Loews Corp.

Chief Investment Strategist of Loews since 1995. He serves on the Executive and Finance Committees. He has been a Director since August 1995.

As Executive Chef of the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, Andreas Nieto has the ultimate responsibility for every meal served at the landmark property. Nieto brings to his position more than 15 years of experience, cooking at four- and five-star hotels and fine-dining establishments. Classically French trained, he also has extensive knowledge of pan-Pacific, Mediterranean, regional American, spa and Southwest cuisines. Most recently, he was executive chef at the Bel Age Hotel, in West Hollywood, where he returned the famed Diaghilev Restaurant to its previous five-star status. Prior to that, he was executive chef at the five-star Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows for two years, after a tenure as assistant executive chef at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel. A third-generation chef, Nieto complete the three-year ACF Chef's Apprenticeship program while at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas and also completed training in nutrition and food and beverage management. His professional affiliations include: serving as a national member of the American Culinary Foundation, Chef de Cuisine of Los Angeles, and as a participant in many National Restaurant Association culinary shows and American Culinary Federation salons, where he was awarded gold and silver medals.

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Ann E. Berman Senior Advisor to the President and former Chief Financial Officer, Harvard University Director since 2006

Mrs. Joan Tisch, mother of Jonathan M. Tisch, occupies an apartment at the Loews Regency Hotel pursuant to a lease that was approved by our Audit Committee and entered into in 2001. The lease became effective upon the death of her late husband, Preston R. Tisch, our former Co-Chairman of the Board, in late 2005. The rent is set forth in the lease and adjusts upward in each year, beginning in 2007, by an amount equal to the increase in the consumer price index during the prior year. Mrs. Tisch separately pays rent for another room at the hotel in an amount that was determined based on an analysis of market rates for comparable extended stay rentals at the hotel. Mrs. Tisch paid the hotel an aggregate of approximately $710,500 for these rentals in 2006.

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...

Ken Miller President and Chief Executive Officer, Ken Miller Capital, LLC, a closely held merchant banking firm Director since 2008

Michael is recognized as one of the leading institutional investors of all time. He was president and CEO of Heine Securities Corp., the investment advisor to the Mutual Series funds, from 1988 to 1996, when he sold the firm to Franklin Resources, Inc. Presently, Mr. Price is the President of The Michael F. Price Foundation, Inc., Managing Partner of MFP Investors LLC, Trustee of The New Jersey Performing Arts Center and Boston College. In addition, Mr. Price is on the Board of Loews Corporation and Canary Wharf.

Director since 2006 Mr. Fribourg is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Continental Grain Company, which is an active public market and private investor which owns and operates cattle feeding and integrated poultry businesses, since July 1997. businesses. Mr. Fribourg joined Continental Grain Company (formerly known as ContiGroup) in 1976 and worked in various positions there with increasing responsibility in both the United States and Europe. Mr. Fribourg is a director of Loews Corporation, Chase, and Smithfield Foods. He also serves as a Board Member of, among others, the JP Morgan National Advisory Board; Rabobank International North American Agribusiness Advisory Board; and The Public Theater. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1985. Mr. Fribourg is a member of the Audit Committee.

Philip A. Laskawy retired from Ernst & Young in September 2001, after having held several positions during his employment there from 1961 to 2001, including serving as chairman and chief executive officer from 1994 until his retirement in 2001. In 2006-2007, he served as chairman of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, which sets accounting standards in more than 100 countries. Mr. Laskawy currently serves on the Boards of Directors of General Motors Corporation, Henry Schein, Inc., Lazard Ltd., and Loews Corporation.