. May also serves as Vice Chairman and a director of Trian Acquisition I Corp. (AMEX: TUX.U), a publicly traded blank check company formed to effect a business combination, and as non-executive Vice Chairman and a director of Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRY, TRY.B), a holding company that owns Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. ("Triarc"). In addition, Mr. May serves as a director and chairman of the compensation committee of Deerfield Capitol Corp. (NYSE:DFR). Mr. May served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Triarc from April 1993 through June 2007. Prior to joining Triarc, Mr. May was President and Chief Operating Officer of Trian Group, Inc., which provided investment banking and management services for entities controlled by him. Mr. May also served as President and Chief Operating Officer and a director of Triangle Industries, Inc., which, through wholly-owned subsidiaries, was, at the time, a manufacturer of packaging products (through American National Can Company), copper electrical wire and cable and steel conduit and currency and coin handling products. Mr. May is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where he led the turnaround of this major academic health center from serious financial difficulties to what is today one of the most profitable and fastest growing academic medical centers in the United States. In addition, Mr. May is a Trustee of the University of Chicago, a member of its Executive Committee, and a member of the Advisory Council on the Graduate School of Business at The University of Chicago. Mr. May is also a Trustee of Carnegie Hall and a partner of the Partnership for New York City, as well as the past Chairman of the UJA Federation's "Operation Exodus" campaign and an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of The 92nd Street Y. He is a founding member of the Laura Rosenberg Memorial Foundation for Pediatric Leukemia Research and is Chairman of the Board of The Leni and Peter May Family Foundation.
J. Thomas Presby
Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, (Retired) of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Mr. Presby, 68, has used his business experience and professional qualifications to forge a second career of essentially full-time board service since he retired in 2002 as a partner in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. At Deloitte he held numerous positions in the United States and abroad, including the posts of Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. He was selected to be a director of the Company in November 2003 by the Board to fill a newly created position. He now serves as a director and audit committee chair for the Company and American Eagle Outfitters, Invesco Ltd, First Solar, Inc., TurboChef Technologies, Inc. and World Fuel Services, Inc. As Mr. Presby has no significant business activities other than board service, he is available full time to fulfill his board responsibilities. Further, he finds that he is able to leverage the experience of managing this particular set of audit committees to the benefit of each board on which he serves and the efficient use of his own time and that of his colleagues. He is a certified public accountant and a holder of the NACD Certificate of Director Education.
William A. Shutzer
Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners Mr. Shutzer, 61, is a Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners, a financial advisory and private equity firm. He previously served as a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers from 2000 through 2003, a Partner in Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, a merchant banking firm, from 1999 through 2000, as Executive Vice President of ING Baring Furman Selz LLC from 1998 through 1999, President of Furman Selz Inc. from 1995 through 1997 and as a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers and its predecessors from 1978 through 1994. He was elected a director of the Company in 1984. Mr. Shutzer is also a member of the Boards of Directors of Jupiter Media Corp. and CSK Auto Corporation. He also serves as a director and compensation committee chair of TurboChef Technologies, Inc.