board of directors
Our board of directors believes that responsibility for the company and for the community is the anchor of how we do business.
Jack M. Greenberg
Non-Executive Chairman of our Board of Directors
Jack M. Greenberg was chairman (from May 1999) and chief executive officer (from August 1998) of McDonald's Corporation until December 2002. Greenberg joined McDonald's Corporation as executive vice president and chief financial officer and as a member of the board of directors in 1982. He served as a director of First Data Corporation from 2003 to 2006. Greenberg is a director of The Allstate Corporation, Hasbro, Inc., Innerworkings, Inc. and Manpower Inc.
Dinyar S. Devitre
Director, Chair of the Audit Committee
Dinyar S. Devitre has been a special advisor to General Atlantic LLC since June 2008. He served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Altria Group, Inc. from March 2002 until March 2008. From 2001 to 2002, Devitre acted as a private business consultant and from 1998 to 2001, served as executive vice president of Citibank in Europe. He started with the Altria Group companies in 1970 and served in a variety of positions, including president, Philip Morris, Asia, chairman and CEO Philip Morris, Japan, and senior vice president, Corporate Planning, Philip Morris Companies, Inc. from 1995 to 1998. Devitre was a director of Kraft Foods Inc. from September 2002 to May 2007, and currently serves as a director of SABMiller plc, Altria Group, Inc. and Emdeon Inc.
Christina A. Gold
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
As the president and chief executive officer for The Western Union Company, Christina Gold is responsible for the financial and overall operational performance of the $5.3 billion company - a worldwide leader in money transfer, bill payment and prepaid services. Based at Western Union's global headquarters in Englewood, Colorado, Gold has executive management oversight of a network of more than 400,000 Agent locations in 200 countries and territories. In addition, she oversees an employee base of over 6,900 people located in 50 countries.
Prior to joining First Data Corporation, the former parent company of Western Union in May 2002, Gold was president and chief executive officer of telecommunications and e-commerce services provider Excel Communications. She also had a distinguished career with Avon where she served as president, Avon North America, and was credited with a significant turnaround of the cosmetic brand's U.S. business. Ms. Gold was recognized in 2003, 2006 and 2008 by Fortune magazine as one of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Gold was recognized by Forbes magazine on its annual "100 Most Powerful Women" list as No. 56 in 2007, No. 90 in 2008, and No. 76 in 2009. BusinessWeek also named her as one of the top 25 U.S. managers in 1996.
Gold serves on the board of directors of ITT Corporation and New York Life, is a member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and serves on the Advisory Council of The Fulbright Center.
Gold is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa in June 2009. She received the Award of Distinction - Faculty of Commerce & Administration from Concordia University in Montreal. She also received the "Batisseur," an honorary degree from the Professional Business School of Montreal, in recognition of her distinguished service to the business community.
Betsy D. Holden
Director, Member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation and Benefits Committee
Betsy D. Holden has been a senior advisor to McKinsey and Company since April 2007. She served as president, global marketing and category development of Kraft Foods Inc., a food business unit of Altria Group Inc., from January 2004 through June 2005; co-chief executive officer of Kraft Foods Inc. from March 2001 until December 2003; and president and chief executive officer of Kraft Foods North America from May 2000 until December 2003. Holden began her career at General Foods in 1982. She currently serves as a director of Tribune Company and Diageo plc.
Alan J. Lacy
Director, Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee and Member of the Audit Committee
Alan J. Lacy has been a senior advisor to Oak Hill Capital Partners since July 2007. Mr. Lacy is the former vice chairman and chief executive officer of Sears Holdings Corporation which formed as a result of the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Holding Corporation. He previously served Sears, Roebuck and Co. as chairman of the board from December 2000, and as president and chief executive officer from October 2000. He served as vice chairman from March 2005 through July 2006 and as chief executive officer from March 2005 through September 2005. Mr. Lacy is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and a trustee of Fidelity Funds.
Linda Fayne Levinson
Director, Chair of the Compensation and Benefits Committee and Member of the Audit Committee
Linda Fayne Levinson is an advisor to professionally funded, privately held ventures. She is presently non-executive chair of the board of Connexus, Inc., formerly VendareNetblue, a privately held online marketing company. From February through July 2006, Fayne Levinson was both chair and interim CEO of Vendare Media. From 1997 until May 2004, Fayne Levinson was a partner at GRP Partners, a venture capital firm, investing in early-stage technology companies in the financial services, internet media and online retail sectors. Earlier in her career, Fayne Levinson was an executive at American Express and a partner at McKinsey & Co. She is a director of NCR Corporation, Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Ingram Micro, Inc. DemandTec, Inc. and x1 Technologies, Inc.
Roberto G. Mendoza
Director, Member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation and Benefits Committee
Roberto G. Mendoza is a co-founder of Deming Mendoza & Co., LLC, a corporate finance advisory firm, and has served as one of its partners since February 2009. Previously, Mendoza was non-executive chairman of Trinsum Group from February 2007 to November 2008. In February 2007, Trinsum Group was formed as a result of a merger of Marakon Associates and Integrated Finance Limited, a financial advisory company which Mendoza co-founded and of which he served as chairman of the board and managing director from 2002 to February 2007. He also served as managing director of Goldman Sachs from September 2000 to February 2001. From 1967 to 2000, Mendoza held positions at J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., serving from 1990 to 2000 as director and vice chairman of the board. He is a director of PartnerRe Ltd. and Manpower Inc.
Mike Miles
Director, Member of the Corporate Governance Committee
Mike Miles has served as president of Staples, Inc. since January 2006 and as chief operating officer since September 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Miles was chief operating officer, Pizza Hut for Yum! Brands, Inc. from January 2000 to August 2003. From 1996 to 1999 he was senior vice president of Concept Development & Franchise at Pizza Hut.
Dennis Stevenson
Director, Member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation and Benefits Committee
Lord Dennis Stevenson is one of our directors and was chairman of HBOS plc, based in the United Kingdom, from June 2001 to January 2009. He became a director of Loudwater Investment Partners Ltd., also based in the United Kingdom, in January 2007. Lord Stevenson was Chairman of Pearson plc from 1997 until October 2005 and a director of Manpower Inc. from 1988 to April 2006.
Wulf von Schimmelmann
Director, Member of the Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation and Benefits Committee
Wulf von Schimmelmann was Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Postbank AG, a Germany-based financial services provider, from 1999 to June 2007. From 1991 to 1997, Mr. von Schimmelmann was a member of the Board of Managing Directors at BHF-Bank in Frankfurt am Main, where he was responsible for investment banking, payment transactions and corporate customers. Mr. von Schimmelmann is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post AG, Chair of the Supervisory Board of BAWAG P.S.K., a member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, a member of the Supervisory Board of Maxingvest AG, and a director of Accenture Ltd.