American Media Inc.

Dean D. Durbin became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company in January 2008. Prior to that he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vertis, Inc. from February 2006 to January 2007, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Vertis, Inc. from February 2005 to February 2006, as President and Chief Financial Officer of Vertis, Inc. from October 2004 to February 2005 and as Chief Financial Officer of Vertis, Inc. from March 2000 to October 2004. Mr. Durbin was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Treasure Chest Advertising Company, Inc. ( TC Advertising ), from September 1997 to March 2000. Prior to joining TC Advertising, Mr. Durbin served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Thomson Professional Publishing, and served for more than 13 years with the McGraw-Hill Companies, completing his tenure as Vice President and Group Controller, Construction Information Group. Mr. Durbin has a B.A. in Accounting from St. Francis University.

Kevin Hyson joined American Media, Inc. in May of 1999 as Senior Vice President and was promoted to Executive Vice President in 2001. Prior to AMI, Mr. Hyson was President of Hylen Sharp, Inc., a Greenwich, Connecticut based marketing company whose client roster included Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, Sony, JVC, and Psion Computers. While at Hylen Sharp, Mr. Hyson worked closely with Mr. Pecker on a number of corporate advertising programs and new magazine launches for Hachette, as well as the development of that company's new media initiatives.

Saul M. Kredi is Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. Mr. Kredi joined the Company as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer in June 2006 and was promoted to Senior Vice President in January 2007. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kredi was serving in various capacities, most recently as Senior Director of Finance and Corporate Controller with Answerthink, Inc., from December 1999 to June 2006. Answerthink, Inc. is a publicly traded information technology consulting services company. From January 1993 to December 1999, Mr. Kredi served in various capacities, most recently as Manager of Assurance and Advisory Services for Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Kredi holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Florida and an M.A. in Accounting from Florida International University, and is a CPA.

John Swider is the Executive Vice President, Operations, of the Company. Prior to joining the Company in November 1999, Mr. Swider was an Executive Vice President for Globe Communications Corp. His current responsibilities include production, manufacturing, newsstand circulation, corporate library/archives, customer service and the Mini Mag division. Mr. Swider holds a B.A. in Education from Wake Forest University.

Daniel G. Ross became a Director of Media and the Company in October 2006 and is a Managing Director of Evercore, which he joined in September 2002. From July 2000 to August 2002, Mr. Ross was employed with the private investment firm Texas Pacific Group.

Jeffrey Sagansky became a Director of Media and the Company in March 2005. He also serves on the board of the E.W. Scripps Company and Permission TV, is Chairman of People s Choice Cable and Elm Tree Capital and is a partner in Winchester Capital. Since November 2007, Mr. Sagansky has been Co-Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Peace Arch Entertainment Group, Inc., a media production and distribution company. Since December 2002, he has been an investor in the media and telecommunications industry. He has also held executive positions with companies in the entertainment industry. From 1998 through 2002, Mr. Sagansky was CEO of Paxson Communications Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Sagansky was Co-President of Sony Pictures Entertainment where he was responsible for Sony Entertainment s worldwide television operations and strategic planning. Prior to joining Sony, Mr. Sagansky was CEO of CBS Entertainment, where he engineered CBS s ratings rise from third to first place in eighteen months with programs including The Nanny, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Touched By An Angel, Chicago Hope, Picket Fences and Northern Exposure. Prior to that, as President of Tri Star Pictures, Mr. Sagansky developed and oversaw production of a wide variety of films including Glory , which won an Academy Award for Denzel Washington, Peggy Sue Got Married , directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and Look Who s Talking, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Mr. Sagansky, as Senior Vice President of Series Programming at NBC Entertainment, was involved with the development of such landmark television programs as St. Elsewhere, Cheers, Miami Vice, and The Cosby Show.

Kathleen Reiland is a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s investment management business. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Principal and buy-side equity research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. where she was responsible for investments in both Small Capitalization and Hedge Fund portfolios. Ms. Reiland was previously a consultant at Bain & Co., Inc. Before attending business school, she was an associate at Bankers Trust Company in both New York and London. Ms. Reiland was involved in advising CBS Corporation on its merger with Viacom Inc., and serves on the boards of Bollinger, Inc., Causeway Capital Management LLC and Diagnostic Imaging Group, LLC. Ms. Reiland received an A.B. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Richard J. Bressler . Mr. Bressler has been a member of Nielsen s Supervisory Board since July 28, 2006, a member of the Board of Nielsen Finance Co. since July 28, 2006 and a member of the Board of Nielsen Finance LLC since July 28, 2006. Mr. Bressler joined Thomas H. Lee Partners as a Managing Director in 2006. From May 2001 through 2005, Mr. Bressler was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Viacom Inc. Before joining Viacom, Mr. Bressler was Executive Vice President of AOL Time Warner Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of AOL Time Warner Investments. Prior to that, Mr. Bressler served in various capacities with Time Warner Inc., including as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Digital Media, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Inc. Before joining Time Inc., Mr. Bressler was a partner with Ernst & Young. Mr. Bressler serves on the Boards of Warner Music Group, Gartner, Inc. and American Media, Inc. In addition, he serves as Chairman for the Center for Communication Board, the Duke University Fuqua School of Business s Board of Visitors, New School University s Board of Trustees, the J.P. Morgan Chase National Advisory Board and the Columbia University School of the Arts Deans Council. Mr. Bressler holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Adelphia University.

Saul Goodman is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Goodman was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, where he focused on media and telecommunications clients. Mr. Goodman started his career at Ark Asset Management, where he worked as an Assistant Portfolio Manager. Mr. Goodman was involved in advising CBS Corporation on its merger with Viacom Inc., Time Warner Cable in its separation from Time Warner, SpectraSite on its merger with American Tower Corporation, ACNielsen Corporation on its sale to VNU N.V. and the sale of VNU N.V. to a financial consortium. Other notable transactions include advising SBC Communications on its purchase of AT&T Wireless, the sale of J.D. Power and Associates to The McGraw-Hill Companies, Dow Jones purchase of MarketWatch, the dual-class restructuring of Robert Mondavi and merger with Constellation Brands and the minority investments by Hearst Corp. in Fitch Ratings, and CalPERS in SilverLake Partners. Mr. Goodman graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a B.S. in finance and received his M.B.A., with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.