Interface Inc.

Lindsey Parnell is Senior Vice President for Europe Floorcoverings, with overall responsibility for modular flooring operations in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. Within each region, his role involves steering the business toward long term growth. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry from Hull University, Lindsey began his career in the steel, printing and automotive sectors. He also spent three years as a consultant with an international accounting firm. Lindsey joined the carpet industry with Firth Carpets in 1996, which was acquired by Interface in 1997. In 1998, Lindsey was promoted to Vice President of Operations for Interface’s modular floorcovering operations in the UK and in 1999 he became Senior Vice President of Operations for the entire European modular flooring operations. In 2002, he was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of the European modular division of Interface, Inc. Under Lindsey’s lead, InterfaceFLOR’s mission has found widespread recognition across the region, including being awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development in both 2003 and 2008. In June 2008, Lindsey was appointed Chairman of the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI’s) Yorkshire and Humber Council.

As Senior Vice President for Asia-Pacific Floorcoverings, Rob oversees all of Interface’s Asia-Pacific operations. Rob has more than a quarter of a century of experience in marketing and senior management positions, including approximately 20 years with Interface companies. After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne in 1979, Rob began work in product marketing management. In 1988, Rob moved to the UK and joined Interface as UK Marketing Manager, moving to The Netherlands two years later as European Marketing Manager. Having left the company at the end of 1993 to return to Australia, Rob rejoined Interface in 1996 as Managing Director of Interface Australia and in 1998, was appointed to the role of Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific. Rob returned to Europe with Interface in June 1999 and in February 2001 was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, Interface Europe and Asia-Pacific. In October 2002, Rob returned to Australia to resettle his family and, following the formation of a separate Asia-Pacific division of the company was installed as President and Chief Executive Officer of this division. Rob is a member of the Board of the Green Building Council of Australia, contributing a manufacturer perspective on the need to create a built environment in harmony with nature.

Patrick C. Lynch joined Interface in 1996 and was promoted to Assistant Corporate Controller in 1998. In 2000 Patrick became Assistant Vice President and Corporate Controller and was promoted to Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2001. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2007. Prior to joining Interface, Patrick previously held the title of Senior Accountant at a national accounting firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to private and publicly traded businesses. A CPA by training, Patrick possesses a unique strategic vision and expertise in financial matters. With responsibilities for accounting, internal audits, SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, investor relations, commercial and investment banking, tax, and insurance, Patrick also gives credit to his team as a major force behind the growth of Interface. Patrick’s undergraduate work was completed at The Citadel in Charleston, where he graduated cum laude earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration in 1992. He then graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta, simultaneously earning both a Juris Doctor Degree in Law and a Master of Business Administration Degree in 1998. Patrick resides in Atlanta with his wife Erica and their two daughters, Emily and Molly.

John Wells serves as Senior Vice President for Americas Floorcoverings. John has overall responsibility for Interface’s business units in the Americas, including Bentley Prince Street, FLOR, and InterfaceFLOR in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Since joining Interface as Vice President of Sales for InterfaceFLOR in 1994, John has held a number of senior leadership roles. In 1995, he was promoted to president and CEO of InterfaceFLOR Commercial. In 1999, John was again promoted to his current position as President and CEO of Interface Americas. As part of Interface’s sustainability journey, John put in place programs and metrics to help Interface companies achieve its sustainability mission and goals in three parts – financial, environmental and social. Under his leadership, the Americas business has expanded into multiple market segments. Interface now offers modular products for the retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, and institutional/government segments. In 2003, John helped to launch FLOR, a new modular carpet business for the consumer, that has helped increase awareness of carpet tile in the mainstream or consumer market. FLOR offers a unique business model for Interface companies in that it is sold directly through the company’s catalogue and website, among other channels. Part of his leadership also has involved developing and articulating Interface’s Mission Zero™ brand promise both internally and to the world – our promise to eliminate any negative impact our company has on the environment by 2020. John earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984 through a cooperative educational program. In December of 1995, Wells also completed the Executive Education Program at the UNC – Chapel Hill. In June 2005, John was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Carpet and Rug Institute. John serves on the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Advisory Board, the Alexandar Tharpe Board, and the College of Management Advisory Board. In 2006, John was appointed to the David Suzuki Foundation National Business Advisory Council, Canada. A native of Dalton, Georgia, John and his wife Wendi, along with their two children, Brant and Audrey, reside in Atlanta, GA.

