W. JAMES MCNERNEY, JR. Chairman, President, and Chief ...

W. JAMES MCNERNEY, JR.Chairman, President, and Chief Executive OfficerThe Boeing CompanyW. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr., is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of TheBoeing Company, effective July 1, 2005. He has served as a member of the company’s board since 2001.McNerney, 60, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, $68.3 billion aerospace company.With nearly 160,000 employees, Boeing is the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft,with capabilities in rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites and advanced information andcommunications systems.Previously, McNerney held the position as chairman of the board and CEO of 3M, a $20 billion globaltechnology company with leading positions in electronics, telecommunications, industrial, consumer and officeproducts, health care, safety and other businesses. He joined 3M in 2001 after 19 years at the General ElectricCompany.McNerney joined General Electric in 1982. There, he held top executive positions including president andCEO of GE Aircraft Engines and GE Lighting; president of GE Asia-Pacific; president and CEO of GE ElectricalDistribution and Control; executive vice president of GE Capital, one of the world’s largest financial servicecompanies; and president, GE Information Services.Prior to joining GE, McNerney worked at Procter & Gamble and McKinsey & Co., Inc.McNerney is a director of Procter & Gamble, a director of IBM, a member of The Field Museum Board ofTrustees in Chicago, a trustee of Northwestern University, and a member of the Northwestern Memorial HealthCareBoard. He also serves on The Business Roundtable. He is the former chair of The Business Council, the US-ChinaBusiness Council, and the American Society of Corporate Executives.McNerney is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the RoyalAeronautical Society. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cranfield University forhis contribution to the international aerospace industry. He was named Executive of the Year by the NationalManagement Association in 2008.A native of Providence, R.I., McNerney earned a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1971 and an M.B.A.from Harvard University in 1975. McNerney is married and has five children. He enjoys skiing, golf and sailing.FREDERICK H. WADDELLChairman and Chief Executive OfficerOF The NORTHERN TRUST CompanyFrederick H. Waddell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a Director of Northern Trust Corporation,and a member of the Management Group of Northern Trust Corporation and The Northern Trust Company, Chicago.The heads of Northern Trust's principal operating businesses, Personal Financial Services, Corporate & InstitutionalServices, Operations & Technology, and Northern Trust Global Investments report to Waddell. Also reporting to himare the heads of Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Auditing, Corporate Strategy, Risk Management, Legal,and Corporate Social Responsibility.Since joining Northern Trust in 1975, Waddell has held leadership positions inCommercial Banking, Strategic Planning, and Personal Financial Services. In March 2003, he became head of theCorporate and Institutional Services business unit and, in February 2006, was named President and ChiefOperating Officer of Northern Trust. Waddell was appointed Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2008, andbecame Chairman on November 11, 2009.Waddell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The ChicagoCouncil on Global Affairs, the Financial Services Roundtable, the Executives' Club of Chicago, and The Chicago Club.He is also a member of theCommercial Club of Chicago and the Economic Club of Chicago. Waddell is on the Board of Trustees of the ArtInstitute of Chicago and Northwestern University, and he also serves on the Trustees Committee of the ChicagoCommunity Trust.Waddell holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

MILES D. WHITEChairman and Chief Executive OfficerAbbottMiles White is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Abbott, a global, diversified pharmaceutical andmedical products innovator. A Fortune 100 company, Abbott employs more than 72,000 people around the worldand sells its products in more than 150 countries.After several years’ experience consulting with McKinsey & Co., White joined Abbott’s diagnostics divisionin 1984. He rose quickly through the division’s commercial and general management ranks and was named itsPresident just 10 years later. In 1998, he was named Executive Vice President of the corporation, overseeing all ofits medical device businesses and, in 1999, became Abbott’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.Under White’s leadership, Abbott has been transformed into a technology leader that delivers bothbreakthrough innovation and superior results for patients, customers, and shareholders. Through a combination ofstrategic acquisitions and internal investment, he has moved Abbott into key new areas of medical technology,such as vascular devices, glucosemonitoring, and medical optics, while significantly enhancing the company’s scientificcapabilities and commercial infrastructure. He has also greatly accelerated Abbott’s global expansion, with amajority of the company’s revenues now coming from outside the United States.White has equally transformed the company’s approach to global citizenship. Under his leadership, Abbotthas been namedfor five consecutive years to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the leading benchmark of best-in-class economicand social performance that recognizes only the top-performing 10 percent of the world’s largest 2,500 companies.In 2009, White was named to Barron’s list of the world’s 30 “Most Respected CEOs.”White serves as a director of McDonald’s Corp. and is a member of the board of trustees of The FieldMuseum, of which he is immediate past chair. He also serves on the boards of the Museum of Science andIndustry and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is chairman of the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club ofChicago and vice chairman of the Culver Educational Foundation. He is a trustee on the board of NorthwesternUniversity and chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He isformer chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, The Economic Club of Chicago, and the PharmaceuticalResearch and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).John A. Strudwick, Ph.D.HEAD OF SCHOOL, LAKE FOREST ACADEMYA native of the United Kingdom, John A. Strudwick was appointed Head of School at Lake Forest Academyin July 2001 after 24 years of teaching, including 17 years at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, as ateacher, dean, coach, and dorm parent. His educational background is in economics and education, with a B.Sc.from the London School of Economics, a PGCE from Oxford University, an M.A. from Queen’s University, and aPh.D. from the University of Toronto.While at Phillips Academy, Strudwick was also the Director of the International Academic Partnership(IAP), a joint venture between Phillips Academy and the Aga Khan Education Service that organized teacherworkshops in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as student andteacher exchanges between those countries and the United States. Currently, he also serves as the Board Chair ofthe Global Youth Leadership Institute (GYLI), an organization whose mission is to nurture collaborative leadershipand toinspire socially responsible global citizenship.Under Strudwick’s leadership, LFA has grown in many ways: the student body and faculty are morenumerous, better qualified, and more diverse than ever; the campus buildings and sports fields have beenrevitalized; the school’s reputation is excellent and well-recognized locally, nationally, and internationally; and theongoing comprehensive campaign has resulted in significant improvements in the school’s facilities andendowment. He has led the effort to produce two long-term strategic plans for LFA that define and unify themission of the entire school. These plans include a focus on the importance of global understanding in Americanhigh school education and a commitment to global pluralism among the entire LFA community. Strudwick teachesAP Economics at LFA; he and his wife, math teacher and Dean of Admission Loring, and children Jane ’13, Andrew,and Ian live on campus in Wood House.