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Janet L. Robinson became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company on December 27, 2004. As C.E.O., Ms. Robinson has primary responsibility for overseeing and coordinating all of the Company's operations and business units and for working closely with the chairman to chart the future direction of the Company. Previously, she had served as chief operating officer and executive vice president since February 2004. From February 2001 until January 2004, she served as senior vice president, newspaper operations for The New York Times Company. In this role, she led the operations of all of the Company's newspaper properties, which include The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the International Herald Tribune and the regional newspapers. She also held the position of president and general manager of The New York Times newspaper from 1996 until 2004. Ms. Robinson was elected a director of the Company in December 2004. During her tenure, Ms. Robinson has directed the acceleration of advertising and circulation revenue growth at all properties and the improvement in profit margins through expense controls, operating efficiencies and pricing initiatives. She has overseen the completion of The Times's conversion to color and section expansion, the creation and implementation of the national expansion of the newspaper and the transition from an era of print journalism to one in which The New York Times Company distributes news and information in an increasing array of new mediums. Prior to joining the newspaper, Ms. Robinson served as group senior vice president for the advertising sales and marketing unit of The New York Times Company Women's Magazine Group (which has since been sold) from January 1992, and vice president of the group since September 1990. From June 1983 until August 1990, she held several sales management positions with Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine that were formerly owned by The New York Times Company. Before joining the Times Company in June 1983, Ms. Robinson was a public school teacher in Newport, Rhode Island, and Somerset, Massachusetts. Ms. Robinson received a B.A. degree in English from Salve Regina College, Newport, RI, where she graduated cum laude in 1972. She was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Salve Regina University in May 1998. In 1996, she completed the Executive Education Program at Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. Ms. Robinson is vice chair of the board of the Liberty Science Center and serves on the boards of the Newspaper Association of America and the Presidential Board of Trustees of Salve Regina University. She serves on the board of New England Sports Ventures, and in 2008, she joined the advisory board for New York Women in Communications (NYWICI). Ms. Robinson is also a member of the Leadership Committee for The Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she is chairman of the planning and finance committee and a member of the investment committee.

James M. Follo became senior vice president and chief financial officer for The New York Times Company in January 2007. Before joining the Times Company, Mr. Follo served as chief financial and administrative officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. from 2001 to 2006, and as senior vice president, finance and controller from 1998 to 2001. From 1994 to 1998, he was with General Media International, Inc., a diversified publishing company, first as vice president, finance and operations, and later becoming executive vice president, CFO and treasurer. Before that Mr. Follo was with Grant Thornton, an independent public accounting firm, from 1984 to 1994, leaving as a senior audit manager. Mr. Follo received a B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 1981. He is a certified public account and a member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of the Board of Directors of HSN, Inc.

Amanda Hawn is Program Manager to The Ecosystem Marketplace as of January 1, 2006. She studied ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University with Steve Pacala and completed graduate work in the same through a Princeton fellowship at the University of Cape Town 's Percy FitzPatrick Institute with Morne du Plessis. She has lived and studied in South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, the Netherlands Antilles and the United States and has held jobs photographing chimpanzees, teaching math and science to first year university students and researching the population dynamics of coral reef fish. Prior to joining the Ecosystem Marketplace, she worked as a science writer, authoring articles about conservation, development and ecology for a variety of publications. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, Conservation in Practice and, The Ecosystem Marketplace.

Dan Michalski is a seasoned journalist who has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Newsweek, Men's Health, The Dallas Morning News, and the Dallas Observer. He has reported on air-quality issues and has extensive experience covering technological, as well as legal, matters. Mr. Michalski's extensive knowledge of the industry, in concert with his keen understanding of the media, makes him an invaluable resource for developing a positive public image for your company. His ability to provide effective damage control in light of any negative press assures that your company will be equipped to withstand and manage any adverse publicity, avoiding any significant consequences. His main objective is to prepare our clients for the unexpected.

David Burnham began his investigative career as a reporter for The New York Times. He has written extensively on the criminal justice system, the Internal Revenue Service, government secrecy and privacy issues. His most recent book, Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice was published by Scribner in 1996. Burnham is now co-director of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a non-profit data-gathering, research and distribution organization associated with Syracuse University.