Ray serves as Senior Vice President - Administration, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Interface, Inc. He has overall responsibility for the legal affairs of the company and its various subsidiaries, as well as corporate responsibility for mergers & acquisitions, human resources, compensation & benefits, purchasing and facilities. Ray joined Interface in 1990. Before joining Interface, Ray worked for six years with law firms in Atlanta, Georgia, concentrating in mergers & acquisitions, public company administration and contracts. He also spent a year in the management program at BellSouth. Ray graduated summa cum laude and as valedictorian from Oglethorpe University in 1980. While at Oglethorpe, Ray also played intercollegiate basketball and tennis. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree, cum laude, in 1984 from the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Georgia Law Review. Ray’s professional and community activities include serving as Chair of the Corporate Counsel Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and as a member of the Board of Trustees and as Chair of the President's Advisory Council at Oglethorpe University. Ray is a native of Atlanta, where he resides with his wife Florrie and their three sons, Scott, Bryan and Price.

Neel is the Vice President of Business Development for Interface, Inc., with responsibilities for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, new venture development and corporate communications. He also has overall management and oversight of Interface’s global sustainable strategy group and the new venture, InterfaceRAISE. In this position he oversees a team focused on providing technical assistance, measurement and data management, program development, and communications and marketing support to Interface’s global businesses. Neel also is currently on assignment in Europe as the acting Directeur Commercial of Interface, Inc.’s InterfaceFLOR business in France and is a member of the Interface Europe Executive Team. Before joining Interface in 2003, Neel held positions in the investment banking and strategy consulting industries, the most recent of which was as a member of Ernst & Young’s Consulting Practice in Atlanta, GA., where he focused primarily on developing and delivering traditional business, turn-around, growth and customer strategies, across a variety of industries. Neel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1999, where he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Terry College of Business.

Jeff Roman is Vice President of Information Services for Interface, Inc. He has overall responsibility for the company’s information technologies. Jeff joined Interface in June 1995, as General Manager of Interface Modernform Company Ltd. in Thailand. In October 1996, Jeff was promoted to Vice President of Manufacturing for Asia operations. In October 1998, Jeff was transferred to Interface Americas to implement the Y2K compliant manufacturing system in all North American operations. Jeff was named Vice President of Technical Development in February 2000 for Interface Americas, where he assumed responsibility for all product development and custom product development. In June 2001, he assumed his current role. Before joining Interface, Jeff worked for 10 years in operational management positions in other broadloom and modular carpet businesses. Jeff’s unique background in technology and manufacturing position him to leverage technology to maximize production and efficiency within Interface’s business units. In addition, he speaks to corporate and audiences on leveraging technology to reach customers and to connect associates at Interface throughout the world. Jeff earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985. A native of Dalton, GA, Jeff and his wife Diana, along with their three children, Mackenzie, Alec and Cooper, now live in Peachtree City, GA.

As Vice President Sales Logistics, Scott is responsible for sales training and several sales team support activities. He also provides sales and marketing leadership for the company’s government end-use market segment. In his role, he actively engages with internal and external customers to provide information to sell the company’s products and services. Scott has approximately 28 years of experience in sales, customer service, product management, marketing, and product pricing positions.

Professor Karl-Henrik Robert, M.D., Ph.D., is one of Sweden’s foremost cancer scientists who, in 1989, initiated an environmental movement called "The Natural Step." In 1984, Robert won the Swedish Hematological Association Research Award. He headed the Division of Clinical Hematology and Oncology at the Department of Medicine at the Huddinge Hospital from 1985 until 1993. Robert has authored numerous scientific publications concerning leukemia, lymphoma, lung cancer and their clinical implications. His research on damaged human cells provided a platform for his interest in environmental questions. Later, with Dr. John Holmberg, he developed first order principles, the "system conditions," for ecological sustainability. Together with a growing network of scientists and decision makers in business and politics, the system conditions have been elaborated into a concrete framework for strategic planning towards sustainability. At the launch of The Natural Step (TNS), Robert edited educational material and distributed it to every household and school in Sweden. Thereafter, he initiated a number of independent professional networks to support the framework of The Natural Step. Business executives from major Swedish companies such as, IKEA, Electrolux, Swedish McDonalds, construction companies, the leading supermarket chains of Sweden, insurance companies, banks and a large number of other business corporations and municipalities have begun to incorporate the TNS framework into their business practices. In 1999 Robert received the Green Cross Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership and in 2000 he won the Blue Planet Prize for scientifically laying out the systems perspective needed to plan strategically for sustainability and for changing the environmental awareness of business, municipalities and others. Robert has written many books, articles and scientific publications on the environment and sustainability that encourage an understanding of the linkage between ecology and economy.

