Mitsubishi Corp.

Hiroyuki Tarumi joined parent company Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) in 1975, where his career has been spent mostly in MC's Metals Group. His first assignment was to MC's Non-Ferrous Metals Department, which led to a stay of more than three years, starting in 1984, as the Resident Manager of the Chino Mines Company, a former joint venture located in New Mexico. His assignments since he returned to Tokyo in 1987 have enabled him to experience a broad range of metals-related businesses, including aluminum, copper metals, ore and precious metals. He became General Manager of the CEO Office of the Metals Group in 2005, and was appointed an Executive Vice President of Mitsubishi International Corporation in April 2006. Mr. Tarumi is a graduate of the University of Tokyo, where he concentrated on the study of economics.

Mr. Chew's background includes 28 years with British Petroleum, holding many senior positions, including his position upon retirement, Vice President - Supply and Trading for the Western Hemisphere. Other positions held include Senior Vice President of Mitsubishi's wholly owned subsidiary, PetroDiamond, President of Gulf International Holding Company, President and Managing Director of Neste Trifinery Petroleum Services and President of American International Refinery. In addition, he served as Chairman of the board of the Asphalt Institute which is comprised of the majority of the asphalt producers in the U.S. and Canada. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Petroleum Refiners Association for 9 years. Mr. Chew has 46 years in the oil industry and holds a B.S. degree in accounting and chemical engineering from Lehigh University.

Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, had the good sense to reach outside the Iwasaki family for management expertise. Heigoro Shoda epitomized the professional managers whose capabilities placed the fledgling Mitsubishi organization on a solid business foundation. Shoda was born in 1847 to a low-ranking samurai on the island of Kyushu. He attended Tokyo's newly established Keio University, one of Japan's first modern institutions of higher learning. Yataro's son Hisaya, the third president of Mitsubishi, also studied at Keio. And the founder of Keio, Yukichi Fukuzawa, called Shoda to the attention of Yataro in 1875. After graduation, Shoda had taken up a teaching position at Keio and had participated in setting up a branch school in Osaka. He was ready and eager when Yataro came looking for prospective managers. Having launched Mitsubishi as a shipping company, Yataro was beginning to steer his fast-growing enterprise into other lines of business. He sought university graduates to help lead the company's modernization and diversification. Shoda's initial duties at Mitsubishi included drafting a code of guidelines for operations, employee rights and job descriptions, and lines of command. That code established Mitsubishi as a formally structured organization eligible for government contracts, which were indispensable to the company. Another early contribution by Shoda was Mitsubishi's bookkeeping system. The government had urged Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to modernize their financial reporting and accounting procedures. Shoda introduced the Western system of double-entry bookkeeping. He also put in place a framework for monitoring profitability at each branch and even for each of the company's ships. That included procedures for depreciating fixed assets systematically--a then-new advance in Japanese accounting. At Shoda's initiative, Mitsubishi adopted several modernizations sooner than the government itself introduced reforms in its own operations. The organization thus became a leaner, more-competitive enterprise. And Shoda advanced steadily up the corporate ladder to a senior position in management. He sat on the committee that engineered the merger of Mitsubishi's shipping business with a rival shipping company and thereby created Nippon Yusen (NYK Line). Yanosuke Iwasaki assumed the presidency of Mitsubishi on the death of his brother, Yataro, in 1885. Shoda was an influential adviser to the new president. As senior manager, he urged Yanosuke to acquire the 119th National Bank, for example, which became Mitsubishi Bank. Shoda also pushed for developing a tract of land Yanosuke had purchased from the government in central Tokyo. That tract is today's Marunouchi business district, which is home to most of the core Mitsubishi companies. Shoda, who died in 1922, served the Mitsubishi organization for 35 years. He managed the Nagasaki Shipyard for nine years and thus helped lay the foundation for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He also served as chairman of Tokio Marine and of Meiji Life. Along with the Iwasakis, Shoda was a leading force in shaping the beginnings of Mitsubishi and of modern Japan.

Director of the Company since February 6, 2001. Mr. Nishimura has been Manager, Environment and Water Business Unit, in Mitsubishi Corporation, since 2002. He graduated at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Economics, in 1981.