James won several awardsa "investigative, business features, and photographya "before moving on to magazine publishing. In the early 1990s he launched a new publication for the automobile industry, then moved an existing corporate-identity journal from regional distribution to international circulation. It was at this time James began working on the Web, creating online versions of these publications. He switched to video and film work, where he produced a number of corporate videos before writing feature-length scripts and directing his own short films for festival competition. He couldna t completely ignore the call of journalism, however, so James became new media director for the Philanthropy News Network, which published nonprofit-focused news, features, and technology tutorials on the Web every business day. While at PNN he headed a team of writers and programmers, and also led seminars on how schools and colleges, community organizations, and other nonprofit groups can use technology to further their missions. Since then James has consulted for groups ranging from GlaxoSmithKline to the New Museum in New York, Elsevier Scientific Publications to the EPA. Hea s now a proud member of the mStoner team. Oh, and if you ever saw The Zimmermans, Chisel, Smack Rabbit, or JudyNude playing at your local punk bar, James was the bass player.

Jude Deveraux is the author of thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, including Wild Orchids, Forever and Always, Forever..., The Mulberry Tree, The Summerhouse, Temptation, and A Knight in Shining Armor. She lives in North Carolina with her young son, Sam.

Michele Willens is a founding member of City Lights Youth Theatre. She is a long time journalist, including numerous pieces for the New York Times on raising teenagers. In 1976, she served as press secretary in California for President Jimmy Carter. She is the author of a children's play Dear Maudie, which premiered at the Tri-Arts Theatre in October, 2004. She is the mother of two children, including a daughter who has been a part of City Lights for the past 9 years.

Paul Hornung is a member of the high school, college and pro football halls of fame. He broadcasts Notre Dame games nationally on Westwood One radio. Hornung is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Golden Boy, which chronicles his life and career. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

Peter Applebome has been a reporter and editor for The New York Times since 1987. He was born in New York City and grew up in Great Neck. He graduated from Duke University in 1971 and received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1974. After working at Texas newspapers in Corpus Christi and Dallas and at Texas Monthly magazine, he joined the New York Times as a national correspondent and then bureau chief in Houston. He moved to Atlanta as Southern Bureau chief in 1989, served in that job for five years. Since then he has covered education and culture and is now Deputy Metropolitan Editor.

Peter D. Kramer, M.D., recently named host of the national, weekly public radio series, The Infinite Mind, is "possibly the best-known psychiatrist in America," as The New York Times put it. Peter Kramer received his M.D. from Harvard and is the best-selling author of Listening to Prozac, Should You Leave?, Spectacular Happiness, and Moments of Engagement. His latest book is Against Depression. In 2004, two programs of The Infinite Mind hosted by Kramer won top media awards: a Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television for an examination of "Domestic Violence" and a National Mental Health Association Media Award for "Between Two Worlds: Mental Health for Immigrants. Kramer has written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Washington Post Book Review, The Washington Post, the (London) Times Literary Supplement and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, and has a private practice.

Renee is also a prolific media contributor, appearing frequently in gardening and cooking periodicals such as Sunset, Fine Cooking, Organic Gardening, The Gardener, Fine Gardening, and Country Living. She has authored two kitchen garden cookbooks, Recipes from a Kitchen Garden and More Recipes From a Kitchen Garden , and is finishing a third cookbook with her cooking partner Fran Raboff. Renee is a long time board member of the National Gardening Association. She lectures widely at national and regional garden shows, such as the Seattle, San Francisco and Philadelphia Flower and Garden Shows, and is a featured speaker at numerous gardening conferences. In addition to her passions for gardening and cooking, Renee loves trail riding her horses Patches and Ruby, agility training with her dog Mr. Peabody and walking in the Santa Cruz mountains. She has many community and environmental interests and is currently the Chair of the Planning Commission for Santa Cruz Co, California.

Robert L. Shapiro, one of the nation's best-known attorneys, is a co-founder of LegalZoom. He is currently a partner of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, LLP, a full-service law firm with approximately 120 attorneys. As Co-Founder, Mr. Shapiro provides LegalZoom with the ex-perience gained from over 31 years of legal practice. He is actively involved in public relations, marketing and legal consulting for the company. The highlights of Mr. Shapiro's legal career are numerous and include serving as lead counsel in United States of America v. Samango, the leading 9th Circuit case on grand juries, and such high-profile cases as People v. Christian Brando and People v. O.J. Simpson. Although known for his representation of celebrities, Mr. Shapiro has also represented corporate clients such as Mobil Oil, Northrop and Lawrence Engineering. Mr. Shapiro is also a noted lecturer and has made presentations at major universities, before the Practicing Law Institute, California Trial Lawyers Association and California Public Defender Association. He is also the author of "On Second Thought" (California Lawyer Magazine, 1997), "For the Defense" (Loyola Law Review, November 1996), The Search For Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case (1996), "When The Press Calls: A Lawyer's View" (California Litigation, Fall 1991) and Misconception (June 2001). He received his law degree from Loyola University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from UCLA. Mr. Shapiro is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California.

