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F. Philip Handy, 64, CEO of Strategic Industries, a worldwide diversified service and manufacturing company, since 2001. Director since 2006. From 1968 to 1970, Mr. Handy worked at Fidelity Management and Research. He then joined Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette where he served as Vice President from 1970 to 1976. In 1976, he became the CEO of Combanks, a multiple bank holding company based in Orlando, Florida. In 1980, he commenced his career in the private equity business. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Handy was managing director of Equity Group Corporate Investments, a private investment firm controlled by Sam Zell. Mr. Handy currently serves on the public Board of Directors of Anixter International, Inc., Rewards Network, Inc. and Study Group International. In January 2008, he was re-appointed by President George W. Bush to serve a second term on the National Board of Education Sciences for a three year term; he serves as the vice-chairman of the Committee. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He completed the sixth forum at The Rugby School and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School. He also served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve and was honorably discharged in 1973.

Karel K. Czanderna is group president of building materials at Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems and solutions. Ms. Czanderna is responsible for the company’s insulation, roofing and asphalt, and other building materials and services businesses. Ms. Czanderna has held leadership roles in high tech and consumer industries for more than 20 years, driving strategic growth through acquisitions and transforming markets by developing innovative, integrated solutions that benefit every partner in the value chain. Before joining Owens Corning in 2008, Ms. Czanderna held various executive management positions. She was most recently vice president of the Cooking Products and Outdoor Kitchens businesses at Whirlpool Corporation, responsible for Jenn-Air, KitchenAid, Whirlpool, Maytag and Amana branded cooking appliances. She also held two prior management roles after joining Whirlpool in 2002. As vice president and general manager of KitchenAid, she designed and executed the largest simultaneous all-kitchen product launch in the history of the major appliance industry. Ms. Czanderna spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company, serving as vice president and general manager of the Portrait Photography Business, and as a vice president and general manager in the Copier and Printer business. During her tenure at Eastman Kodak, she lead the consolidation of a fragmented market by developing a transition path to new technology that became the industry standard. She serves on Clarkson University’s Board of Trustees, is a member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women, and until recently, served on the A&E Factory Service Board of Managers. Ms. Czanderna attended executive education at HarvardUniversity’s business school. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Clarkson University and a doctorate in materials science and engineering from Cornell University.

Duncan Palmer is the chief financial officer of Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems and solutions. Mr. Palmer was appointed to his current role in September 2007. Prior to joining Owens Corning, Mr. Palmer spent 20 years with Royal Dutch Shell, most recently as vice-president, upstream commercial finance for Shell International Exploration and Production BV, based in the Netherlands. In this role, Mr. Palmer was responsible for finance support for major oil and gas business development and portfolio activity in Shell’s Exploration and Production and Gas and Power businesses. Mr. Palmer also served as global vice-president finance for the Shell Lubricants business. Shell Lubricants is the world’s largest motor oil and lubricants business with a global market share of 12 percent and sales volume of 4.5 million tonnes from operations in 120 countries. In this role, Mr. Palmer led the lubricants finance function including responsibility for global financial management and reporting, lubricants supply chain and manufacturing finance, investment appraisal and cost management. Mr. Palmer earned a Master of Arts degree from St. John’s College, Cambridge in the U.K., and a Masters of Business Administration at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a UK Chartered Management Accountant.