The story is now legend: the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, seeking inspiration for a speech to an Interface task force on the company’s environmental vision. Fourteen years and a sea change later, Interface, Inc., is nearly 50 percent towards the vision of “Mission Zero®,” the journey no one would have imagined for the company or the petroleum-intensive industry of carpet manufacturing which has been forever changed by Anderson’s vision. Mission Zero® is the company’s promise to eliminate any negative impact it may have on the environment, by the year 2020, through the redesign of processes and products, the pioneering of new technologies, and efforts to reduce or eliminate waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy. An honors graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, Ray learned the carpet trade through 14-plus years at various positions at other companies in the industry, and in 1973, set about founding a company to produce the first free-lay carpet tiles in America. In 1997, Ray described his vision for his company, then nearly a quarter-century old, that stands true today: “If we’re successful, we’ll spend the rest of our days harvesting yester-year’s carpets and other petrochemically derived products, and recycling them into new materials; and converting sunlight into energy; with zero scrap going to the landfill and zero emissions into the ecosystem. And we’ll be doing well … very well … by doing good. That’s the vision.” The once captain of industry has eschewed a luxury car for a Prius and built an off-the-grid home, authored a book chronicling his journey, Mid-Course Correction, and become an unlikely screen hero in the 2004 Canadian documentary, “The Corporation” and in the 2007 film by Leonardo DiCaprio, “The 11th Hour.” He was a master commentator on the Sundance Channel’s series, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” and was named one of TIME magazine’s Heroes of the Environment in 2007, with a similar honor from Elle Magazine that year. He’s a sought after speaker and advisor on all issues eco, including a stint as co-chair of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development during President Clinton’s administration. Anderson has been lauded by government, environmental, and business groups alike. In 2007, Ray was honored as a recipient of the Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures, a think tank and an incubator, generating ideas and inventing programs to help society achieve the greatest return on experience, and by Auburn University with its International Quality of Life Award. In 1996, he received the Inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev, and won recognition from Forbes Magazine and Ernst & Young, which named him Entrepreneur of the Year. In January, 2001, he received the George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development. He also has been honored by the Georgia Conservancy, Southface Energy Institute, SAM-SPG (Switzerland), the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Wildlife Federation, the Design Futures Council, the Children’s Health and Environmental Coalition, the Harvard Business School Alumni (Atlanta Chapter), the International Interior Design Association, the Southern Institute for Business & Professional Ethics, the Possible Woman Foundation International, the World Business Academy, LaGrange College, and the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Ray is former Board Chair for The Georgia Conservancy; and serves on the boards of the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation; Rocky Mountain Institute; the David Suzuki Foundation, LaGrange College, Emory University Board of Visitors, the ASID Foundation, Worldwatch Institute and Melaver, Inc. He is on the Advisory Boards of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. He holds eight honorary doctorates from Northland College (public service), LaGrange College (business), N.C. State University (humane letters), University of Southern Maine (humane letters), The University of the South (civil law), Colby College (law), Kendall College (art), and Emory University (science).

Mr. Paisner was elected as a director in February 2007. Mr. Paisner is Senior Partner of the law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, LLP in London, England. He currently is a member of the boards of FIBI Bank (UK) plc and Think London (the official inward investment agency of London, England), and serves as a Governor of Ben Gurion University of the Negev and as a Trustee of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research. Formerly, Mr. Paisner has served as a director of LINPAC Group Limited and Estates & Agency Holdings plc.

Mr. Miller is currently the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Southern Corporation, the parent corporation of Fidelity Bank, positions he has held since 1979. He has been Chairman of Fidelity Bank since 1998. He is a director of Interface, Inc., a textile manufacturing company. Since 2003, Mr. Miller has been Chairman of Berlin American Company, a private real estate company, Since 2006, Mr. Miller has been Chairman of Prescott Automotive Group, a private automobile dealer, and Trinity Apex, a real estate business. Mr. Miller holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Florida State University and an L.L.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School.