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Atif Mukanovic joined the sales and leasing team for Des Moines Mitsubishi and Saab in August of 2007. Atif is a sales and leasing consultant for Mitsubishi.

George Edward Oakes Ramsay (1839-1885) Here--barely--is the visage of the sea captain and teacher in a frayed reproduction. George Edward Oakes Ramsay was an adventurous Englishman who contributed immensely to the early development of Mitsubishi. Born in London in 1839, Ramsay went to sea at the age of 17 as an apprentice seaman. By 1859, he wascommanding a British naval vessel in the Indian Ocean. Ramsay served with distinction in naval operations in India and China. When Britain disbanded its Indian fleet in 1861, he became the captain of a merchant ship that sailed Indian coastal routes. He subsequently joined the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. Ramsay came to Japan in 1875 as a master mariner aboard the Sumida-maru, which Mitsubishi had purchased from British owners. He served as captain on a series of Mitsubishi vessels. Shortly after the establishment of the Mitsubishi Nautical School (now Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine) in 1876, Ramsay joined the faculty there. He was such an excellent instructor that the university honors his memory with a 2.5-meter stone monument that stands near the entrance to the campus. This monument to George E.O. Ramsay stands amid a quiet clump of trees just inside the main gate to Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine. The Ramsays rest together in a shady corner of Yokohama's historic Cemetery for Foreigners. On the nationalization of the nautical school in the early 1880s, Ramsay returned to the sea as a Mitsubishi captain. Cholera cut short his career in 1885, when he and his wife succumbed to an outbreak of the disease. Their eight children returned to England. But one of them, J.S. Ramsay, visited Japan in 1955 and viewed the monument at Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine and his parents' graves at Yokohama's Cemetery for Foreigners.

Mr. Campbell earned his law degree from the University of Virginia and bachelors degree magna cum laude from Boston College. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Maine, Florida and New Hampshire, the federal district courts of those states and those in Connecticut, Vermont, and the First and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Campbell is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel, is the Director of the 2005 Trial Academy and served as a faculty member at its 25th Annual Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell serves on the National Board of Directors of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ABOTA. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the Defense Research Institute and continues to be an active member of the steering committee of the Products Liability Committee and the Trial Tactics Committee. He serves as a Vice Chair of the ABA's Tort and Insurance Practice Section's International Tort and Insurance Law Practice Committee and was part of a delegation that participated in a four day, legal foreign exchange to Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, China. Mr. Campbell was a member of the faculty for the ABA TIPS 2001 Trial Academy held at the National Judicial Center in Reno, Nevada and served as the Director of the 2003 Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell is also a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the Association of Defense Trial Lawyers, and a former president of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Campbell is the co-author of a Defense Research Institute monograph regarding the duty to warn and authored a chapter concerning the discoverability of post-accident design changes in product liability actions for DRI's Pre-Trial Handbook. As an editor and contributing author, he assisted in producing two chapters for the Defense Research Institute's 50 state compendium of defenses to product liability cases. He has lectured on products liability at numerous national seminars and before trade associations.

Thomas P. Ivanyi is a Managing Director of Brooks, Houghton & Company, Inc. He has over 30 years' experience in international banking and corporate finance as a senior executive with Mitsubishi and Citibank/Citicorp, in the United States, Europe and Asia; and Hampton Partners Ltd., a private investment banking firm. In 1989 he co-founded Hampton Partners Ltd., a private investment banking firm. Hampton's capital markets activities have merged into Brooks, Houghton. In 1986, Mr. Ivanyi established and was Chief Executive Officer of Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corporation (U.S.A.), the first fully licensed banking subsidiary of a Japanese trust bank in the United States. Before that he was at Citicorp, where his career included assignments in corporate and investment banking and corporate strategic planning with assignments in Belgium, France, India and Hong Kong. He was also the senior officer responsible for private banking to HNWI entrepreneurs and corporate executives, corporate and public sector banking for India and Nepal, and international private banking in Asia. Mr. Ivanyi holds a BS from New York University and a JD from Fordham University. He is a graduate of the PMD program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business.