Frank O’Brien-Bernini is the chief sustainability officer of Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems and solutions. His role encompasses global accountability for Owens Corning’s corporate sustainability strategy development and execution, driving value creation inside the continuous balance of economic growth, social progress, and environmental stewardship. Owens Corning’s global sustainability business and communication strategy, “Pink-is-Green”, is specifically aimed at: • Greening our Operations • Greening our Products • Accelerating Energy Efficiency Improvements in the Built Environment With more than 25 years experience, Mr. O’Brien-Bernini has held various leadership positions across the company, including vice president, chief research and development officer prior to his current role. He also served as vice president, Science & Technology Insulating Systems Business and director, composites product and process technology. Mr. O’Brien-Bernini’s contributions to sustainability, as well as his engaging depth and breadth on this subject, have made him a frequent guest speaker at major energy forums, global executive and industry conferences, and a regular media spokesperson on the topics of global sustainability, winning-with-green, and energy efficiency. He has addressed conferences organized by The Economist, Forbes, the American Wind Energy Association and The World Bank. He has also appeared on the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green program and has been quoted in everything from the New York Times to leading building industry publications. Mr. O’Brien-Bernini is on the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Home Builders’ National Council of the Housing Industry, the Board of Advisors of the Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and Devices, and the Ohio Biopolymers Innovation Center. He has also served as a Board of Advisors of the Vytec Corporation, was the Task Force leader for the governor’s Ohio Third Frontier Advanced Materials Task Force, and led the Task Force for the Business Roundtable’s Energy Technology Road Map for the Residential/Commercial Buildings Sector. He earned both a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, where his research focus was solar energy.

John Hillenbrand is the vice president and chief innovation officer of Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials and composite systems and solutions. Mr. Hillenbrand leads the global Science and Technology organization in developing new innovations that deliver differential value to Owens Corning’s customers. Prior to joining Owens Corning, Mr. Hillenbrand spent 23 years with DuPont, most recently as vice president, innovation and technology for DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, based in Wilmington, Del., United States. In this role, he was responsible for all global technical activities in DuPont’s Ethylene Copolymers, Glass Laminating Solutions, and Intermediates business units.In addition to driving targeted growth programs in packaging, specialty additives and modifiers, and high performance glass interlayers, the organization expanded its global application development footprint under his leadership with new facilities in China and Brazil. Mr. Hillenbrand also led DuPont Ventures, a business unit that sought out and partnered with entrepreneurial companies to create growth opportunities for them and DuPont. In this capacity, he and his team developed and executed a new model to broadly enable open innovation. Over the course of his DuPont career, Mr. Hillenbrand worked in a variety of global business, technology, and operations roles in Delaware, Texas and Virginia. Mr. Hillenbrand earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech, and master’s and doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., United States, all in chemical engineering.

Mark Mayer is vice president and chief accounting officer at Owens Corning, a leading innovator of glass fiber technology with sales of $5 billion in 2007 and operations in 26 countries. He was named to his current position in 2007. Prior to his current responsibilities, Mr. Mayer served as vice president of accounting and reporting beginning in 2003. In 2001, he was appointed vice president and controller for the office of restructuring to oversee Owens Corning’s successful emergence from Chapter 11 in 2006. Mr. Mayer joined Owens Corning in 1999 as the controller for the information systems, and science and technology organizations. Mr. Mayer’s 20 years of experience prior to joining Owens Corning includes work as a certified public accountant with a major public accounting firm and key financial leadership roles with two major retailers. He is a member of the Owens Corning Disclosure Committee. Mr. Mayer earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from Bowling Green State University. He is an active board member at Connecting Point, a non-profit Toledo, Ohio based agency providing mental health and substance abuse services, school-based education and prevention programs, community outreach services and residential treatment.

W. Howard Morris, 48, Chief Investment Officer of Prairie & Tireman Capital Management, an investment partnership, since 1998 and a Lecturer at The University of Michigan-Dearborn since 2007. Director since 2007. Mr. Morris was formerly Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Comerica Asset Management from 2006 to 2007, Chief Executive Officer and Emergency Financial Manager, Inkster, Michigan Public Schools, from 2002 to 2005, and Chief Financial Officer, Detroit, Michigan Public School District, from 1999 to 2000. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst and Personal Financial Specialist. He received an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BBA from Northwood University.