In 1977, Mr. Bruder founded Brookhill as a real estate developer/owner/ manager specializing in shopping centers, office buildings and multi-family properties. Since inception, Brookhill has acquired properties in 21 states, totaling in excess of $750 million. In the 1980's Brookhill changed its focus to concentrate on the development of distressed shopping centers. In 1995, Mr. Bruder formed Dames & Moore/Brookhill, the first national entity to acquire, remediate and redevelop environmentally contaminated properties. In affiliation with Dames & Moore, a leading multi-billion dollar engineering company, a methodology was created to limit environmental liability, enabling the debt on these assets to be sold in the public marketplace. Dames & Moore/Brookhill acquired properties throughout the United States valued in excess of $200 million. In 1981, Mr. Bruder created Devon Petroleum Company, a developmental drilling organization that drilled for oil and gas throughout the Appalachian Basin in the United States. This company's operations utilized the greater precision and science that was prevalent in deeper exploratory drilling to create greater yields. Mr. Bruder sold his interest in Devon and affiliated oil entities in 2002. Mr. Bruder is also Chairman of Brookhill Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which develops new medical products and devices. He is Chairman of Asperger Foundation International (formerly The Life Sciences Foundation, created in 1963) which funds research and provides information about Asperger Syndrome (a form of Autism). In 2003, Mr. Bruder founded the Education for Employment Foundation (www.EFEfoundation.org) and serves as its Interim CEO. The EFE creates technical and vocational schools with direct linkage to jobs in Islamic countries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Lighthouse International, a 100-year old foundation that aids the visually impaired. Mr. Bruder is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Roundabout Theatre Company, which produces Broadway and Off-Broadway plays and provides education and training in theater arts. Mr. Bruder is a contributing author to numerous publications, among them: The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The American Banker and The CPA Journal. He is also a member of the University and Friars Clubs in New York City. Mr. Bruder has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has been the subject of a Discovery Channel feature on redeveloping contaminated real estate, and has been profiled by Forbes Magazine. Mr. Bruder holds a B.A in Economics from Adelphi University, an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University.

Thomas P.M. Barnett is a strategic planner who has worked in national security affairs since the end of the Cold War. Author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004), he is a nationally known public speaker who's been profiled on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. Tom is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of military transformation, and within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference keynoter on issues relating to international security and economic globalization. An award-winning teacher, Tom has written for Esquire, WIRED and The Washington Post, and has been interviewed by Rolling Stone. Appearing on numerous national TV shows since 9/11, Tom's been described by U.S. News & World Report's Michael Barone as "one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time." In addition to his teaching and consulting, Tom is a prolific blogger on current global events at his website. His thousands of regular readers include representatives from all of the major U.S. military commands, virtually all U.S. federal departments, foreign governments, and major research and corporate entities throughout the world.

A specialist in the area of promotions and communications for nearly 45 years, Warren G. Jackson is founder and chairman, of Circulation Experti, Ltd., a 35-year-old, wholly black-owned public relations and advertising firm. Mr. Jackson began his career as the first black circulation inspector for the New York Times in the early 1950s. He left the paper in 1963 as assistant circulation manager and went on to become, in succession, the circulation director of The Amsterdam News and the first black circulation director of a major New York newspaper, the now-defunct New York Knickerbocker. As the newspapers' representative in the black community during the turbulent '60s, Jackson saw firsthand the problems that existed, but he also saw opportunity. In 1967, having served as a consultant to the Kennedy and Humphrey presidential campaigns as well as to several Fortune 500 companies, he founded Circulation Experti to forge what he believed could be a meaningful link between the community, the media and the world of Corporate America. In the years since its inception, Circulation Experti has stayed true to Jackson's vision. He and his staff have been able to show clients how being involved in the ethnic communities can generate both publicity as well as a greater market for their products. In turn, they have demonstrated to community service groups and organizations that Corporate America can be a valuable friend. A man of wide and varied interests, Jackson sits on the board of directors of a number of organizations and institutions including Manhattan College, his alma mater, White Plains Hospital Medical Center and the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foun-dation. Additionally, Jackson is Vice Chair of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. A former syndicated columnist, Jackson has also written a series of articles for GannettIs Westchester/Rockland Newspaper Group as well as for The Boston Globe and Chicago Sun-Times. Additonally, Warren has been a featured speaker at various organization and university settings throughout the United States, the Caribbean and in parts of Africa.

