Brown Shoe Company Inc.

Ronald A. Fromm, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the registrant since January 1999; President, Brown Shoe Company since March 1998. Vice President of the registrant from April 1998 to January 1999. Executive Vice President, Famous Footwear from September 1992 to March 1998. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Famous Footwear from 1988 to 1992.

Diane M. Sullivan, President and Chief Operating Officer of the registrant since 2006. President since 2003. Previously with Phillips-Van Heusen as Vice Chairman of the Footwear Group since 2001. President and Chief Operating Officer for Stride Rite Corporation and Group President: Tommy Hilfiger, Stride Rite Children's and Sperry from 1995 to 2001.

President of Brown Shoe Wholesale Division since August 2000. President of Pagoda since March 1993. President, Pagoda Trading Company, Inc. from June 1989 Through March 1993. Executive Vice President, Sidney Rich Associates, Inc. from December 1980 thorough June 1989.

President of Brown Shoe Retail since 2006. President of Famous Footwear since January 2002. Previously Executive Vice President and General Merchandise Manager for Finish Line from 1995 to September 2001. Prior to that Chief Operating Officer for Just for Feet; Senior Vice President and GMM for The Athlete's Foot from 1986 to 1993; Buying and merchandising management positions with Oshman's Sporting Goods/Abercrombie & Fitch, Cullum & Boren Sporting Goods, and F&R Lazarus (a division of Federated Department Stores).

Richard M. Ausick, President of Brown New York Division since June 2006; Previously Senior Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer of Brown Shoe's Famous Footwear division since 2002.

Douglas Koch, Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer since May 2005. Senior Vice President of Human Resources of the registrant since 2002. Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Brown Shoe's Famous Footwear division since 2000.

Mark E. Hood, Chief Financial Officer since October 2006; Prior to joining Brown Shoe, Hood served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of St. Louis-based Panera Bread and held various positions with: Saks Fifth Avenue (Executive Vice President/Chief Administrative Officer), May Department Stores (Vice President and Controller – Foley’s) and Arthur Andersen (Audit Manager).

Michael is an Area Manager for the Naturalizer division of Brown Shoe Company. He has previously worked as a Regional Administration Manager for Hugo Boss, and as an Operations Specialist for J.Crew. Through these positions, Michael has become an expert in Operations for both small and large companies. Michael's passion lies in the non-profit world. His operational background has helped many different organizations. He began at the Campus YM/YWCA of Washington University, the largest social service campus chapter in the world, more than doubling their funding while serving as Treasurer. He also helped establish Washington University Effort for AIDS and the first Amnesty International chapter in St. Louis. While living in Chicago, Michael has worked with the Stop AIDS group within the Howard Brown Health Center. Michael holds a BS in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. He also became the first ever undergraduate accepted into the Non-Profit Management Graduate Certificate program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.

Michael I. Oberlander, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the registrant since 2006. Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since September 2000. Associate at Bryan Cave, LLP since September 1993.

Professional Profile Bud Wright has more than 25 years of retail experience, the last 10 of which he was a principal officer at R.H. Macy's, Bud concentrates on finding senior executives within the retailing industry. His clients include a wide variety of the leading retailers within their categories, and his search experience spreads throughout all disciplines within the industry. Prior to entering executive search, Bud spent the majority of his career with R.H. Macy's, where he was the president and COO of three divisions. He also held senior-level positions in logistics, operations and human resources while at Macy's. Education Bud earned his bachelor's degree from Westminster College, a master's degree from the University of Maryland, and completed the course work for a master's degree at the University of Michigan. Additional Information He has served on the boards of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Buckhead Christian Ministries, Morristown Memorial Hospital and is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church.

Joseph L. Bower is on the faculty at Harvard Business School. He joined Anika Therapeutics' board of directors in 1993. He has held various positions at Harvard Business School since 1963, where he was named professor of busines...

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