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.

Claude is the Senior Vice President and General Manager for InterfaceFLOR in Canada and Latin America, overseeing all sales, administrative, and manufacturing operations. Claude's 20-year career with Interface includes roles in both manufacturing and sales. Claude's mix of manufacturing, sales, and marketing knowledge gives him a unique perspective for integrating sustainability throughout the InterfaceFLOR corporate culture. He brings his passion for environmentally sound practices not only to manufacturing technology and practices, but also to sales strategies and marketing concepts that reflect the company's Mission Zero.

As Senior Vice President of Sales for InterfaceFLOR, Pieter oversees sales operations and account representatives in eight regions of the United States. Pieter has served in a number of leadership marketing and sales positions with Interface since 1987. Pieter speaks to a number of customer groups, trade associations, and corporate teams each year on sales strategies and managing and servicing global accounts, including leveraging purchasing power and product offerings around the world. He also talks about Interface's strengths-based culture as it relates to recruitment and training of a world-class sales force.

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.

As Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Interface Americas, Eric is leading Interface's efforts to maintain strong relationships with critical suppliers, as well as seek strategic potential suppliers both within and outside of our industry. In 2007, Eric took over a new and important business for Interface called ReEntry 2.0, Interface's closed-loop process that recycles all types of carpet yarn and carpet backing and remakes them into beautiful products. As part of this process, Eric works closely with Interface's vendors (such as Universal Fibers) to understand and fulfill their strategic business needs and to see how their services may be aligned into this new business model.

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.

A veteran of brand marketing and communications, Steve Arbaugh serves as Vice President of Brand Alignment & Experience for the Americas division of Interface, Inc. As Vice President, he works with the InterfaceFLOR (commercial), FLOR (consumer), and Bentley Prince Street brands to integrate and leverage brand assets across all mediums, overseeing branding and communications, both externally and internally. Steve explains to audiences that the key to successful brands lies in the ability to engage key stakeholders by not only helping them understand key brand attributes but also the creation of memorable brand experiences.

As Vice President of Supply Chain for Interface, Tim is responsible for leading Interface's global supply chain improvement initiatives focused on: (1) improving overall working capital performance, (2) reducing total costs, and (3) advancing sustainability within the supply base. Tim is also responsible for leading Interface's Resource Efficient Transportation Team and managing Interface's global real estate portfolio.

As Managing Director of InterfaceRAISE, Jim leads this important corporate consulting resource for Interface, Inc., which was created to educate others seeking to implement the necessary steps for becoming sustainable. For over a decade, Jim has been pursuing the objective of equipping others through education and knowledge to make sustainability understandable and accessible in the marketplace. Now leading the newly formed venture InterfaceRAISE, Jim is formalizing the knowledge he has gleaned to bring the tools for technical and cultural transformation to other companies who seek to follow Interface's lead to become more sustainable.

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.

Mr. Gable was elected as a director in March 1984. He is a private investor and was an attorney with the Atlanta-based law firm of Troutman Sanders LLP, from March 1996 until April 1998. Mr. Gable also served as a director of Fidelity Southern Corporation from July 2000 to November 2002, and currently serves on the board of one nonprofit organization. Mr. Gable currently serves as the lead independent director of the Board.

Dr. Henton was elected as a director in February 1995. Since 1985, Dr. Henton has served as Dean of the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University, which includes an Interior Design program. Dr. Henton, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, has provided leadership for a wide variety of professional, policy and civic organizations. As a charter member of the Operating Board of the National Textile Center, Dr. Henton has significant expertise in the integration of academic and research programs within the textile industry. Dr. Henton also serves on the board of one nonprofit organization.

Mr. Anderson founded Interface in 1973 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until his retirement as Chief Executive Officer and transition from day-to-day management in July 2001, at which time he became Interface's non-executive Chairman of the Board. He chairs the Executive Committee of the Board and remains available for policy level consultation on substantially a full time basis. Mr. Anderson was appointed by President Clinton to the President's Council on Sustainable Development in 1996 and served as Co-Chair until the Council's dissolution. He currently serves on the boards of one private company and 10 nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Oliver was elected as a director in July 1998. He served as Chairman of Six Continents Hotels (formerly Bass Hotels and Resorts), the hotel business of Six Continents, PLC (formerly Bass PLC), from March 1997 until his retirement in March 2003, and served as Chief Executive Officer of Six Continents Hotels from March 1997 to October 2002. Mr. Oliver also currently serves as a director of UDR, Inc. (formerly United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc.).

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.