Warren Leary is a science correspondent for The New York Times based in Washington, D.C. A science writer for more than 30 years, he is a graduate of the University of Nebraska and received an M.S. degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Leary began his science writing career with the Associated Press, creating the science beat in the Boston bureau of the news agency from 1971 through 1976, and continuing as a senior science writer for the AP in its Washington bureau from 1976 until 1989, when he joined the staff of The Times. As an award-winning science writer based in Washington, Leary covers space flight, technology, engineering, aeronautics, and medical science, as well as policy issues. He is a member and former officer of the National Association of Sciences Writers.

Cathi Hanauer is the author of two novels, Sweet Ruin (Atria/Simon & Schuster, June, 2006) and My Sister's Bones (Delacorte, 1996), and the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2002). She has written articles, essays, and/or reviews for Elle, O, Self, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Parenting, Child, Redbook, McCall's and other magazines; she was the monthly books columnist for both Glamour and Mademoiselle and wrote the monthly advice column "Relating" in Seventeen for seven years. She has taught writing at The New School, in New York, and at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, as well as privately. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband, writer and New York Times "Modern Love" editor Daniel Jones, and their daughter and son.

Daniel Okrent is a writer, publishing consultant, and associate of the Shorenstein Center at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He previously served as the first public editor of the New York Times. He retired as editor-at-large of Time, Inc. in July 2001 where he was also editor of new media and managing editor of Life Magazine. He serves on the Board of the National Portrait Gallery, a division of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Okrent held the position of Hearst Foundation visiting fellow in new media at the Columbia University School of Journalism. Mr. Okrent is the creator of Rotisserie League Baseball, and his latest book "Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center," was published in October 2003 by Viking Penguin. Mr. Okrent graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. was named chairman of The New York Times Company on October 16, 1997. As the Company’s senior executive, he is responsible for its long-term business strategy. Mr. Sulzberger, who became publisher of The New York Times in 1992, continues to run the Company’s flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past decade, he has shaped and implemented innovative print, broadcast and online initiatives that are enabling the Company to compete successfully in the 21st century global media marketplace. These include: Transforming The Times into a national newspaper, Developing a major Times company presence on the Internet, which now includes NYTimes.com, the No.1 newspaper-owned Web site in the world, Boston.com, About.com and IHT.com Acquiring the International Herald Tribune, Becoming a minority partner in New England Sports Ventures, which includes the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and 80% of the New England Sports Network. During Mr. Sulzberger’s tenure as publisher, The Times has earned 34 Pulitzer Prizes and provided its readers with innumerable examples of momentous journalism such as its breakthrough series “How Race is Lived in America,” its internationally acclaimed coverage of the September 11 terrorist attack in a “A Nation Challenged” and “Portraits of Grief,” “Class Matters,” a 11-part series exploring class in American society, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,” an expose of the Bush Administration’s use of wiretaps and “China Rises,” a four-part, multimedia series. It should also be noted that The New York Times Company has been repeatedly cited for its commitment to excellence, innovation and social responsibility. Before coming to The Times, Mr. Sulzberger was a reporter with The Raleigh (N.C.) Times from 1974 to 1976, and a London correspondent for The Associated Press from 1976 to 1978. He joined The Times in 1978 as a correspondent in its Washington bureau. He moved to New York as a metro reporter in 1981 and was appointed assistant metro editor later that year. From 1983 to 1987, he worked in a variety of business departments, including production and corporate planning. In January 1987, he was named assistant publisher and, a year later, deputy publisher, overseeing the news and business departments. In both capacities, he was involved in planning The Times's automated color printing and distribution facilities in Edison, N.J., and at College Point in Queens, N.Y., as well as the creation of the six-section color newspaper. Mr. Sulzberger played a central role in the development of the Times Square Business Improvement District, officially launched in January 1992, serving as the first chairman of that civic organization. He also helped found and serves as chairman of the New York City Outward Bound Center. Mr. Sulzberger earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Tufts University in 1974. He is also a 1985 graduate of the Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.

Geneva Overholser, a 1986 Nieman Fellow, holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington, D.C., bureau. She was formerly editor of the Des Moines Register and ombudsman at The Washington Post.