New York Hall of Science

Ajay Banga is Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific, one of Citi’s fastest-growing regions. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Banga served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citi’s International Global Consumer Group businesses, for which his responsibilities included all credit card, retail banking, and consumer finance operations in Asia, Japan, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Mexico. Previously, he served as an Executive Vice President of the Global Consumer Group and President of Retail Banking North America. At that time, he was responsible for branch banking, commercial banking, commercial real estate, commercial financing and leasing, mortgages, student loans, and the Primerica Financial Services distribution channel. Appointed in 2002, he had additional responsibility for the servicing and technology of all the real estate businesses in the consumer bank. Mr. Banga, who joined Citi in 1996, served as business head of CitiFinancial and the U.S. Consumer Assets Division from 2000 to 2002. Previously, he worked in London as Division Executive for the Consumer Bank in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent from 1998 to 2000. Early in his Citibank career, he was based in Brussels, where he was the Head of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Mr. Banga began his business career as a management trainee with Nestle in 1981. He spent the next 13 years in a variety of assignments spanning sales, marketing, and general management. He later joined PepsiCo in its Restaurants Division and was instrumental in the launch of Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken in India. Mr. Banga serves on the Board of Kraft Foods Inc. and is on the Board of Trustees of the National Urban League and the Asia Society. He is a member of the Financial Services Roundtable, an industry organization, and is past Vice Chair of the New York Hall of Science’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Banga is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Director since January 2007

Ivan Seidenberg is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Verizon. Under Seidenberg's leadership, Verizon has become a premier network company, providing customers with the most advanced and innovative broadband experiences. Seidenberg was instrumental in forming Verizon through a number of mergers and acquisitions, including Bell Atlantic and NYNEX (1997), GTE (2000) and MCI (2006). He also helped create what is now Verizon Wireless in 1999 by bringing together the assets of Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless and the U.S. properties of Vodafone AirTouch. Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception, first as co-CEO in 2000, then as sole CEO since 2002 and chairman of the board since 2004. Verizon now operates an advanced global Internet backbone, a premier national wireless network and with the company's deployment of its high-speed, fiber-optic FiOS technology a next-generation broadband network. Verizon's leadership in network innovation has earned the company numerous citations and awards, including being named to the BusinessWeek 50, which represents the "best in class" from each sector of the S&P 500. Prior to the creation of Verizon, Seidenberg was chairman and CEO of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX. He began his communications career more than 40 years ago as a cable splicer's assistant and has held numerous operations and engineering assignments, including various leadership positions at NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. Seidenberg has a long-standing commitment to education and has made Verizon a leader in finding innovative ways to use communications technology to improve educational and literacy performance in the U.S. He also champions diversity both within and outside the company, and under his leadership Verizon's commitment to diversity has been widely recognized.