Joseph C. High was named senior vice president, human resources in 2004. In this role, Mr. High is responsible for the global human resources function, including safety, employee communications, security and community relations. Prior to joining Owens Corning, Mr. High was vice president, Human Resources for ConocoPhillips in Houston, Texas - an integrated energy company with assets of $173 billion and 38,700 employees. Mr. High earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Master of Science degree in administration from Central Michigan University at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. He is a Board Member of Outward Bound USA and the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce; a member of the HR Policy Association, Executive Leadership Council and Society for Human Resource Management attaining senior level certification. For his work with United Way, he received a Distinguished Service Award. He is also a former trustee for the Council of Ethics in Economics and a former member of the Business for Social Responsibility and the National Skills Standards Board Steering Committee.

Scott Deitz is vice president, investor relations and corporate communications at Owens Corning, a leading innovator of glass fiber technology with sales of $5 billion in 2007 and operations in 26 countries. Scott has a diverse investor relations, government affairs and corporate communications background having worked for leading global companies in the paper and forest products sector, the food industry and for an internationally recognized health-care and disability rights organization. He is chair of the Owens Corning Disclosure Committee and a member of its Business Code of Conduct Committee. Scott is an active member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the National Association of Investor’s Corporation (NAIC). He has completed the Executive Development Program at the Kellogg Management School of Business at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and also has completed International Management Training at Krauthammer International in Stockholm, Sweden. Scott is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Robert B. Smith, Jr., 71, Director of the Virginia Environmental Endowment, a nonprofit, funded, grant making corporation dedicated to improving the environment, since 1996. Mr. Smith is also a Manager of Kentucky River Properties LLC, a land holding company whose primary business is leasing coal properties, since 2006. Director since 2006; formerly a Director of OCD since 2004. A graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of North Carolina Law School, Mr. Smith’s previous experience included serving as Trustee of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, a public interest trust of $3 billion created by the Federal Bankruptcy Court to compensate those damaged by the Dalkon Shield, and as Vice President for Government Relations of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. His prior experience also included various positions related to the U.S. Senate, including: Chief Counsel and Staff Director, U.S. Senate Government Operations Committee; Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Revision and Codification of the Laws; Chief Legislative Assistant, Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.; Special Counsel, U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee; and Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights.

JAMES A. HAIN Occupation: Pastor and District Manager. Age 56; appointed in 2002. He is senior pastor of the Community of Faith Brethren in Christ Church in Roanoke, VA. He began pastoring this congregation as a church plant in 1996. Pastor Hain also works as a district manager for Norandex-Reynolds Distribution, Inc., a division of Owens Corning. He is a graduate of Messiah College and Wesley Theological Seminary, American University in Washington D.C. His permanent residence is 2914 Lofton Road, S.W., Roanoke, VA 24018.

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Vice President in the credit-related opportunities group of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Prior to joining D. E. Shaw group in 2007, Mr. Lyon was a managing director of The Cypress Group, a New York-based private equity firm. Before working at Cypress, he held positions at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. Mr. Lyon received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.

William W. Colville, 73, Retired, formerly Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of OCD until 1994. Director since 2006; formerly a Director of OCD since 1995. A graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University Law School, Mr. Colville began his career at Owens Corning in 1984 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to joining Owens Corning, he was President of the Sohio Processed Minerals Group from 1982 to 1984, and General Counsel of Kennecott Corporation from 1980 to 1982. Mr. Colville is also a director of Nordson Corporation.

Norman P. Blake, Jr., 67, formerly Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comdisco, Inc., global technology services, Rosemont, Illinois, until 2002. Director since 2006; formerly a Director of OCD since 1992. A graduate of Purdue University, Mr. Blake also previously has served as Chief Executive Officer of the United States Olympic Committee; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Promus Hotel Corporation; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of USF&G Corporation; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Heller International Corporation of Chicago; and Executive Vice President Financing Operations, General Electric Credit Corporation, General Electric Company. Mr. Blake is a member of the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University's President's Council and Dean's Advisory Council, Krannert School of Management and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Army War College Foundation. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue University and is the recipient of the degree of Doctor of Economics honoris causa from Purdue University, granted jointly by the Krannert School of Management and School of Liberal Arts. He has also been awarded The Ellis Island Medal of Honor.