John T. Chain, Jr., General, US Air Force (Ret.)

General John T. Chain, Jr. (USAF, Ret.) has served as a member of the Board of Directors since May 1995 and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors from May 1998 until January 2008. He served as the President of Quarterdeck Equity Partners Inc., an investor in the aerospace industry, from June 1996 to June 2001. He served as Special Assistant to the Chairman of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, a major U.S. freight railroad, from November 1995 to March 1996, and as an Executive Vice President of Burlington Northern from 1991 to November 1995. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a General (Commander-in-Chief, the Strategic Air Command) in the United States Air Force. General Chain was a member of the boards of directors of ConAgra Foods, Inc., a packaged food company, and Kemper Insurance, a property and casualty insurance company. General Chain was lead independent director of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a provider of products, service, and solutions in information and services, aerospace, electronics, and shipbuilding until May 2001, and was lead independent of Reynolds American, a manufacturer of cigarettes. He was a member of the board of directors of RJR Nabisco, Inc. (which became R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., or RJR) from 1994 until June 1999, a member of the board of directors Nabisco Group Holdings Corp., the former parent of RJR, from 1994 to December 2000, and a member of the RJR board of directors from June 1999 through July 2004 and lead director of Reynolds American Corp. from July 2004 to May 2008.